Say Anything Blog

No, Sanford didn’t pack a camcorder with him to Argentina.  As it turns out, Edwards and his mistress made a video of Edwards…ahem…taking positions that weren’t part of his official platform.

Former presidential candidate John Edwards is out of luck if he hoped that the extramarital affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford and Sen. John Ensign would take people’s minds off his own cheating scandal.

Former Edwards aide Andrew Young says the ex-senator and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, once made a sex tape, according to someone who has seen Young’s book proposal.

St. Martin’s Press just inked a deal with Young, who also says in his proposal that, contrary to his public statement last year, he is not the father of Hunter’s infant daughter — Edwards is. Edwards has denied that.

Young says that his belief in Edwards ran so deep that he agreed to take the fall for the candidate, inviting the pregnant Hunter to live with him, his wife, Cheri, and their three children. Later, after Hunter delivered the baby, Young and his family moved to a different home in California.

While he was unpacking, Young discovered a videocassette, according to the book pitch. Hunter had been hired by the Edwards campaign to videotape the candidate’s movements, but this one is said to have shown him taking positions that weren’t on his official platform.

The purported sex tape confirmed to Hunter that Edwards was even more reckless than he thought.

The idea of a sex tape, along with the reminder that Edwards bribed one of his political supporters into pretending as though he were the one who had the affair with Hunter, is sickening enough.  But this part just flat out makes me want to throw up:

According to our source, Hunter confided to Young that she and Edwards talked about getting married should the candidate’s cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, pass away, even discussing what music they’d play at their wedding.

Not only was Edwards cheating on his wife who was in the middle of fighting for her life against cancer, but they were actually waiting for her to die so they could get married.

Classy.  Real classy.