Everything you didn't like about John Edwards before (trial lawyer going into elective politics, pretty-boy Southern charm boy, stealth "third-way" strategist, intellectual lightweight, sometime metrosexual, no military service, faux "good old boy" air, dabbles in psychic phenomena) are still there. He would be the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" redux, without the womanizer baggage.
Now I don't know if John Edwards does any of this womanizing thing, and I will not speculate. But the "Former Occupant of the Oval Ofice, 1993-2001" did an awful lot of wrongful things that had NOTHING to do with forcing females to do things that everybody knows were "just wrong", as it has been put. The worst thing the "Former Occupant of the Oval Ofice, 1993-2001" did was to shirk from giving full performance in the duties of President. Perhaps he simply did not know how. Given opportunities to rise above the situation and be a decisive statesman, he chose to duck and hide, and take the easy (and wrong) course of action, passing responsibility to anybody else that blame could be shucked off onto.
And we want another faint-hearted character like that a heartbeat from the Presidency? Considering the shaky state of John Kerry's health, Edwards could very well assume the mantle before the end of Kerry's first term.
Agree that the sex stuff with Klintoon diverted attention from his more serious transgressions. Edwards' resume is thin, and I think the Repubs need to keep pounding on that theme, using Kerry quotes from the primaries as frequently as possible. How, for example, did Edwards go from needing OJT to fully qualified to be president in a few months? What did he do in the interim?
Yet, my sympathies for Edwards on that one point, still; Kerry's pick had to be somebody who would fall on his sword for Hillary's debut, and indeed, John Edwards sounds much like Bill Clinton.