The Odd Success of Running Against Nancy Pelosi

Republicans up for election this mid-term are running against Nancy Pelosi. For those of you in America out of the loop, or for those outside of America - Nancy Pelosi is the leader of the opposition in the House of Representatives. She has very little power - she is in charge of the minority of the lower house of Congress.

She is an older woman who has ran the Democratic Representative group for a long time. She is a conservative boogie-man, because she is unabashedly liberal and represents San Francisco (and hence is tied to "the gays"). Fox News and Republicans have railed against her for at lest a decade - but she has been in the minority since 2010.

But she is so vilified by the Right side of the political spectrum, that her name is toxic in many areas. This is not unusual.

But it is unusual that the Republicans, in charge of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the Presidency don't have a positive message. Their singular message is "we suck, but she sucks more".

It is too bad that this message, combined with a malicious, venial, rascist thin-skinned vulgarian in the White House might be enough for many people.