For a whiff of Mrs. Edwards and her interest in the left-wing nutroots, see this Salon.com piece by atheist blogger Lindsay Beyerstein on why she chose NOT to follow vicious Amanda Marcotte into the Edwards campaign:

On Jan. 12, an Edwards campaign staffer whom I'll call Bob, which isn't his real name, e-mailed me to ask if I might be interested in blogging for the campaign. I maintain a blog called Majikthise, and I'd met Bob several times at various political and social gatherings in New York City, including Drinking Liberally.

Back in October, Bob had invited me to join a few local bloggers at an off-the-record meeting with Elizabeth Edwards at the Loews Regency Hotel. Unfortunately, I couldn't go.

Mrs. Edwards is a celebrity in the netroots because she maintains an active presence in the community. Months later, bloggers who attended that meeting are still talking about it in glowing terms. Mrs. Edwards has been writing her own diaries on DailyKos for years.

As a fellow blogger put it, "Elizabeth Edwards is everywhere."

...

As we walked, Bob downloaded his vision: The whole Edwards campaign was going to be a decentralized grass-roots operation.

"Elizabeth Edwards gets it," he said with unabashed admiration.

We settled into the back of a small, brightly lit shawarma joint and ordered baklava. After this heartfelt pitch, Bob asked me if I was interested in blogging for the Edwards campaign.

I was dazzled by Edwards' speech, Bob's vision and the sense that I might be on the verge of the big time. I wanted to jump on the bus, but I knew I couldn't.

"I'm probably not ... the person you want," I said, finally. "I mean, I'm on the record saying that abortion is good and that all drugs should be legalized, including heroin. Don't you think that might be a little embarrassing for the campaign?"

Bob assured me that my controversial posts weren't a problem as far as the campaign was concerned.

"Why is the liberal media ignoring the pot calling the kettle black?"

Blatant and unmitigated hypocrisy? Just a guess.

What?  John Edwards is not able to rise above negative comments or personally respond to them?  He has to have his terminally ill wife, using the sympathy factor, do it for him?   Ok John, do you not have the cajones to address Ann Coulter yourself?  How do you expect to be POTUS and deal with the bad guys of the world like the Little Hostage Taker of Iran or the Dear Leader of the DPRK?  What are you going to do, send your terminally ill wife to get them to feel sorry for you?  Or maybe you're planning to send Bill Clinton to make some sweetheart deal to sell out the country in return for peace in our time?  Any person wanting to be POTUS must have the internal fortitude to weather any personal attacks or political turmoil without crying "mommy".  You need to take a lesson from Geore W Bush, you may not care for his political positions, but at least he has cajones.

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius

"Hate" is a completely legitimate human emotion. It is just as legitimate as love, or sadness, or happiness. It is okay to hate sometimes. It is okay to hate some things, or some people.

This idiotic notion of "stop the hate" is insane and ignorant.

Rochester, Minnesota: A Fem_Leftist City!

Hey NBC,let's get Clinton's illegitimate love child on the phone when that jerk is on the air. No?  Why not?

I don't agree with Ann Coulter's delivery at times (not that it matters) but Elizabeth Edwards proves Coulters point about people playing the victim when she spoke of the 911 widows... I can say what I want want because I'm a victim (of whatever) but don't question me on anything.

Elizabth Edwards was a prime example of this yesterday, as much as I feel for the loss of son, I don't understand how you can say
"don't personally attack my husband because our son died"??

And if it was an ambush phone call arrainged by Matthews / Hardball (i'm sure it was) that's pure garbage.

I find it funny that Matthews is worrying about what Ann is saying about John Edwards and Hillary's chubby legs, when earlier in the show, he referred to the Ann supporters there by saying he was afraid, and it was kind of like "Deliverance." In Matthews Catholic church, I guess the 11th commandment is "Thou shalt only make fun of conservatives."

Here's some great bigotry from Chris from the MSNBC transcript:

MATTHEWS:  Welcome back to HARDBALL.  We‘re back at the                 HARDBALL plaza with the inimitable Ann Coulter.

(APPLAUSE)

MATTHEWS:  And what deeply concerns me, more than the very existence of Ann Coulter, is the presence of many like-minded people here.

(APPLAUSE)

MATTHEWS:  My God, is this “Deliverance”?

Followed later by:

MATTHEWS:  So, you believe...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE:  Way to go, Ann. 

(LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS:  I‘m more frightened than ever with these people back here.

(LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS:  But—I‘m just kidding.  You have a much...

COULTER:  They are beautiful. 

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 

MATTHEWS:  No, no.  You have as much right to vote as anybody.

COULTER:  They are beautiful.

MATTHEWS:  Let me ask—no, no.

(BOOING)

MATTHEWS:  It just scares me a little bit.  That‘s all.  I can get through the night.  I will sleep tonight.  But I‘m a little concerned. 

So, Ann can't say anything that he considers mean, but he can disparage ordinary Americans. I see. Thanks for allowing us the right to vote, though, Chris.