Edwards Staff Had Affair 'Doomsday' Strategy

Clearly we should impeach Kennedy, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. Death is no excuse and affairs outside of marriage are far more serious than invading countries not responsible for attacking us and devising and implementing torture policies.

Gotta keep those priorities in proper order, you know?

"A lot of former Edwards staffers".
More irresponsible anonymous sources. When will real journalists reappear and these blow dried air heads stop disseminating whatever the corporations want you to believe. If you can't name the source or give a good reason for witholding their names, you don't use the information.

Not good enough--if the news broke after the nomination and before the general--WE would have been doomed. I am beyond thankful that these selfish people did not have the opportunity to become leaders in the party.

If a man can't keep a sacred vow to his wife and family to be faithful, how can he be trusted to keep his sacred vow to uphold and defend the Constitution?

I know it will sound too simple to some but honoring your word is what character and integrity is all about. It really is that simple. While I'd prefer John Edwards was CinC over Obama right now (who also allegedly cheated on Michelle) there are much better choices, none of whom made it beyond the primaries unfortunately.

Oh yeah. Thomas Jefferson too.

Edwards did a good enough job of sabotaging himeself. He was arrogant and vain enough to think the press wouldn't find out and they always do. So Elizabeth Edwards is out there now practically blaming Rielle Hunter for the affair and reffering to the baby that very likely is John Edwards' baby as "it". Meanwhile The Enquirer is reporting that Hunter may allow the baby to have a DNA test to see whether the baby is Edwards'. Why Elizabeth wrote a book over this is beyond reasoning. If she wanted to undergo some kind of therapy, she should have gone to a therapist. Maybe in some kind of twisted way, Elizabeth is trying to revive her husband's career. As harsh as it may sound, her terminal cancer doesn't make her immune from aiding and abetting an image of the all-American happy family knowing full-well that both she and her husband were scamming the electorate.

Should we add George Washington to the impeachment list as well? It would appear a possibility that he had an affair and since we're currently carefully sorting through and shunning all potential sin and sinners...

...Perhaps we should erase Washington and Jefferson's signatures from the constitution as well? Clearly if they they were morally unfit and unworthy to uphold and defend the constitution they were also unfit and unworthy to sign it...

After all, if we're going to point fingers we might as well be thorough.

I think we're missing the point here. It's not about the affair, that was just the "bullet". The important point here is that Edwrdas' own staffers were not his supporters. I know many managers who have built organizations under them that are fundamentally not behind the mission. Those managers, AND the people under them, collectively and individually, are doomed to fail. We should be critical of Edwards for the affair, perhaps, but more so for his leadership abilities. And we also need to see his staff for what they are: political weasels that glom onto things not because of the mission but because of the position. They are just as despicable, and if I were them, I would be "anonymous" too.

John Edwards is an idiot, period.

It a no brainer why John Edwards wife didn't leave him. INSURANCE If she is dieing of cancer where would her health care expences come from?

80% of the people that have insurance maybe happy but ask the people that do not have insurance feel about there insurance.

I am wondering why Clinton's affairs during his Presidential campaigns didn't get treated this way. What makes Edwards different from the Clintons?

This whole story is illogical. If your man is unelectable, get out of the campaign now. Don't wait to shoot him down at dawn. Unless you need the job and the money, I don't see why anyone would prostitute themselves in this way.

Overall, I think this is yet another indicator/reminder of how far to the right the country has gone under republican leadership and how stupid we, as a people, are.

You can't really fault him for staff that isn't loyal and I really wonder, if his staff didn't think he was the best person for the job, why they went to work for him in the first place?

We just spent 8 years with what some, not me, would consider moral leadership. At this point, I think I would rather vote for a heathen. They can't be any bigger liars than the so-called "christians".

Well said Steamboater!

What I'm wondering is why Democratic adulterers are treated so very differently from Republican adulterers. McCain, Giuliani, Gingrich...why aren't their political careers over?

If you are willing to lie to the person you say you most love in the world... you morals, and integrity are in the dumper. I am so thankful he didnt win. And for the record, we all know that baby is his. Why would he have bothered to go see it at that hotel several times. I bet money he is shutting up Rielle HUnter by telling her be quiet and when Elizabeth dies we will be together. He is a jerk. We dont need another jerk as president.

