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The Resurrection of John Edwards
Emerging from the Democratic Party witness protection program, the former perpetual candidate was slouching toward redemption last night for a discussion of last week’s elections at Indiana University and next week will debate Karl Rove, his Republican counterpart in shamelessness, at an American Bankers Association meeting in San Francisco (paying them with taxpayer bailout money, no doubt).
There used to a timeline for public rehabilitation, but it has been erased, first by Rove’s instant reincarnation from Bush’s smear-master as a political pundit and now by John Edwards’ popping up in public only three months after a weasel-worded admission of adultery for being caught red-handed by a tabloid.
3 Responses to “The Resurrection of John Edwards”
Totally Agree about the timeline for shamelessness. Pretty soon a pol will just drop out of sight for the week-end and will be rehabilitated for all kinds of wrong-doing. The rest of us are not given second, third and fourth chances in life.
Even Mark Foley reared his ugly head recently to claim that he only made mistakes in judgment– there was nothing illegal in his actions.-Should we all forgive and forget?
And Ted Stevens certainly isn't about to let a little thing like a felony conviction stand in his way of serving the people of Alaska….
The threat of banishment from power is the only one the voting public has over these creeps. At least Rep Mahoney, Foley's replacement, got his on Election Day.
What's shameless is comparing John Edwards to Karl Rove. Karl Rove played a large part in the death of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. He willfully lied to the public time after time. He smeared war heroes like John McCain and John Kerry. Meanwhile, John Edwards cheated on his wife.
Get a sense of proportionality please.
The Ewards/Rove debate is actually happening at the Commercial Financial Association convention in SF – not the American Bankers Assoc.