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Elizabeth Edwards is my new heroine! In just a few days, she has demonstrated that she has more courage - and courage of conviction - than all of the 2008 Presidential candidates combined - including her husband.
Just the other day, she took on the Radical Religious with her comments in San Francisco during the Gay Day Parade:
"I don't know why somebody else's marriage has anything to do with me," she said. "I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage."
If one really thought about this comment, one would be hard-pressed to refute it.
Speaking of the hard press, said behavior is the domain of the Wicked Witch of the East Coast, Ann Coulter. For years now, Coulter has been spewing invective at all non-Republicans without any meaningful rebuttal - until now. The response, coolly measured and delivered, came from Elizabeth Edwards:
"[I]n the South when someone does something that displeases us, we ... ask them politely to stop doing it. I want … to ask her politely stop the personal attacks.
"You wrote a column a couple years ago which made fun of the moment of [her son] Charlie Dean's death, and suggested that my husband had a bumper sticker on the back of his car that said ask me about my dead son. This is not legitimate political dialogue.
"I'm making this call as a mother. I'm the mother of that boy who died. My children participate -- these young people behind you are the age of my children. You're asking them to participate in a dialogue that's based on hatefulness and ugliness instead of on the issues and I don't think that's serving them or this country very well."
[Applause from the crowd]
One only has to look at the unscientific MSNBC reponse poll (on the linked page) to notice that Coulter may finally have had her McCarthy Moment. Out of 7946 responses as of Tue 26 Jun 2007 07:45:07 PM PDT, 95% of the respondents agreed with Elizabeth Edwards that Ann Coulter should stop with her personal attacks against the Edwards family.
It's yet another sad commentary that the women of the Democratic Party have been showing more gonadinal fortitude than the men, and yet there is nothing more fierce than a mother defending her cubs - even dead ones.
Since Coulter is herself childless, and clearly had no meaningful parenting as a witchling, it's a concept that she neither understands, nor can combat.Since Coulter is herself childless, and clearly had no meaningful parenting as a witchling, it's a concept that she neither understands, nor can combat. Stick a pitchfork in her - the Wicked Witch of the East Coast is toast!
Take heed, Malkin! You're next! |