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I fell for John Edwards back in the early aughts, when Esquire featured him as one of America’s Best and Brightest. I followed him. Read his book. Voted for him. He was my first choice in 2004 AND 2008. I still have the 2004 Edwards for President button. But I think I’m done.

I throw out these three things that broke my political heart.

1. The 2004 vice-presidential debate against Dick Cheney. I was mortified that Edwards went to such great trouble to point out that Cheney’s daughter is gay. He succeeded in making the black-hearted Cheney seem compassionate. That is some feat. I looked past it at the time because everybody says stupid things every now and again. But then…
2. Hillary gets a little emotional this last Spring when talking about being on the campaign trail. A reporter asks Edwards about Hillary shedding a tear, and he goes off on some bizarre answer that what this country needs is a strong leader… you have to be strong… show no emotion… or some shit like that. And finally…
3. Two words: Love Child. True or not, the confounding lack of any kind of response to the Enquirer story (it’s mine, it’s not mine, it’s a family matter, leave me alone… something!) tells me I do not want this man representing me to anyone.