Coulter's remarks aid Edwards' fundraising

[Sequoia]

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Wednesday encouraged his supporters to donate to his campaign in response to "hateful" comments from conservative author Ann Coulter.

Edwards made his first comments to The Associated Press in response to Coulter's suggestion that she wished he would be "killed in a terrorist assassination plot." His campaign cited her remarks in two e-mails and a telephone text message to supporters for donations, with the fundraising deadline on Saturday.

It's not the first time Coulter has given the Edwards campaign a financial boost. In March, she called Edwards a "faggot" and the campaign used video of the comment to help raise $300,000 before the end of the first quarter.

In the e-mails, the campaign asked supporters to send donations to defy her remarks and help Edwards meet his goal of raising $9 million in the second quarter. The first e-mail from campaign adviser Joe Trippi showed a clip of Coulter on ABC's "Good Morning America," where she made the comments on Monday.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/28/edwards.coulter.ap/index.html

He's the one

[polichick]

1. Just posted this elsewhere, but it's probably better here...

Elizabeth is wonderful and Coulter is a creep, but I'm sure there was some calculation on the part of the Edwards campaign ~ the timing was perfect to get them back in the news and help boost donations. My guess is the first of those solicitation emails regarding Coulter was written before the encounter, it came out so quickly. This is politics and it's the end of a fundraising quarter ~ if the Edwards campaign didn't need the press and money right now Elizabeth probably wouldn't have bothered with Coulter. Both parties made money on this one.

[aquart]

3. Gosh. Yuh think?

[polichick]

5. Seems obvious...

And yet you'd think Elizabeth is a saint from reading comments here, rather than an intelligent and political person who's not above manipulating the public for cash.

[Cameron27]

2. He's the one. Do you mean Trippi?

[Sequoia]

6. He's the one who's in the spotlight now. What's Trippi?

[Cameron27]

7. Trippi--->Edward's campaign manager who's loving this.

[Sequoia]

8. Guess so, doesn't have to work as hard.

Thanks.

[midnight]

4. Thanks Ann for helping with the Edward's fundraising.....

It's hard to believe, but so has the last six years.