Edwards Now Fundraising Off of Coulter's Remarks

From the Full Story in the International Herald Tribune via Associated Press:

"Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards encouraged his supporters to donate to his campaign in response to "hateful" comments from conservative author Ann Coulter.

Edwards, the party's unsuccessful vice presidential nominee in 2004, made his first comments to The Associated Press on Wednesday in response to Coulter's suggestion that she wished he would be "killed in a terrorist assassination plot." His campaign cited her remarks in two e-mails and a telephone text message to supporters for donations, with the fundraising deadline on Saturday.

It's not the first time Coulter has given the Edwards campaign a financial boost. In March, she called Edwards a "faggot" and the campaign used video of the comment to help raise $300,000 (€223,250) before the end of the first quarter of 2007.

In the e-mails, the campaign asked supporters to send donations to defy her remarks and help Edwards meet his goal of raising $9 million (€6.7 million) in the second quarter. The first e-mail from campaign adviser Joe Trippi showed a clip of Coulter on ABC's "Good Morning America," where she made the comments on Monday.

If Edwards doesn't have a shrine to Coulter somewhere down on his country plantation, he should. He sould shorten the basketball court in his house (I didn't make that up) and put in a shrine to St. Ann, the patron saint of Edwards fundraising.

The more I read about this guy, the less I want him anywhere near children. He seems like the type who'd swipe their lollipops while he was giving them a kiss. And he's a presidential frontrunner?

Ugh. We need to turn off the telivisions and start reading again.