You know, his cancer-stricken wife he left behind to bang Rielle Hunter? Apparently former Senator John Edwards (D-NC), who would’ve been vice president had John Kerry won, has even less class than previously thought. As if that were possible.

WASHINGTON – A former aide to John Edwards says in a new book that the two-time presidential candidate told him he thought about leaving his wife but also cited his love for her as a reason to keep details of an affair hidden, according to a newspaper report Tuesday night.

It’s a little disingenuous to say you love a woman when you’re leaving her cancer-stricken self to suffer at home while you go out and make a love-child with your campaign’s documentarian.

The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site that Andrew Young says Edwards asked him to go into hiding with Edwards’ mistress, in part because of his wife’s health.

Young wrote that Edwards concluded “that if I helped him, I would make Mrs. Edwards’s dying days a bit easier. ‘I know you’re mad at her, Andrew, but I love her. I can’t let her die knowing this.’” Elizabeth Edwards has an incurable form of cancer that returned in 2007.

But that didn’t stop him from having unprotected sex with said mistress. And then denying fatherhood of the resulting baby. And letting his close aide destroy his own life to conceal the whole matter.

But wait. It gets better.

Young provides an unflattering portrait of Edwards, talking about his obsession with campaign donations, his fixation with his hair, his disapproval of “fat rednecks” at state fairs and the lengths he went to hide the affair. Young has said in excerpts of an ABC News interview that Edwards asked him to find a doctor to fake a paternity test and to steal a diaper from the baby to secretly do a DNA test.

Hey, how many of those “fat rednecks”, whose votes he had no problem asking for incidentally, left their cancer-stricken wives at home to bang some associate of theirs?

But it gets better. Young claims a sex tape exists, disgusting everyone with more than a shred of basic human decency.