John Edwards

From National Review

 John Edwards, the Dorian Gray of the Democratic party, is one of the most loathsome characters in American politics, corrupt himself and a source of corruption in others, a preening, moralizing fraud who went so far as to have a staffer claim paternity of the illegitimate child he fathered with a campaign contractor. If being a louse were a crime, John Edwards would hang for it. But he is instead facing a questionable prosecution on campaign-finance grounds, which is odd: The payments that Edwards's supporters made to his mistress and to the alleged father of her child were not campaign contributions — no campaign money was involved, and no campaign expenses were met. Keeping one's mistress is not a campaign expense: Even if he had not been seeking higher office, Edwards and his supporters would have wanted to keep her pacified. Edwards and his friends may be guilty of a number of things — tax evasion and fraud are possibilities — but it is a stretch to prosecute him under campaign-finance laws. Because they empower incumbents to set the rules under which they are challenged, such laws are inherently problematic, and prosecutions under them must be handled with great care. John Edwards is a grotesque, but that is no warrant for a capricious prosecution

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