Liza Sabater asked me to join the blogswarm urging John Edwards to stand up to the rightwing Swiftboat-style attack on two feminist bloggers he recently hired, Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan.

What thought crime did these bloggers commit? They used bad words. Well, so did Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, who famously told Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on the Senate floor, "Go f*** yourself."

When rightwingers like William Donahue, the self-appointed head of something called the "Catholic League," start attacking progressives, Democratic leaders like Edwards should reply in kind:

"Go Cheney Yourself."

Yes, the New York Times and the Washington Post will get the vapors. My reply to them would be the same:

"Go Cheney Yourself."