Or, if I may paraphrase the "president," this only serves to embolden the enemy.

I think that is one significant difference in the issues here. They can be potty-mouthed and nasty all they want on their blogs, but it's a tough jump from self-published aggrandizer to public figure spokesman, at least it is if you have a long history of baggage to bring along.

For example, I don't see the Misha example going to work for any of the Republican candidates, for exactly the kind of stuff you've used in your examples.

Frak Edwards.

P.S. I was planning on telling people who called or stopped by asking for money that "I'm just not there yet," regarding his candidacy and lack of support for marriage equality. Now, I can also add the above.

However, if John McCain has hired a blogger from the right with a history, then that's a mistake and he should be held accountable for it.

The point is that these bloggers (including the two women let go by Edwards) make their own beds and thus must deal with the repercussions of their own actions. They are hardly helpless pawns devoid of their own agency and will.

The point is that he folded faster than the Pine Street Laundry over some idiotic fake controversy from the wrong wing nuts.

If he doesn't have the balls to stand up for his own staff, then the rest of us shouldn't expect anything from him either.

Edwards hasn't fired either of them yet.

Besides, in a real campaign, would anyone other than shrieking subhumans like Malkin even pay any attention to what Amanda said in the past? Seriously? The overwhelming majority of the populace doesn't pay attention to blog wankery.

Dumb.

He didn't fire them.