The one minor flaw with the Republican strategy of linking candidates to Nancy Pelosi? The majority of Americans don't know who she is! A Quinnipiac poll recently showed that 53% of people arn't familiar enough with Pelosi to form an opinion of her. Here's to hoping that Republicans keep flushing money down the toilet hopelessly trying to link Jim Webb and others to Grandma Nancy.
Courtesy of former Congressman (and right-wing extremist) Bob Dornan on MSNBC: If voters in Virgina choose Jim Webb over George Allen, they're sending us all toward "a Nancy Pelosi hellfire"--even though Pelosi is set to lead the House, not the Senate. I suppose she's just too irresistable of a target. Dornan went on to say that religious voters should look past their disgust over the Foley scandal and reject any party led by "a Catholic like Nancy Pelosi" who supports reproductive rights. Dornan then wondered how Pelosi, as a mother of five, could support abortion rights. Smirking, he claimed that on the floor of the House, Pelosi once explained her support for reproductive choice by saying to Dornan, "What would you do if your daughter were raped by a black man?"
Dornan once said, "Men in the pro-choice movement are either women trapped in men's bodies...or younger guys who are like camp followers looking for easy sex." Needless to say, his anti-Pelosi diatribe is unsubstantiated hearsay. But even if Pelosi did make the statement Dornan quoted, no doubt she was commenting on right-wing race-baiting and hypocrisy, not her own beliefs about race and sex. As election day nears, we're getting just a taste of the divisive vitriol conservatives are set to unleash on the likely first female speaker of the house. Brace yourselves for something akin to anti-Hillary demagoguery, round 2.
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