GOP Raises Specter of 'Speaker Pelosi'

[Kadie]

GOP Raises Specter of 'Speaker Pelosi'
By TIM WHITMIRE, Associated Press Writer

Saturday, August 12, 2006


(08-12) 09:18 PDT 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 "bogey-woman" of sorts for Republicans campaigning this year on the idea that Democrats can't be trusted with control of the House.

"Rookie Heath Shuler is following the playbook of San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi," an announcer intones as the noise of a stadium crowd and marching band plays in the background of a 60-second Taylor radio spot. "The Pelosi game plan: Elect Heath Shuler and others like him, and take over Congress with the votes of illegal immigrants."

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Asked recently by reporters how she felt about being painted as a GOP "bogey-woman," Pelosi said the tactic "represents a bankruptcy of ideas."

"I think that it indicates the Republicans don't have a positive agenda. They don't have anything," she said. "They have been in power with the House and the Senate and the White House; they could have accomplished so many things for the American people and they have failed. ... That is why they have to do their ad hominems, because they don't have anything positive to talk about."

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[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. That Was An Awesome Return Response From Nancy. Good For Her!

[opihimoimoi]

2. The Big TROUBLE with RePubs is they seem to focus on what is BAD

Nevr what is GOOD.

Bankrupt of good ideas, the Pubs resort to denigrating, distortion, fear, and delusion.

The Pubs can hardly CREATE, so they resort to DICTATE

They are WHINERS...always looking for the Negative...dats their ploy.

[Monkeyman]

5. All they can do now is swiftboat

[LTR]

3. I thought Pelosi was from the East Bay

:shrug:

[zbdent]

4. Funny, aren't they the ones who keep harping

(Ironically, I believe, Tip O'Neill's line) "All Politics is local"?

They claim they win because "they focus on the local issues" ... but they're just using a posterboy (girl) as a "Don't vote for them just because it's them" ...

And this is not a new tactic ... Prickly City used it a few weeks ago ... an ugly caricature of Pelosi, same grimace ... and saying how ugly it was ...