Edwards Camp and Coulter Clash Twice More; Coulter Now Backs Hunter

Similarly to the last time, the Edwards camp immediately broadcast the language with campaign emails and attempted to use it for fundraising.

Joe Trippi sent out a campaign email saying:

Yesterday, Jonathan told you that the folks who benefit from the status quo are attacking John personally because they don’t want the country to hear his message.

And you know what happened when we called them out? The attacks started pouring in.

That same day, the Ann Coulter-wannabe Michelle Malkin blasted John on her blog. Fox News has been bashing him around the clock. And Coulter herself said, “if I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

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They are trying to put John away before he even gets started. Because they know what we know. They know that John has led on Iraq. That he has lead on universal health care. That he has led on global warming, on poverty, and on building One America.

And they are seeing what we’re seeing—poll after poll showing John outperforming all other Democrats against all Republicans. In the latest poll from Rasmussen Reports, John is the only Democrat to beat Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Fred Thompson—and by an average of 13 points!

If you’re a right-wing wing-nut, this is the scariest thing you can imagine—that the Democratic candidate with the boldest vision for America is also the most electable.

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COULTER: What do I think of Governor Romney’s candidacy for presidency? I think he’s probably our best candidate. I mean, I think it is fair to say — and this is coming from someone who supported Pete DuPont, Alan Keyes, Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes. So, you know, it’s not like I won’t go for an underdog. But I think we have to be serious about this, and I think our choice is among Gingrich, Giuliani, McCain and Romney. And Giuliani is very, very liberal. When this country gets to the point — I mean, I have a love letter to him in my current book, Godless. What he did for New York was magnificent. But when this country gets to the point where both presidential candidates support abortion, I think we can hang it up as a country.

Coulter seems now to have jumped to one of the so-called underdogs: Duncan Hunter.

We’ve thought here that Hunter was impressive in the Republican debates, and he is clearly offering an alternative philosophy to the mainstream candidates. Will this endorsement be the tip of the iceberg of supporters jumping from Romney or supporters joining Hunter? Or will Hunter go as the next name after Keyes, Buchanan, and Forbes? That remains to be seen, but it certainly will not hurt Hunter to get some additional coverage.