Bad news for Silky Pony
The comeuppance of one of Capitol Hill’s crappiest crapweasels is here.
John Edwards — a.k.a. Silky Pony, Breck Boy, Seabiscuit — will now face formal prosecution for alleged violations of campaign laws while he tried to cover up his extra-marital fling with flaky Rielle Hunter.
ABC News has the story:
A source close to the case said Edwards is aware that the government intends to seek an indictment and that the former senator from North Carolina is now considering his limited options. He could accept a plea bargain with prosecutors or face a potentially costly trial.
Edwards has been the focus of a lengthy federal investigation focusing on hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly provided by two wealthy supporters. The government will contend those were illegal donations that ultimately went to support and seclude his mistress, Rielle Hunter.
Hunter was a campaign videographer with whom Edwards had a lengthy affair that resulted in a daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, now three years old.
Aaron Worthing at Patterico offers some free advice and a video reminder: “If they offer a plea that allows you to avoid actual prison time, take it. Seriously you don’t want to risk going to prison. You won’t do well in prison.”
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air predicts: “I’m guessing Edwards cuts a deal for a minimum-security federal facility for no more than two years, and gets out in 18 months with at least some of his fortune intact.”
If not his precious mane…
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Well, I certainly hope he goes to jail.
BTW how did that NY 26 election turn out?
De Debil he pay wid fake monee.
I suspect the ‘Breck’ girl will be very popular in the joint.
He will just get probation. He won’t even have to sit in a detention center before the trial. The judge will release him on ORO. Just the same, he really deserve to get some hard time. Anybody else, they would have tried and are now Bubba’s girlfriend.
Aaah, sweet irony. The lawyer who made his gazillion dollars off of trials representing “slip and fall” lawsuits against doctors will now be spending a gazillion dollars to try to stay out of jail.
A leftist under indictment?
I’m shocked, absolutely shocked the Justice Department hasn’t put this on the Black Panther prosecution files pile.
Leave it to ABC to out a three year old. Totally unnecessary to ID the kid to the world, IMO.
my biggest problem with this, he is being charged for a coverup from over three years ago. what good are campaign finance laws, if they don’t prevent law breaking during the actual election in question. had he won the election, i am sure this would be burried, but obama won, so obama’s skeletons are the burried ones.
I drive by his house nearly every day on my way to Yoga. It is one of the most beautiful drives in the world.
If he goes to jail, Obama will pardon him because without Edwards, Obama would not have won Iowa. Edwards essentially gave Iowa to Obama at the last minute.
Edwards is a typical politician from NC and why I personally am disgusted by all politicians from any state. Most of our politicians are disingenuous self-important crooks.
I can just see Big Bad Bubba patting the seat beside him with a letcherous grin on his face.
Where does one even begin describing such a crapweasel? On the other hand, each and every democrat winning or nearly winning the highest office in the land for the past several decades is or was a crapweasel. It’s stunning we keep electing these jerks.
For balding and completely bald guys everywhere.., you boyz in lockup put him over the bike rack once for ‘us’ will ya’?
Jeez, about time! While you’re ‘down’ you can ponder what you did to Elizabeth you scum. Quite possibly the only candidate that may have been more detrimental to our country than Teh Wun.
And, by the way, our state is currently paving the road right outside his driveway.
I’m telling you the D party in this state is like the mafia. There is no way the current governor should be elected to anything. . . but she was next in line to the machine.
Politicians are pathetic. Vote for them? for what?
The Dems think this will show how serious they are about corruption. Edwards was just an obvious and risk-free choice for them. Conservatives must press for the truly relevant prosecutions: Jefferson, Waters, Brown, Raines, Frank, Gorelick, Feinstein, Dodd, and all the others at the heart of the Democrat Machine. Follow the 80-20 rule…
I’m not surprised. Just look at him. He’s not one of Eric Holder’s people.
I watched the “I feel pretty” video again…is that an aerosol can? I heard that an Edwards “hair session” ranks just below the Hummer in causing global warming. That’s what I heard.
Yippee Ki Aye.Don’t you just love ponies?
Once again, excellent observation, RedDog.
Couldn’t happen to a smarmier guy….
All I can say to John Edwards is — as Bette Midler said to Judge Reinhold in Ruthless People — “Your dance card will be filled every night…”
You do realize Foxnews did a story in March of 2009 naming the kid. New York post did a story in Jan 2010. And this child is on wikipedia. So, in this case ABC isn’t the bad guy.
“You in big trouble boy.” – Buford T. Justice
Not too hard to find the kid with the best hair in pre-school.
Hopefully, it’ll be filled with potholes by the time he’s out of prison.
