By: The Unreconstructed Southerner
It would seem that the political career of John Edwards is over and none too soon. His years of basking in the public spotlight through the media’s superficial obsession with his looks and personality are at an abrupt halt thankfully. This sanctimonious individual had the nerve to lecture North Carolina and America about our moral obligations as a state and a nation and then he carries on an affair and cover up, all while his wife has cancer. Don’t get me wrong, Elizabeth Edwards is a mean spirited woman as evidenced by her overt campaigning in 2008(like anyone is going to respond effectively to a dying woman) and her lecturing Dick Cheney on how to love your lesbian daughter in 2004. But it never looks good for someone like Edwards to commit such an act and will probably mean his dreams of a judicial appointment or being attorney general in an Obama administration are DOA.
Personally I never saw what the public saw in Edwards beyond his pandering. He beat Lauch Faircloth campaigning as a centrist, did nothing for North Carolina beyond a far left voting record, and declined to run again for the Senate when polls showed him getting beaten by Richard Burr. As a presidential candidate he went after very kooky left wing vote he could get and pandered to the NAACP crowd more then Obama did, albeit with less tangible results. It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy and North Carolina is well rid of the prospect of Edwards ever again running for office. Good bye and good riddens to this sissy britches phony.
