Mr. Morality and Honesty ran the most nasty negative primary 2008 campaign ONLY against rival Dem Hillary Clinton. Why is that?

Besides Few candidates have made worse judgements in their short political career than John Edwards who didn't have time to even think about his Iraq vote while running for president in 2004 and then while campaigning in the GE as VP. Then finally late 2005 he took some time out of his busy life to think about it... and decided to run for president again ... on the BIG EXCUSE.

I really don't understand why private legal sexual affairs of the heart are regarded as valid questions to ask in measuring a person's qualifications for public service.

I also don't get how it is that all anyone has to do is point their finger and yell "Sinner!" at a Democrat and their career is over while the Republicans like George W. Bush committ crimes like torture and nobody does a damn thing to stop them.

His wife who has cancer was a huge part of his campaign. Huge!!!. And practically the reason people on the net voted for him. Well. Almost. But close. He ran as the "only" populist in the primaries and his tag team game with Obama hurt Hillary Clinton badly.

Just spare me the details. I don't want to know them. I never read a page of the Starr report either btw.

Newt Gingrich's first wife had cancer and he wanted her to sign papers while in hospital. He was maligned for it ... and rightly so.

Yes, hypocrisy is a bad thing, but it's been sort of fetishized as the worst thing in the whole world by the MSM.  And I think it's because it's the easiest and cheapest way to do their fake-reporting.  It's annoying and stupid, because it glosses over the real questions raised by the subject of any hypocrisy accusations.

President Clinton was impeached over something I never wanted to know about... while tweety's TV cable career was made. Aside from the wars nothing was so depressing as the impeachment years in the late 90's. Hope vanished with it.

And now it is the stuff American legends (read: ridicule) are made of  ... esp. in foreign films.

The problem is that our society is so hung up on sex.  I'm not saying Edwards wasn't being a jerk to Elizabeth, when she was seriously ill of all times, but many many people have a problems with their sex lives and problems with self-control and with using sex as an escape from a painful reality or from self-evaluation or to shore up insecurity or God knows whatever other reason (I know -- sheer lust is on the list but it's often driven by other things, including perhaps anxiety over the possible death of your spouse. Irrational, but could happen).  

But would we have been better off if we knew that FDR had a mistress, that Eisenhower had an affair with his female driver in Europe during WWII,  that Kennedy was sleeping with the girlfriend of a mobster and Marilyn Monroe, among others, that LBJ was a noted womanizer, or that George Bush Senior had a mistress (this was, in fact, hushed up by the press).  

Let's see, who does that leave out?

Bill falls into the category above.

Nixon. Who would want an affair with him?

Carter? Same question.

Reagan?  Well he was senile and called his wife "Mommy."

His political action committee later paid her $114,000 to produce campaign website documentaries despite her lack of experience.

He's a political phony, he always was a phony and he always will be.  There may be a genuine, 'sincere bone in his body' but it doesn't sell to most of the electorate who weren't taken in by all that smarmy, insincere 'charm.'

I always thought he ran to help get some of the important issues out there for dems, speak about them intelligently, and create some excitement in the primary.

I supported him, but his numbers were never strong.

I'm already bored with all the boohooing and outrage.

I wish people would stop moralizing and just shut up.

Do us all a favor, eh? Disappear for the next three months.  

Let's hang that scarlet letter around his neck and cast him out, shall we?  [rolls eyes]

If this is what sinks a presidential campaign, it was a decrepit, pathetic campaign to begin with.  Do Dems always quake in their boots when something like this comes out?  

He recognized it, maybe too late.  Better late than never.

Power is a terrible drug, I guess.  Depends what you do when you have it though.

When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough.

So denying the story altogether because it contained some inaccuracies is "99% honest"?  You know, come clean or not at all.

It was a setup to get her, but now it will get Edwards.  Interesting -- and especially because Clinton would be the nominee, but for Edwards'  hubris in running while having an affair, paying the woman with a faux campaign job with campaign -- our -- funds, etc.

If Bush hadn't gone into Iraq, Kerry might be president now.  Almost certainly HRC would be the nominee otherwise.

And maybe Edwards ran, knowing full well that he wouldn't win and that's why he wasn't thinking "I'll win and this will all come out".  Maybe he actually cared about the issues he was running on and wanted the platform to run, even if it was only temporary.