Posted on 10/10/2007 3:06:07 PM PDT by Leisler
Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught in a shocking mistress scandal that could wreck his campaign, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
Sources have come forward to charge that the "other woman" previously worked on Edwards' campaign and followed the 54-year-old candidate on trips across the U.S.
A source close to the woman, whose name is being withheld by The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, says that she confessed to having an affair in phone calls and emails, saying that her work with Edwards soon exploded into romance. The shocking allegation — if proven true — could devastate the Democratic hopeful's campaign, especially because John's devoted wife Elizabeth is locked in a desperate battle with breast cancer.
"The affair started about 18 months ago," a friend says the woman confessed to her. "When they met at a bar, sparks flew immediately.
"She never expected it would turn sexual since John is married and is running for President. But it soon did — and she fell for him."
In one bombshell e-mail message provided to The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, the woman confesses to a friend she's "in love with John," but it's "difficult because he is married and has kids."
In another e-mail, she writes: "Last night and this a.m., he actually has amazed me. He is a great man. My heart is loud and my head is silenced."
Disclosed her friend: "She initially confided in a few of her closest pals that she was sleeping with 'a married man named John.'
"It became clear the married man was John Edwards. They got together whenever they could, mostly at hotels where Edwards and his campaign staff stayed."
The woman later spelled it out in a phone call to her pal and talked openly about having an affair with Edwards.
The friend says the woman told her that she "had a crush on John. One thing led to another, and they soon ended up in bed together. But she knew there was no way he was going to leave Elizabeth, a wife battling cancer."
The ex-Senator's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. This past March, the couple announced her cancer had returned, but said his campaign would continue.
His spokesman said that allegations Edwards had an affair are "false, absolute nonsense."
The woman's friend told The NATIONAL ENQUIRER: "As the affair went on, she said that both she and John began to feel real guilty and they decided to end it."
The ENQUIRER made exhaustive but unsuccessful attempts to reach the woman for comment regarding this article but she would not return phone calls or emails or come to the door of the house where she is staying.
He’s a lawyer.
He’s used to doing that to clients.
Fitting justice for a ambulance chasing trial lawyer...
Phony pony.
Edwards will try to pay her off over 20 years.
bump
Here are some of the videos she made.
Nice excuse to travel with him on the jet, to Uganda, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDjxDL00mvg
Missing Edwards Webisode 1: Plane Truths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECWwDSRF1_4
Missing Edwards Webisode 2 - Golden Rule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnr2IGCFoOU
Missing Edwards Webisodes 3 - Plight of Uganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCFv0yuD_2M
Missing Edwards Webisodes 4 - Plugs
>> Sources have come forward to charge that the “other woman” previously worked on Edwards’ campaign and followed the 54-year-old candidate on trips across the U.S.
This has to be made up ...
I don’t think Edwards goes for women. He seems like more of a guy’s guy.
H
Beyond metro.
National Enquirer is a wacky source. I would put the likelihood of this being true at about 10%. Of course, I thought Gennifer Flowers was probably some kind of operative at the time, so my track record is probably worse than the Enquirer on these things.
....reliable source....
Yanno, from reading the backstory, in this instance it seems quite possible that where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
I seem to recall hearing somewhere, can’t remember where, that Hilary Clinton had established some more recent connection to the National Enquirer, possibly via American Media, Inc.(?), in order to try to control potentially troublesome stories about her during the campaign.
Yap, wouldn’t surprise me if this Edwards story came straight from the camp of The Beast, true or not.
Does anyone know if the owners of NE are Hillary supporters?
My problem with this story is that Edwards maybe be stupid but surely not this stupid.
More likely from the Obama campaign to eliminate #3. Hillary would have won even without this story.
Jay Severin on 96.9 FM in Boston is talking about this story as 99% true and he is connected to inside media sources.
“I automatically believe anything the National Enquirer says.
(/sarc)
Nevertheless, if true, and it wrecked Edwards’ campaign, that would be too bad. The Breck Girl being the Democratic nominee would be too good to be true—we would mop up the FLOOR with him.”
PUH-LEEZE! If this were true, the Breck Girl would be a shoo-in for the Dim nomination!
Hillary Matters, adjusting the Democrat field.
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Bet she has a strap-on.
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