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.”

Do you ever have twinges about, well, you’re supporting this great guy, your husband, but against the first credible woman candidate and the first credible African-American candidate in the race?

No, I don’t. I wind up talking about this a lot. My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them. What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn’t value a white man because he’s a white man, but also doesn’t value a woman because she’s a woman, or a black because he’s a black. So it bothers me that the pitch is made, as it is, that there’s an obligation of people to give support. When I was a lawyer, I was the first female lawyer many people had ever seen. I had an obligation to my client to do the work right, but I thought constantly about my obligation to the women who came after me. If I didn’t do a good job, they wouldn’t get a chance to sit where I’m sitting. I think one of the things that make me so completely comfortable with this is that keeping that door open to women is actually more a policy of John’s than Hillary’s.

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):

But to begin with the tough words, some tough words for you by the three top candidates in response to what you had said, some were calling it a homosexual slur, you said it was a taunt. They all came out when you were talking about John Edwards and said, ‘This was wrong. We must deny it.” Fair criticism of you or a shift towards the tolerant among the GOP?

Amazing. With one question, Cuomo was able to disparage his guest AND all the members of the political party she’s affiliated with.

Gotta give him credit, right?

Fortunately, Ann came prepared:

No, no. There were, I was denounced all over. All over. I think the one that hurt the most was, was from I’mALittleGirlInAPinkPartyDress.com… Very upsetting…Though about the same time Bill Maher said - and by the way, I did not call John Edwards the F-word. I said I couldn’t talk about him because you go into rehab for using that word.