Give it a rest, John Edwards

OK, I've really had it with John Edwards now. He's got everyone and their uncle out there crying about pundit Ann Coulter spinning a bad joke and insinuating that he is gay, and then he turns around and tries to raise money off it by telling everyone to show their disgust for Coulter's "bigotry" by sending him campaign contributions. And this from a guy who recently hired two of the most bigoted bloggers out there--Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen--and kept them on his staff despite their blatant anti-Christian, anti-Catholic bigotry. Now Edwards wants to wrap himself in the "victim" label and get people to pay him because he's allegedly been targeted with hate speech.

You'd never guess that this guy was a trial lawyer, would you?

But Edwards is far from done. Next the guy who hires Christ-hating bloggers claims to speak for Jesus Christ, telling an interviewer that "Jesus would be most upset with the selfishness of Americans and the country's willingness to go to war when it's not necessary.”

It's bad enough that the guy hires and retains employees who mock Christianity daily, but now Edwards wants to use Jesus as a campaign prop to advance his own views. And what "selfishness" is Edwards talking about? It's a fact that Americans give more charitable aid to other countries and provide more disaster relief than any other country on the planet, and Americans give more to charity as individuals than do citizens of any other country. Could Edwards be talking about the "selfishness" that causes one to build and live in a six million dollar, 28,000 square foot mansion--the largest home in his county--while his neighbors still live in trailers?

Of course this shouldn't come as a surprise. Edwards really wants to have it both ways. He wants the Christian vote (as long as it doesn't earn him the wrath of the left-wing blogger community) and he tells people that he's a Christian, but then he turns around and says that he doesn't see America as a Christian nation. Trying to have his cake and eat it too, Edwards tells the website beliefnet "I guess the word 'Christian' is what bothers me, even though I'm a Christian."

So the idea of a nation founded on Christian ideals bothers him? Good thing he wasn't there to interfere with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin when they and other founding fathers established this nation in accordance with Christian principles. Or maybe it's the idea of identifying too strongly with the 80% of us Americans who ARE Christians. After all, that will hurt his standing with the radical wing of the Democrat Party--the ones who believe that morality has no place in society any longer.

A couple of weeks ago, I merely disliked John Edwards as a Presidential candidate because I saw him as someone who never did an honest day's work in his life and who made his fortune as a trial lawyer by suing hospitals and other large corporations then pocketing a large chunk of the payouts. I don't care for people like that as a rule--and it's because of people like that and the system that they perpetuate that I do not practice law today even though I am an attorney.

However John Edwards' obvious hostility towards Christian principles, coupled with his attempt to cover it up and pander to Christian voters, has convinced me that John Edwards is 100% wrong for America. We don't need him as President and cannot afford him or anyone like him in a leadership position, especially in today's times.

Democrats turn their backs on Christians

Normally I don't link to editorials, but this one by Gary Bauer over at WorldNetDaily really hit the nail squarely on the head. He makes the point that when Democratic Presidential wanna-be candidate John Edwards hired two liberal bloggers, Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan, and subsequently discovered that both were long-time anti-Christian bigots with a track record in which they smeared and mocked Christians, often with profanity-laced tirades, Edwards could not even bring himself to fire these two girls because he was more worried about upsetting the liberal blogger fringies that were rallying around the two foul-mouthed girls. And this was despite the fact that practicing Christians comprise 44% of the voting electorate, many of them the minorities and blue-collar Americans that Edwards claims to identify with.

And as if Edwards' moral cowardice wasn't bad enough, it's noteworthy that none of the other Democratic challengers opposing him had a thing to say about it themselves. Not Hillary, not Obama, or any of the others. Not a single Democrat wanted to stand up on the side of Christianity and risk incurring the wrath of a bunch of angry dateless twenty-something liberal losers. It goes a long way to describe the current Democratic stance on religion and God that not one was willing to stand up. Oh sure, when it's almost election day and they're riding high in the polls, then they'll want to stand up in the pulpits of large urban churches and pander for votes, but none of them deserves that opportunity frankly, because when those same church members were being slandered and debased by Edwards' blogger team because of their faith, not one of those Democrats was willing to object.

And Bauer makes an excellent point in his editorial when he wonders how quiet Edwards and the rest of the Democrats would have been had his bigoted bloggers regularly targeted muslims, gays or made racist comments.

So if your faith is real to you, you need to think carefully about who to back in 2008. You could back someone that represents the party that frequently puts up leaders with strong faith, like President Bush or former President Reagan, or you can vote for one of the cowards who had a chance to stand up for Christians and defend them last week but refused to do so.

The choice is yours, but who do you think that Jesus would vote for?

Ah, sometimes life just works. Edwards dumps his bloggers again.

