Go for it, Cindy!

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/8801

Go for it, Cindy!
by Ernest Partridge | Jul 18 2007

Cindy Sheehan has announced that if Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not put impeachment “on the table,” Sheehan will run against Pelosi in 2008 as an independent.

Establishment Democrats are appalled. At a time when the Party must unite for the coming campaign, they complain, along comes this “outsider” to divide the Party’s base support. Furthermore, challenges such is this, and even worse, primary challenges, divert campaign funds. And finally, Nancy Pelosi, a stalwart liberal, does not deserve such treatment.

In short, we are told, if you want to defeat Bush/Cheney and the regressive Republicans, this is not the way to go about it.

Under ordinary circumstances, these would be compelling arguments. But these are not ordinary circumstances. Worse still, establishment Democrats such as Pelosi fail to appreciate that these are not ordinary circumstances. They need a few shocks of recognition.

Cindy Sheehan’s candidacy just might deliver such a therapeutic shock.

The conventional Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) view was clearly expressed on ABC’s “This Week” by Cokie Roberts, just before the Lieberman-Lamont primary: “Pushing the party to the left... is pushing the party to the position from which it traditionally loses.” And the corollary: don’t worry about the progressive left, they will stay with us in any case since they have nowhere else to go.

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[mzmolly]

1. These arguments sound all to familiar.

http://commondreams.org/headlines/102500-04.htm

[paulk]

2. great find

and excellent rebuttal

[babylonsister]

3. That's the way it works; for those that wnt to find articles, they're out there, from

numerous sources.

Edit: And I thought about removing my answer til I saw yours. I love the fact that someone knows of a good idea and goes with it. It could be good or bad. Up to you, maybe. Or, might be too late.