How Dare She Maybe Have Changed Her Mind... Possibly

This post from a conservative blogger (found via this post by kos) underscores the insanity around the whole Cindy Sheehan smear campaign. There's actually a lot of issues brougt up in this post, but this is the one that's been bothering me the most all week.

There are so many side issues of shamelessness and crass opportunism in this story it makes my head spin. Think about the gall of a political and media machine "accusing" a private citizen of changing her mind (imagine that!) about an elected and supposedly accountable public official. When did a private citizen supposedly changing her opinion about something rise to the same level as a flip-flop about firing anyone involved in the leaking a CIA agent's name? At what point did the ability to change one's mind about a politician become something to be ridiculed and accused of instead of cherished as a basic right? And it's not as if in the past year we haven't learned anything about the pre-war manipulation of intelligence, as well as the incompetent planning, that resulted in the death of Cindy Sheehan's son and thousands of others like him.

I don't know about you, but the fact that accusing someone who's gone through such a tragic even of having changed her mind about such a complicated issue as the war is a "smear" is just disgusting. Seriously, since when is changing your mind a capital fucking offence? This is a serious issue, lets face it, a lot has changed since the begining of the war, including THE REASON FOR THE FUCKING WAR! If you supported the war on April 4 2004 (the day Casey Sheehan was killed), you'd have to be either crazy or corrupt or have the IQ of blue cheese to support it in August, 2005.

Of course, all of this big hub-bub completely ignores the fact that she has been consistant since day one.