Newsflash - Marcotte is not running for president - Updated

The wrongwingnut posse is still trying to recapture the long past glory of their Dan Rather moment by getting Amanda Marcotte fired. Why you ask? Good question. Since none of them are likely to be supporting Edwards campaign, it would appear the answer is single-minded spite and a rather pathetic need to prove they still exercise some kind of "tipping point" power over the public debate. Take this sublimely ironic comment coming from the Princess of Vitriolic Spew, Michelle Malkin:

Seems that everyone but the Edwards campaign has tracked Marcotte's foul-mouthed nutroots diatribes. Or perhaps the Edwards team is well aware of her lunatic blogging and can't wait for her to unleash her unbridled anger on their spiffy website to give him a gritty, "progressive" edge.

"Everyone" being the usual gang of wrongnut thugs who can't seem to grow up out of their adolescent urge to bully the kids who won't join their gang. Malkin, who generally comes across like the trashy, gum snapping teen, who smokes in the school bathroom and bitchslaps the smart girl because she can't beat her in an argument that requires wit, is a fine one to talking about a foul mouth. The language she routinely uses is the most offensive this side of Ann Coulter and neither have to drop the f-bomb to appall civilized people with their lunatic ramblings.

Fortunately, not all the conservative bloggers buy into this mindless Borg mentality. Dale Franks at Q&O, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite alternative view blogs, offers a temperate response to the manufactured outrage of the gang bangers.

So, it seems like a tempest in a teapot to me. ...Besides, if Ms. Marcotte is some sort of loose cannon, nobody's gonna get hurt but the people who hired her. And since the people who hired her are the Edwards Campaign...who cares? It's not like I have a vested interest in Sen. Edwards' success.

Quite the opposite, actually.

And that's the real point. Amanda is not running for president, Edwards is, and what she says, or has said, on her personal site has nothing to do with his candidacy. He hired her to blog about his platform, not counsel him on policy positions. If the wrongnuts want to contribute to the debate, they should address Edwards' statements, not Amanda's past and personal remarks. And if they want to behave like teenage miscreants maybe they should give up the pretense that they're blogging politics and start a MySpace page instead where they can still measure their popularity without diluting the debate on the vital issues of the day.

And that I hope, will be my last word on this ridiculous brouhaha.

Update: I see on Memeorandum that this story just won't die but I'm glad to see some of the bigger lefties are weighing in with some stellar snark about the wrongwing morality patrol. Meanwhle, Dan at Protein Wisdom is still dissing me with new posts. It's all too silly at this point.

Anyway, this is really my final word and it's to John Edwards. I'm just a small time blogger compared to Amanda but I've been at this for three years now and have collected my own little cadre of wingnut critics. All I can say is, if you're pissing off the wrongwingers enough to give them such a heavy case of the vapors, you can be certain you're doing something right.