Cindy Sheehan Gaining Ground With Conservatives

Update: The Anti-Americans have arrived to beat up some more on Peace Mom ... They lasted all of thirty minutes and hightailed it back to the Air Conditioned comfort.

On the left, Cindy Sheehan, mother of Casey Sheehan KIA, Sadr City, 4/4/04. Bush 'sympathizes with her' but she's not 'very important' and besides, she's being 'used by the left'; Cindy is not worth a five minute drive and ten lousy minutes in the middle of Bush's five week vacation?

On the right, the helpless, withered body of what was once Terry Schiavo, strung up to wires like a human meat puppet and paraded by the Neo-con Clerics, dancing a jig marionette style to the right wing agenda against her own husband's wishes; so important Bush left his vacation ranch in the middle of the night and flew to DC to sign "Terry's Law"?

Just when I think the modern GOP has gone completely off its rails and there is nothing left, some hint of hope, a trace of dinity, arises. Via Markos, fellow moderate conservative The Cunning Realist gets it right.

[Link] Something else about this story that infuriates me is the vision of feckless, smarmy smearsters and cowards hiding behind keyboards in cities like Washington and New York, punching out electronic missives in a pathetic and desperate attempt to impugn the integrity of a woman sitting in the dust and August heat of Texas---a woman who, along with her dead son, embodies everything that's right about this country ... setting aside the Sheehan story for a moment, have any of the shameless smearsters seen the public opinion polls recently? Here's some breaking news for them: a whole lot of Americans who supported Bush a year ago---including an increasingly large part of his "base"---have turned against him. And that includes many millions of people who haven't lost a parent, child, or sibling in Iraq.

Damn; I love this person and I don't even know them. Just read the whole thing.