Dumb dumb dumb

I am one of those people who has always agreed with So I Married an Axe Murderer and Men in Black‘s assertions that tabloids often contain more truth than so-called respectable newspapers, so I believed the John Edwards story from the beginning. It seemed like too much of a left-field kind of story not to have some truth to it. Think about it: before this, the most damning story about Edwards was that he paid $300 for that haircut. Plus, the mental image of John Edwards running around a Beverly Hills hotel, trying to outrun The National Enquirer‘s journalist and photographers was too awesome not to be real.

There’s still so much more to this story, and I can’t see how there’s enough spin in the world to protect John Edwards from the fallout. Why would he have lied about this for weeks, only to admit it now? Why is he denying that the child is his? If he had really ended his relationship with this woman in 2006, why wouldn’t he just have owned up to it when all of this came to light? And if that is the case, why is he still visiting her in hotel rooms and playing with her baby? He’s a total moron, and his wife is such a class act. Not that anybody ever deserves to have a mate’s infidelity exposed in such a public manner, but that woman has gone through so much, you think this jerk would have considered that before cheating on her.

And how could he have run for PRESIDENT with this in his closet? What if he’d been the nominee? That is so selfish.