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Catherine Moy
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Cindy Sheehan is ready to rumble with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Talk about clash of the lefties. Not much sunshine between the two, as far as policy. They are both cut-and-runners; they both support abortion; they both despise our military. BUT, Sheehan thinks she could force the rest of Congress to sign on to a premature pullout from Iraq just as American troops have broken downt the terrorists there. And she’s steamed that Mrs. Pelosi hasn’t stopped the war.
Before Sheehan spends another minute campaigning, she should read the Constitution. There is ONE commander in chief. The president. That would be Dubya, Cindy. So get over it.

The San Francisco Chronicle published an article on Sheehan filing her official papers:

Sheehan was at San Francisco City Hall on Friday to take out papers for her independent run for Congress, but without those signatures from voters in the district, her name won’t show up on the ballot.

“It’s an uphill battle,” said Sheehan, who vowed to run against Pelosi in July after the speaker refused to start impeachment proceedings against President George Bush. “But I’m excited about the signature-gathering process. It’s going to be an opportunity to talk to people about our campaign.”

I suppose Sheehan will get the signatures she needs. After all, San Francisco has some of the fruitiest, misisnformed, unbathed, twisted thinkers in the world. Next to Berkeley, home of the hate-Marine brigade, San Francisco really is in line for the highest concentration of America-haters in the country.

But Pelosi isn’t much bothered by this. More from the Chronicle:

Getting on the ballot will be the easy part for Sheehan. If she becomes a recognized candidate, she’ll be challenging one of the best-known and most powerful Democrats in the country in Pelosi, a 10-term incumbent who routinely collects around 80 percent of the vote in the San Francisco-only district.

Election challenges are nothing new to Pelosi, who has faced token Republican opposition in most of her November races, along with occasional primary challenges. But since she beat former San Francisco Supervisor Harry Britt in the 1987 special election to replace the late Rep. Sala Burton, Pelosi’s political resume has been short of opponents anyone other than local political junkies has ever heard of.

Sheehan’s run is sheer madness. Can you imagine the TV ads? Pictures of her coddling madman Hugo Chavez with the words “The Peace Mom says: Democracy is overrated.”

The Democracts made Sheehan everything she is today. John Kerry paid her way and the way of one of her daughters in his 2004 presidential bid. She was an election tool of Kerry. (You can read all about it in my and Melanie Morgan’s book, ”American Mourning.” We uncovered loads of information on Sheehan, who lived in Vacaville as I wrote for the hometown newspaper, The Vacaville Reporter.

Cindy left her party, and I don’t use the word “left” loosely.

But Sheehan promises to stand up for everybody.

“I’ll represent everyone in San Francisco, not just the corporate elite,” she said. “I’m working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.”

So she’s going to represent the sane folks in San Francisco who want to protect themselves from radical Muslim Jihadists? I think not. She called the terrorists who killed her son in Iraq “freedom fighters.” Hmmm. Sad commentary. Keeping promises isn’t the strong suit of politicians, which is all Sheehan has become. A simple politician. She has sold her soul after her heart was broken by the death of her son, an American hero. She left her husband for another and then set up a high-tech camp iin Crawford, Texas, where big money Bush-haters operated a slick media operation that would rival a presidential campaign. She was NOT a lone woman protesting against the president’s policies.

Sheehan tried to go back to Dixon, Calif., a small town not far from Vacaville, where Casey’s body lies in a quiet cemetery. But she missed the attention. The political limelight. And that is what she is doing now that she is challenging the most powerful woman in the House. She will lose the election, but win some limelight.