Quote of the day
posted at 10:40 pm on August 5, 2008 by Allahpundit
“How irresponsible was it to seek the party’s nomination knowing that this scandal was lurking around, ready to explode? What if he’d won? Are we sure it wouldn’t have been discovered by the McCain campaign before November? Rock stars get to behave this badly because they’re only rock stars. Worst that happens is the band breaks up. What if Edwards actually got elected–and then the scandal was discovered when he was in office? Did Democrats enjoy the Lewinsky years?“
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Elizabeth Edwards has cancer. How dare y’all even touch this…!
SouthernGent on August 5, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Edwards/Spitzer 2012.
Buy Danish on August 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Its the Kennedy/FDR/Clinton rule for the Press. Never talk about affairs had by Democratic presidentual candidates.
William Amos on August 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Hey $500 dollar haircuts … I’m impressed.
But being on this Dick Head, I’m not!
byteshredder on August 5, 2008 at 10:55 PM
Sarcasm, right?
Extremely irresponsible. But becoming the trademark of hubris democrats.
petefrt on August 5, 2008 at 10:55 PM
An acquaintance of mine was describing a recent hunting jaunt: The guys were in an open Jeep, scouting for rabbits. They saw a pair mating in the distance. As they approached, the female broke away from the male’s grasp to flee for her life, and the male was also running behind her, but not to flee. He soon tackled her and, uh, picked up where they had left off. This gave the hunters a chance to catch up, and soon both of our furry friends were in a stew.
The moral of the story is that sex drive can drive you off a cliff. It’s like a drug or alcohol–you do things you otherwise wouldn’t think of doing under it’s influence. Many guys wouldn’t think committing adultery, but it’s like a plague in America’s homes, destroying families everywhere.
jgapinoy on August 5, 2008 at 10:57 PM
He didn’t think he would win the nomination.
So it was ‘manageable’.
Spirit of 1776 on August 5, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Dems and the media would have, called it his private life that had no real baring on his character, claimed it was nobody else’s business, called the republicans sex crazed prudes, and came up with about a million excuses for John Edwards.
Dollayo on August 5, 2008 at 10:59 PM
That would have been like, deja vu, .. all over again.
wise_man on August 5, 2008 at 11:02 PM
It’s a resume’ enhancement for Liberals!haha.
canopfor on August 5, 2008 at 11:05 PM
We didn’t touch it………………. Edwards did.
Seven Percent Solution on August 5, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Hypocrisy = Democrats. I love it that this sanctimonious snake oil salesman (who makes other trial attys like me look bad) got caught with his … ahem … pants down.
HawaiiLwyr on August 5, 2008 at 11:08 PM
oh, and to add to Dollayo’s conjecture:
.. and Elizabeth Edwards would have come out on national television and claimed that there was a vast right wing conspiracy™ aimed at slandering her husband’s good name.
wise_man on August 5, 2008 at 11:09 PM
hold on there…it’s completely possible that Silky that a sex scandal was a pre-req for the Dems in order to throw his hat into the ring…
ocbrat on August 5, 2008 at 11:14 PM
Yes but these are Dems we’re talkin’ about here, they wouldn’t care what he did, their’s can do no wrong … unless it was something reeeeeally bad, like vote to end abortion.
Tony737 on August 5, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Hah…touche’!
SouthernGent on August 5, 2008 at 11:16 PM
The rabbit analogy holds. Maybe it would be easier for us to manage if we acknowledged the hard-wiring, as well as the potential damage for our families. It ain’t easy, but spousal fidelity over sex drive needs to be done to preserve family. The ethic needs to be enforced. Folks need to be held accountable by peer appraisal, if family as the cornerstone of society is to be preserved.
And that means you too, Silky.
petefrt on August 5, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Much as I’d like to make a smart remark about Edwards or the Dems, I think I’ll confine myself to hectoring our public watchdogs, the self-congratulatory …, our vaunted …, um, what are they called again, um, help me out here, aah, I’m pretty sure the acronym is SMM, no, MMS, no ….
Well, whatever it is, I’m glad I don’t rely on them for all the news that’s fit to print.
Dusty on August 5, 2008 at 11:17 PM
It’s hard to wrap my brain around how horrible this little man is. The infidelity is bad enough, esp from a smarmy lawyer/politician like him. But his wife. Wow.
bikermailman on August 5, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Kind of a ‘gang’ initiation?
I thought their initiation also required taking bread form poor children’s mouths by kowtowing to enviroleftists demands?
Oh, that’s right, they donate more than the poor?
Beto Ochoa on August 5, 2008 at 11:23 PM
I thought it was Harey humping leads to a bunny in the oven.
