If Cindy Sheehan hadn't come along, Karl Rove would have invented her. While it is true that more and more people are questioning the US involvement in Iraq every day, we are no longer hearing about the possible law-breaking activities of Mr. Rove and Associates. Nixon had his enemies list and it was front page news. Does anyone believe that Karl Rove doesn't maintain a list of persons with contrary positions to the President?
The GOP had hoped that the rapid naming of John Roberts as the Supreme Court nominee would take Rove off the front pages. While it was a diversion for a week or so, it did not have the impact
Camp Casey is having. I haven't heard any stories about the investigation for a couple weeks, even though I am sure Justice is proceeding full speed ahead. Yeah, right.
Anyway, Ms. Sheehan has proven to be the perfect antidote for the creeping illness Mr. Rove represented. She is easily portrayed as a distressed mother for whom sympathy is well deserved, but whose motives and tactics seem desperate. After all, who can't offer sympathy to the mother of a war hero, especially if you have a yellow ribbon magnet on the back of your car? But demanding a meeting with the President? Puh-leeze!
And now that she is wearing tie-dye and Joan Baez is singing to the crowd, can Jane Fonda be far behind? Peace-niks and liberals are gift-wrapping a rising approval rating for Mr. Bush and delivering it daily on the evening news. Their rhetoric is so far out of touch with most Americans, the majority of whom are in agreement that war is bad
and tragic, that the only other choice appears to support Mr. Bush and his Washington insiders masquerading as populists.
Not even $3 gas will slow down the peace train leaving the station. All aboard for another Karl Rove miracle!
