Nancy Pelosi and Eight Great Tomatoes
Democrats haven’t the slightest notion of how to win at the polls. They are occasionally the accidental occupants of the White House. Nancy Pelosi faces an election that has twice the potential of Al Gore’s and she’s throwing it away with a greater degree of incompetence than Al in 2000 or Kerry in 2004.
There are things I just don’t understand about those in Washington who claim to be politicians. Not only claim it, but occupy positions at the top of the heap. We keep having these periodic fun-fairs, elections some call them, that offer themselves as democracy in action, the power of the ballot and our freedom of choice.
Winners win, not because they are superior intellectually or more thoughtful observers of the affairs of man. They win because they pay attention. Losers lose because they stop paying attention. It’s really that simple.
Case in point, Al Gore in the 2000 election. Al was the beneficiary (as well as active participant) to eight years of economic ecstasy, the first two-te…