This on Think Progress:

Yesterday on MSNBC’s Hardball, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) defended Ann Coulter’s attacks on John Edwards, including that she wishes he “had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

He said that Elizabeth Edwards’s calls to stop making “personal attacks” against her family were attempts to “silence conservative voices.” He added that Coulter “is a very articulate spokeswoman for the conservative view” and “closely approaching that level of being a great American.”

Hunter makes a huge leap in logic using a slippery slope fallacy by claiming that a simple request to keep the political debate focused on the issues is an attempt to muzzle conservatives. I hope the conservative voices he is trying to protect have more to bring than simple name calling.  I also hope he is able to bring sharper reasoning to bear in his candidacy than what he just presented.

The last thing the nation needs now is a presidential candidate who’s idea of running for office involves amplifying the voices of those who engage in the schoolyard equivalent of calling someone “poopie-pants.”