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Meet Rielle Hunter! The National Enquirer today officially breaks the John Edwards cheating scandal that a handful of bloggers have been buzzing about since Huffington Post’s Sam Stein posted an almost comically insinuating item two weeks ago (followed by an even more over-the-top one today) about some mysteriously disappearing web videos.
Now we all know that John the Hair-and-Makeup Man is cute, right? And his hyperbusy wife Elizabeth is going through all sorts of metamorphoses, right? So last year, an aspiring actress named Rielle Hunter & John’s people did a few “webisodes” or in HP:

“the videos were made with the apparent goal of bringing transparency to the political process. “I’ve come to the conclusion I just want the country to see who I really am,” Edwards declared in the one webisode still public, “not based on some plastic Ken doll you put up in front of audiences.”

The objective was to give viewers – and presumably voters – an authentic look at the North Carolinian. But shortly after Edwards declared his White House aspirations, the footage all but disappeared from public view.

Rielle Hunter released the following statement through a spokesperson:
“The innuendoes and lies that have appeared on the internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous.
My video production company was hired by the Edwards camp on a 6 month contract, which we completed December 31, 2006. When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional.
This concocted story is just dirty politics and I want no part of it.”

If the story is true, however, it’s probably legitimate news, given how central Elizabeth Edwards has been to her husband’s campaign. And while voters might forgive garden-variety cheating, cheating on a wife with cancer…? OK, the affair, if it happened, began and probably ended well before the recurrence, but who has time for such nuance? (One person who doesn’t is the Enquirer’s source who says Hunter “knew there was no way he was going to leave Elizabeth, a wife battling cancer.” Perhaps this should tell you something about the Enquirer’s story).

I don’t think that this has any real bearing on John Edwards ability to be President. I think that John Edwards should’t be President because he’s a scum-sucking, ambulance chasing fraud and phony, not because he might be cheating on his cancer-stricken wife.