As I write this, I'm happy to say that Presidential wanna-ba John Edwards has finally "accepted the resignations" of those two profanity-spewing, Christian-mocking dullwits, Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. As most of the sentient world knows by now, John Edwards hired these two to be his campaign bloggers, supposedly because he wanted to show the internet-savvy voters that he was "hip" and "with it". But apparently he didn't research these two very well; he just hired them because they were associated with prominent liberal blogs. After putting them on the staff, however, he began to hear from constituents about this incredibly poor choice. It seems that these two donkeyettes have a serious rage going on against Christians and the Catholic Church in particular. In fact much of their blogging consists of profanity-laden diatribes against andone who believes in Jesus or the Virgin Mary.

Well Edwards panicked and immediately fired both of them last week, only to rehire them both the next day after the internet blogging community began to pillory him. Of course caving in and bringing them back only further angered Christian groups, including religious Liberals and Democrats. Edwards was seriously stuck between a rock and a hard place.

But apparently he figured a way out that wouldn't make him look like the bad guy. It was announced yesterday that both Marcotte and McEwan "resigned". They're gone again, this time supposedly by their own choices, and Edwards can claim (none too convincingly) that he had nothing to do with it.

This whole thing demonstrates Edwards' poor judgement and shows why he's not the man who should be President. He makes decisions without the proper information, he cannot stand by his decisions once made, he reverses himself multiple times to try to please everyone, and finally he's not even man enough to publicy axe the two that everyone knows he fired. And if he can't handle hiring two bloggers, how's he ever going to fill cabinet posts, Judgeships, Ambassadorships, and Supreme Court Justice slots?

As to the bloggerettes, they're now back at their old blog sites, bemoaning the loss of their paychecks and prestige jobs and planning how to get even with everyone who called for them to be fired.

But listen up, chicklets...none of us ever told Edwards to fire you. We just reposted your own words and let everyone know what you were really like and much of mainstream America was revolted. (Heck, even Edwards was disgusted, and he's a long ways from the mainstream.) You cut your own throats with all of your hate-spewing, kids. All we did was take your vile thoughts and mocking statements out of your liberal blogs and put them out in the public square for everyone else to look at.

John Edwards shoots himself in the foot with Marcotte hire.

Considering that Democratic Presidential wanna-be John Edwards is both obscenely rich and well-connected inside the Washington DC Beltway, one would think that he could pick almost anyone to run his campaign's weblog. At the very least, you'd think that he'd pick someone who wasn't a shallow, foul-mouthed hack like his newest hire, Amanda Marcotte. This leftist whack job often confuses profanity with insightful commentary as she posts hate-filled screeds against conservatives, Republicans, President Bush, and anyone else who doesn't share every one of her out-of-touch opinions. One would think that John Edwards would scrutinize his job applicants much more closely, or at least as close as
Michelle Malkin scrutinizes his choices. But he either did not check, or was not deterred by Marcotte's long history of obscenity-laced condemnations of anyone who doesn't think like her and her fringe wing-nut pals. Ironically, even Marcotte herself has been running around the internet and erasing or re-writing her foulest posts. But fortunately, people like Malkin were smarter and faster than her and many of her R-rated posts have been preserved to stand as clear evidence of John Edwards' poor judgement. If the guy can't even hire a credible blogger to run his internet campaign, there's no way that he can ever be trusted to select the thousands of Presidential appointees needed to run the country post-2008.

Sorry, former Senator Edwards. I actually had a bit of respect for you based on your ability to honestly say that you plan to raise out taxes if elected. But if Marcotte is the kind of loser that you plan to surround yourself with,you can count on not getting my vote.



Bwahahahaha! Yeah, like I'd ever vote Dem. I love my country way too much for that. But hopefully I can reach a few Dem voters who actually have some principles. I know that some exist. So if you know any, give them a link here please.

What a fine crop of Dems, eh?

Why can't the Dems find a single credible candidate with any experience? I mean, just look at who they're considering for a run at the Presidency:

Barack Obama hasn't even completed his first term as a senator, and so far he's done nothing in that job except get caught up in a real estate scandal that demonstrated that he's either too green or too corrupt for higher office.

Hillary Clinton's only experience is being the wife of a crooked politician and standing by while he cheated on her with just about every other female who showed interest. As his wife, she tried to be "co-President" and mess with America's health care, only to get slapped down by an enraged American public. She's completed one term in office as a senator from a state that she'd never lived in until after she was elected there, and she hasn't done anything except show up places and stand in front of cameras. But her getting booed off the state by NYC's police officer and firefighters when she tried to horn in on the 9/11 tribute is still the hightlight of her political career thus far.

John Edwards. One term in the Senate, and became a millionaire by suing fellow Americans. Trial lawyers and second-handers love him but mainstream America thinks that he's slimy.

Joe Biden. Runs every time. No one cares.

And lest we forget, John Kerry is still planning his "comeback" too. Here's another guy who never did anything in his life other than marry rich widows and gain the wealth that other men created.

There's not a single person in that pack that the average American has any reason to admire or trust.

You can tell a lot about the core values of Democrats just by looking at who they're running and also by seeing who in their party won't run. The real savvy Dems obviously know that 2008's going to be a train wreck for the party and they're willing to let these no-talent hacks crash and burn.