Edwards Finally Sheds His Blogger Baggage

We thought that John Edwards would be smart enough to fire his new campaign blogger last week when example after example of anti-Christian/anti-good taste posts were revealed from the blogger's past. Edwards, afraid to anger the wacky left, hung onto her, but after yet another anti-Christian screed he's finally shed his blogger baggage. Of course, she was her typically classy self in her resignation announcement:

I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and talents I bring to the table, and my willingness to work hard for what’s right. Unfortunately, Bill Donohue and his calvacade of right wing shills don’t respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills, and pretended that John Edwards had to be held accountable for some of my personal, non-mainstream views on religious influence on politics (I’m anti-theocracy, for those who were keeping track). Bill Donohue—anti-Semite, right wing lackey whose entire job is to create non-controversies in order to derail liberal politics—has been running a scorched earth campaign to get me fired for my personal beliefs and my writings on this blog.

In fact, he’s made no bones about the fact that his intent is to “silence” me, as if he—a perfect stranger—should have a right to curtail my freedom of speech. Why? Because I’m a woman? Because I’m pro-choice? Because I’m not religious? All of the above, it seems.

Regardless, it was creating a situation where I felt that every time I coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign. No matter what you think about the campaign, I signed on to be a supporter and a tireless employee for them, and if I can’t do the job I was hired to do because Bill Donohue doesn’t have anything better to do with his time than harass me, then I won’t do it. I resigned my position today and they accepted.

You bet Edwards accepted - as fast as he could. She just proved her critics right.

It won't help Edwards with the wacky left who will undoubtedly call him every manner of coward, but for the sake of his campaign, it was the right thing to do.