Elizabeth Edwards: “My Johnny is more of a Lady than Hillary is (a lady)”

In an interview at Salon.com, Elizabeth Edwards implies that her husband, the Silk Pony, is better at being a woman than Hillary is.

Hey, it’s a valid point and I’m not going to argue against her.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS: And sometimes you feel you have to behave as a man and not talk about women’s issues. I’m sympathetic — she wants to be commander in chief. But she’s just not as vocal a women’s advocate as I want to see. John is. And then she says, or maybe her supporters say, “Support me because I’m a woman,” and I want to say to her, “Well, then support me because I’m a woman.” The question is not so much how she campaigns — that’s theater. The question is, what does her campaign tell you about how she’ll govern? And I’m not convinced she’d be as good an advocate for women. She needs a rationale greater for her campaign than I’ve heard. When she announced her candidacy she said, “I’m in it to win it.” What is that? That’s not a rationale. Same with Senator Obama — I’ve yet to hear a rationale. John is extremely clear about what he can accomplish and why he’s the one to do it.

Or maybe Lizzy is simply implying that Johnny likes women more than Hillary…(you keep telling yourself that Lizzy). If it was so wrong for Ann Coulter to refer to Johnny as effeminate, why is it OK for Lizzy to portray Hillary as masculine?

Nothing like a good cat fight in the run-up to the Democratic primary…