If You Can't Stand The Heat...

For anyone who doesn't know who Ann Coulter is, she is a conservative columnist and author (and admittedly sometimes a far right wing extremist loon) who makes some outlandish statements at times, just to make a point. While sometimes her comments seem to go too far, if you look at them in context you will see that she does usually succeed in getting her point across. That being said, she has taken a few shots at Democratic Presidential hopeful, former NC Senator John Edwards (look at some of my older blogs for my feelings on him). The other day Ms. Coulter was on MSNBC to promote her latest book (Godless: The Church Of Liberalism), which just came out in paperback, and I can't remember the name of the program, which doesn't really matter as it is the lowest rated show in all of cable news. John Edwards wife Elizabeth called in and spent a very long time whining about Ann attacking her husband. To hear the Edwards side of it, they are just normal, everyday people, who want to go about their daily lives and be left alone, but instead are being attacked for no reason by this horrible person, who just won't leave them alone. I feel that I shouldn't even have to say this, but apparently the Edwards need people to be saying it, because they just don't get it: He is running for President! He will have to face scrutiny from all sides, and as he is farther left than Ann is right, he has to expect someone like her to have some things to say about him, it's going to happen. Furthermore, after all of this started, Mrs. Edwards was offered a chance to come on "The O'Reilly Factor" and tell her side of things, but she declined, despite the fact that it is the highest rated show in cable news. I guess she knew that old Bill wouldn't sit there and let her drone on and on unquestioned like the stooges at MSNBC. Mrs. Edwards has also been battling Breast Cancer for some time, and I do pray for her and wish her well in that fight, but I have heard some say that we should not challenge Mr. Edwards on things he says and does because his wife has Cancer... again I say, He's running for President! We, as American people have not only the right, but the duty to question him, and say when we think he's wrong, because that is how our political system works, and the only way in which it can work. So, Senator Edwards, to you I say, If you can't stand the heat, don't run for President!