[Bob]

Because rather than attacking their politics, Ann decided to attack their widowhood.

Uh, no. Her attack is on their hypocritical MO:

We're 9/11 widows - GWB caused 9/11.
We're 9/11 widows - We support kerry, even made commercials for him.
We're 9/11 widows - The Iraq war is wrong.

Hey, you can't criticize our positions. We're 9/11 widows and you're being mean to us. No fair.

[FrankR]

You summed it up very well....