IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES:

A Blogger for Edwards Resigns After Complaints (Howard Kurtz, February 13, 2007, Washington Post)

Days after Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards decided against firing two liberal bloggers with a history of inflammatory writing, one resigned last night with a blast at "right wing shills" for driving her out of the campaign.

Amanda Marcotte, whose writings were assailed as anti-Catholic, wrote yesterday on her blog that the Edwards camp had accepted her resignation. She blamed her most vocal critic, Bill Donohoe, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, writing that he "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," which Marcotte described as being "anti-theocracy."

Skills? She was hired for an unskilled position at the margins of a dead-end campaign. Indeed, it was so insignificant that no one at Edwards '08 seems to have even read what she wrote. No American political campaign can afford to be "non-mainstream" on religion.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 13, 2007 8:18 AM