Same thing happened to that hag who lost her son in Iraq, and tried to capitalize on it with the Left. Sheehan...
Gag me with a pitchfork!
If I recall, she got a bit too "uppity" and actually tried to run for congress against Pelosi in 2008. From that point on she became persona-non-grata in the eyes of the democrat party. (That and it was no longer popular to criticize the Iraq war once it became Obama's war....)