That’s the implications of his wife’s latest media pimping.  He would be nothing in this campaign without her.

First comes this video add, where she lauds his unbelievable toughness:

A lot of that is probably referring to his being a lawyer, and all the lawsuits he brought.  Toughness and fighting for others made him a very wealthy man.

But she also noted his being a better candidate for women:

The Salon Interview: Elizabeth Edwards

Another famous spouse has been in the headlines in recent days, of course. But while former President Bill Clinton was busy telling Iowa and New Hampshire audiences that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, has the experience to be president, Elizabeth Edwards’ pitch seems to be that her husband has the guts to make the radical changes a president should be ready to make in 2009, after eight years of the Bush debacle. On Saturday night, at the end of a long day of campaigning, she curled up in light-blue pajamas made of environmentally friendly bamboo for an hourlong interview in her hotel room. She hit Hillary Clinton particularly hard, arguing that John Edwards is, in fact, the better candidate for women: “She’s just not as vocal a women’s advocate as I want to see. John is.”

With all the crap John Edwards says about his rivals and the Republicans, she has a lot of gall to confront Ann and ask her to stop the personal attacks.

Pot meet Kettle. 

For those with short memories, this all ties back to Ann and her Faggot comment about Edwards, where she employed a paraleipsis and made a zinger about Edwards using the Isaiah Washington crisis on Grey’s Anatomy.

Well on the Today show, it came up again.  Newsbusters starts us off.

http://newsbusters.org/node/13750

Assume for a moment that you were a co-host on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and you were given the assignment to interview outspoken conservative writer Ann Coulter.

With everything going on in the world – from Iraq, to immigration, even to Gore-made global warming – what would be the first topic you would ask Coulter to address?

Well, ABC’s Chris Cuomo Monday chose none of those issues, and instead decided to ask his guest about a joke she made several months ago regarding Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards’ sexual preference (video available here):