[Red Badger]

It’s a “portmanteau” of REFUSE and REPUDIATE, hence REFUDIATE........

[Sloane_Ranger]

That’s a great word......Refudiate !...kinda like a cross between Refute and Repudiate !

I Refudiate Obama....with severe prejudice !!

Sounds great ! :-)

[RoadTest]

“It’s a “portmanteau” of REFUSE and REPUDIATE, hence REFUDIATE........”

I didn’t know combination words like that had a name, so I called them “double exposures”. Portmanteau?

[Notthemomma]

The simplest answer is usually the best one. Why can't it simply be a single-letter misspelling of “repudiate” (f instead of p), rather than a neologism? The context is good to me—”peaceful Muslims, disavow and separate yourselves from (repudiate) the idea of a ground-zero mosque”—as opposed to the “correction” she offered, asking Muslims to “refute” (offer evidence up against) it. I fault her lame "correction," not her original simple mistake.