Suprising reactions

There have been 2 notable retirements lately -- Rosie from The View, and Cindy Sheehan from the Movement. I first heard of both these little tidbits on msn.com, and the affiliated msnbc.com. Now I think it's probably safe to say these 2 sites are fairly main stream media -- you wouldn't be confusing them with Fox News and the like. Still, when I read the comments section about these articles (The Rosie article was specifically about her saying she'd never talk to Elizabeth Hasselback again, the Sheehan article was about her quitting the movement and trying to regain her private life again), it seemed that the average response was a very right wing "about time". I read the the Rosie comments, and 70% of the responses were strongly against Rosie, 10% were unreasonably hostile to Rosie, and the other 20% were split between reasonable support and fanatical worship of Rosie. Cindy Sheehan did a little better, maybe 60% strongly opposed to her, 30% sympathetic to her but still disagreeing, and 10% Bush is the Antichrist/Cindy is the Virgin Mary reincarnated. This surprised me -- usually people on the web lean more to the liberal side, especially when posting to media sites like this.

The more interesting thought is, if these opinions reflect the average jane and joe on the streets, then the Democrats better stop assuming the next election is in the bag.