Cindy Sheehan: All About the Benjamins

Grief pays, and it pays well.

Cindy Sheehan's anti-war, anti-American, Anti-Bush "Sheehanhadeen" movement has raked in over $170,000 from contributors in just the past few weeks, as public relations experts Fenton Communications carefully choreograph Cindy's scheduled daily cry in front of a wooden cross with her son's name on it.

That cash goes a long way when left-wing corporate sponsors such as True Majority (a non-profit PAC of Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry's fame) pick up the tab for almost everything. Berkeley-based radicals from Moveon.org (who claimed of the Democratic Party in December, that "we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.") and Howard Dean's Democracy for America are also involved.

The anti-war activists in Crawford love to say that those supporting the troops and the President are merely corporate shills, yet big money contributions from the left pay for everything from catering to marketing professionals for the Cindy Sheehan's "one woman crusade."

All she currently lacks are official corporate sponsor patches on uniforms like those worn by NASCAR teams, and one day they very well may, if Sheehan's supporters ever hear of the sport.

I've even got her perfect primary sponsor already picked out, complete with an appropriate product to pitch. Hopefully, she can see clear to steer a few dollars from George Soros my way for the effort.

As long as she can keep the camera's scheduled for her tears, she'll continue to have money to burn.