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.
Who’s the pitcher?
They'd be idiots to make something like this up. Wonder if she's pregnant?
Anybody send this to DRUDGE, yet?
In our brave, new mediacentric world, it isn’t really a story until it hits Drudge...
Funny, she looks like the type that likes men.
IT HELPED BUBBA GET ELECTED!
At first glance, I would think this was a hit by the Hillary campaign. But it’s more likely that the Edwards’ campaign decided that all the whining by Mrs. Edwards was not helping, so they are trying a new tactic. Next we will be treated to the Edwards having a new photo-op at Wendy’s or the place where they were married or even at a graveyard. Nothing would surprise me with that bunch.
Anybody around who can “Digg” this story???
What a revolting and telling picture of those two gay idiots! gay referring to their absolute state of laughter, closeness, touching and feeling gestures obviously showing true happiness, nothing else.(sarq)
I guess he was just following the Clinton Method of Presidential Campaigning. It didn’t slow Billy Jeff down because his lovely wife Hillary castigated Jennifer Flowers, not her adulterous husband. I have a feeling Elizabeth Edwards would do the same thing, should this story prove true. Some women love power more than their own reputations.
Wow! He is really THE FAKE BRECK GIRL,phony baloney. There are definitely sparks going on between he and Ms. Hunter in these videos. I dont think Ms. Edwards is going to be happy when she sees these. No wonder the Gigolo picked this CAD for a running mate.
Kay: Best investigative reporting on the planet. But go ahead, read the New York Times if you want. They get lucky sometimes.
Sounds like they have a new front runner!
“My heart is loud and my head is silenced.”
What in the name of Sam Hill does that mean? Is the Enquirer sure that the incoherent Lizzie Edwards didn’t write that line?
This makes me extremely ill.
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Monkey Business! (Well maybe. Or maybe just an extortion attempt; in which case it remains to be seen if Edwards is the highest bidder.)
The National Enquirer has for its Chief Counsel one David (Jiminy the Cricket) Kendall, aka Bill Clinton’s personal lawyer.
It wouldn’t surprise me if it was the Clinton Slime Machine that got this story to the Enquirer.
Exactly correct. I was skeptical about this, but the Enquirer story makes it IMHO 99% likely to be true. For the skeptics, may I remind you that, compared to say the New York Times, The Enquirer has better reporters, better-paid reporters, better fact-checkers, better-paid fact-checkers, better lawyers, and better-paid lawyers.
In the film Men in Black, the Will Smith character asks the Tommy Lee Jones character about the tabloids. Jones replies authoritatively, "The best investigative journalism in America." They meant it as a joke, but it's literally true.
They met in a bar? I don’t know that doesn’t ring true. Edwards is hanging around in bars?!? Unlikely.
Although, doesn’t David Kendall, Hillary’s personal lawyer, also represent the National Enquirer?
She’s not a public figure. If they name her, and got the story wrong, she could sue them.
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