A Heart Is Changed By the Wacko Woodstock

Despite the many candlelight vigils which took place around the country last night and the media rush to proclaim the sainthood of Ms. Sheehan, I (and apparently James Taranto) doubted that any hearts and minds were going to be changed by this protest. If anything the lines between the anti-war crowd and everyone else were just going to be drawn ever sharper.

Today James Taranto reprinted a blog posting from one person who has made a major change of philosophy in response to Camp Crawford:

Most Americans, including us, would sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan for her loss, even pity her for her enormous difficulty in adjusting to it, but we doubted the whole show would change a single mind.

Well, we were wrong. It changed the mind of blogger Scott Randolph (quoting verbatim):

I actually felt myself become a republican today. It was around 10am, when I read the latest update of the Cindy Sheehan saga in CNN.com. I then shot over to read some blogs about it, and perused the comments in some of them, which was nothing but a long series of petty (albeit entertaining) partisan bickering.

Then it happend. The good little democrat in me tied the little noose around his neck and jumped off the stool. He just couldn't take it anymore.

Take what? The whining. The constant whining by the extreme left about the reasons for war, the incompetence of this administration, and how we've all been lied to, and how we should pull out of Iraq immediately, because, *gulp* our soldiers were in danger. . . .

Guess what folks….they signed up to join the Army, not the boy scouts. Anytime your orientation to a new job involves an automatic weapon, you should be smart enough to figure out there’s danger involved. I actually read some people’s comments about many of the soldiers over there being naive….they weren’t expecting to go to war, so, they should be allowed to go home. Wow.

Welcome to the light, Scott!