This one hurts and it has nothing to do with morality. This is just about reality.
Like another F. Scott Fitzgerald tragic figure, men in power positions too often undermine their success with careless personal business that ruins their chance of success in careers. Edwards could be another Gatsby as the fool in love living backward but today's version seems less about love than in the old novels and more about momentary or fleeting feel good complexities. Closer to self defeat than can be ignored, he has succeeded in failure as the shoe-in no longer a contender.

Add Edwards name to the long list of undermining power figures and take his name off the Vice President position list he had a good shot at getting. This time, with this man, it truly is tragic. This self destruction seems to happen in one form or another far too often to ignore.