“Now, we get to the most relevant question - if John Edwards’ political career is done, why isn’t John McCain’s? John McCain had a well-documented affair on his first wife, with his current wife. He has admitted in the books he has written about his life that he ran around with several different women while still married to his first wife. And don’t forget that he left her for a younger, richer woman - multi-millionaire Cindy Hensley who is now Cindy McCain - after she had been severely hurt in a car accident.

So, why are McCain’s actions any more excusable than Edwards’? Because it was thirty years ago? Does that wash it away? Will we be fine with Edwards running for office again in a couple of years because then it will all be in the past? What is the statute of limitations on an affair?

“Remember Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan and Ross Perot were so upset with how John McCain dealt with his first wife that they didn’t forgive him for a very, very long time. Perot still hasn’t forgiven him. In fact, he said recently about McCain dumping his first wife for Cindy, “McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory.”

“So, I want every pundit who condemns John Edwards today to tell me what the difference between him and McCain is and why John McCain shouldn’t also be run out of politics for his adulterous affairs and what he did to his first wife.”

The marriage license for John and Cindy was taken out before the divorce was final; the wedding took place after it was final.

From the same story you linked to: “An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had “cohabited” until Jan. 7 of that year — or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.

Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.”

“Adultry is adultry. You are being disingenuous to parse it that McCain’s didn’t matter because his wife was terminal. In fact, his first wife was left partially disabled because of the car accident so it is likely he left her because she was no longer a trophy wife (both of his wives were beauty queens of one contest or another).”

John Edwards was wrong and let many people down (including myself). I am certainly not defending John Edwards or trying to excuse his hubris in running for President with this in his closet, but by the same logic the passage of time does not excuse McCain’s own behavior.

Also, I haven’t seen the “C” word story debunked anywhere (although conservative bloggers may be rewriting history on their blogs) but you own Drudge is the source of the report: http://www.drudge.com/archive/106692/author-mccain-called-wife-cunt-trollop

Of course there is always Senator McCain’s joke about rape: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/15/mccain-finds-rape-hilarious/

If you are going to have a “standard” apply it to both sides. Given McCain’s documented behavior, this subject should be an untouchable for conservatives.

“In a written statement, she described McCain as “a good friend for over 30 years.” But that friendship was strained in the late 1970s by McCain’s decision to divorce his first wife, Carol, who was particularly close to the Reagans, and within weeks marry Cindy Hensley, the young heiress to a lucrative Arizona beer distributorship.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-divorce11-2008jul11,0,6546861.story

Oh and his ex-wife Carol was not back home FIGHTING TERMINAL CANCER either “dad”. Boy some husband you are that you can’t even figure that small distinction out…..

The “C” word story has been ROUNDLY debunked but hey talking points are still talking points eh?

LL

His anti-woman stance continues to today, when a well-known fact is that he called his wife the c-word in the presence of three other people.

He is not fit to serve as President, and I am glad this Web site is standing against him and supporting the only faithful husband that is a major party candidate, Barack Obama.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/09/edwards-on-nightline-you-know-who-else-cheated-john-mccain/

Scum!

LL