Badass feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte has resigned from the Edwards campaign.

She made the announcement today at Pandagon, which right-wing antisemite Bill Donohue criticized as “bigoted” and “vulgar.” (Never mind Donohue’s own “bigoted,” “vulgar” statements—like the time he said Hollywood is “controlled by secular Jews” who “like anal sex.” We can’t have an adult woman using words like “shit” and “vagina”!)

Wingers will undoubtedly celebrate Marcotte’s resignation as evidence of their power and influence. They’ll congratulate themselves for “silencing” her, Donohue’s explicit goal. But, as Marcotte points out in her announcement, they haven’t. “I don’t have a conflict of interest issue anymore that was preventing me from defending myself against these baseless accusations. So it’s on.” It’s a huge bummer (and a disappointment from erstwhile Edwards supporters like me) that Edwards didn’t stick up for Marcotte and her coworker, Shakespeare’s Sister blogger Melissa McEwan. But: His loss, our gain.

Cross-posted.