Come November, I’ll start caring about the next presidential election (I may start feigning attention to it around mid September). As such, I’d missed the brouhaha happening right now in the Edwards camp. Fortunately for all of us, John Rogers has something to say on the matter:
For those of you who don’t live in political minutia, the John Edwards presidential campaign recently hired two bloggers, Amanda Marcotte from Pandagon and Melissa McEwan from Shakespeare’s Sister, to act as coordinators and liasons for the netroots community.
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[William Donahue, President of the Catholic League, is] on A.P., bitching and moaning that Edwards has hired “anti-Catholic bigots.” A.P. hungrily sucked that tale up, and now even Time has run a story on this. Edwards is apparently considering firing Marcotte and Melissa based on this complaint.
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Listen, there are two points here. First is specific to Edwards. Hey, John? If you can’t nut up and fend off a piddly practice-run swiftboating like this, then your campaign is sunk. Say you’re proud of your two workers. Like every other boss in the world you don’t agree with all the positions of your employees, but that you’re not going to fire them based on the arguments of a fringe scandal-mongerer. And say “fringe scandal-mongerer”. 2008 is going to be a fucking knife fight, Johnny, and we cannot afford any more “Yes sir, may I have another” Democrats in elections.
[...] i stand with john (who stands with amanda) [...]