This is a hell of a story. Staffers on the Edwards campaign apparently had planned to sabotage the campaign if it looked like Edwards was going to win the nomination. In other words, they weren't going to let him get the nomination, knowing the affair would have doomed his chances of winning the presidency.
Several of them had gotten together and devised a "doomsday" strategy of sorts.
Basically, if it looked like Edwards was going to win the Democratic Party nomination, they were going to sabotage his campaign, several former Edwards' staffers have told me.They said they were Democrats first, and if it looked like Edwards was going to become the nominee, they were going to bring down the campaign.