{"id":3699,"date":"2008-08-09T21:46:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2008-08-09T21:46:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T05:46:38","slug":"if-you-were-a-john-edwards-supporter-you-were-a-sucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3699","title":{"rendered":"If You Were A John Edwards Supporter, You Were A Sucker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Edwards is already up on Kos<\/em><\/a> with a diary attacking "the present voyeurism." … HuffPo<\/em>‘s Lee Stranahan, a former Edwards supporter, responds<\/a> "Say It Ain’t So, Elizabeth: You Knew But Let Him Run." <\/strong>Excerpt:<\/p>\n

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[I]f you’re an Edwards supporter, let me put this bluntly; if you gave John and Elizabeth Edwards time, money, support, or goodwill, they played you.<\/p>\n

They made a conscious decision to make their relationship a focus throughout the campaign. That emotional goodwill you feel for them? They not only let you feel, they took actions and made statements specifically so you would feel it.<\/p>\n

Then when the rumors first surfaced, they made the worst decision of all; they decided to lie about it and to keep lying about it for months. They lied in a way that made the people who were telling the truth look like the real liars. They lied in a way that turned their supporters into attack dogs. They only started to tell the truth when John Edwards was caught at the Beverly Hills Hilton and even now both John and Elizabeth Edward are callin[g] the people who caught him the liars …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus writes: Elizabeth Edwards is already up on Kos with a diary attacking "the present voyeurism." … HuffPo‘s Lee Stranahan, a former Edwards supporter, responds "Say It Ain’t So, Elizabeth: You Knew But Let Him Run." Excerpt: [I]f you’re … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,5859],"tags":[11145,10623,11144,10852,11143,29883],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adultery","category-john-edwards","tag-attack-dogs","tag-beverly-hills-hilton","tag-huffpo","tag-john-and-elizabeth-edwards","tag-lee-stranahan","tag-mickey-kaus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t