Tennman on August 5, 2008 at 11:25 PM
In that case, he’d have just jumped over his own shadow and onto a flying pig, asked a deaf policeman for directions, and gone on a skiing vacation in Hell.
CK MacLeod on August 5, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Wasn’t that from a Dennis Hopper movie?
How about that. There are Hollywood Movie Stars that have fewer illegitimate kids than Edwards!
Beto Ochoa on August 5, 2008 at 11:32 PM
***REAL quote of the day, from a 2007 Time article linked from this page’s quote:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1626498-2,00.html
battleoflepanto1571 on August 5, 2008 at 11:32 PM
but he’s got such pretty eyes
vinman on August 5, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Dude, we’re talking about democrats. Irrelevant question.
redshirt on August 5, 2008 at 11:39 PM
If The Enquirer doesn’t release anything new this week, it’s going to be very disappointing and more MSM ammo for NOT covering it. They’re competing with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s new twins’ pictures the other tabloids paid a billion dollars for. If that isn’t enough impetus….
Marcus on August 5, 2008 at 11:40 PM
It would be, were he not such a hypocrite. In fact hypocrisy is indignant over Edwards.
Baron Münchhausen is proud.
You’re way too partial. It’s not the propriety of America, not this one.
7%, one can always rely on you :)
Entelechy on August 5, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Just curious; did you know that his daddy worked down at the mill?
carbon_footprint on August 5, 2008 at 11:45 PM
You people forget the double standard. Democrats can have sex in any form and it is okay. Republicans though, claim family values so we are the ones that get treated as adults, with accountability, while the children get to play.
carbon_footprint on August 5, 2008 at 11:48 PM
He’s very good at compartmentalizing things, don’t you know? So no problemo.
thegreatbeast on August 5, 2008 at 11:49 PM
“Two Americas, one for me, and one for thee” ~ ~ Johnny Reid “John” Edwards
Entelechy on August 5, 2008 at 11:51 PM
William “Frozen Dollar Billz” Jefferson for Secretary of the Treasury.
Chakra Hammer on August 5, 2008 at 11:52 PM
I’m still surprised to find out he actually likes girls…
Kevin71 on August 5, 2008 at 11:52 PM
You know, I didn’t know that his daddy worked at the mill.
The next thing you’ll tell me, that senator John Kerry was is vieye-ayte-namhe.
wise_man on August 5, 2008 at 11:53 PM
Edwards had to run, his wife told him to.
If he hadn’t, his lower life ways probably would have come to light even sooner.
Since when is a Democrat nominee not arrogant enough to take’em any way they can get’em.
Speakup on August 6, 2008 at 12:01 AM
So while Edwards was making a big show of how he and his wife were such a big loving team and about how he was the devoted loving husband supporting her through her fight with cancer, at the very same time, not years ago but at the very same time, he was having this ongoing torrid affair right under her nose and he is still doing it at least as of several days ago?
Am I getting this right?
She had maybe 5 or so years to live before, I wonder how long she’s got now. I would like to hear what oncologists think about this.
MB4 on August 6, 2008 at 12:02 AM
What are you suggesting?
SnarkVader on August 6, 2008 at 12:06 AM
I think “big loving team” was about as co-ordinated as Mr and Mrs Clinton dancing on the private beach arm-in-arm for photographers before Monica broke open in the press. Ellizabeth’s the brains. She’s known.
Marcus on August 6, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Silky is no more…
d1carter on August 6, 2008 at 12:48 AM
“Elizabeth Edwards has cancer. How dare y’all even touch this…!
SouthernGent on August 5, 2008 at 10:44 PM”
Why not, Edwards obviously did, unless you believe in a second Immaculate Conception. As for the fact his wife has cancer, again, didn’t seem to bother Edwards.
GarandFan on August 6, 2008 at 12:49 AM
I still love the idea that conservatives (aka Republicans) are all prudes about sex. A friend of mine made fun of my family full of conservatives for that. My response was:
“My grandparents (conservatives all) had 8 and 7 children respectively. From both sides, I have close to 50 cousins. My cousins who have children have anywhere between 2 and 6. How exactly did these children come to be? From a cabbage patch, perchance? Guess what? When THIS many kids come from one family, I’m thinking you can assume we like getting busy.”
That shut her up right quick…..
mjk on August 6, 2008 at 12:56 AM
Cough cough.
(hillbillyjim dusting off old “Little Johnnie” joke book)
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 12:58 AM
Forget the lack of character or the sheer stupidity of the circumstances that they are caught in. Except for JFK, what amazes me is the fugly women they pick out. That right there shows they are unable to make good decisions and should not be in control of the local dog catchers office let alone be POTUS.
jukin on August 6, 2008 at 1:00 AM
I recall on the day they announced that Elizabeth has cancer, and that he’d stay in the race, he never hugged her or showed any affection. I found that very cold. He was very coy during the press conference.
