I’ve written here many times of my long-standing dislike of John Edwards. (You can find some representative samples of my loathing here.) So I wouldn’t say that the excerpts I’ve read from “Game Change,” the new book about the 2008 presidential campaign that portrays Edwards as a shallow toad, are exactly revelatory. What is new is the attack on his wife for her culpability. I don’t know that I agree — hey, she was battling fatal cancer while, well, being married to him — but at least it’s a new line of attack.

I never count anyone in politics completely out — let’s remember, Marion Barry got re-elected after getting convicted; Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon got partly rehabilitated during their ex-presidencies; lately I’m seeing Eliot Spitzer serving as some sort of pundit on television; and there seems to be a “draft Cheney” movement afoot, which truly beggars the imagination. Nevertheless, I’m hopeful that we’re done with John Edwards. For good.

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