Frank, I don't think Cindy's running against Pelosi amounts to taking on the establishment "in the same way that Martin Luther King did, or woman suffragettes, or the abolitionists.

Last time I checked, those people, as well as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eugene Debs, Robert Ingersoll, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Thomas Paine, etc., did not make the inroads they did by running for elective office against people who were basically on the same side of the political spectrum (but either too moderate or too timid to be ideally effective).

And, whatever you may think about the DLC Democrats, they are NOT the same as today's Republicans, if for no other reason than that they don't depend on Karl Rove and his ilk for support.   Many off them, including Pelosi, can and DO vote against a lot of what the Bush administration and the Republican's try to push through.   

Cindy's replacing Nancy -- if it happened -- would be far less of an advance for the Dems than Cindy's replacing a Bush supporter would be.