Posted on 10/10/2007 3:06:07 PM PDT by Leisler
Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught in a shocking mistress scandal that could wreck his campaign, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
Sources have come forward to charge that the "other woman" previously worked on Edwards' campaign and followed the 54-year-old candidate on trips across the U.S.
A source close to the woman, whose name is being withheld by The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, says that she confessed to having an affair in phone calls and emails, saying that her work with Edwards soon exploded into romance. The shocking allegation — if proven true — could devastate the Democratic hopeful's campaign, especially because John's devoted wife Elizabeth is locked in a desperate battle with breast cancer.
"The affair started about 18 months ago," a friend says the woman confessed to her. "When they met at a bar, sparks flew immediately.
"She never expected it would turn sexual since John is married and is running for President. But it soon did — and she fell for him."
In one bombshell e-mail message provided to The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, the woman confesses to a friend she's "in love with John," but it's "difficult because he is married and has kids."
In another e-mail, she writes: "Last night and this a.m., he actually has amazed me. He is a great man. My heart is loud and my head is silenced."
Disclosed her friend: "She initially confided in a few of her closest pals that she was sleeping with 'a married man named John.'
"It became clear the married man was John Edwards. They got together whenever they could, mostly at hotels where Edwards and his campaign staff stayed."
The woman later spelled it out in a phone call to her pal and talked openly about having an affair with Edwards.
The friend says the woman told her that she "had a crush on John. One thing led to another, and they soon ended up in bed together. But she knew there was no way he was going to leave Elizabeth, a wife battling cancer."
The ex-Senator's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. This past March, the couple announced her cancer had returned, but said his campaign would continue.
His spokesman said that allegations Edwards had an affair are "false, absolute nonsense."
The woman's friend told The NATIONAL ENQUIRER: "As the affair went on, she said that both she and John began to feel real guilty and they decided to end it."
The ENQUIRER made exhaustive but unsuccessful attempts to reach the woman for comment regarding this article but she would not return phone calls or emails or come to the door of the house where she is staying.
Hillary?
Was he the mistress?
It was already ruined.
This is pretty funny. They keep saying the President and his wife, Laura are getting divorced too. I think these stories add some humor to FREEPERS occasionally.
I automatically believe anything the National Enquirer says.
(/sarc)
Nevertheless, if true, and it wrecked Edwards’ campaign, that would be too bad. The Breck Girl being the Democratic nominee would be too good to be true—we would mop up the FLOOR with him.
Ditto
I’ll wait until I see some reliable facts on this matter. If it’s true, it will devastate his campaign and his wife. It it’s not, then we need not pass it on to folks.
They got the “blue dress” right.
David Bowie????
Edwards probably wants this story out there so he can tell Ann Coulter he’s not a fag.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Are you kidding me???
This is a DEMOCRATIC primary campaign we're talking about!!!
This is a resume enhancement!!!!!!
I agree. I’m not buying this based on the Enquirer of all sources, sheesh.
Unless/until more reliable sources cover this, I’ll consider it gossip.
This smells of a Clinton hit.
“Was he the mistress?”
That what they call her now, after the sex change.
Only his hairdresser knows for sure....
This seems out of character.
I'd take the National Enquirer over MSM, anyday, any subject.
Anyways,
If it’s true and Elizabeth tries to divorce him, he can just stall it for a few years and it’ll go away.
Is it a “transgendered” individual?
Ew!
Guilty!
Do you think that any Clintonian liberal would be surprised at a man cheating on his wife?
Well, what do you expect him to do, just wait for his terminally ill wife to die and THEN seek a new mate? </dripping sarcasm>
“This smells of a Clinton hit.”
Could be, but if it’s the same woman met at a bar Kaus files suggests it is, the story developed from a researcher going through Edwards campaign expenditures.
I’m buying it ESPECIALLY because it was the Enquirer. They are one of the most heavily sued media outlets in the world. They, of all outlets, need to have their story straight.
“In 2001, the Enquirer uncovered that the Rev. Jesse Jackson had an illegitimate child. Salacious details of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair were first made public by the Enquirer. The Enquirer was regarded by some as having the best media coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. For example, when a distinctive footprint from a Bruno Magli shoe was found at the crime scene, Simpson vehemently denied owning such a shoe. The Enquirer, however, dug up a photograph of him with just such a pair.”
Wreck his campaign? Makes him a idol in democrat eyes. Remember Clinton is considered a god in democrat circles.
Hmmm...the Enquirer is usually right on...verrrry interesting.
In fact, I think this story, and the story about the tranny at Microsoft are connected.
Word has it this ‘friend’ overheard Edwards say,
” . . . I wish I knew how to quit you.”
Not the Enquirer, but the Star and others for sure.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16128001/site/newsweek/
He’s a lawyer.
He’s used to doing that to clients.
Fitting justice for a ambulance chasing trial lawyer...
Phony pony.
Edwards will try to pay her off over 20 years.
bump
Here are some of the videos she made.
Nice excuse to travel with him on the jet, to Uganda, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDjxDL00mvg
Missing Edwards Webisode 1: Plane Truths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECWwDSRF1_4
Missing Edwards Webisode 2 - Golden Rule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnr2IGCFoOU
Missing Edwards Webisodes 3 - Plight of Uganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCFv0yuD_2M
Missing Edwards Webisodes 4 - Plugs
>> Sources have come forward to charge that the “other woman” previously worked on Edwards’ campaign and followed the 54-year-old candidate on trips across the U.S.
This has to be made up ...
I don’t think Edwards goes for women. He seems like more of a guy’s guy.
H
Beyond metro.
National Enquirer is a wacky source. I would put the likelihood of this being true at about 10%. Of course, I thought Gennifer Flowers was probably some kind of operative at the time, so my track record is probably worse than the Enquirer on these things.
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