Of course he is now being branded as a hypocrite, if he is covered at all, by the same Republican-owned media. The powers-that-be will NOT allow John Edwards to take hold in this country.
The powers-that-be are not only the Republicans but also far too many Democrats in the party apparatus, and far too many of them support the unelectable Hillary Clinton.
Senior Republican operatives appear to have targeted John Edwards early in the process of the 2004 presidential election as the most likely Democratic nominee and opponent of the Bush-Cheney reelection effort; extensive efforts were apparently launched within both FEC and DOJ to go after Edwards’s campaign funding resources, with a particularly ferocious focus on trial lawyers. At the same time, the Justice Department took quite extraordinary steps to camouflage its conduct, for fairly obvious reasons—it was sensitive to the potentially adverse consequences for the Bush Administration and its re-election efforts that would result from the disclosure of its use of the machinery of the criminal justice process to attack a political adversary.
