Next for Sheehan: A Venezuelan Paradise

Sheehan quits as face of US anti-war fight:

“I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican party,” she wrote. “However, when I started to hold the Democratic party to the same standards that I held the Republican party, support for my cause started to erode, and the left started labelling (sic) me with the same slurs that the right used.”

I feel for this woman and the loss she suffered–I really do. But does she really think she wouldn’t have been used as a tool by partisans scrambling to consolidate any nascent anti-war murmurs in 2004?

Suggesting America isn’t truly for her anymore, Sheehan might be implying that a move abroad could potentially be in her future. She’s already laid the groundwork with Boss Chavez–is she going to move to Caracas? That would be positively entertaining and so utterly predictable. Venezuela–a country that honors the right to dissent!