I value the freedom we have in America for everyone to voice an opinion, but I can’t say that I’m displeased with this.

I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool” of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our “two-party” system?

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 labeling me with the same slurs that the right used…

I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble…

This is my resignation letter as the “face” of the American anti-war movement...Good-bye America …you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

Good-bye America?  I wonder if she’s moving to Venezuela, since she has claimed that she’d rather live there under Hugo Chavez than here in American under Bush.

She does have a point, though.  When Cindy was busy bashing the President the Democrats were all-too-happy to give her tickets to State of the Union speeches so that she could disrupt the proceedings.  Just as they were happy to give Cindy’s Code Pink comrades tickets to Bush’s inauguration event so that they could be disruptive and try to embarrass the President.

But now that the Democrats have lost on Iraq and are just going to have to deal with the fact that they don’t have the political oomph to end the war right now Cindy and the rest of the anti-war nuts who are too independent-minded to toe the party line have become inconvenient.

No more invitations to events with high-profile Democrats.  No more tickets to big-time D.C. events.  The Democrats are throwing Cindy and her friends under the bus.

By the way, Cindy could learn a thing or two about the political history of this country.  Nixon’s “Checkers" speech was one he gave to respond to critics who accused him of taking illegal quid-pro-quo donations from lobbyists.  That speech is seen as a successful one for Nixon.  I think the speech Cindy is referring to is the one tricky Dick gave at a press conference following his 1962 defeat in the California governor race.