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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.