Kudos to Elizabeth Edwards...

for at least trying to confront Ann Coulter's nasty un-American commentary with respect to her husband and his Presidential candidacy.
However, Humble Elias has to duly fault Ms. Edward's too lawyerly belief that she can somehow shame Ann Coulter into changing her act.
The fact of the matter is, Ann Coulter is a "controvore", one whose vast capacity for dangerous and outrageous commentary is quite literary her source of income. The crazier stuff Ann sez, the more her speaking fees go up...its that simple.
She might change up her act if Time Magazine, Chris Matthews or Bill Maher would stop enabling her, but believe me, that ain't gonna happen.
Under these circumstances with the lavish free ride Ann gets from the punditariat and the Cable News world, Elizabeth Edwards could bust Coulter in the mouth with a tire iron and it would do nothing but push the famed controvore in the $50,000 per speech bracket.
Now, Ann does play an important part in the current political debate, despite her contention that she was "joking" when she expresses a fond hope that John Edwards die in a terrorist assassination.
No...jokes are an important means to import controversial topics into the mainstream debate, in Ann's case she clearly wants a rigorous public discussion on the merits of liberal genocide.