Has Cindy Sheehan Lost Her Mind?

Has Cindy Sheehan Lost Her Mind?

Cindy Sheehan at her most effective; an anti-war mother who lost her son in Iraq.

U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose
son was killed in Iraq, said she was considering running for office against
Sen. Diane Feinstein while she waited for the California lawmaker to back a
filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Sheehan issued her statement
Friday, the same day Feinstein announced she would support the filibuster, despite
saying earlier this month that she did not see anything to justify one. Democrats
fear Alito would shift the court rightward on issues including abortion, affirmative
action and the death penalty. Sheehan's statement was sent by e-mail while she
was in Venezuela attending the World Social Forum. She said she had “decided
to run” against Feinstein if the lawmaker did not join the filibuster.
“I'm appalled that Diane Feinstein wouldn't recognize how dangerous Alito's
nomination is to upholding the values of our constitution and restricting the
usurpation of presidential powers, for which I've already paid the ultimate
price,” Sheehan said in the statement.
Peace
activist Cindy Sheehan considers run against Sen. Feinstein

Has Cindy Sheehan lost her mind? Evidently. Or at the very least, she's lost her focus, the point to which she could reach the hearts of all Americans.

Beyond Ms. Sheehan's grief stricken plea for President Bush to
meet with her a second time in Crawford, I've disagreed with Ms. Sheehan on
just about everything she's said. She should have stuck to her anti-Iraq war
platform and left the celebrity politicking to Sean Penn. But announcing a challenge
to Senator Diane Feinstein, from Venezuela? This is weird in so many ways it's
impossible to recount them all.

“The biggest terrorist in
the world is George W. Bush.”
- Cindy Sheehan

Any reader of this blog knows that I'm not a fan of our pathetically
incompetent president, but let's get serious. George W. Bush “the biggest
terrorist in the world”? Unfathomable. To say so is preposterous, not to
mention that it blows Ms. Sheehan's credibility out of the water. It's impossible
to take anyone seriously who uses this type of language against the president
of the United States. You also don't bash your country's leadership, especially in a foreign country. I'm old fashioned that
way. When on foreign soil you don't denigrate your country or the president,
regardless of who it is or how you feel, period.

But again, threatening to challenge Diane Feinstein while in Venezuela?
Words escape me, almost.

Ms. Sheehan evidently believes in Chavez's “21st Century Socialism,”
as do a lot of other righteous far left activists. However, I completely disavow
any association with this type of rhetoric, philosophy, or political goal. In
my humble opinion, it is against everything on which the Founders built this
republic, everything.

Senator Feinstein was one of my senators for close to ten years.
She's as smart, committed and thoughtful as they come. She's dedicated to California
and the American cause as represented by the Democratic Party, which includes
the means by which this republic rose to greatness, before we started dismantling
our manufacturing base and selling out to outsourcing: capitalism with a
conscience, which is one of the things that separates us from the Republican
Party. I disagreed with the senator when she first came out against
a filibuster on Samuel Alito, but she's changed
her mind, which I applaud.

The last thing I want to see is a cat fight between Sheehan and
Feinstein, which would be a political fodder fight of the first order. Since
the most committed always wins, you've still got to wonder which of these women
would have the most loyal supporters. The unknown answer to that question terrifies
me.