It seems that the conservatives that are criticizing her are focusing in on the part where she thinks Edwards is effeminate and NOT on the more important part, that if you think being a homosexual is perversion, you will be sent to rehab for your failure to conform to PC group think.
The liberal outrage is not so much that she used the word "faggot" but by doing so she would dare defy them and unapologetically venture into their 'politically incorrect' minefields that most others fear to tread. I guess it's gonna take a woman to take back the Party from the pansies.