I can see it now. Blago pimping out Edwards in prison for a pack of smokes….
FIFY
Have you noticed the skags these crapweasels have affairs with? I mean, Pony Boy’s mistress is, frankly, ugly. And check out Arnold’s second lady, the maid. Yech! What is with these creeps? Couldn’t they at least have gone for some big buxomed bimbo?
Speaking of politicians screwing up…that republican congresscreep in New York who had to resign, and they had the special election yesterday…did you folks notice the DEMOCRAT who CLAIMED to be a Tea Party candidate, but was lying…took enough votes away from the Republican to make her lose to the democrat. Is this what we are facing in the next election? Regressives claiming to be endorsed by the Tea Party and siphoning votes away from the best candidate? I am hoping that the Tea Party people will be very very vocal in who they are endorsing and who they are NOT endorsing! This is lower than low, claiming to belong to a group of people whose values you despise!
Ya know, it can get a little lonely behind bars for a guy like Blago. Just sayin’.
Not to get completely OT in this thread, but Bill Clinton had some really smart things to say about this election and its ramifications, here.
18 Months at Club Fed (restricted movement, structured scheduled, golf only on Thursdays, Tennis only on Sundays, you know hard time).
Then he’ll get paroled and write a book.
Thanks, I did not know this as John Edwards stories do not peak my interest too much. Whoever outed the kid first and why other news groups consider this detail (child’s name) vital to any John Edwards story should be chastised. Minor age children should be protected as much as possible regardless of their effed up parents.
Blago, the silk pony, and DSK sharing the same cell is my idea of justice.
Yes I know that DSK is not charged with a Federal crime yet, but with the witness tampering allegations from overseas, he may soon be.
Now we know what happened to Bobby Sherman.
Agrees ~
I agree. But with all the ‘publicity’ that the mistress did after this, I’d imagine the identity of the child was out there early and often.
he’d be more popular than the one he inseminated (Hunter). GAK.
Yep, Edwards is scum and needs to go to jail – nice work Eric Holder.
Not a ‘bad’ read.., just didn’t address the Bait & Switch filthy scum-sucking Dhims pulled. I’d be more interested in learning how to forestall that from -ever- happening again than “What Bubba thinks”? Thanks tho’.
I bet you voted for him.
yes, Obama is counting on it. Ron Paul is the only obvious tea party candidate that could keep this from happening. Nobody questioned when Rand Paul (you think he knows Ron?) accepted his senate victory ON BEHALF OF the Tea Party.
The question is what are establishment R’s going to do if Ron Paul wins the R nomination. . . which is more likely than not at this point in time.
Maybe somebody will call Ron Paul a slut so he can get press.
Educate the voters so that they don’t assume Tea Party next to a name means something it doesn’t.
Mind you, I don’t think it completely swung the election, although it did have an effect. See this article, which aligns with my reasoning.
happyscrapper said: “I mean, Pony Boy’s mistress is, frankly, ugly. And check out Arnold’s second lady,….”
Not hard to understand. Neither of them would want a mistress that is prettier than them. Even if they are meeting in secret.
Right Kent, and frankly we’re something chaotic right now. The doctrine is pretty straightforward and a seal of approval is in the works.
Just glad this happened in a local race, and years in advance of the general. And of course we’ll showcase this to exhibit how a Dem can’t run as a Dem.
Arnold: I’d so hit that!
It infuriates me how this selfish scumbag put the election at risk. If he got the nomination, we’d be stuck with McCain/Palin.
-Cheating on his cancer-stricken wife, and having a kid.
-possible felon
-scumbag
All that said, though he may deserve to go to prison, he doesn’t deserve to be raped in prison.
I have a friend who went to prison for failure to pay child support.
He got raped, and now has AIDS.
-Not funny.
Arnold: I’d pump you up!
And another one. I bet you thought he was the cat’s meow when you voted for him in 2004.
I like the way you talk, Marshall!!
I thought he was pandering and disingenuous, but I didn’t know he was a crook. I did like his late wife. For president I liked Kerry, in the primaries and the general.
And, they will slap his hand, shake their finger at him, give him a really dirty look, fine him a pittance, and make him promise to never do it again.
No jail time, and no excessive fine…understand, this po’ boy has suffered enough: he lost the mother of his children to cancer; been humiliated in the tabloids, and lost in his efforts to attain higher office…He deserves a second chance!
….is what they will tell the Christian majority in his home state.
That’s his problem. You break the law, you get convicted by your peers, and you go to jail. That’s called the justice system. Deal with it.
