I just don't. I don't care about their personal lives. But I'm still mad at him, and I think I'm justified.
I care about the millions of people, at home and abroad, who are going to be affected by the policies of these people. And what I know, is that after all of the catastrophe that of the last 8 years (so well chronicled by clammyc, in a diary whose point I ultimately dispute), not just us bloggers, but literally hundreds of millions if not billions of people around the world for whom the future of our planet is at stake, NEED a Democratic president THIS YEAR. The alternative is unacceptable.
So, those of us who are pissed at John Edwards aren't necessarily moralistic, hypocritical, or puritanical. I could give two farts in a gale-force wind about John Edwards' private life. However, I'm smart enough to know, and anyone who's been alive in the last couple decades is smart enough to know that OTHERS will care. The traditional media will care. And even though it shouldn't be a candidacy-killer, and affair would most certainly BE a candidacy-killer. So...
Given that, and given how essential it is that we have a Democratic President this year, anyone who wants to be pissed at John Edwards for running for President despite knowing he had a candidacy-killer hanging in his back pocket has every right to be pissed. And guess what folks, no one wants to believe it, but Elizabeth Edwards knew about it too and actively supported and encouraged his run for the Presidency.
So enough with the diaries pointing the fingers at others who are pissed. Enough with the diaries equating everyone who is pissed with a hypocritical Republican sack-of-shit. No, that's not who we are. Of course the media is hypocritical and holds Democrats to a different standard, and of course it's bullshit.
But that's the way it is. We know it. Everyone of us has known that for years. That's what we're dealing with, and WE HAVE TO WIN.
I had no intention of continuing this, I have no wish to beat John Edwards up for one more minute. I don't care about John Edwards, he doesn't matter, beating the Republicans is all that matters.
But the diaries that are sliming other Kossacks for being angry about this, as well as those cult-of-personality diaries that lavish worshipful praise on Elizabeth Edwards, are just too much.
I know you invest yourselves in these people, but it's time to grow up. This is not about them. This is about the voters and the millions around the world who would be affected by a President's policies.
I care about winning. I don't care about John Edwards. I'm pissed at him for totally different reasons than any "concern" for his private life.
I'll be mad for a few more hours, then I'll be ready to move on, but let's cut the crap worrying about John and Elizabeth Edwards OR accusing those who are mad of being puritanical or moralistic. Some may be, but there are other, political reasons for being royally upset at John Edwards that are completely legitimate.
This about winning. Nothing else.