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To those commenters here who say that they will not vote for John Edwards because of the Marcotte/McEwan situation:
That is precisely what Donohue and his dittoheads intended with their attacks. Causing pain to two progressive, feminist women is surely a bonus for these misogynist creeps, but Marcotte and McEwan were clearly not themselves the primary targets. The real target is the presidential candidate: John Edwards was gaining momentum, is an appealing candidate, and is thus threatening to right-wingers. There is no question but that Donohue's goal was to try to embroil him in a nasty scandal in an effort to slow his campaign's momentum.
It is beyond unfortunate that Marcotte and McEwan were harassed and attacked by Donohue et al., but let's not kid ourselves about the real motivation for the attack. It was to try to destroy Edwards' candidacy.
