Where did I say ‘party’?
I said I wouldn’t vote for John Edwards. I can vote for someone other than John Edwards in the primary, where it is impossible for me to vote for a Republican at all.
Pretty much, yes. Because James Carville would want watchers to believe it wasn’t a good move even if it was brilliant.
Now, if James Carville could demonstrate that it was having effect X or effect Y, that’s different. Say, if the poll numbers showed a big change and he wanted to guess what might be the reason. But otherwise, a biased person is likely attempting to lead opinion, not report it.
Edited to add: In retrospect, “discount” is too strong a word. I wouldn’t completely disregard the report, but I would also not take it as anything but bias unless it could be confirmed elsewhere.
That’s fine. I won’t convince everyone.
I’m just going to offer a prediction - that by this time next week, either or both of these women won’t be working for John Edwards anymore.
Looks like your track record in predicting the past is 100% this week! 
(I’m just kidding about predicting the past, btw - even though the Salon story was filed before you posted, I’m sure you didn’t know.)
Of course, the story goes on to say:
I’m sort of disappointed by this.
That’s sad. Why won’t you listen to all the candidates and decide on the best?
What’s so sad about it? Don’t you believe each party has a basic philosophy?
I’m pro-choice, pro-union, concerned about the environment, believe in helping the poor, against deregulating business and believe in equal opportunity, separation of church and state, civic freedom and I support gay marriage.
I can listen to candidates all day but I doubt if I’ll ever come close to finding a Republican candidate that would reflect my views. I’m sure people with opposing views feel the same way.
Read what I wrote. The post you mention was removed, well before this mess got going. Here’s what she replaced it with:
Michelle Malkin and Danny “not the actor” Glover dug up several supposed incidents of deleted posts. All of them were either lost in server transitions (along with entire months of posts around them) or still there.
Taking out one post is far from “trying to sanitize her blog”.
If Edwards has in fact fired Amanda and Melissa, he’s pretty much over. His best chance is to capitalize on his popularity among the netroots, who pretty much hate Hillary and aren’t yet convinced by Obama. (Not to overplay the importance of the netroots, but when you’re a distant third you work with what you’ve got.) That’s why hiring them was a smart move. If he won’t stand up for them against the likes of Michelle Malkin and William Donohue, he can kiss that foothold goodbye.
It’s tough, though, isn’t it?
I’ve speculated before that too close an association with the MoveOn crowd can only hurt Democratic candidates, and this might be an example of this.
Edwards felt he needed to use these bloggers, yet their profanity and antireligious bias is anathema to mainstream voters, even within the Democratic party. He got stung pretty fast on this one, and it isn’t the first time it’s happened with a Democrat.
Nor will it be the last, I’ll bet.
Taking out one post is refusing to stand by her words. Honest bloggers let their words stand and attach amendments.
What hurts democrats is second guessing themselves and listening to the Michelle Malkins like DoctorJ said. He was #1 in the polls at Daily Kos and I think he’s making a huge mistake.
And of course you know exactly what happened in both of those cases, so you can dismiss his work as for people who didn’t deserve help. By the way, the case with the 850-pound box that fell on an attorney was for $4 million, so he could not have gotten anywhere near 10.
I have heard a bit more about the first case, so let me explain a bit for you. A 5-year old girl was sitting on (or near, I don’t remember which) the drain, the cover detached somehow, and her bowels were sucked out. The company that made the drain knew that there were problems; there had been twelve suits before; but it did nothing to fix the defective design or even attach warnings. John Edwards forced them to own up and pay for their negligence.
I don’t disagree. I thought it was a bad move. But Malkin and others have tried to make it into a trend, which it isn’t.
FWIW, I really want the Democrats to win, and I agree with **Moto **on this issue. It was a bad move by Edwards. Of course, I think he is a phony and a lying sack of shit, so perhaps my bias colors my opinion as well.
Everything. That you’re not willing to consider someone simply because they bear the wrong moniker.
Yes: only the pursuit of power.
Since a politician chooses his or her party, I can’t view it as any sort of discrimination to ignore those from one party in favor of the other.
The story about Edwards’ bloggers is coming up on CNN right now.
Well, I can hardly claim to be bias-free, since I’m hoping Hillary gets attacked by velociraptors. It’s not going to happen, is it? 
If it did, I suspect she would be having dinosaur kabobs for dinner. 
Nice job! You quoted my first sentence and left out my entire explanation.