Rising from Lenin’s Tomb

Oh God, this would be brilliantly entertaining to watch.

Cindy Sheehan, the soldier’s mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to seek House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That’s when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group’s war protest site near Bush’s Crawford ranch.

“Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership,” Sheehan told The Associated Press. “We hired them to bring an end to the war. I’m not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn’t be too big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her money.”

She’s absolutely right.  There are no more than a handful of people who could run against Pelosi in San Francisco and launch a legitimate challenge.  You’d have to find a candidate with credibility who’s even more of a batshit crazy leftie, and Sheehan certainly meets those criteria.

Sheehan, who has never held political office, recently said that she was leaving the Democratic Party because it “caved” in to the president. Last week, she announced her caravan to Washington, an undertaking she calls the “people’s accountability movement.”

“I didn’t expect to be back so soon, but the focus is different than it was before,” Sheehan said Sunday.

“But it had been a few months, and frankly my ego couldn’t handle it,” continued Sheehan.  “I went from being someone in the public eye to being a disgusting, wrinkled, prune-faced has-been failure.  Think about it.  I was being hosted by such visionaries as Hugo Chavez.  I went from Marxist revolutionary for peace to a suburban housewife.  Uh, thanks but no thanks.  Now where are those cameras, I’ve got a dead son to whore out!”