Refused paternity part of the plan?

Rielle Hunter, the admitted mistress (supposed ex-mistress) of John Edwards, in the worst cover-up since Watergate, is refusing a paternity test for her child. There is no reason for this except to allow Sen. Edwards to gloss over his misconduct. As one CNN commentator mentioned, the whole thing does not pass the smell test. There is an understatement.

The mainstream media sat on this one for 10 months. Fox news has mentioned it but few others. It was completely ignored by some significant outlets. Reporters are now making mention of the story within the story, that since it was outed by a tabloid it couldn't be true. Well, not one to defend the rag the Enquirer, they have brought to light some significant stories over the years, for example the death of John Belushi and the girl who gave him the drugs. The major outlets just ignored it (or worse purposely buried it). The excuse was two fold: to protect Elizabeth Edwards and the checkered past of the enquirer. Neither should matter. Edwards and wife both knew the exposure that running a campaign has. You usually get caught. Edwards will now and forever be known as a hypocrite at the level of Eliot Spitzer.

One reason to not doubt the story is that the Nation Enquirer has lost some serious money to lawsuits. John Edwards could have owned the paper if they got this one wrong. Who in their right minds would have allowed a haphazard story about a US Senator, with a dying wife, a possible Vice Presidential pick and one of the most successful trial lawyers in the nation? It only makes sense if it was true.

Even Mickey Kaus from the Nation, hardly anywhere near a conservative, berated the MSM for ignoring this and stated the obvious: that had this been a conservative he would have been slashed and burned. Remember Bush's forged documents (ala Dan Rather) or McCain's tainted expose (ala NY Times, soon after they endorse him) regarding an affair of his (no evidence) right after he takes the lead in the republican primary. Bill Bennett's gambling might fit the bill also.

No one, until the ABC story would even give it the time of day. One wonders if the ABC story was a setup by Edwards to make the story lose some of its traction, picking the time and place of the exposure. Nice choice to confess the day of the opening of the Olympics on a Friday when the story will get buried over the weekend. Russia and Georgia going to war didn't hurt him either.

Career Over! He couldn't get elected librarian in North Carolina, since the papers there actually followed the story. Had he been the Dem candidate he would have cost them the election and still might have had he been the VP choice of Obama. All in all, a rough couple of days for the Dems. They, like all politicians, kill their own and should survive this debacle with ease.

Poor John, he may still get the girl and the baby in the end. It isn't working out as smooth and he thought.

His candidacy was founded on his love for a dying wife and the great husband he appeared to be. His political career ends with proof that he is none of the above.