You’re right that AIDS or HIV isn’t funny, but think about this – if he hadn’t tried to cheat his child out of legal payments, he wouldn’t be where he is now. Right?
I’m sorry, but I don’t waste my pity on those who don’t deserve it. Call me an ice queen if you wish, but that’s life, toots.
Regards,
Peter H.
Considering the lack of good judgement he has already displayed, I wouldn’t put it past him to go to trial, thinking that all he needs to do is eyeball a couple of the older ladies on the jury, and tell them, with a straight face, that he had to pay Rielle off, so as to perform a greater good for America.
Freakin’ ambulance chasin’ scumbag.
And that’s a bad thing?
Regards,
Peter H.
“I am speechless: I have no speech” – Jerry Seinfeld
» “I am speechless: I am without speech” – Elaine Benes
Epic.
Sounds like the Sandy Burglar treatment.
If it were you or me, we would be making little ones out of big ones at Leavenworth for the next couple decades.
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
Ron Paul will never be President. He has some good ideas and some that are just nutty.
Hold on, there, Peter.
There can be only one.
And that would be me.
Regards,
Peter H.
no, you’re the princess.
Maybe we can have a joint trial with DSK and John Edwards.
I’d be happy if we sent them both to France under the condition that neither ever be allowed to leave France until Harold Camping finally gets it right…
It’d be a hoot to see this pathetic looser embarrass himself with another campaign for president. I’m sure Callista (oops I mean Rielle -these womanizers and their cheap dates are all the same) would love to stump for him.
Suthurn drawl don’cha know….
wonder if they’ll give him a baseball and glove when he goes to solitary…. Inquiring minds want to know…
Naww… maybe a hand mirror (no glass) and a wooden comb so he can’t dig his way out. No toilet roll so he can roll the roll through the bars, slide down and have an escape. NO toilet seat, so he can’t hit hisself over the head and drown. Oh wait… his crime was MUCH worse than litterin’….
Let’s also remember the phony baloney lawsuits that Edwards made millions from. As I recall, he made a bogus science argument about how some kind of delivery of babies by obstetricians caused cerebral palsy. The science Edwards used was laughable. His medical experts wouldn’t know how to put a bandaid on a puppy at the vet’s office. But Edwards brought all his cases in these dusty backwater towns in North Carolina that were just like Mayberry and Mount Pilot. It was very easy for Edwards to pull the wool over juries filled with people like Floyd Lawson and Ant Bee. Edwards even used the line about how “she is talking to you through me”. And the Floyd Lawsons that populate those juries in these dusty towns bought it all hook, line and sinker. Edwards is a clown and maybe three squares a day in the county jail will make him eat some humble pie.
Neither one of ‘em’s gonna get away with a LOT of teasing….
Whooops… you meant teasing as in hair?
Edwards destroyed himself, but it certainly looks as though Team Obama is salting the earth just to make sure he doesn’t come back to life. Which is fine with me. Poetic, actually. Rarely has such a hideous person gotten such a free pass from the mainstream media.
I have long thought that the media’s disparate treatment of John Edwards and Sarah Palin was the most powerful evidence of structural bias toward the left. Edwards was having an affair and the media turned a blind eye. Palin was pregnant by her husband, and the media accused her of faking it and swarmed Alaska with investigators. Edwards had no useful experience — he was a trial lawyer, which is training for essentially nothing important, and a one-term Senator — and nobody in the press questioned his qualifications. However one might weigh Palin’s resume, she was no less experienced than Edwards (that would be difficult) and the press hammered her constantly for it. Edwards was vain as can be and the press did not even suggest that he was a narcissist (which he obviously is). Palin bought some better looking clothes for campaigning and the whole press pool jumped on it. Edwards could not make a speech without reminding us he was the son of a “mill worker” who had gotten rich and the media ate it up as evidence of humble beginnings. The Palins actually built a successful small business and the media mocked it as a stunt. One could go on.
TigerHawk
Karma… that’s all.
Why would he have to go to jail for resume building? I don’t get it….
On May 25th, 2011 at 10:32 am, BK said:
His problem is that he is not a member of the Black Panthers. Otherwise, he might get a pass.
Possible prison nicknames for Edwards; “Fluffy”, “Pretty Boy Johnny”, “That guy who curls into a fetal postion under his bunk, sucks his thumb and cries himself to sleep every night”, “Bitch”, “Bubba’s Toy”.
And John “Breck Boy” Edwards says, “Club Fed, here I come!”
Wanna bet the “two Americas” of Edwards’ campaign speeches, will be strangely true in prison?
On May 25, 2011 at 07:32 am, BK said:
No kidding BK they act as if above the law. A conservative in the same situation would’ve been given life.