Exactly right, “soullite”, Republican McCain wouldn’t have touched the issue (directly).

But while Republican McCain was trying to avoid his betrayal of his first wife and her kids his extremist allies would have kept making the mistake of bringing up Edwards infidelities which would have made McCain’s betrayal of his first wife and her children a “fair game” issue.

It would have also highlighted Republican McCain’s serial promiscuity, his BRAGGING about his promiscuity, his betrayal of his first wife, his turning her in for a younger, richer model.

And while many on the left are very careful about ALWAYS taking the high road there were a lot of Patriotic Lefties ready to (emotionally and intellectually) fight using the same Republican Rovian/Atwater tactics that has defined Republican political tactics and strategy for decades.

Didn’t Republican McCain brag about bagging a foreign stripper?

Isn’t McCain in bed with lobbyists serving foreign interests?

Didn’t McCain repudiate America while on foreign soil?

Have Republicans already forgotten that foreign born Republican McCain partnered with a secessionist loving Vice President whose own (underage?) child had an illegitimate child?

McCain has become so accustomed to selling out America while being protected by the corporate media that he does it without even thinking.

But even while Republican McCain is a MEDIA star that was/is literally WORSHIPED by the corporate (oh, sorry, “liberal”) media, the same historical forces would have defeated him:

Republican Bush, Cheney, Rove, Yoo, Bybee, the wrong war, the ‘cratering’ economy, Republican lawlessness, unlawful surveillance, the shredding of the Constitution, the obscene corporatism, the absurdity of Palin, the avaricious historical record of the foreign-connected lobbyists running McCain’s campaign…. and that’s just the short list.

And keep in mind, Republican McCain really WAS the best Republican Presidential option in 2008. Any of the others would have gone down even easier.

TranslatioN: “I don’t care if it’s true, I don’t want to believe it!”

Yup.

Obama has appointed a LOT of right of center right wing ideologues.

That would NOT have happened under an Edwards Presidency.

As I recall it was because the Democratic Party made a principled, unwavering stand over 45 years ago to be the NOT RACIST PARTY (Thurmond became a Republican in ?1964).

Nearly all of the racists in the Democratic Party exited stage right, the majority subbsequently joined the Republican Party.

“Dixiecrat” Presidential Candidate Strom Thurmond’s racism was explicit and very popular.

Strom ran for President explicitly on SEGREGATION, keeping the “races” separate.

That didn’t prevent Thurmond from having sex with underage girl who worked for his family as a servant and fathering an illegitimate child with her that he kept secret both during and long, long after his Presidential run.

Both Republican Trent Lott and Republican Gordon Smith complimented Strom on his Presidential run in recent years.

Again, the Republican Presidential run by Strom Thurmond based on SEGREGATION, was COMMENDED by Republican Trent Lott and “MODERATE” Republican Gordon Smith.

21st century Republicans LEADERS congratulated a segregationist who fathered an illegitimate child with an underage girl of a “race” he was trying to segregate (keep separate from).

Seriously, it needs to be repeated over and over, Republicans don’t know the Republican Party at all and the minority of Republicans that really do know the Republican Party are complicit with creating the fictions that mask who the Republican Party leaders really are.

and no, this wouldn’t have elected McCain, because McCain is a philandering coward who never would have taken the risk that it would blow back at him and all his daliances.

Of course, that all took place long before he became a Republican, so it’s understandable why that is often airbrushed.

J.

Since you’re Mr. ‘News Reference’, do you have anything to support the claim that Karl Rove was behind those robocalls against McCain? Anything not from your usual far-left sources you claim to be ‘news’?

No, News Ref, I wasn’t thinking of Strom Thurmond, nor Fossella or Burton. None of those guys ever ran for President and none of them ever hung out in a bathroom to avoid detection from being exposed.

And the links weren’t necessary, btw, especially given your chosen moniker. You’re like, “Hey, I’m the News Reference guy! I love to supply you with information that everybody already knows”. Like you’re some kind of Sesame Street character or something.

Bush wasn’t a smooth-talking charlatan, jr. Yeah, I do have the nerve to say that about Edwards. We said he was a fake from the get-go, and he was.

Riiiight……and BEFORE Monday I’m sure you held the same opinion. –jr

I did, yes. Although less of one than John Edwards. I can’t imagine Arlen Specter fathering an illegitimate child, and then upon being caught visiting the mother and child in a hotel duck into a bathroom and then hang out there till security came and escorted him out of the hotel. But then again, you never know.

I would have been ecstatic with Edwards.

I had hoped for more from Obama.

So far he’s been what I expect.

A thousand times better than Bush.

A hundred times better than McCain.

Ten-thousand times better than Palin or Cheney.

But only half as good as what I expected from Edwards.

My biggest complaints with Obama is his continuation of some of Republican Bush’s noxious policies, policies which Edwards explicitly repudiated.

That aside, Obama has done a lot in his first 100 days for which I’m very grateful.