the nose knows

Byron York says what every blogger thought as soon as he or she read all about John Edwards, his mistress, and his love child on Memeorandum:

Today Is Fitzmas for Mickey Kaus

Ann Althouse isn’t happy that onlookers at the hotel where Edwards was caught visiting his paramour and their baby were reportedly amused that he had to sneak around.

[quoting the Enquirer] “He was clearly surprised that we had caught him at this very late hour inside the hotel.

“Some guests up at this late hour watched the spectacle in amusement from a staircase nearby.”

Amusement.

Certainly there’s nothing amusing about this for Elizabeth Edwards, if that’s what Althouse is thinking. However, some of us don’t sympathize with the wives of presidential candidates, even the ones with breast cancer. Oh, we’re sorry about the breast cancer. But we certainly don’t sympathize with them as wives of obviously unprincipled men: power-mad, arrogant, self-loving, self-aggrandizing sleaze bags, every last one of them. They’re politicians!

So some of Althouse’s commenters, like me, can’t wait to hear the inevitable upcoming exchange between Kaus and Bob Wright.

All hail Mickey Kaus’s nose for undernews.