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Friday, February 16, 2007 12:00 AM

Why I had to quit the John Edwards campaign

During my brief tenure as blogmaster for a Democratic presidential contender, I experienced the right-wing smear machine firsthand

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  • Monday, February 19, 2007 01:40 PM

    Fresh recruits

    In lieu of strong support from the Edwards campaign, they should have replaced Ms. Marcotte and Ms. McEwan with a couple of equally feisty, sharp-tongued feminists with partisan sensibilities -- perhaps with less of a literary trail, perhaps not. In any event, surely Mr. Donohue's oeuvre should have been combed.

    We won't ever be able to match the bullying, bellicose Medusa of the right blow for blow-beneath-the-belt, but we can hold up a mirror to reflect its ugly, poisonous visage back at the beast.

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