WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Thursday he was personally offended by the provocative messages two of his campaign bloggers wrote criticizing the Catholic church, but he’s not firing them.

I wonder just how offensive one has to be to be fired by the Breck Girl.

This is great news, of course, because this idiotic decision will haunt him through what remains of his campaign. But for a guy who is supposed to be in tune with what juries want to hear, this strikes me as spectacularly tone deaf.