Sheehan Considers Challenge to Pelosi

Yahoo! ^ | July 8, 2007 | Angela K. Brown

[wai-ming]

CRAWFORD, Texas - Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

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Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That's when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group's war protest site near Bush's Crawford ranch.

"Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership," Sheehan told The Associated Press. "We hired them to bring an end to the war. I'm not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn't be too big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her money."

Messages left with Pelosi's staff were not immediately returned.

[wai-ming]

Catfight!

[mhx]

How cute. She thinks she can “run for Speaker”.

[Brilliant]

What a choice! Pelosi or Sheehan?

If I had that choice, I’d take the hint that I needed to move.

[nothingnew]

This just gets better and better.

BWAHAHAHAHA!

FMCDH(BITS)

[mhx]

Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership

Not only Democrats, but also Americans.

[republican4ever]

Help!!!! I peed in my pants!!!!

[republican4ever]

Help!!!! I peed in my pants!!!!

[Lorianne]

Good for her! I hope she wins. That would help seal the fate of the wacky left (to which Pelosi belongs).

It’ll be the Wackier than Thou showdown.

I’d contribute $$ to Sheehan’s campaign just to watch that happen.

[JRios1968]

May they both lose.

[MilesVeritatis]

I think Ms. Sheehan has been too busy being used by antiwar leftists and America-hating Marxists. She needs to go home and mourn for her son—and then get angry at those who used her.

[sgtbono2002]

She makes shiite house rats look sane.

[MplsSteve]

I liked it better when Sheehan was in political retirement.

Goin’ around threatening the Speaker of the House isn’t gonna win her new friends or allies.

[Carl LaFong]

Hey-maybe she’ll run as a Republican.

[domenad]

I was thinking more along the line of “mutant troll fight”, but yours works as well.

[festus]

Boy this would be great.

[festus]

After Ron Paul it wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

[lilylangtree]

Ole Picknip Pelosi needs some competition. This is a good sign.

[Panzerlied]

Run Cindy, run!

[oldenuff2no]

I’m waiting for the punch line....

[CMS]

I love how the moonbat distinguishes between “Democrats and Americans” lol

[Kakaze]

Sheehan announced in late May that she was leaving the anti-war movement. She said that she felt her efforts had been in vain and that she had endured smear tactics and hatred from the left, as well as the right. She said she wanted to change course.

Laughing my a** off run cindy run and see just how nasty your own people will be.

What a putz

[Doug Loss]

Where’s that popcorn...

[Normal4me]

Someone needs to Baker Act this deranged woman before she harms herself or someone else. Not only is she unfit to serve the people, she is unfit to be a part of the human species.

[Mygirlsmom]

Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership," Sheehan told The Associated Press.

It's not often they admit that Democrats are not Americans.

[kingu]

Messages left with Pelosi's staff were not immediately returned....as they were too busy laughing.

[bannie]

"...I would give her a run for her money."

Rife.

Just rife.

[Las Vegas Ron]

I wonder if she has a cat? (or was that a dog)

[joebuck]

I think Cindy is just looking for some type of political payoff from Pelosi (or moveon.org) to go away and scream at someone else. She’s learned how to play the game pretty well.

[BornInASmallTown]

The dignity that eventually comes from withdrawing oneself from the public eye can’t be high on Cindy’s wish list. What next? American Idol? Filling Rosie O’Donnell’s spot on “The View?” Better yet, how about starring in an off-Broadway production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” as fallen Southern belle Blanche Dubois? She could utter the famous line “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” and they could usher her offstage to the nice room with rubber walls where you can’t hurt yourself, even if you want to. This is one sad story, and evidently there’s no one in the extended Sheehan family willing to step in and coordinate an intervention.

[bill1952]

Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

Oh Jesus, more lies. This sounds like about 50 inmates of Hollywood who were going to move to Canada and France if W was elected.

Why are they still here?

"Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership,"

You got that half right, Cindy baby.

[Paladin2]

You must be referring to Pelosi.

[BlueZeus]

Just when we thought she disappeared into obscurity. Can’t keep a good moonbat down, I guess.

[Fitzcarraldo]

just let them do what their heart desires. i love to see liberal ideas lead to meltdowns.

[Snapping Turtle]

Her good friend Hugo Chavez will certainly donate $$ to her campaign.

[ErnBatavia]

Her retirement was pretty short lived...

[L.N. Smithee]

I’m a lifelong San Francisco resident, and Pelosi is “my” congressperson. (Yeah, I know. Ewwww.) If this Sheehan challenge actually happens, it will mark the first time in her history as an elected official she will really have to do actual campaigning vs. just raising cash. It was her acumen in raising millions for Democrats that got her handed a no-risk district the Demos have held since before I was born.

[Shots]

What did she forget she quit the demcratic party?

http://www.counterpunch.org/sheehan05282007.html

[Pistolshot]

Wow.....Hollywierd can’t write stuff like this.

[Irish Eyes]

Just got to love it... gets better and better all the time.

[wagglebee]

This is classic!

[My hearts in London - Everett]

All I’ve got to say is.... ROTFLMBO!

[Captain Rhino]

Yeah, totally clueless. The constrained life of a very liberal, very junior Congressperson is probably not the venue the “attention whore” is looking for.

Hope she decides to run. Not that she has much chance. Even SF liberals can figure out the difference between returning a very senior House member for another term and sending in a brand spanking new member to start all over again at the bottom of the seniority chain. (That difference is the reason why, no matter how incapacitated he becomes, Senator Byrd will be re-elected by WV voters until he dies.)

However, “they” might just be “mad” (in at least two meanings of the word) enough to do “it.” Once she announces, I may have to send her some money, just for the irritation it will cause Pelosi, if nothing else.

[shield]

Oh boy....cindy is really full of herself, isn’t she? LOL...these folks just keep gettin’ goofier....then on the other hand old Nan ain't the sharpest around...neither is goofball cindy...

Pro 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

[Hot Tabasco]

Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent

You go girl!

[cubreporter]

this just gets better and better.

[dpwiener]

I'm not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn't be too big of a move for me.

Sheehan's ignorance is showing. She doesn't have to live in Pelosi's district in order to run for Congress there, as long as she lives anywhere in California. There is no residency requirement for Congress in the U.S. Constitution. Indeed, Sheehan could run in Pelosi's district even if she lived outside of California prior to her actual election (per Article I, Section 2):

No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.

Someone please tell Cindy that she doesn't have to move, so that shouldn't be an inhibiting factor at all.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Screwtape, meet Wormwood.

[RDTF]

She hasn’t been thinking this grandiose crap up all along herself. The chief puppeteer here needs to be exposed. I thought she was a buffoon before, but this is beyond ridiculous.

[angelcindy]

The only house she belons in is a NUTHOUSE!

[RDTF]

this should be on the sidebar...