Melissa McEwan has followed Marcotte in resigning from the Edwards campaign:
A second blogger working for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards quit Tuesday under pressure from conservative critics who said her previous online messages were anti-Catholic.
... Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, responded that he considered the bloggers' past writings personally offensive and added that similar content would not be tolerated. But he decided to keep Marcotte and McEwan on staff to give them "a fair shake." ...
In other words, Edwards didn't really stand up for them. Worse, he obviously didn't see this coming. I mean, did anyone at his campaign read their blogs before hiring them? Was there any freaking doubt that bringing on the talents of two extremely outspoken feminists was going to provoke a showdown with a pack of howling, foaming, totally unhinged wingnuts?