Entelechy on August 6, 2008 at 1:06 AM
That whole episode was so weird and unsettling. The dude has got a lot of nerve and very little else.
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 1:08 AM
I must be a fairly good judge of character, because John Edwards always turned my stomach, from the minute I heard him speak. I don’t think John Edwards has ever been sincere for two minutes straight, in his life.
RBMN on August 6, 2008 at 1:48 AM
Why not, Edwards obviously did, unless you believe in a second Immaculate Conception. As for the fact his wife has cancer, again, didn’t seem to bother Edwards.
GarandFan on August 6, 2008 at 12:49 AM
I’m sorry GarandFan, but it would have to have been the third immaculate conception. We all know that Obambi was immaculately conceived
TimothyJ on August 6, 2008 at 1:53 AM
How to explain this?
He’s a tort lawyer.
I’ll reluctantly take the guy who was trolling for gay sex in the bathroom over the guy who cheated on his cancer-stricken wife while trumpeting his devotion to said wife.
misterpeasea on August 6, 2008 at 2:02 AM
So is Ann Coulter.
Tim Burton on August 6, 2008 at 2:04 AM
It’s a Dem initiation rite, right? So they’re making one up for Silky. I still don’t believe he’s Alpha enough for this sort of thing, hotel shenanigans notwithstanding. He’d get his hair messed up.
baldilocks on August 6, 2008 at 2:17 AM
*guffaw*
It doesn’t quite fit, does it?
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 2:21 AM
What if Edwards actually got elected
What if Obama actually gets elected.
What’s the difference?
winemkr on August 6, 2008 at 2:30 AM
It’s the difference between hyper-sonic and light speed surrender, nothing more.
SuperCool on August 6, 2008 at 6:24 AM
I can’t precisely tell if the above is sarcasm.
If not: The Breck Girl should have stayed home with his wife, instead of prostituting her for his pathetic campaign.
seanrobins on August 6, 2008 at 7:32 AM
A lot more than 7% of Americans commit adultery, & each case has the potential to destroy a family. All of us need to be on guard.
jgapinoy on August 6, 2008 at 7:39 AM
What the hell is it about this guy that the MSM insists on shielding him from the evidence that he may have cheated on his wife? If this was McCain, my God, there would be a literal media firestorm!
If Silky thinks this isn’t going to come back to haunt him in 2012 if he tries to run yet again, he needs to change that hair gel of his, because it’s affecting his brain cells.
pilamaye on August 6, 2008 at 7:54 AM
He is a very successful trial lawyer. The media are afraid of tangling with him.
shaken on August 6, 2008 at 8:12 AM
I think the real story here is the media’s refusal to cover this story. Go back a few months and look at how the media covered the Larry Craig story. The media is dying the slow death it so richly deserves. Can’t happen fast enough for me. John Edwards is the typical Democrat male; whiny, sissified, elitist, arrogant, self-centered, and lacking in human morals.
Keemo on August 6, 2008 at 8:15 AM
How successful do you have to be to get 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty to feel sorry for a retarded child.. (or whatever he would sue for.. spinal bifida or cerebral palsy) against a big hospitable with deep pockets..
DaveC on August 6, 2008 at 9:13 AM
Didn’t Kennedy have like 617 lovers which he bedded IN the white house?
AlexB on August 6, 2008 at 9:33 AM
An Oncologist will tell you that a person’s attitude has quite a lot to do with fighting cancer. The betrayal by her husband can impact her attitude.
TooTall on August 6, 2008 at 9:56 AM
At least we have a baby to show for all this. If it weren’t for the occasional offspring, these scandals would amount to little more than disgust that some d1ck left his chewing gum under the wrong desk.
Kralizec on August 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM
I live in NC and you are hard pressed to find anybody that likes Edwards (even democrats).About the only time you saw his
name on a bumper sticker,it was as VP with Kerry and usually was right beside another bumper sticker that said “War is not the answer”……apparently oblivious to the fact that Kerry/Edwards voted for the last two wars.
I am not sure who is the bigger idiot,Edwards or the people that bought his “Two Americas” bullsh!t.
Baxter Greene on August 6, 2008 at 11:39 AM
He would have carried on where Clinton and JFK left off. A proud tradition the democrats are…
stacman on August 6, 2008 at 3:46 PM
“Did the Democrats enjoy the Lewinsky years?”
Many must have enjoyed those years, they wanted the same multi-addicted hick and his grasping Cowntessa to return for a juicy sequel. ‘More slickamoo!’ they clamored.
(Your guess is as good as mine on the definition of that new word).
Christine on August 6, 2008 at 4:54 PM