I don't know if he's a criminal. Neither do you. He isn't being prosecuted for fucking Rielle Hunter. He's being prosecuted for misusing campaign funds. I have my doubts about the case, but you are not describing it accurately.
Do I judge JE? You bet I do. Not so much for his cheating on his dying wife, but for his being a complete phony and a shameless liar and for using poor people as his campaign hook.
That fuckwad went to "work" for a sleazy hedge fund and when questioned about it, he said he was trying to learn about poverty.
This is a man who was completely driven by his own smarm ego and he wasn't above using his dead son to get what he wanted.
"
Kerry) was even queasier about Edwards after they met. Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he'd never told anyone else -- that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he'd do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade's ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the same exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before -- and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling, and he decided he couldn't pick Edwards unless he met with him again. "
From Robert Shrum's book "No Excuses".
He didn't have a fucking breakdown. He's a vile little man who's caused much suffering.