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Her answer should be: "I am happy to assure Mr. Dean and the Mr. Edwards that I did not call the latter a 'faggot.' I specifically declined to call him a 'faggot.' I said if I were to call him a 'faggot' I would have to go into rehab. I do not want to go into rehab, so I did not call Mr. Edwards a 'faggot.' I don't think it's appropriate to call any aspiring public official a 'faggot' and I think that anyone who does stoop so low should be sent to rehab.

"Those who use the word 'faggot' to describe Mr. Edwards should spend hard time with the delusionals in our culture who call our president a chimp or a mass murderer. Not that I find the two statements morally equivalent, for indeed they are not. But it would be wrong to call Mr. Edwards a 'faggot.' That's all I'm saying.

"Others have called Mr. Edwards a 'Breck Girl' but that's skating dangerously close to calling him a faggot. I, for one, will not call him a Breck Girl or a faggot. But of the two, I will be most careful not to call Mr. Edwards a 'faggot.' So let this be my sworn, solemn promise to everyone, especially Mr. Edwards: should the whole world call Mr. Edwards a 'faggot,' yet I will not. I have never done so. I will not do so now, or ever."