Unfortunately for the majority of these squeamish pukes that call themselves Democrats (and Kossacks) that want McKinney to "just shut up", she just happens to posses more balls than the whole lot of you.
First up. It has taken John Kerry, the fucking democratic candidate for president TWO GODDAMN YEARS to come up with the One paragraph in his statement about Iraq that could have won him the election, despite all of the theft that took place in OH and FL! He and the rest of the Democratic Leadership have been so timid about challenging this administration they should be ashamed. Yet McKinney was the first public official to link 9/11 to the Bush Administration and she is the only one to hold Bush's negligence directly responsible for the attacks. In 2002 before the war McKinney was calling for an investigation into whether President Bush and other government officials had advance notice of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 but did nothing to prevent them. She stated; "persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war."
That's 2002 and she had the courage to come right out and say what those in the reality based community felt. It's 2006 our men and women are still over there in a fucking Mesopotamian meat grinder and where are Hillary, Biden, Obama, and Schumer? The silence of the democratic party is causing more harm to Americans and doing more to undermine our security than anything Cynthia McKinney can say or do at a police checkpoint. So all of you mealy mouth dem's who are taking a nice shit on Cynthia McKinney's head just remember that when you call her a liability to the Democratic Party.
Second. The voters of her district have overwhelmingly shown in the voting booth that McKinney speaks for them. The national republicans were apoplectic when she made her statements about the Bush Administration during the run up to the war. The only way these pukes were able to dislodge her from her seat was to use Georgia's open primary where the national GOP went all out pouring money in to her district to get Republicans out to vote for her Democratic opponent. I guess she must have pissed in Karl Rove's cornflakes when she started talking about his little pet King George.
Last but not least. I am so sick of these delicate ass democrats whining about how one issue or one person can make or break support for this party. All of these Kossacks who say she should just shut up need to take a good hard look at themselves and reevaluate their own testicular fortitude and commitment. Since when do liberals tell people especially their own to just shut up? Why because it makes the rest of you nervous? Every time I've seen her on TV she has been very articulate and held her own. Who gives a fuck if she makes you uncomfortable, the truth is the truth. What good has cooperation and not rocking the boat done? The last time I checked the Democrats are completely out of power, SO MUCH FOR CAPITULATION!.
Does anybody actually believe that Rep. Cynthia McKinney punched a police officer? I don't know any cop that would let man, woman, or beast take a swing at them and not put them on the ground and then arrest them. Let me repeat that. IF SHE DID SLUG AN OFFICER THEY SHOULD HAVE PUT HER ON THE GROUND AND ARRESTED HER. Because that is exactly what I would have done just to cover myself for the internal affairs investigation that is sure to come. I could be wrong but the DC Metro Police department and quite possibly this individual officer was probably trying to get ahead of this story to minimize the damage. But if she did, so be it let them charge her accordingly but enough of the fucking hand wringing about how this looks to "moderates" and "independents".
Of Course now all you hear is the usual suspects whining about how these are the things that scare "middle of the road" voters away from voting democrat. When you read "middle of the road" read "white-paranoid-suburban-who-knows-their-asses-should-be-voting-democrat-but-don't-because-the-democrats-are-to-closely-aligned with-blacks" voter! You know the Reagan republicans who got us 8 years of George W. Bush. Give me a break, if Cynthia McKinney's actions are all it takes to scare off middle of the road white suburban voters, while it requires the entire Republican Leadership getting indited to make these same "middle of the Road white suburban" voters consider voting democrat, what does that say about them? Fucking idiots. Take my description "middle of the road white suburban" voters with a very microscopic grain of salt. It is a bullshit term that is put out there by the craptastic media and conservative knuckle draggers to create an artificial racial divide when in reality there are just people who know and those who choose not too. If Democrats get 85% of the black vote does that mean that 85% of Black voters are just monolithic? No. Maybe they have got it right by not voting against their own self interest and the people who still feel like they have to reward the failures of the republican party really are functionally retarded. Those "fucking idiots" are just using their race to excuse their own bad political choices.
Bottom Line is if we are right on the issues we shouldn't have to grovel for support. You get the government you deserve. We don't need to appeal to them. We just need the 56-57% of the American voters who really did vote Democrat to have their ballots counted to win elections.