Can Shuler Really Challenge Pelosi?

From Politics Daily:

North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler said Sunday he would challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the leadership of the Democratic minority in the next Congress although he acknowledged that he does not have the votes to win.

“We’ve just come off the largest … loss for the Democratic Party in almost a century,” Shuler said on CNN’s State of the Union. “And to be able to put Speaker Pelosi as minority leader is truly … unacceptable for our party.”

“If she doesn’t step aside then … I’m going to press forward,” he said…

Which is honorable and, unfortunately, pointless. To be sure, Democrats are absolutely insane to think of re-installing Nancy Pelosi as leader. I can only figure they are either so insulated from reality – or so afraid of crossing her – that they can’t think straight. It isn’t just words when we Republicans say we’re delighting Nancy will remain – its a gift which will keep on giving for us. It makes it almost a certainty that we’ll retain the House in 2012, even if the economy turns around and Obama is re-elected…no one is going to vote for people who will put Pelosi back in the Speaker’s chair, and there’s an end on it.

Really, what Democrats with any sense have to do is walk out – form a new party. As long as the power dynamic within the party is such that Nancy Pelosi can be leader, there will be no reform which will make Democrats palatable to the broader electorate. If Shuler wants to do something useful, he should lead this walk out. Taking a quixotic stand against Pelosi, and then calling it a day, will be, at best, just a worthless gesture…at worst, it will be something done mere to make himself electable in 2012.

The far left owns the Democrat party – they and their fat cat sponsors like George Soros. There’s no place there for people who want what is best for America.

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