There is a huge difference between supporting these women and making baseless attacks on them that make them look like victims in the eyes of the clueless all over again.
If you have to resort to personal attacks, you have no argument.
No! Just makes the arguement a little shorter. If they are that clueless they will never get it.
Saying that, "For all we know these women's husbands might have been planning divorce," isn't a baseless attack, it's a shift of the argument. If she claimed that any man in his right mind would be planning to divorce, that would be baseless attack.
What Ann has done is the same thing Terry Schiavo's supporters did. She called into question the right of these women to speak for their dead husbands in a way that benefitted them tremendously. The question, "Are you really greaving or are you just an opportunist?" is a valid question. In a more civil time, the question might have been phrased, "Have you no shame?"
It is unfortunate that she has to use such extreme tactics to get the American people to think, but not everyone is a FReeper. If you haven't noticed, the typical American has all but forgotten how to think. They need the thought equivalent of CPR to get their brains going again. Conservative leaders COULD use Ann's book as a platform to launch a true debate if they weren't so afraid.
Shalom.