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Why should he when Newt Gingrich did much the same and he has not slink off away in shame. Shall we add other democrats and republicans to the list. Its all too easy to compile a very long list and be bipartisan also.
But cheer up, I don't think John Edwards or Gov Sanfort could get elected for dog catcher right now.
In fairness - and I am a Democrat - what Newt Gingrich did was not "much the same" as what Edwards did.
Gingrich confronted his first wife to talk about the terms of their divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery (she did ultimately recover, and is still alive as far as I know). He was having an affair at the time (though his girlfriend was not pregnant). He married her six months after the divorce was final. Was this callous? Most definitely.
Edwards, on the other hand, not only fathered a love child while his wife was ill with what would prove to be terminal cancer (perhaps caused, at least in part, by the fertility drugs she took so they could have more kids while she was 50+ years old), he talked his young protege, who had a wife and kids of his own, into taking the blame for fathering the child, and asked him to fake a paternity test so Edwards could be cleared of having fathered the kid. He then took vast amounts of private donations to fund ferrying his baby mama and his stooge from 5-star hotel to 5-star hotel to keep the press off the scent. While his wife was terminally ill. While he was running for President.
As far as I'm concerned Edwards is a total sociopath, and I thank God for the National Enquirer, because without them he might have been Attorney General or even Vice President by the time the whole story broke. He was willing to destroy not only his family, but his party and the Presidency, in the interest of his own hunger for power. I think he's completely despicable.