With Cindy Sheehan gone home to take care of her stroke-stricken mom, President Bush can enjoy the last week of his Texas vacation free of the distraction of her encampment outside his ranch. But a grieving liberal mom whose son died in Iraq demanding an audience may not be Bush’s biggest problem.
His biggest problem may be my mom.
My mother is a lifelong Republican. She got it from her father, a yellow-dog Republican if ever there was one. As unofficial GOP godfather of Fillmore, Calif., he collected absentee ballots every election for his large family and marked them himself. No sense in taking chances that someone might vote for a Democrat.
So when my mother called me the other day and told me she was considering registering as a Democrat, I was, well, stunned. Somewhere in a cemetery plot near Fillmore a body is spinning.
Wow! Now what is making this life long Republican consider this drastic change?
Then she mentioned Cindy Sheehan.
This is what is known as a ground swell. It is not going to be redirected by some slimy smear tactics or by finding a sympathetic mother to hold up to ward off Cindy. This thing is going to grow and grow until it gets big enough to rampage over the Bush administration like Godzilla grinding Tokyo underneath his giant webbed feet.
