Flowers Peddles Tapes; Mum's Not the Word

Does this mean she's withdrawing her endorsement of Hillary?

According to Vegas Confidential, the former Bill Clinton lover and current Feature Performer, Entertainer & Advice Columnist, has announced plans to sell, at auction, audiotapes purported to be secretly taped conversations between Flowers and the former president:

Gennifer Flowers is putting the tapes of her recorded conversations with Bill Clinton during their 12-year affair on the auction block, Vegas Confidential learned Monday. Flowers, who came forward during Clinton's 1992 Presidential election campaign with details of the relationship, said she decided to part with the tapes after renewed interest surfaced.

She was offered $5 million by a Japanese collector in the 1990s, she said.

Asked about the timing of her announcement coming out as Hillary Clinton continues to slide in her presidential bid, "I don't need to hurt Hillary. She is doing a fine job of that herself, along with her idiot husband. Karma is an interesting thing. If these two don't get elected, and they are a team, it will be karma coming back to visit them. It's about time."

While it's hard to fault Flowers for trying to eke out a 16th minute of fame, and some financial security, her invocation of Karma is odd, considering the blows that the mystical force has dealt her:

Gennifer had enjoyed several years of success in her own nightclub in the New Orleans French Quarter called The Gennifer Flowers Kelso Club in which she sang and performed to audiences from all over the world every night. But, two storms changed her life...one was Katrina and the other was a divorce.

After the jump: What effect will this have on the current Presidential contest? What effect will the current Presidential contest have on this? Why can't I think of any more floral puns?

If not for the recent, disastrous moves by Clinton's campaign in stepping up the negative tenor, this news might have actually helped Hillary. While some people express antipathy toward her decision to "stand by her man", those people are likely not to view Hillary in any positive light.

For the majority of people, especially Democrats, the infidelity issue engenders at least sympathy, if not a measure of admiration for overcoming it. A crass cash-in like this would have reminded many people of what a class act Hillary is compared to Flowers and her husband.

Barring a stunning, overwhelming victory at tonight's debate, or a precipitous stumble by Obama in the next week or so, this race could be over on March 5, which would wilt Flowers' prospects of a big payday. With everything else that's going on, this doesn't figure to affect Hillary much, as it shouldn't.

Of course, with the punditry flailing at every political gnat this election season, they could do worse that to "Ask Gennifer with a G". This advice pertains to menopause, but it could just as easily be applied to our beleaguered pundit class and their convoluted "Keith" numbers:

Also, taking on a young lover never hurts! It certainly makes you aware of your body and makes you feel damn good about yourself! That advice, of course, will be criticized but I only say it because it's true! My dear lady friends...JUST CHOOSE HAPPINESS and then work your way toward it in the way that's most appropriate for you. You can do it, girls!!

Kisses, Gen

Then, there was her recent advice for John McCain.

In reading for this story, I've grown to like Gennifer Flowers, aside from her broadsides at Hillary. Selling these tapes is unquestionably sleazy, but who's the real sleaze here? In this trio, only one person broke a promise, and it wasn't Gen or Hillary. If she was my friend, I'd definitely tell her to sell the tapes. If I was Hillary, I would offer to buy them and donate the money to charity. That would be a win-win.

If I was Bill, I'd probably be breathing a sigh of relief, like the rest of us, that there was no video.

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