Posted on 08/07/2008 3:31:55 AM PDT by NCDragon
RALEIGH - Former Sen. John Edwards might have to move quickly to save his spot on the national stage.
With two weeks before their national convention, several prominent Democrats are saying Edwards must publicly address anonymously sourced National Enquirer stories that claim he had an affair with a campaign worker and fathered her baby.
Democrats gather in Denver on Aug. 25 and Edwards, as the 2004 vice presidential nominee and a presidential candidate who won delegates this year, ordinarily would be a speaker.
Instead some Democrats say convention organizers will try to avoid the lingering questions if Edwards himself doesn't talk.
"He absolutely does have to [resolve it]. If it's not true, he has to issue a stronger denial," said Gary Pearce, the Democratic strategist who ran Edwards' 1998 Senate race. "It's a very damaging thing. ... The big media has tried to be responsible and handle this with kid gloves, but it's clearly getting ready to bust out. If it's not true, he's got to stand up and say, 'This is not true. That is not my child and I'm going to take legal action against the people who are spreading these lies.' It's not enough to say, 'That's tabloid trash.' "
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I know several lawyers who have integrity. However, none of them channel in the courtroom.
From the minute the NE broke this story, I NEVER had a doubt. They do not print something like this without having a boatload to support it, especially against a high profile ambulance chaser.
I just hope he continues to ignore it. His facial expression in the press conference was priceless. He started to say “I don’t know what you’re talking about” and quickly changed to “tabloid trash”. Someone please link to that presser!!
“Anonymously sourced?” You’ve got to be kidding! Named National Inquirer reporters shoving cameras and microphones in the face of an petrified and dazed Edwards is hardly anonymous.
Lawyer. Liberal. Liar.
While these are NOT synonymous terms, their combination
is toxic. 3 strikes and you’re out, Pony Boy!
How about “That’s really, really tabloid trash” ?
“That’s Democrat trash”
It will be Clinton redux - "Mistakes were made. This is a private matter. Our family needs to work this out in private. I'm consulting with my spiritual advisor, the Rev. Jackson and so on."
The DBM and Dem sycophants will eat it up.
The pictures have been released haven’t they? I think he is going to have a hard time denying it now. I think they(the MSM)is trying to say the pictures were photo shopped but that is easy enough to prove or disprove.
Just at about the time this nice Christmas pic was taken, Johnny had to be up to something with his little missus in the woodshed.
Look at the nice snow outside the window... uh...
“The big media has tried to be responsible and handle this with kid gloves,”
If it had been a Republican, ANY Republican, it would be on the news 24 hours a day, until the Republican resigned.
Good job mots,
now that’s funny.
Could have happened to a nicer guy but I really do feel for his wife (even though she too has her faults)...
So, the baby of Silky Pony is “My Little Pony?”
BTW, Elizabeth is as mean and nasty a lawyer as HRC. She may want his nut encased in a Lucite cube for her desk ... with the chainsaw marks visible.
“nut” = “nuts”
i don’t know that i agree with you on this. I think his wife dying of cancer and being a beloved, respected & sympathetic public figure (whether you agree or not with her politics) makes the outcome of this for Edwards very different than a Clinton story. I don’t think anyone will have sympathy for him, once he is forced to admit he is the father (and of course he is).
Elizabeth changes the equation. She makes this “baby-momma thing” quite sickening, even to deadhead Dems who make excuses for their own (”no one is perfect”) and then slaughter a Republican for identical behavior (”he’s a pig and a hypocrite”).
Yes, I agree that Elizabeth and her cancer diagnosis makes her a much more sympathetic figure than Hillary was.
But I still think that if John Edwards does a Bill Clinton imitation and even cries to boot, the press and Democrats will be eating out of his hand. That’s just the way they are.
edwards has lost twice now, they won’t be so nice to him when they move in for the kill, but the feeding frenzy will never be the same as for a pubbie.
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