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So it turns out that some top-level Edwards staffers (JOE TRIPPI???) were prepared to go public with news about their boss’s affair if it looked like he was in danger of actually winning the Democratic nomination. Thus: nobody ever had to worry about him ruining the party, because his own double-crossing employees would have ratted him out first.
Of course, if those staffers had told the nation in, say, December that Edwards was a reptilian hornbot with an inexplicable yen for fortysomething videographers, then all the Edwards-inclined Bitters who were determined not to vote for that street organizing muslin Obama would have thrown their support behind Hillary Clinton. She might very well have won Iowa and had an even huger victory in New Hampshire and then who-all knows what else…
The point is, the whole election pretty much depended on Edwards aides keeping their lips zipped forever, which they did, which is why Hillary Clinton is at this very moment constructing a swine-flu bomb for Joe Trippi.
Edwards Staff Had Affair ‘Doomsday’ Strategy [George's Bottom Line]
Report: John Edwards’ aides had plotted to sabotage his campaign over affair [Top of the Ticket]
So Edwards was a Hill guy, but his staffers preferred the other guy? Shouldn’t they have at least told his wife?
PUMA RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGEE
They’d only take his money for so long, apparently.
What would Edwards’ staffers have done, had he acted more like a repub politician (taste for young, male interns). Hmmm, could the repub preference for viginally-challenged gender account for Ross Douthat’s disgust for — ewwwwww - women on the pill ready to HAVE SEX!!!!!
[sorry for shouting]
Back to topic, ship the ex-Edwards staffers over to Charlie Crist’s campaign to see if they can cope with “Mr. Pretend Straight Marriage” for a while.
And ship me some pity karma points for trying to weave three threads into one post.
Where is a bus with low clearance when you need one?
I am wandering over to the Confluence to witness seething at its finest.
HappyHappyJoyJoy
It’s like Othello except:
1) Othello’s white
2) The “Moop” in question isn’t the one being betrayed
3) Iago is on the side of the, er, Angels
4) Ophelia makes a guest appearance from Denmark as Othello’s videographer
5) Othello actually won a few battles unlike Johnny Mill
ManchuCandidate: and 6) Desdemona lives to write a couple of tell-all biographies, go on Oprah, and subsequently rip Othello several new holes.
So what you’re saying is that My Hopey-Rainbow-Stardust-Master almost didn’t get elected? Is THAT what you’re saying?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, can we get to the post about Greta Van Susteren secretly banging Todd Palin?
So nice to be protected by triple agents or whatever. I feel really safe knowing that extras from ‘Days of Our Lives’ are looking out for my interests.
queeraselvis v 2.0: 7) and the ultimate winner in all this is a Moor.
Scarab: Secretly?
Jesus, even his hair looks ashamed of itself in that photo.
Muslin double agents everywhere! The Freepers are right after all!!!!!11!!!!911!!
Although I admit when I first read the headline,”Edwards Aides Were Two-Timers, Also” I thought the post was going to be a super-sexy story of how Edward’s men were shagging some uh, videograpers assistants or something?
Custerwolf: It’s a tribble.
Custerwolf: I’m sure we all have assistants plotting our doomsday scenarios as well.
“If s/he ever ends up on Oprah we pull the plug!”
One of President Hillary Clinton’s first actions would have been to establish a “National Fuck an Ugly Fat Chick” Day.
i’d hit it.
“….an inexplicable yen for fortysomething videographers”
Somebody please give me the heads-up when John lowers his standards to fortysomethings with hand-held digital pieces of shit.
Gee, that’s first time I’ve seen Johnny withhout the plastic Osmond Family smile all over his face. He actually looks like a grownup instead of the only Gentile guest at a Conservative bar mitzvah.
Mad Farmer Manifest: Custerwolf: There are little air jets concealed in Edwards’ hair to preserve its loft. The compressor is up his butt. “Breck Girl” was a pretty good term for him, Bushies….wherever you are now.
Scarab:
It is way too early for your gross man-on-man sexytime tales, dude.
God, I hate that colossally lazy hack Andrew Malcolm: “One need not be a political novelist to imagine how history might differ had those suspicious aides acted immediately, allowing anti-Obama Democrats to coalesce behind Hillary Clinton before Barack Obama won the party’s Iowa caucuses.” So all Edwards supporters were “anti-Obama Democrats”? I’m pretty sure polling before Iowa showed Edwards’ supporters were split 50/50 between Obama and Hillary as second choices. I emailed Nate Silver about this because someone has to bring the statistical sexy to demolish this bullshit meme.
I heard Joe Trippi on the David Bender show yesterday. He said if he had known about this, he would have sat down with Edwards personally and told him to GTFO of the race immediately. He didn’t join the campaign til April or somesuch. So leave Joe Trippi ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this whole thing for the PUMA rage confluence of possibilities, natch.
Rumproast: Natty-Lite-Silver will totally open a can of Lo-Cal-Stat-Trim on their fatty-diabetic-asses!
LOL WAT
I was an Edwards supporter but also a big fan of Obama (and Elf Man Kucinich, but that’s neither here nor there)…I was never ever ever a Hilary supporter!
I would have jumped over to Obama MUCH sooner if Edwards had ended up not in the primaries…and he should NOT have been in the primaries! He should’ve known better. Hell, maybe Dodd or Biden would have fared better if it wasn’t viewed as a three-way race in Iowa. (Bill Richardson didn’t count because he didn’t grow his beard until after he dropped out.)
Thank god they paid fast and all the checks cleared the bank.
I don’t get why people supported John Edwards, but I really don’t get why his pumping the nice old video-Lady full of JohnJuice would make people switch to Hillary or Obama. According to Douthrat, he was just attempting to shore up his working-class cred. He fucked her for you!!
Scarab: all of the creepy hunger in gretas’ eyes has been directed at sara, she seems to be fondly recalling college era “experiments”.
I said it yesterday and I just twittered a response again today: Complete BS — fantasyland — not true.
http://joetrippi.com/blog/?p=2708
problemwithcaring: Oh yeah, like Douthat would understand why a man would want to bang a chick for non-strategic/tactical reasons.
JoeTrippi: If Politico doesn’t have to fact-check, why should a comedy/gossip site like Wonkette?
I want my feckin’ $25 back. Assholes.
JoeTrippi: Huh, that was Trippi.
Brendan M.: If Politico doesn’t have to fact-check, why should a comedy/gossip site like Wonkette?
Ha ha WIN. Good work, Trippi. Come over here & try to convince a bunch of people who don’t give a shit either way. Hopey was elected, end of story.
Leave the staffers out of it. You don’t just quit a job like that you let you boss think he’s the best for as long as possible to keep the consulting and hairdressing fees coming in. You don’t think that haircut really cost that much do you? It was like a $10 haircut someone marked up for $400 because that can be charged back with fake taxi receipts
Who knows what would have happened if Mr Blow-Wave had had the common decency to stay out of the race (did he actually believe that the Republicans wouldn’t have been ready to give him an October Surprise?)
The only thing we know for sure is that John Edwards is a cad, a bounder, a snake and a douchebag… and I don’t like him much.
CYA BS