When something bad happens to a well-known leader in the Democratic Party, you might expect that the Democratic Party might suffer.
Those of us that have been paying close attention to this election have noticed that Republicans have been quick to exploit any news story that can be distorted to
discredit Barack Obama. But with the Edwards story, John McCain and the Republicans are treading lightly this time.
Why? Because John McCain's vapid, shallow and crotchety campaign has been based on two things:
First, the McCain campaign is out to assassinate the character, policies and campaign narrative of
Barack Obama with an alarmingly vitriolic and immature tone that more and more voters are finding repulsive.
The second part of the McCain campaign strategy is to continue his hyperbolic glamorization about his service and character. John McCain wants you to believe that getting shot down and beaten up is a qualification to lead, and that taking on populist policy positions as part of an image-making strategy after the
Keating Five scandal somehow validates the assertion that he is an independent minded maverick.
There is a growing consensus throughout the voting community that John McCain’s self-manufactured image as maverick-foreign affairs guru-former fly-boy is little more than a thin marketing strategy that worked better eight years ago.
So, of course John McCain
doesn’t want the public to be reminded of his character flaws, which includes his violent and vulgar temperament as well as propensity toward skank-pronging.
John McCain’s first wife, Carol waited years for her husband while he was in a P.O.W. camp. When he came home to find that the former model was severely injured in a car accident.
Despite his apparently catastrophic war injuries on the behalf of the
Viet Cong, he was able to muster the strength and virility to commit hundreds of infidelities with dozens of women.
When he finally found an
FWB who had extensive connections in Republican politics and who was a millionaire heiress to the
Anheuser-Busch fortune, he left Carol outright.
McCain even had the audacity to get a marriage license to wed Cindy McCain, (the infamous pill-popping
Stepford Wife) before his divorce with Carol was final.
So, while John Edwards was egregiously unfaithful, I’m sure McCain would like it better if the public
wasn’t talking about the marital infidelities of politicians.
Especially when his character-myth is the
lynchpin of his campaign narrative.
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