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.