What Say You, Elizabeth Edwards?
By SusanUnPC on May 7, 2009 at 12:55 AM in Campaigns & Campaign Financing
(bumped up from Wednesday morning)
As much as I hate to admit it, Maureen Dowd hits the nail on the proverbial head in her column today, “A Complicated Question“:
“He should not have run,” Elizabeth Edwards writes in her new book, “Resilience.”
John told her a little about Rielle a few days after he announced in 2006, and she told him to drop out to “protect our family from this woman, from his act,” she writes.
She said she cried, screamed and threw up when she found out. But she ended up going along, helping sell the voters on her husband’s character as a truth teller and charm as a loving husband and father. She had put so many quarters in the shiny slot machine of their mutual ambition. It was hard to walk away.
Can you imagine how differently the 2007-2008 primaries would have gone had he not been a candidate, with millions of supporters?
And I keep thinking about the “little people” who sacrificed to find a few dollars to send to his campaign because, of course, they were constantly begging for money.
This entire affair (pun intended) infuriates me. And I hold Elizabeth Edwards culpable as well as her husband.
I am INTENSELY CURIOUS TO FIND OUT how YOU think the primary races would have gone minus John Edwards.
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