John Edwards: Stop Tolerating Ann Coulter

It's funny, having just finished finals I wanted to write a new post, but I was concerned there wouldn't be anything new with Senator Edwards that would make me feel happy to support him.
I shouldn't have worried. This snippet from an article in The Hill is all I needed to see:

Presidential hopeful John Edwards Wednesday strongly criticized conservative pundit Ann Coulter for remarks she made about Edwards’s main rival for the Democratic nomination — Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).

“Just when we thought Ann Coulter couldn’t take the politics of personal destruction any lower, she proved us wrong,” Edwards said. “Her outrageous comments are inexcusable and should not be tolerated in the public dialogue.”

I find it amazing that conservatives continue to support Ann Coulter. Now, many conservatives support Ann Coulter - she was applauded at the Conservative Political Action Conference where she used offensive language to describe Senator Edwards - so maybe, for some of them, they think our political system needs more people like Ann Coulter. But as a purely political matter, sooner or later the mainstream political press is going to start asking Republican politicians whether (and why) they support Ann Coulter, and it won't help their movement that she's so closely tied in. Hopefully she'll abandon the political scene and this will be the end of it, but failing that, I'm glad John Edwards is standing up to Ann Coulter and her vicious brand of politics.