Edwards vs. Coulter
Elizabeth Edwards pleaded with Ann Coulter to "stop the personal attacks" on Chris Matthew's Hardball Tuesday night. Calling in, she told Coulter to put the vitriol on hold. "It debases the political dialogue," Edwards said. "It drives people away from the process."
Coulter refused.
This latest showdown between Ann Coulter and the Edwards campaign began Monday morning, when Coulter went on Good Morning America and heaved another insult at Edwards. Asked about the March speech in which she referred to the presidential candidate by a gay slur, she responded, "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."
Elizabeth to the rescue? "In the South when someone does something that displeases us," she said, "we want to ask them politely to stop doing it." Edwards said she hadn't consulted her husband before calling in, but the conservative pundit could not be stopped.
"I think we heard all we need to hear," Coulter replied. "The wife of a presidential candidate is asking me to stop speaking."
