[IncPen]

My comment over at the blog:

It seems to me the likely candidate as the leaker of this is the guy who drove Rielle to the hotel and reserved the rooms.

It’s also **entirely** possible that Rielle herself recognized that her dime was up with Johnny and sold the story to the tabloid. If she did, and the secret held, she could be ‘burning the candle at both ends’, so to speak.

And it remains to be seen if JE is going to be on the hook for child support. Rielle may well be holding the paternity test back until she decides if Daddy is going to (silk) pony up the cash.

A final thought: everyone is feeling sorry for JE’s wife, and rightly so. But it begs the question: did she have motive and opportunity to drop a dime on JE’s meeting with the mistress?

I think we’ve not seen the last of this story by a longshot– it’s going to be political demise by a thousand paper cuts.

[pollwatcher]

Yes - IF Rielle (or her advisors)were so clever to set-up Edwards - then demand payments in order to not permit the test while he sets himself up as the noble one willing to take it.

But this sounds a little too-schemey for such a ditz, and seems more like another one of Edwards transparent arrangements.