# If John Edwards and Rielle Hunter can't make it, who CAN?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373 "2012-06-26T18:41:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/1 "2012-06-26T18:41:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Rielle Hunter and John Edwards have ended their controversial affair after it ruined Edwards’ political career, wrecked his marriage, was detailed in a criminal trial and relived in a tell-all memoir. The former mistress dropped her bombshell during an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America.” And I was so sure those adorable kids would be together 4-_evah!_ The good news is, ladies, John Edwards is back on the market. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/2 "2012-06-26T18:57:50Z")
He still owes me $700! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/3 "2012-06-26T19:22:27Z")
Hard to imagine the back-breaking straw would be the tell-all book. I caught part of her interview on _20/20_ on Friday and as recently as then she was claiming they were still together. (I think. Didn’t care enough to be actually listening.) ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/4 "2012-06-26T19:26:34Z")
His first marriage worked out so well, it’s hard to believe he couldn’t make a second work just as well. What a guy! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/5 "2012-06-26T19:36:08Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > The good news is, ladies, John Edwards is back on the market. I heard - from congress - that “John Edwards’ Mistress” is a super high-paying position! ---
**Author:** ![Plumbkrazy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Plumbkrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumbkrazy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/6 "2012-06-26T20:01:33Z")
She’s trash, he’s scum. His trial is over, and step #1 of his Image Rebuilding Plan was obviously “lose the whore”. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/7 "2012-06-26T20:09:04Z")
> [@Plumbkrazy](#): > > She’s trash, he’s scum. Can they get along? Find out this fall on Fox’s new sitcom “_Get Rielle!_” ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/8 "2012-06-26T20:25:15Z")
Wait, wouldn’t Mr. Edwards technically always be on the market? Considering how “off” the market he considered himself during marriage? ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/9 "2012-06-26T20:59:40Z")
> [@Plumbkrazy](#): > > She’s trash, he’s scum. Together, they fight crime! Or maybe “are a crime.” ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/10 "2012-06-26T22:19:06Z")
Trying to care… Nope – not working. Actually, I am kind o’ curious to see what woman he winds up with next. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/11 "2012-06-26T22:22:39Z")
I think it’s sad, considering there’s a small child involved. I was kind of hoping they’d make it for her sake. But I saw video of him with the little girl at the beach and he was completely disconnected from her, not paying any attention to her at all, and I thought, wow, John Edwards is a narcissistic douchebag??! Say it isn’t so! ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/12 "2012-06-26T22:47:57Z")
I remember when he was the Left’s new Bobby Kennedy and from out here in California he seemed kinda fresh and interesting at least. Then I talked to my leftie friend in North Carolina and got the earful. She said, we all know he’s a total creep, everyone loathes him out here. Don’t be fooled. This was a good while before the slime started coming out of his eyeballs and the suppurating sores appeared on his face and he started dragging that foot. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/13 "2012-06-26T23:06:04Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I think it’s sad, considering there’s a small child involved. I was kind of hoping they’d make it for her sake. But I saw video of him with the little girl at the beach and he was completely disconnected from her, not paying any attention to her at all, and I thought, wow, John Edwards is a narcissistic douchebag??! Say it isn’t so! I know – right? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/14 "2012-06-27T04:43:29Z")
Gee, I didn’t think he’d leave her until she had a life-threatening disease. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/15 "2012-06-27T06:05:26Z")
A relationship conceived from lies, deception, self-deception, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that the rules don’t apply if they get in the way of satisfying one’s basest appetites didn’t work out? I’m shocked. Shocked, I tells ya. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/16 "2012-06-27T06:33:24Z")
My guess based on Edwards’ history of classy behavior: he was shacking up with Hunter while he looked around for somebody new. He’s apparently found his next future ex-wife and so he dumped Hunter. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/17 "2012-06-27T06:37:29Z")
Hey, now that Rielle is available, maybe she can get back together with Jay McInerney. His fourth marriage must be almost over by now. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/18 "2012-06-27T19:07:01Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Trying to care… > > Nope – not working. > > Actually, I am kind o’ curious to see what woman he winds up with next. How bout Scott Peterson’s ex-squeeze? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-john-edwards-and-rielle-hunter-cant-make-it-who-can/626373/19 "2012-06-27T19:10:37Z")
nm. (not funny)