A Firestorm Erupts As Colmes Compares McCain's Infidelity To Edwards'

[ccharles000]

Big props to Alan Colmes for pointing out the similarities between John Edwards' infidelity and John McCain's and asking why Edwards is unfit for public office as a result but McCain is not. After soundly denouncing Edwards as unworthy of the presidency because he broke his marriage vows to an ailing wife, none of the conservatives could come up with a decent explanation about why McCain’s similar behavior was any less despicable. Sean Hannity was so flustered that he repeatedly tried to interrupt Colmes and carried the argument over to the next segment. More props to Colmes for refusing to back down. With video.

In an unbalanced panel, the three conservatives (two guests plus Hannity) worked themselves into a self-righteous lather of sanctimony against John Edwards that included attacks on the so-called liberal media for not going after him harder. It was obvious they were completely unprepared for Colmes' very apt comparison of Edwards to McCain.

Chris Wilson, Republican pollster, said, “(Edwards is) running for president on moral values. His wife has been diagnosed with cancer and yet this is a man that we’re going to trust of leading the free world? ...That’s why this is an issue.”

Hannity smacked his hands together as he said, “If you can’t keep a promise to your family, can’t keep a promise to your wife, you’re having an affair, you’re lying about the affair repeatedly. Why should the American people trust you when you say you’re not gonna lie to them? Why should we trust you?”

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/08/13/a_firestorm_erupts_as_colmes_compares_mccains_infidelity_to_edwards.php#more

[nickyt]

1. For real?! Colmes did that?? Wow, thanks for a great morning jumpstart, cc!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Making the comparison was such an obvious thing to do

that even Colmes felt brave enough to do it.

[Lasher]

3. Dupe.

Thanks but this one's already posted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6628184

[izzie]

4. I guess it is like the old thing. If a man drinks a lot and is rich he

is a sport and if he is poor he is a bum. So if we play that game a cheating Navy hero is better than a cheating lawyer. And if one is in the GOP that counts for even more. It is just where one sits in on this mess that makes it good or bad. I am willing to bet half the women voting for Clinton was because they knew how she felt. Crazy and she could not even keep track of the money in her own house and now needs Obama to bail her out. What emotions will pay in any election is just crazy.