Gosh. Scrolling through 14 years of (mostly spam) emails containing the word "Pelosi" went faster than I thought.
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Oct 8, 2006 at 10:13 PM
Nancy Pelosi can give her party a boost by declaring that she will not seek the Speakership.
Now may be the best time for the Democrats to persuade all voters, in all districts, in all states to vote for their candidates. But people in my neck of the woods, the "heartland" would be a lot more excited to vote for a party not led by one of the old school -- one of the members of the House that has been entrenched inside the beltway since the last time a ruling party got tossed out.
We've seen Ms. Pelosi on the Sunday chat shows too many times.
It's not that Ms. Pelosi strikes the average voter as being too far left -- which I gather she does. But more importantly, she comes off as a party shill. She seems more interested in promoting the party than promoting equitable concepts of governance.
Put more damningly, she is Tom DeLay in different clothes.
Right now there's a real chance to stop the madness in Washington. Ms. Pelosi can advance the greater cause by ceasing her personal quest for power.
Rob McColley
Urbana, Illinois