One word: penis. Or rather, lack thereof.

I won’t pretend to know for sure the reason that women politicians don’t get caught up in this kind of nonsense. It’s not like women don’t cheat. But I can’t think of a single political sex scandal that involved a female politician.

Maybe there’s not the same kind of hubris brought into the, erm, position. Maybe women are too busy proving themselves on the job. Or maybe young men aren’t attracted to power in the same way young women are, these situations often revolving around the familiar power dynamic of older guys with younger women.

Whatever the reason, others like columnist Robert Scheer have riffed on this phenomenon of arrogance and abuse of power that seems, for now, to be distinctly male, and there could be something to it.

Anyway, what a sad waste. Edwards always seemed a bit slick to me (and that’s from someone who can easily tolerate Bill Clinton!), but he DID try to advance a populist agenda during his campaign, and his theme of two Americas was spot on.

Problem was, dude, just ‘cos there’s two Americas doesn’t mean double the hot young chicks. It’s pretty astounding that Edwards had the stones to do this smack dab in the middle of a presidential campaign. It’s kind of like winning the gold medal in the Scumbag Olympics.

And let this be a lesson to the rest of ya – the world is watching! (And by the world I mean the National Enquirer.)

Anyway, isn’t it time his website went the way of the dodo? Geez.

UPDATE: Jeff points out that there are exceptions to this rule, true true.