Actually, that was the basis many right-wing bloggers utilized in trying to get people to vote Republican in this last election. I wouldn’t get too high and might about the lack of merit of this strategy if I were a right winger.

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If you have read almost anything of Amanda Marcotte’s postings (available to the world), you know that to be utterly and compltely obviously untrue.

Here’s a coupl of quotes from just ONE posting (http://pandagon.net/2006/06/14/pandagon-goes-undercover-the-lazy-way-on-a-catholic-anti-contraception-seminar-pt-ii/):

“Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?

A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.”

“Just remember, false witnessing is okay if done in the service of knocking women up against their will. Like it’s perfectly okay to say, “I had a vasectomy years ago, baby,” if you didn’t. God loves that sort of thing, since he’s a sadistic bastard.”

Yeah, never meant to malign their faith. What a load of BS.

The only remarks that offended him were Marcotte’s religious insults, not Marcotte’s defamatory, malicious, and ignorant remarks about the Duke student defendants, whose families have been financially drained by $80,000 per month in attorneys fees fighting an unethical prosecutor.

The prosecution of the people that Marcotte smeared as being rapists has been criticized across the political spectrum, including by former Dukakis campaign manager (and law professor) Susan Estrich, and Professor K.C. Johnson, who has supported Obama for president, not Bush.

It’s very clear that the prosecutor, Nifong, has violated multiple ethics rules, including hiding exculpatory evidence, such as DNA evidence; lying to the courts; bullying witnesses who provided truthful statements that conflicted with his claims; and making prejudicial, deceitful, and baseless public statements.

Governor Easley, who appointed Nifong, has belatedly disowned him after a long silence, calling Nifong the worst appointment he ever made as Governor.

But Edwards has been dead silent about Nifong’s misconduct, which has occurred almost in his own backyard.

Edwards’ failure to fire Marcotte shows that he is indifferent to her libels and defamatory conduct, and indifferent to ethical and legal violations.

His defective moral sense is apparently shared by the knee-jerk left-wing ideologues at Salon and Daily Kos, who defended Marcotte, not based on the substance of her statements (which were truly indefensible), but because of the ideological leanings of some of those who belatedly began criticizing her for other reasons (the religious-right figure Bill Donohue).

Their reasoning was summed up by a left-wing blogger who commented at Daily Kos: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” What small minds these left-wing bloggers possess.

If people sharing such sentiments make up a big fraction of the Democratic Party’s base, then that would be one possible reason to hold your nose and vote Republican in 2008. (It’s the base that tends to end up with patronage appointments in any new administration).

Until then, take offense.

http://www.herdwatching.com/items/date/2007/02/08/netroots-support/

What’s amusing is that even this tepid politic gesture by Edwards is causing the Angry Blog Left to howl for his head. It’s an entertaining deal with the devil Edwards has made by courting this crowd, and shows his general unfitness for governing.