Oh my God, it just occurred to me the opportunity Ann missed/ she could have woven in a tit for tat, and claimed that Edwards was "fair game", just as Edwards' disgusting and thuggish wife did when she and the Kerry campaign just couldn't seem to leave Mary Cheney alone in her lesbian-ness/ Ann I am sure said something about this THEN, but it would have made a nice historical update if she had mentioned it NOW, as a way of tying all this kind of rhetoric together.
There was a time when wit, politics, and biting personal remarks were all the rage. In this context, Edwards would not be viewed as "too good" to respond -- he would only be seen as incapable of it.
To the truly enlightened, it is so greatly amusing that a "classless girl" is now picking on a grown man within the public forum - and he is taking it.