GOP Raises Specter of 'Speaker Pelosi'

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CASHIERS, N.C. (AP) -- Facing a strong re-election challenge from Democrat Heath Shuler, veteran Republican Rep. Charles Taylor is going after a candidate who gets an ''F'' from the National Rifle Association and a perfect score from a leading abortion-rights group.

But that's not Shuler, a former NFL quarterback who hopes his pro-gun and anti-abortion positions appeal to swing voters and social conservatives alike in this mountainous district in western North Carolina.

Instead, Taylor's target this summer is Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the California congresswoman who has emerged as a ''boogey-woman'' of sorts for Republicans campaigning this year on the idea that Democrats can't be trusted with control of the House.

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Pelosis-Shadow.html

:rofl: P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C

Rebuttal for EVERY democrat that is a target of a similar atack - I don't think (insert republican name here) is the right person to make that kind of judgement. It is a poor try to divert attention from the fact that republicans had a CROOK as their leader in the house.

[tsuki]

1. No, M-I-S-O-G-Y-N-I-S-T. It is the party of the white male

espousing Christan ersatz Christianity. Sure, they may have a few tokens running about, but the power structure belong to James "Shake Your Weenie" Dobson types.

[marmar]

3. Exactly. It's the party of Pelosi and Conyers and Baldwin...

If they win, the women, blacks and gays will take over. Stand up and claim what's rightfully yours, hetero white men!

[Vickers]

2. Would Pelosi let terrorists fly planes into NYC buildings?

Because that's what their idiotic group of spoiled rich kid dipshits did.

[rusty charly]

4. Republicans can't be trusted with control of the House.

There.

I sadi it.

[salin]

5. Most people do not know who Pelosi is - so if this is their best shot

the candidate is a fool.

Easy enough to turn it around: Perhaps the House needs a woman in charge to sweep clean all of the corruption and rampant spending of hard earned tax-dollars... Perhaps the House needs new leadership to force the House to return to the days where folks in Congress - not paid corporate lobbyists - write legislation. Perhaps the House needs new leadership that places congressional representatives in places of leadership based on their expertise and experience, rather than on who raises more money (the GOP system which has fueled bribery and extortion and a system of pay-to-play - as lobbysists give money for favors, in order for the congressman to raise more money and gain a position of power to grant earmarks and payback to the lobbysists)... There are ways to turn this back on the GOP. But as I said before, I don't think they need to - as the whole "line of attack" or "guilt by association" just doesn't work when the audience doesn't know who the person (this case Pelosi) is.