Ever since John and Elizabeth Edwards announced that he would continue running despite the return of her cancer, I’ve heard people muse that he was simply employing a marketing strategy in order to get the sympathy vote. Those are the people who never would vote for him anyway, and probably belong to Bush’s 30% base of supporters.
I can’t judge what Edwards is doing. I think his wife is awfully brave and selfless. I can just imagine if the world spun backwards and in a freakish alternate universe my husband decided to run for President after learning that I had a terminal illness.
“You’re going to do what?” I’d scream when he told me the news. “I’m f@#$%^g dying you b@#$@d! And you’re running for the g!@d#$n what?”
The funny thing is, I’ve been trying to decide who I support: Obama or Hillary. I’ve always kept Edwards in the back of my mind, but with the recent announcement of his wife’s illness, and their agreement that he should run, I admit, I’m a bit wooed. I really don’t think this is a marketing strategy as his critics say, but simple ambition (there’s nothing simple about that ambition of course). So call me a sucker, but I’m leaning toward him. Partly because I think he stands a good chance of winning-over iffy voters, but also because I liked him in 2004, and I like him now. Of course, this could all change next week, depending on Obama or Hillary and whatever crisis occurs, marketing strategy is deployed, or political decisions made. Or I might just decide I plain old like one of the others better. Yep, I’m weak.
