Edwards is and always was an unprincipled ambulance chaser. Glad to see he finally got his gotterdammerung. I feel bad for his wife, though.

>>>>I'm actually a little disappointed in this thread.
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>>>>From its title I at first assumed there was some late-breaking news that McCain had announced he was gay.
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>>>>Now *that* would have made the dynamics of this election *really* interesting.
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>>>Exactly. What this campaign needs is some prurient interest. John Edwards tried but it was too little, too late.
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>>Have hope. there is still the opportunity for slutty running mates (or perhaps rumors Michelle Obama is having an affair with Cindy McCain ... )
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>There you go. Maybe McCain will name Paris Hilton as his running mate in a try for the youth vote.
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>There was a piece in Newsweek about Edwards's ex-mistress. Wow, she is a piece of work. It just shows there are true crazies floating around among all the partisans.
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>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/08/11/darman-what-rielle-hunter-told-me.aspx
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>Kind of funny that the video documentaries she was hired to make were supposed to "show voters the real John Edwards." She wound up succeeding in that, didn't she?