Blog Wars - State side

It appears that Blog War in the Presidential nomination campaign has had it's first victim. Senator John Edwards hired blogger Amanda Marcotte aka Pandragon has resigned citing a right wing campaign against her.

I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and talents I bring to the table, and my willingness to work hard for what’s right. Unfortunately, Bill Donohue and his calvacade of right wing shills don’t respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills, and pretended that John Edwards had to be held accountable for some of my personal, non-mainstream views on religious influence on politics (I’m anti-theocracy, for those who were keeping track). Bill Donohue—anti-Semite, right wing lackey whose entire job is to create non-controversies in order to derail liberal politics—has been running a scorched earth campaign to get me fired for my personal beliefs and my writings on this blog.

I don't quite know the full details, but this stems from something she wrote on her blog which basically had a pop at the Catholic church. The result was bad publicty for Edward because he employed her to blog her campaign.

The lesson I guess is that if you become a paid blogger for a politician either keep it quiet (difficult), or quit whilst you're employed, for example, as I think a certain blogger did whilst Chief of Staff to David Davis's leadership campaign.