Spot-on political analysis from Martina Navratilova

[JaneQPublic]

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It is amazing,really. @ChuckSchumer loses in the Senate and keeps his leadership role and @NancyPelosi makes the biggest democratic gain in the House since Watergate and they want her to quit. Go figure. A man loses and keeps his place, a woman wins and gets booted?!?

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I wonder if we make this point ten thousand more times it will stop the

Nancy ATTACKERS.

I bet it wont, but there is a reason for that.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. It's come from so many quarters that one wonders just where it started.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. The anti Nancy stuff, I know where it started.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I'm not positive, but I've got a damn good idea.

[4du]

17. What I am concerned about is that we not fight each other

The Republicans love when we fight each other. This is not a real conflict among us. It was started by their bots. Stop it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. No, the fight is a certain group who wants to take power away from Nancy. Period

And I will NEVER stop trying to save my country.

[BeyondGeography]

2. It's a rather lame point really

Schumer has been leader for two years, Pelosi for 15. Come up with something a little more difficult to poke a hole in.

[BootinUp]

8. as Lame as attacking the next speaker of the house?

Not.

[LanternWaste]

12. Why create additional qualifiers not part or parcel of the original premise?

Come up with a more creative way to poke holes, maybe...

[uponit7771]

27. Goal post meet mover ? tia

[SweetieD]

30. If that was the goal post the Pelosi would have been gone years ago because dems lost

The house a few times under her leadership. So winning or losing your body seems to have never been a goal post.

[AlexSFCA]

6. make no mistake we wouldnt be even discussing this if Pelosi was a man

it is the same hillary standard that’s being applied. You are not a true democrat if you do not support Nancy Pelosi. She represents the most progressive district in the country and wins in a landslide. There is no one like her in congress. Don’t confuse her with fake progressives (aka far left). Anti Nancy BS is a bait by RW. It is the same propaganda used against Hillary, Fraken and now Avenatti. And it’s unfortunate that so many dems buy into it, instead of properly recognizing the most effective and experienced democrat in recent history. Any dem who is going to vote against Nancy for a house speaker, has a thin skin.

[JaneQPublic]

10. Yep, Schumer gets a pass even though he caved...

...on the DACA shutdown and he got played by McConnell on fastracking judges.

But it appears Pelosi is getting slammed by two groups in the House: the ones who (a) think she's too "establishment" for progressives (i.e., to draw in the Millennials and other Bernie supporters); and (b) think she's too progressive for moderates (i.e., to draw in older white males and others who voted for Trump).

That's probably why the Anti-Pelosi crowd is doing such a poor job rallying around a candidate to run against her: They have diametrically opposing notions of who that would be.

[niyad]

14. PRECISELY!

[Bucky]

7. That's a pretty shallow analysis.

Schumer's Senate Dems were defending 6 Democratic senators in dependably Republican states. The fact that they only lost three of them (and Florida still might go our way), while picking up a win in Arizona was an honest day's pay. There's about zero criticism of Pelosi based on her sex. It's ageism turning against her, not sexism. She's been in charge for over a decade, most of that time while in the minority. I agree it's not all warranted, but calling it sexism while some of her most vocal critics are women is disingenuous.

Anyway I doubt they'll defeat her bid for speaker

[Ms. Toad]

11. Not to mention that Schumer and Pelosi

had little to do with whether the members in their respective chambers were re-elected.

[flibbitygiblets]

18. "there's about zero criticism of Pelosi based on her sex". Not overtly, no.

I think the OP nailed it however. With her track record, which includes pulling off the votes for the ACA (for which she never gets credit), any man would be safely ensconced in his speakership. Women have to fight covert sexism, a-la "she's been so demonized". (well then defend her, there's plenty of material); or my personal favorite, "we need someone younger". I don't recall anyone saying that about McConnell, 2 years her junior, or Reid, the same age as Pelosi.

[onlyadream]

9. Wait, Nancy isn't booted - she has the votes

At least that's what I just read.

Fact is, women always are more judged. But Nancy is getting a lot of love (as I see it).

[erpowers]

13. A Man is Feckless A Woman is the Greatest of All Time

It gets even worse when you think about how successful each has been at the day-to-day mastery of their jobs. It can be and has been argued that Chuck Schumer is a feckless leader, but no one is asking to quit his job. It is universally believed that Nancy Pelosi is one of the best party leaders and Speaker of the House all time, yet she is being asked to leave her job. So, yes, when men fail at their jobs they are encouraged to keep their jobs, but when women are great at their jobs they are asked to leave their jobs.

[Dopers_Greed]

15. I'm no fan of Schumer

But how did he lose in the Senate?

He defended a majority of Dems' seats, and flipped two reddish states.

[ananda]

16. Hmm

I always thought Schumer was weak.

[George II]

19. Many people get it, and thankfully more and more people are speaking up about it....

(off topic a bit)....

About 30+ years ago I was at LaGuardia after a trip to Chicago. The buses/subways were on strike or slowdown, so cabs were at a premium going into Manhattan. They were lumping some passengers together to basically car-pool. I turned around to see who I would be paired with. HOLY SHIT, it was Martina Navratilova!!! We shared a cab into mid-town Manhattan! I don't remember much of the conversation, I was in such awe about what was going on.

[JaneQPublic]

20. Wow! Excellent Brush with Celebrity Greatness.

I'm jealous.

[spooky3]

29. Very cool! I saw her walking to her hotel room after checking in at a Fed Cup event.

People stood and watched, but no one ran up to her to bother her. Unfortunately, I didn't see any bellhops offering to carry her bag, either! I hope it is because they were too much in awe.

She was and is such a cool person. So smart and a great tennis analyst.

[betsuni]

21. K&R

[Eric J in MN]

22. Do you think that if Pelosi had been the Dem Senate Leader

...and Schumer had been the Dem House Leader, the election results would have been different?

I don’t.

[FiveGoodMen]

24. Thank you.

Well put.

[ProfessorPlum]

23. to be fair, I think the "they" MN is referring to here is Vladimir Putin

i'd much rather boot Schumer and keep Pelosi - based on their respective legislative skill and also their policies/politics.

There are some people who want to end the corruption in the entire system. I'm for that as well, but until we actually get there, I want experienced, progressive leaders.

[Greybnk48]

25. USA! USA! USA! n/t

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

26. If the media can get Democrats fighting it gives the gop the first springboard

to rally around to get those fickle voters back to the gop in 2020. Let's stick together....Let's work together now now people....

We gotta govern now. FAST and efficiently. This is the gop stirring us up to fight. We cant squander a big win. Who cares in the end? Nancy is great for so much.