Crazy Cindy

Another editorial in AMNY today about how Cindy Sheehan (the anti-war mom) is certifiably insane, and so are her celebrity supporters. What Joan Baez's multiple personalities have to do with the war debate is beyond me. And we all know Martin Sheen only plays the president on the West Wing and a Vietnam soldier in Apocalypse Now. Being famous doesn't make you Henry Kissinger, but it also doesn't disqualify you from being right.

The bigger point, though, is that instead of focusing on what these people are saying, talking heads are focusing on who they are. As Republicans always say, "judge the issue on the merits." Conservative elites ought to stop worrying about Baez's schizophrenia and Sheehan's Tourette's and get to the business of figuring a way out of the mess they got us into.