Well, at least he was 99% honest

The upside of this whole Edwards scandal is that we won't have John Edwards to kick around much longer. This is the end of his character. His statement says that he became "increasingly egocentric and narcissistic." A man who started positioning himself to run for president just a few years after being elected to the Senate was already egocentric and narcissistic. (Oops, maybe that's just common behavior in the Democratic Party.)

I'm still wondering why, after having confessed this affair to his wife and caused her pain, and having already faced the National Enquirer story in 2007, he would go visit her and the baby he says is not his from nine at night until two in the morning? And the National Enquirer claims that he had met her at that hotel twice before the July 21 episode. That just doesn't pass the smell test. No wonder he wants to refuse to answer all further questions.

We never can fully understand what goes on behind a couple's marriage. But Elizabeth Edwards has had to suffer more than any woman should, having lost her teenage son and fighting incurable cancer and now this. She has put out an emphatic statement. She says she's forgiven her. Bless her. I'm more in line with Melinda Henneberger on John Edwards.

Was all this going on when you renewed your wedding vows last summer at that intimate backyard ceremony where you wrote your own vows and there was not a dry eye in the house? (The one your wife of 30 years lost weight for, because she wanted to look pretty for you and fit into her wedding dress?)

Is this why you keep losing your wedding ring?

When Elizabeth waited to tell you that she had a lump in her breast the size of a golf ball because she swore to God after Wade died that she'd never give you any bad news ever again ... your way of repaying her was waiting to give her the bad news that you'd betrayed her, Cate, Wade's memory, and the babies she gladly took dangerous hormones to conceive? Got it.

Oh, and just one more: Remember all those holier-than-Bill Clinton remarks? So do I.

And how classy of him to tell the world that he didn't love Rielle Hunter and was just in it for the sex.

And I think of those people who contributed money to John Edwards PAC and now are learning that $114,000 went to pay for his mistress to make campaign videos, a job she had no experience for and produced videos that were scrubbed from his website.

Now that Edwards has come forth and admitted the affair, the MSM is willing to cover the story. Apparently their journalistic qualms over tabloid trash don't stretch to ignoring the story if he confesses on ABC. The National Enquirer is justified in chortling over their scoop that the MSM tried to ignore for two weeks. And Byron York wonders why, given all the reasons put forth for not covering the story before, it is now a worthy story.

If it wasn't news because Edwards is finished on the national political stage, why would it be news now? If it wasn't news because it would be painful for Edwards' ailing wife, why would it be news now? If it wasn't news because it was "tabloid trash," in Edwards' words, why would it be news now? ABC News, which did not report the story previously, has obviously made its decision.

And now we find out that a Texas supporter of the Democratic Party, lawyer Fred Baron, has been paying for the payoffs to both Hunter and the aide, Andrew Young, who claims that the baby is his. He says that John Edwards didn't know that he'd paid out a wad of money to move both Hunter and Young to Santa Barbara and put them up in mansions there. How convenient to have a friend willing to shell out all this money to help out a woman whom he claims to have only had a short fling with just to get them out of North Carolina. Why would this wealthy lawyer pay out all this money if he believed Edwards' denials of the affair and paternity? And now that Edwards says that the baby isn't his and that he didn't love Hunter, will Fred Baron still pay for the supposedly discarded mistress and her lover to live in California mansions?