The Big Yawn (UNCoRRELATED)

I've seen no one try to deny the story--John Edward's love child is a matter of public record at this point--quiet, little-discussed, swept-under-the-rug public record, but an historical fact nonetheless--at least until the left find some reason to rewrite this particular piece of history.

The left has instead gone into shoulder-shrug, "move-on" mode (Moveon.org was in fact originally an argument that Bill Clinton's infidelities were irrelevant and a call to "move on" to the important business of the state...).

Oh, please. Edwards is a politician, which automatically puts him in the public eye. But, frankly, this is a tenuous pretext at best for covering his personal foibles right now. He is a private citizen. He is not running for president. He doesn't hold office, as Craig did -- still does! He didn't cop to committing a crime, then absurdly try to weasel out of it as Craig did.
It sure looks like Edwards is a hypocrite who misrepresented himself by showcasing his wife and kids so prominently in the campaign. But his campaign was unsuccessful. Voters didn't buy his arguments or his life story as reasons to elect him. In short, nobody cares about this now, except as celebrity gossip. And that's how it's going to play when the media picks it up, as it probably will.

McQuaid is arguing besides the point and hoping you don't notice.

The comparison with Larry Craig fails to mentions one difference--that Craig is an elected official and that Edwards is not, but ignores a more salient point--the difference in how the media covered Craig's embarrassing personal behavior and how it covered Edward's.

OK, the media is the propaganda arm of the Democrat party--what else is new?

Nothing really, but the left is studiously ignoring the elephant in the room--Bill Clinton.

During and after, the left argued that Clinton's sexual exploitation of a very young subordinate was no big deal--a private matter even as they fretted about how fundamentally it damaged the Democrats claim to be a heartland party that held traditional values in common with its citizens. Al Gore's notorious convention smooch of his wife was a transparent ploy to redeploy the "just folks" mask of the left and weakly try to argue that Clinton was just an anomaly in the continuum of moral solidarity with American values.

Since then, the Democrat mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco have been outed as philanders using their families as campaign props as they screwed their way through their political machines. The Democrat governor of New York state has gone into seclusion hoping the whole whore-loving adventure will just blow over. His successor had to attempt to innoculate himself from similar embarrassment by copping to his own serial infidelities.

Not the left's best foot forward, but since a good portion of Democrats in these districts share similarly cavalier attitudes towards their personal commitments and the fallout is minimal.

Its a different story outside of Sodom and Gomorrah, where adultery is still considered a serious character flaw. Reminding "the folks" that protestations of caring and empathy for the poor ring hollow when you are screwing around on your dying wife.

The used to say that only Nixon could go to China, meaning that his anti-communist bona fides were solid enough that the country trusted him to negotiate with the Chicoms. Similarly, Reagan and now McCain can run for high office in spite of their divorces because as Republicans they were and are given the benefit of the doubt on social mores.

The Democrats on the other hand always have to represent themselves as Ozzie and Harriet Nelson to combat the perception that they are weed-smoking, anti-American horndogs.

Just yesterday, while going through the grocery checkout in Jackson, Wyoming, I was confronted with a sickly-sweet picture of barack-o-bama, Harriett, I mean Michelle and their two girls--the all-American family. See--their just like the rest of us.

Except for the racist church thing I guess, and the fact that they've accumulated millions of dollars in networth with no visible means of support, and the thing about not having a lick of experience to be president of the country. Otherwise just like the rest of us.

...and therein lies the flaw. When you live a lie, sooner or later you slip up and ironically make the problem you were trying to solve even worse. Its time for Democrats to come out of the closet and stand up for what they believe in--promiscuous sex, abortion (why didn't she?), pedophilia, fascist oligarchy and the command economy.

In other words, the good old days of aristocracy and hereditary privilege.