Saccharine Cindy

The sweetness of the Gold Star mother from Vacaville is starting to disappear for many Americans, as the vicious nature, questionable alliances, and radical political leaning of Cindy Sheehan come slowly to light.

Sheehan's popularity among bitter minor celebrities, an infamous white supremacist, and misleading, terrorist-aggrandizing filmmaker are not endearing her to middle America; instead many are repulsed by a woman who:

• hijacked the name and goodwill generated by the real American Gold Star Mothers.
• said of First Daughter's Jenna and Barbara, "let George Bush send his two little party animals to die in Iraq."
• acted as an opening speaker for a convicted terrorist supporter, Lynn Stewart.
• declared that the U.S. system of government is a "morally repugnant."
• says Islamic terrorism will stop if you "get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine," blaming Americans and Israelis for Islamic terrorism.
• said that without the Internet "we would already be a fascist state."
• said that her son "died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana".

How proud her family must be.

Interestingly enough, some rats knew this ship was doomed to sink before it even dropped anchor in Crawford, and wouldn't even get on board. Anti-war heroes Ted Kennedy and protest veteran John Kerry? They're paying lip service to Sheehan but not packing their Stetsons. Harry Reid? Comfortably in Searchlight, Nevada the best I can tell, with no plans to leave.

How about Howard Dean? Sorry, according to the far left, he's the enemy, too.

On the upside, she's probably got the support of burnout David Crosby.

Cindy Sheehan, for all her ability to generate media attention and mobilize the far left, is playing flat in the heartland, and is rapidly approaching a point where her bile is becoming more repulsive than her loss can generate enough sympathy to cover.