June 5, 2011

John or Johnny Edwards is surely one of the most despicable persons to have walked the political stage, but the most amazing non-story behind his demise is the fact that the leading lights of the Democratic Party could not see through him. Not once, but twice the Democrats considered nominating him to run for the presidency, and did in fact put him on the national ticket in the second spot in 2004. How could this have happened? Edwards said all the right things and therefore the national media gave him a pass, he was a true liberal. Compare the treatment of Edwards to the media attention paid to the Republican candidate for vice president in 2008. Edwards had at least one mistress and an out of wedlock baby while running for president and no one in the media, except the National Inquirer reported on it, but when Palin wrote her book "Going Rouge" the AP assigned 11 reporters to fact check it, think there is a disparity there.