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It’s official: Nancy Pelosi has not one but TWO opponents in a “hotly” contested race for her Congressional district. In addition to Dana Walsh, the last specimen of a doomed and rare species called the “Bay Area Republican” which is hunted for sport on the banks of San Francisco’s mandatory nude heroin-needle beaches, this woman named Cindy Sheehan is also running to make a Point. Cindy Sheehan is the woman who everyone felt bad for because her son was killed in Iraq, until she became the most tiresome Californian this side of Medea Benjamin.
Sheehan has collected enough signatures from teen bums and migrant workers to run for Congressional District 8 where she will surely triumph, because seriously who has even heard of this Pelosi gal? She’s the one in the nice suits, right, all blinky behind the president during his interminable State of the Union speeches? Yes, get rid of that one and replace her with the anti-war protester who makes liberals personally want to bomb the shit out of Iran.
Sheehan Qualifies To Challenge Pelosi [AP]
She went from brave martyr to pathetic attention whore in about a week.
Medea Benjamin is MUCH more tiresome than Cindy Sheehan.
Wait. She’s a celebrity and she’s got no political experience.
I’ve heard this somewhere before.
However, Cindy, stop the madness.
Good campaign strategy: weep at your opponent until they give in. Perhaps she should talk to Mark Penn?
Captain Tenille: “Get it on!”
HA HA HA!!! SAN FRANCISCO SUCKS YOU FUCKING LIBTARDS WHO ARE LIKE “NO I AM MORE LIBRUL THAN YOU” AND BEING LIBRUAL ALL THE TIME WITH YOUR LIBRUALNESS.
It’s great to live here…. arugula anyone?
But in all seriousness, Sheehan should probably run somewhere else. I know she has LOADS of political experience (i.e. sitting in Crawford Texas saying “NO MORE”), but I think Pelosi is maybe-kinda-sorta more experienced for the job, and does it pretty damn well… bitches.
In fact, she doesn’t even have a legitimate sex scandal, even though she lives in EVIL SODOM, where we rape our boys for sport and engage in new and different animal sex techniques.
…as soon as she gets a website up Im donating to her campaign. Cindy Sheehan may be bat-shit crazy, but she is my kind of bat-shit crazy. This whole triangulation tactic that Democrats have been using has failed through 30 years of politics. We need more Democratic hatchet men/women in the senate and congress.
I’m a firm believer that every election in this great Union needs at least one complete nutjob on the ballot. And lucky San Francisco gets two nutjobs and a Republican!
Guess which is which!
Servo: …hehehe
shortsshortsshorts: Experience doesn’t matter. Haven’t you been paying attention to the presidential campaign?
AngryBlakGuy: …and on top of that, I don’t like when politicians get comfortable in their position. They start to feel that furthering the interest of their constituents is optional and not their primary duty.
Canmon (the Inadequate): Me hopes there is a difference between Barry and Cindy. Me hopes one is rhetoric and the other is actually true. Please Jeebus make it so.
On the one hand, she doesn’t seem to know what she’s talking about half the time. On the other hand, that’s never disqualified anyone from holding public office. Now if she promised to run down all the war criminals in this administration and give them public horsewhippings — that would be some change I could believe in.
I, for one, welcome our shrill, über-liberal overlords
I’m not around US media enuf to know her as an attention whore. If anything, when we expats were suffering collective embarrassment for having no anti-war people worth reporting on, at least Cindy was there, and she or her ghostwriters penned some persuasive stuff. One thing I respect her for: she didn’t go Paultard, despite many rumors, despite having all the ingredients: flakey, antiwar, anti-corporate. anti-Bush, one-tracked, politically inexperienced (as in literally) and naive.
She’ll never defeat Nancy but if Cindy would give up this campaign and dedicate her life to rehabilitating conspiracy-conned, gun-maniacal, cultish, paranoia-possessed Paultards, I would be her fan. If you’re gonna be an annoying Californian, better Cindy than Alex Jones. And are there any Californians who aren’t flakey anyway? She has this fragment on her website:
As for Ron Paul supporters who are mostly Republicans who want to help with my campaign, I don’t see how that is a bad thing. I am an Independent and even though I am a raging progressive, I believe that we need to work together to force a withdrawal of our troops and an end to the murderous empire that enslaves us all. If we would all celebrate what we have in common and work together for a consensus on what separates us, or at least respect for a divergence of opinions, the world would be enriched and a far better place.
Why does Cindy Sheehan always have to dress like the “cool” Mom who is helping the high school kids run their bakesale? Was she one of the little kids in the Honeycomb cereal ads back in the sixties with the floppy hats and mod buttons all over a denim vest?
I’m sorry, but Cindy Sheehan just reminds me of how fucking funny the use of an Ashford & Simpson song in an episode of Arrested Development can be.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/6644/arrested-development-the-one-where-they-build-a-house
Guppy06: Well from the way she bends over backwards to not offend George Bush, I am guessing Pelosi is the Republican?
What-dy what-han?
Pelosi should be impeached for not impeaching the bastard.
Um, I’m thinking that Nancy has at least some chance of winning this one…I could be wrong, but…no, I’m pretty sure our neighbors to the north are still sane.
We should definitely reward Nancy’s excellent stewardship of the House: not enforcing subpoenas, rolling over on FISA, becoming open to offshore drilling (I propose that THE CITY on THE BAY goes first), and generally rolling over like an itchy dog on a newly mowed lawn. Remember: when people get the option for voting for a Democrat acting like a Republican and an actual Republican, they’ll take the real deal every time.
I’m all for oversize sweat shirts with gravy stains down the front as the new fashion statement for a U.S. Representative.
norbizness: Oh give her some cred, it’s not like she’s rolling over on the drilling issue. If anything she was fighting vehemently against a majority. Poor little Nancy. It’s not her fault Americans are retarded.
And if she goes away, we lose our Dem Rep. Still better than the alternative.
I read that she won’t give it up unless granted a prime-time speaking slot at the convention.
Not only does she have the politics of a 15 year old, she’s also dressed like one.
i sure hope Sheehan wins. we voted the dems into office so they’d fix things. now it’s time to vote all the pusses out.
IF only I lived in her district -I would vote for anyone before I voted for Pelosi-she abrogated her sworn duty to impeach when she took it off the table-she’s an accomplice- Sheehan would not become speaker, just a junior congresswoman and Pelosi..who cares?
I may be moving into the land of tinfoil hats, but I’d prefer Cindy Sheehan over Pelosi any time. I can’t even say her full name without visualizing Jumpin’ Joe Lieberman, the DINO (Democrat In Name Only).
The reason for this preference?
A question that has never been asked out loud of Miz P.: “Do you keep track of exactly how many Americans have died or been injured since you first said that “Impeachment is off the table”?
Jerry w
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