Can you imagine what would have happened if Speaker Pelosi had sobbed like Boehner did

[grantcart]

We wouldn't have heard the end of it for months.


It would have been replayed for hours on end.


It might count him the Speakership. The freshman owe him nothing and if 30-40 GOP reps coalesce around someone then it could get interesting.


This guy obviously doesn't have the intellect for it but more importantly he doesn't have the TV presence.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Or if Obama had?

[Ozymanithrax]

2. What matters is the relationships he has in his caucus.

Demint has said he will not challenge the Boner. I think it is a safe bet that he will be the next speaker.

[grantcart]

3. Demint is a Senator

[Ken Burch]

6. Which is why we can BELIEVE him when he says he won't challenge the Boner.

n/t.

[Ozymanithrax]

9. It is getting late.

I think I will go to bed.

[Ken Burch]

4. I don't need to imagine.

Remember what the media did to Pat Schroeder?

[grantcart]

8. I missed it. Out of the country for a couple of decades.

[Ken Burch]

12. She was considering a presidential candidacy in 1988 or so

then she decided she couldn't get enough fundraising together and called it off. She got choked up at the press conference, and the mediafiozzi declared that this proved she(and by extension all female politicians)were too "weak and emotional" to be president.

This might possibly explain why HRC felt obligated to be more militaristic than any other Dem candidate in '08.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. And Ed Muskie. And Howard Dean.

With the MSM, I think party matters even more than gender... :grr:

[Dappleganger]

Is it just me...

or did he seem wasted?

[Rhiannon12866]

5. The news guys said it made him seem "human."

:eyes:

Nancy Pelosi would have been seen as an emotional woman who wasn't tough enough for the job... :banghead:

[deacon]

15. It made him seen as drunk lol n/t

[charlie]

7. They turned Pat Schroeder's crying moment

into a summation of her entire career.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. And it finished Ed Muskie.

And then there was the "Dean Scream..." :grr:

[charlie]

16. Muskie's was especially rotten

since it was a set-up.

Then there was Gore's "personality changes" in 2000. Who's he gonna be next?

No one said a peep when Dubya went from out-of-it nitwit, to unhinged ranter, to genial boob in the 2004 debates.

[deacon]

13. ...or campaigned with a guy that wears a nazi uniform? n/t

[FreeState]

14. Crying is a normal human expression of emotion regardless of sex or party n/t