What's good for the goose . . . sauce for the gander -- isn't necessarily spiteful in polite intellectual discourse -- of which I've seen less and less over the last year and a half.
I was going to provide a litany as to why -- in the end -- I can only trust conclusions that I've made independently with as many facts and solid inferences that I can try myself to test or destroy. But that would be Trumpian behavior or the appearance of it, so let's get to the thread's idea.
I think it's a crap-shoot with several possibilities, and note that the Repubs have already formed an optimistic conclusion about Pelosi. I was sitting in a restaurant with a retired plasma physicist in September, who assured me that Clinton would win. He certainly went away with understanding of my great anxiety to the contrary.
She (Pelosi) never offended me. I never heard her say something that was in any way easy to call stupid, and that's an overly cautious appraisal. I thought she was just fine.
The Repubs of a committed allegiance are always quick to diminish Pelosi. That's because they think they're right about everything, and that Pelosi, a woman, from Left-Coast California, isn't right about anything. There's no in-between.
I'll also argue about organizational change and stupidity. You can make organizational changes just for appearance' sake, wasting a great deal of money, distressing a lot of people, and perhaps turning the working into the working-wounded.
"We got hit by a comet; let's replace the astronomer." Even if you were warned by the astronomer and there wasn't time left.
I think if folks revisit the last year, we went from too many candidates, debates without substance, mantras about Obama-the-worst-ever, terror-hoaxes, and a Theater of the Absurd which then led to a primary nomination. Then, many of the faithful goo-goo-eyed in partisan allegiance gathered around the new-born like the relatives in Rosemary's Baby as they rocked that cradle furiously. Others defected, John Warner for instance.
Now, the rule for the Trump White House is loyalty. They've put people in charge of agencies with no connection whatsoever to the very legitimate public interests those institutions serve, other than to destroy them. There are too many among them who aren't only just unprepared, but lacking in clarity of thought and other virtues.
So you tell me. When the shouting of the Faithful begins to wane, or if it is drowned out by the Living as well as thousands howling down the victors from the grave, why are we so tied in a knot over Pelosi and Ryan?
They'll get together and plot a course forward.