Soxblog and others have written about Sophia Parlock, the cute little girl who had her Bush-Cheney sign ripped out of her hands.

It's terrible, and you shouldn't do that to little kids, but Captain Ed does a little digging and discovers that her father is strange fellow with a history of taking his children to protest Democratic candidates.

I don't fault little Sophia, and whoever stole her sign shouldn't have done it, but what sort of man uses his kids as political protest props?