I followed this post today from another site. I don’t know who Gina Cobb is, but her outrage is pretty amazing. From where I’m standing, no one really gives a shit about Cindy Sheehan. Now, I personally think she’s a very brave woman and I have tremendous respect for her. But she’s hardly a media darling. Right now, in fact, she’s busy surrounding the White House with peace activists, and I haven’t read a word about it anywhere except for her website.

But, right wingers are essentially unhappy and looking to point fingers at someone for their unhappiness, and so we get people like our friend Gina, convinced that John Kerry and Cindy Sheehan are the true threat to our country.

Do you have absolute moral authority?

In August 2005, Maureen Dowd argued in the New York Times, in reference to Cindy Sheehan who was then camping outside of President Bush’s ranch, that the “moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute.”

Of course, Dowd didn’t really mean that. What she meant to say was that the moral authority of parents whose children died in Iraq and who oppose the president is absolute!

In any event, it has become a popular habit on the left to put forward spokespersons whose “victim” credentials make them difficult or impossible to attack.

The only reason the right does not do this is because victims tend to turn to the people who might actually help them in their hour of need. I love how, in this woman’s world, the right wing would never stoop to manipulating the media. If they could find a mother who lost her child in Iraq and organized pro-war marches, her picture would be given permanent placement in the Fox News crawl.

Anyway, I wrote a comment, because I couldn’t help myself.

You’re very brave standing up to Cindy Sheehan. I’m impressed by your patriotism. I too am disgusted by how this glorious country has been completely taken over by anti-war fascists like Cindy Sheehan, injecting their vile love of peace and foreigners into the public arena. How long must we conservatives cower before these brain-dead hippies in silence? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to say something against Cindy Sheehan and John Kerry, only to lose my courage, knowing that the left would shout me down, embarrass me, make me feel isolated and alone. That’s what they do to you, Gina. They make you think you’re crazy for hating their “war heroes” and “grieving mothers.” Haven’t we all lost children in Iraq? Haven’t we all earned war medals? What gives these two assholes any right to speak their minds?