Scarborough on Pelosi

[Jarqui]

54. What I am talking about is not fair. And a bunch of it is BS.

Hillary had done a tremendous job rehabilitating her public image after her loss to Obama in 2008. She did a great job as Secretary of State - was a real trooper, working her butt off, etc. You look at her Gallup numbers at that time - they were really good when she stepped down as SoS.

Then the GOP set their smear sights and the unfairness of Benghazi and her emails and "lock her up!!" ... her numbers took a hit.

Ditto for Obama. Kenyan. Muslim, death panels, etc ... his numbers took a hit. There remain today a significant number of Americans who still think he's a Muslim Kenyan who stole the presidency.

Hillary, Barack and Nancy are examples of public piñatas. They have suffered years of pummeling by the big Citizens United money of the GOP. Some of the crap thrown at them is like a wedge issue where each piece of crap peels a few more votes away. After years of that, some of it sticks, their ceiling as a candidate is lower and it is time for a fresh face.

Hillary, Barack and Nancy took many arrows for the causes I have supported throughout my life. I'm grateful to them. The time has come for someone to take the baton from Nancy over the next couple of years. At the outset, they'll have a higher ceiling as a new face on the national stage. When the GOP are done with them, like Hillary, Barack and Nancy, they'll be cut down to size with a lower ceiling but hopefully, in the interim, they will advance our causes while they have the reins of power in their hands.

This is the cycle of politics.