Could this be the reason John Edwards dropped out? [View All]

[Cleita]

Now first I'm not psychic but sometimes I do get nagging intuitions about things. So I went to bed last night mulling about things not making sense in Edwards sudden drop out. First people had been at a rally the night before when he gave a fired up speech and no hint that he was going to drop out the following day. Then there was that private conference he held with Hillary Clinton.

So I woke up this morning remembering that there were rumors of an alleged affair. I remember reading something about it at the website "The Skeleton Closet" a website that puts up all the pecadilloes of our candidates, however, even they say the rumor is unsubtantiated. There is an article about it in "The National Enquirer".

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_cheating_scandal/celebrity/64271

So I'm wondering about this conference between Clinton and Edwards. Could Hillary have had a nice motherly chat with him, telling him that he really didn't want to put the ailing Elizabeth through this because she knows how awful it is? Then he extracted a promise from her to champion the causes of the poor if he dropped out?

The reason I'm putting this here is that I don't want to put it in GD primaries yet as I know Elizabeth is a DUer and it could be very hurtful to her. Yet, I wonder if I can get people to see this, who would have voted for Edwards to get them to vote for him anyway on super Tuesday. I know the winner will be either Obama or Clinton, but doesn't John deserve our support?

You know I feel that those types of things should be personal within a marriage and I'm sure Elizabeth knows about this rumor and the truthfulness of it. It's really between her and John and we the public should not be electing Presidents because as a friend of mine once crudely put it, "A standing prick has no conscience."

If John was indiscreet in the past, I can attest to the groupie factor around handsome and powerful men as I once dated a professional athlete and I had to become athletic in warding off these shameless bimbos. (I did break up with the guy because of it.) I don't approve of what he did, if he did it, but I don't think it should make a difference in our voting for him as he is the best presidential candidate IMHO and giving him the delegates to barter with at the convention is important for all of us who champion the underclasses.

I really would like to put this in GD primaries if I thought it would do any good in changing people's minds and voting for their candidate of choice instead of the one foisted upon them. I'm asking for all of your opinions on this before I do since this forum doesn't get posted on the main page and few people will see it. Also, does anyone have any intuitions about this and if I'm on the right track?