Actually, they were talking about what they were told she had said, not what she did say...For instance, here is what ANN said three years ago, from www.jewishworldreview.com:
Jewish World Review Nov. 20, 2003/ 25 Mar-Cheshvan, 5764-- snip --Ann Coulter
The party of ideas
With economic growth and name recognition of the average Democratic presidential candidate both running at about 7 percent, the Democrats are in trouble. Unable to rouse more than the Saddam-supporting left with their kooky foreign policy ideas, the Democrats had been counting on a lousy economy. It turns out that, given a choice between "shock and awe" and "run and hide," the American people prefer the former. Now that the Bush tax cuts have already started to kick in and boost the economy, it was beginning to look as if the Treason Lobby would have nothing to run on.
But the Democrats have discovered a surprise campaign issue: It turns out that several of them have had a death in the family. Not only that, but many Democrats have cracker-barrel humble origins stories (BEGIN ITALS)and(END ITALS) a Jew or lesbian in the family. Dick Gephardt's campaign platform is that his father was a milkman, his son almost died, and his daughter is a lesbian. Vote for me!
So don't say the Democrats aren't the party of ideas. As they keep reminding us, their ideas are just too darn complex to fit on a bumper sticker. Consequently, the Democrats can't tell us their ideas until after the election. Instead, their version of a political campaign is to stage a "Queen for a Day" extravaganza — which has special resonance in the case of the Democrats.
Al Gore famously inaugurated the family tragedy routine at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, where his idea of an inspiring political speech was to recount the story of his son being hit by a car. At the 1996 convention, Gore told a tear-jerker about his sister's long, painful death from lung cancer. It got to the point that Gore's family members had to fear any more runs for higher office.
In the current campaign, Gephardt has taken to spinning out a long, pitiful tale of his son's near-death three decades ago...
...At least when Gephardt exploits a family tragedy, he doesn't expect praise for not exploiting a family tragedy. John Edwards injects his son's fatal car accident into his campaign by demanding that everyone notice how he refuses to inject his son's fatal car accident into his campaign.And, here is what someone calling herself ELIZABETH EDWARDS posted a few hours ago as a comment at cassandra2004.blogspot.com:
Edwards has talked about his son's death in a 1996 car accident on "Good Morning America," in dozens of profiles and in his new book. ("It was and is the most important fact of my life.") His 1998 Senate campaign ads featured film footage of Edwards at a learning lab he founded in honor of his son, titled "The Wade Edwards Learning Lab." He wears his son's Outward Bound pin on his suit lapel. He was going to wear it on his sleeve, until someone suggested that might be a little too "on the nose."
If you want points for not using your son's death politically, don't you have to take down all those "Ask me about my son's death in a horrific car accident" bumper stickers? Edwards is like a politician who keeps announcing that he will not use his opponent's criminal record for partisan political advantage. (I absolutely refuse to mention the name of my dearly beloved and recently departed son killed horribly in a car accident, which affected me deeply, to score cheap political points.
I wouldn't want John Edwards to be president, but I think even Karl Rove would be willing to stipulate that the death of a son is a terrible thing.
A page named for a character in mythology is an appropriate page for the posting above. John never raises the issue of our son, but he has responded to reporter's questions after the 1998 election.
He still never answers questions about him in any political context. We love our boy and like many parents who wear a locket or a child's old watch, John wears Wade's very small Outward Bound pin.
Again, he never calls attention to it himself. John does talk about his family, including Wade and his death in Four Trials, in the context of talking about the work he did for other families and the importance to him of his own family. And finally, no advertisements or commercials were ever shot at the Wade Edwards Learning Lab.
I suspect that there are plenty of Republicans who have lost children and they will tell you that they love their children, as we do, and they wish they could continue to parent them, as we do. And they, like we, can only do one thing: protect the memory that child. I hope that they will ask you to stop, as I ask you know.
If you don't like John's policies, have at him. If you would never consider voting for him, say so; that is fine. No one ever wins with 100% of the vote.