Edwards staffers planned to sabotage campaign

[Mr. Morden]

What was there to leak?  The Enquirer printed this story around October of 2007.  It was already known.  Just not being widely reported by the MSM.  The only question was whether one believed it was true or not.  Sounds like Edwards staffers had a gut feeling that it was true, but didn't really have any hard evidence.

[Mr. Morden]

After thinking about this some more, I realize that this is just transparent butt-covering on the part of Edwards staffers.  Elizabeth now says that she doesn't know if the baby is John's or not, which suggests that the affair likely continued well into 2007, when the Edwards campaign was in full swing.  That means that Edwards's closest aides are either 1) complicit in the affair, or 2) dupes, for not having noticed that the boss was having an affair.

Now they're trying to argue "Oh, don't worry, we knew about it, and we would have sabotaged the campaign if it looked like he was going to win the nomination."  Right....I'm sure the fact that they didn't either resign or blow the whistle has nothing to do with the fact that they wanted to keep collecting paychecks.  I wonder what they would tell the Edwards volunteers in Iowa, New Hampshire, and other early primary states today?  "Yeah, we knew you were wasting your time.  We knew you were working your butts off for a candidate who was doomed, but we didn't say anything, because we wanted to keep getting paid."

[Mr. Morden]

I would like to propose that we all vow that if anyone in this forum ever attains any success in life...ever amounts to anything, and gains any power, money, or influence, that everyone else here vows to sabotage that person by leaking scandalous details about that person's life to the media.

I think we can all agree that that would be in the world's best interests.

[Mr. Morden]

It'd be pretty funny if they tried to sabotage his campaign by a series of pranks.  Butter the bottom of he shoes so he slips on stage.  Put blue hair dye in his shampoo bottle.  Itchy powder in his underwear.  Links to pornography sites "accidentally" included in press releases. etc.

That would be the perfect plot for a Rob Schneider movie.