Why she did what she did is immaterial to me. But amid the hue and cry of a woman whose untimely demise made her something of a secular saint to many - I need to point out that she KNEW what a scumbag he was when he was campaigning for the D nomination and she was helping him along as best she could.
I vaguely remember a news story where they had recently built that huge mansion complete with indoor basketball court out in the countryside, and then Elizabeth Edwards complained about the trailer trash guy across the road who was parking his pickup truck in her view.
Typical move-in-and-complain-about-the-trashy-neighbors sort of person.