Oh please God let this all end. Men for the most part are not marriage material. But what else do we have to choose from? The pain they inflict is severe and long lasting, I know.

the reason the other men didnt get shafted is because they admitted they were jerks in the last marriage when asked about it except edwards and the clintons..they denied denied till they couldnt deny nomore for the sake of moving up the ladder for hillary >>
she played the marriage lie card just long enough to stay up there somehow>> the only good thing out of the clintons lies is they have a great daughter!
edwards wife shouldnt drudge up old wounds to us the public because she chose to stay with him no matter what its a lose situation for her because she will not live long enough and she didnt need to go out showing her kids the anger she has for her husband to their kids and oprah and the model chick tara need to quit thinking all women need to keep hearing about this over and over again because we are all tired of them telling us we needed to know >>again>>> we could care less about palins daughters almost husband levi side of the story but we had to listen to that dysfunctional families story so we could maybe feel sorry for them ( not ! ) taras just mad that the palins are smart enough to keep that dysfunctional family out of their lives as much as possible>> see they try to live functional and everyone brings them down for not wanting the dyfunctional family to hang around them!! i am sad this happened to edwards wife and children but enough is enough >> he found out his wife was dying and he fell in love with another woman and had a child with her and maybe not in the proper way case closed>> he may of gone around it the wrong way completely the wrong way but it happened so time to leave them alone now and let her pass in peace with what she feels she has left in her own dignity>> overwriting on this issue and over analyizing on their family imperfections is just sad > he should of said im sorry i fell in love with someone way before you passed away>> i am a jerk but apologize and mean it and get on with life and leave them alone already! his career is over and giving him more tv time just might think we should let them revise it ( not )....

I campaigned for John, I contributed to his campaign with money as well and I felt betrayed. He was selfish and irresponsible! The fact he had the affair is non of my business but the way he misled all of us, covered up and denied was arrogant and awful. It shows his lack of character, oh well...most politicians are liers anyway! Look at Polosi now? She is horrible too.

In a society where marriage vows are really not taken all that seriously it can be argued that extramarital affairs do not reflect all that strongly on a candidate's ability to conduct foreign or domestic policy. It can also be argued that, from a political point of view, EVERYONE takes those vows seriously when the extramarital affair involves a person with whom we disagree -- Craig, Foley, Edwards,Clinton etal.

Certainly, if extramarital excursions are not material to a leader's ability to perform his public duties, it should logically follow that simply admitting to them should be relatively cost free. But no matter how immaterial extramarital activities are (or should be), lying is and will always be material to the way the public views a leader.

And in the end, a politician who willfully places himself in the middle of a blatant lie betrays weaknesses even more devastating than dishonesty. He openly displays contempt for those he would lead, and stupidity of the highest order.

This is the least credible report I've ever heard. Maybe George is just guilty that his former boss was screwin anything that walked and wants to beleive the Edwards folks had higher standards. His inner circle knew, and they hoped it wouldn't come out. This story is a lie.

Wall of text! For the love of god. If you're going to make a point, use a freakin comma or period every now and then.

Give me a brake folks. Yes, Edwards is guilty. I'm partly blind, but not that blind to know he hurt his beautiful wife the most. His wife is fighting the biggest battle of her life for any women. To rip her emotional feelings, what little she has left away was the biggest disgrace of his life. As for politics and life in general. People have extra affairs everyday. Some folks get caught, and some as we type may still be having under the table affairs. I'm willing to bet you, some of those folks who are sitting around saying "what a disgraced for this to happen" maybe themselves having an extra affair. This happens all the time. Beautiful women and drinks or handsome men and women needs. I'm sure we have not heard the last of extra affairs. But, I hope we heard the last of scum's hurting your love one, mainly, when they are down and out.

Sorry, I do not buy this story. If indeed the staffers were going to sabotage his campaign, then they did a lousy job of it because the news broke after the election. Edwards could have well been the VP.
All that said, it does not disqualify Edwards from the VP nor does it excuse his behavior. Personally, I have lost a lot of respect for him. Gingrich, McCain, Giuliani and the other adulterers are all cut from teh same cloth.