Edwards' Staffers had "Doomsday Plan" to Spoil his Bid for Nomination

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/11/report-edwards-staff-planned-blow-campaign-affair/

Report: Edwards Staff Planned to 'Blow Up' Campaign Over Affair

Members of former Sen. John Edwards' presidential campaign reportedly devised a "doomsday" strategy over his then-rumored affair if he appeared headed to win the Democratic nomination.

Members of former Sen. John Edwards' presidential campaign reportedly devised a "doomsday" strategy over his affair with Rielle Hunter in which they would destroy his bid for office.

Several unnamed former campaign officials said they had prepared a plan in which they would sabotage Edwards' campaign if it appeared he would secure the Democratic nomination, ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reported on Sunday.

"They were Democrats first, and if it looked like Edwards was going to become the nominee, they were going to bring down the campaign -- they were going to blow it up," Stephanopoulos said.

The strategy was apparently put together in secret in December 2007 after months of denying rumors that Edwards was having an affair with a woman and had also fathered a child with her.

The revelation comes as Edwards' ex-mistress is reportedly interested in seeking a paternity test for her 1-year-old daughter after Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, sparked fresh questions over whether the father might be her husband.

The former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate denied being the father of Frances Quinn Hunter during a TV interview in August. But Elizabeth Edwards, in an interview on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that aired on Thursday, didn't sound so sure.

"I've seen a picture of the baby," she said. "I have no idea. It doesn't look like my children, but I don't have any idea."

On Wednesday, one day after Oprah's production company released excerpts of the interview, The National Enquirer reported that Rielle Hunter, John Edwards' former mistress, is working with a lawyer to seek a paternity test from him.

That's a reversal from last August, when Hunter's attorney Robert Gordon released a statement saying she "will not participate in DNA testing or any other invasion of her or her daughter's privacy now or in the future."

Edwards said at the time that he would "welcome" a paternity test, and that because of the "timing" of his affair "it's not possible that this child could be mine." But he indicated that his apparent willingness to take the test would lead nowhere unless Hunter consented.

"I'm only one side. I can run only one side of the test, but I'm happy to participate in one," Edwards said at the time.

It's unclear whether Edwards would be as willing to submit to a test if Hunter is on board with the idea.
 
You're both missing the point. The source of the story is some anonymous former Edwards staffer that doesn't want to be associated with the campaign that, if it were successful, would have given us President McCain.
 
Dungheap said:
You're both missing the point. The source of the story is some anonymous former Edwards staffer that doesn't want to be associated with the campaign that, if it were successful, would have given us President McCain.
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IN other words, that person(s) are not reliabele as a source either.
 
Dungheap said:
You're both missing the point. The source of the story is some anonymous former Edwards staffer that doesn't want to be associated with the campaign that, if it were successful, would have given us President McCain.
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LOL. Were you saying this about the "former staffers" of a different candidate who "anonymously" said stuff about her?

The point at first was that Fox wasn't a good source, so I found a different one, one that Mott says was "more reliable".

I'd say both were more reliable than See B.S. News.
 
Damocles said:
LOL. Were you saying this about the "former staffers" of a different candidate who "anonymously" said stuff about her?

The point at first was that Fox wasn't a good source, so I found a different one, one that Mott says was "more reliable".

I'd say both were more reliable than See B.S. News.
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I didn't really weigh in on the Palin bloodletting. Obviously, anonymous McCain staffers had an interest in painting the picture that the loss was Plain's fault and not theirs, particularly those that were loyal to McCain.

The underlying source here, as with the Palin stuff, is not reliable.

Than again, I tend to discount anonymous source stuff like this as a matter of course unless there is a stated good reason for the source to remain anonymous.
 
Dungheap said:
I didn't really weigh in on the Palin bloodletting. Obviously, anonymous McCain staffers had an interest in painting the picture that the loss was Plain's fault and not theirs, particularly those that were loyal to McCain.

The underlying source here, as with the Palin stuff, is not reliable.

Than again, I tend to discount anonymous source stuff like this as a matter of course unless there is a stated good reason for the source to remain anonymous.
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Fair enough. I pretty much agree. I think it is silly to come up with this inanity in such an after-the-fact manner as if you were going to 'save the day' if it appeared that Edwards might get the nod.

I disagree with discounting the story because the link was from Fox...
 
Ah, American patriots. They should be given a medal of honor. There is nothing more important to America than fighting the good fight against the evil fringe hate group known as the Republican party.
 
charver said:
Well someone must have been voting for him.

Unless he was strumping the State's entire female population?
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I didn't include Democrats among the "we" since I consider most of them to be sub-human. I remember this black guy that I used to work with all starry eyed, saying that Edwards was the next John Kennedy.
 
Irrespective of what the staffers did or did not do, this case is a vivid demonstration of the power of good pussy.

Edwards had it all and even had a chance at being King of the World .. but good pussy had its own plan.

The power of the pussy.
 
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