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In reply to the discussion: Nancy Pelosi is incredibly underrated [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)30. Me, the party leadership has a duty to keep control for
the large center and not let incompetents, special interests, and fringe factions take over. So of course some who don't support the majority wishes of Democrats aren't going to like their choices. That doesn't need explaining.
Unfortunately, this needs explaining: Our enemies like Republicans and Russia, don't like their choices either. Our leaders are too competent for our enemies' good.
So what I'm speaking to is the astonishing notion that's been implanted by these hostile forces that we should somehow be choosing their leaders for our caucuses. We can't, so the clear purpose is to undermine our confidence in the choices of the only ones competent to make them.
Big no to going the way of the trumpsters.
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I love Nancy and always have. She is a true master politician. However, she is not a very good
OregonBlue
Feb 2018
#3
Yup. The GOP and the loony far leftists make her out to be the evil boogeywoman
PeaceNikki
Feb 2018
#11
Tremendous ignorance about how our system works, tremendous and it is doing great harm
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2018
#36
She's effective. She's a woman. She's postmenopausal. She doesn't give a fuck what young white
ehrnst
Feb 2018
#19
Nancy Pelosi and LBJ are numbers one and two in the EFFECTIVE LEADER department
Stinky The Clown
Feb 2018
#34
I agree...people talk about Roosevelt and for good reason...but Johnson was amazing and is
Demsrule86
Feb 2018
#41