# How did this woman get elected (Pelosi)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 30, 2014, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982 "2014-10-30T08:25:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Citizen5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Citizen5)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/21 "2014-10-30T11:14:55Z")
> [@zoid](#):
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> No, moron sums it up pretty well.
Another in depth rebuttal. Is this comparable to “I know you are, but what am I”?
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### Author:  [@Citizen5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Citizen5)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/22 "2014-10-30T11:17:29Z")
> [@asterion](#):
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> I am on record on this board of not being much of a fan of Nancy Pelosi. But at least when I started a thread and complained about her I did more than show up looking like a right-wing spammer and did more than just post a Youtube link.
You’re wonderful Im sure. There, happy now?
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/23 "2014-10-30T11:31:44Z")
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> If you are referring to me than you completely failed to say what you “really think” besides a 2nd grade name calling tantrum.
> I have been on her less than 2 hours. Congratulations, you now hold the record for fastest juvenile assumption in the forum history Im sure. 😃
Two hours is not even _close_ to that record but, yes, if your entire criticism of Pelosi is based on her making a slip of the tongue, then your position is moronic. By that standard, who could you possibly _support?_
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### Author:  [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/24 "2014-10-30T11:36:43Z")
The full extent of what most people have seen from you so far, **Citizen5** , is this thread. And this thread is phenomenally dumb. You’ve found an instance of Pelosi misspeaking and jumped on it as the end-all, be-all reason as to why she’s an idiot, out of touch, and shouldn’t be in charge. As far as first impressions go, it’s about as nice as my first impression of rattlesnake venom. “Oh, my flesh is melting off. That’s nice.”
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/25 "2014-10-30T11:42:35Z")
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> If you are referring to me than you completely failed to say what you “really think” besides a 2nd grade name calling tantrum.
“Than”? You’re a moron.
> [@](#):
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> I have been on her less than 2 hours. Congratulations, you now hold the record for fastest juvenile assumption in the forum history Im sure. 😃
“Im”? You’re twice as much a moron as I first considered you to be.
Here’s an interesting point: You really shouldn’t be whining about people calling you names when you insulted someone in your OP, not to mention your follow-up insults of others later in the thread.
_You’re once, twice, three times a moron
And I will always laugh at you._
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/26 "2014-10-30T12:10:23Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
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> The full extent of what most people have seen from you so far, **Citizen5** , is this thread. And this thread is phenomenally dumb. You’ve found an instance of Pelosi misspeaking and jumped on it as the end-all, be-all reason as to why she’s an idiot, out of touch, and shouldn’t be in charge. As far as first impressions go, it’s about as nice as my first impression of rattlesnake venom. “Oh, my flesh is melting off. That’s nice.”
Well, there’s his other thread in GD with no replies other than \*\*tomndebb \*\* cutting it down for copyright. That actually improved the OP to something understandable as opposed to a wall of cut and posted text. It looks like it could actually be an interesting discussion now, with no thanks to the poster.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/27 "2014-10-30T12:26:41Z")
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> Lets vote her out…
Mistake! It’s ‘Let’s’.
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> … Why would you bother commenting on a 1:20 minute video that you arent able to even click on? Illogical
Mistake! It’s ‘aren’t’.
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> Heres another tip for you…
Mistake! It’s ‘Here’s’.
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> If you are referring to me than you completely failed to say what you “really think” besides a 2nd grade name calling tantrum.
> I have been on her less than 2 hours. Congratulations, you now hold the record for fastest juvenile assumption in the forum history Im sure. 😃
Mistake! It’s ‘then’.
Mistake! It’s ‘name-calling’.
Mistake! It’s ‘here’.
Mistake! It’s ‘I’m’.
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> Another in depth rebuttal. Is this comparable to “I know you are, but what am I”?
Mistake! It’s ‘in-depth’.
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> You’re wonderful Im sure. There, happy now?
Mistake! It’s ‘I’m’.
**So in 6 posts you make 9 mistakes - and this board has an edit function. :smack:**
I wouldn’t normally greet a newcomer with such pedantry, but you go ape-shit on Pelosi when she obviously makes a single slip of the tongue in a live interview.
It’s a close call, but I don’t think the evidence above proves you’re a moron - but you’re certainly a biased idiot.
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### Author:  [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/28 "2014-10-30T12:32:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> It’s a close call, but I don’t think the evidence above proves you’re a moron - but you’re certainly a biased idiot.
Historically, moron was used to describe a higher level of intellectual functioning than idiot, which was the lowest level.
So, this idiot actually aspires to be a moron, if he is capable of aspiration.
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### Author:  [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/29 "2014-10-30T12:44:38Z")
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> I have been on her less than 2 hours.
Ewwwwwww
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/30 "2014-10-30T12:55:44Z")
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> I have been on her less than 2 hours.
Ron Burgundy, is that you?
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/31 "2014-10-30T12:55:51Z")
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> I have been on her less than 2 hours.
Not enough cash to pay for a third hour I take it.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/32 "2014-10-30T13:10:05Z")
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> Lets vote her out.
And how do you propose the _vast_ majority of us do that?
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/33 "2014-10-30T13:11:37Z")
I miss **Citizen4** already!
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/34 "2014-10-30T13:23:12Z")
> [@Citizen5](#):
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> So here no one thinks it is important that their reps understand the difference in the 1st and 2nd amendment? I see. 🙂
Yep. You got it in one. Everybody on the whole message board is a drooling moron. There is nothing you could possibly gain intellectually by sticking around. You might as well move on.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/35 "2014-10-30T13:30:00Z")
> [@asterion](#):
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> Just one more week, just one more week. Maybe after that we’ll stop getting these sorts of posters for a while.
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> I wish the mods would wield the banhammer more freely at times.
… right, because new posters who join in November rather than October are… what, exactly?
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/36 "2014-10-30T13:30:10Z")
OP sounds remarkably like that idiot **CommonGood**. Same style, same ignorance.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/37 "2014-10-30T13:31:05Z")
So we have a poster who doesn’t live in the San Francisco area, posting to a Chicago-based message board, asking a crowd of people who almost universally also don’t live in the San Francisco area, to vote out a person who won’t be on their ballots because she misspoke, while repeatedly misspeaking himself?
This may be the most pointless thread ever.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/38 "2014-10-30T13:33:35Z")
You know how Pelosi got elected? Huh??? **She’s a SAN FRANCISCO LIBERAL, that’s how!**
(Actually, as real “SF Liberals” go, she’s about as conservative as they come.)
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### Author:  [@Citizen5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Citizen5)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/39 "2014-10-30T13:34:19Z")
I guess you’ll have to elect her again to find out just how damaging she can be.
> [@septimus](#):
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> Let me try.
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> Hi **Cit**! (or do you prefer Mr. **5**?)
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> I think some Congresspeople can recite the numbers and names for many laws and some can’t. I’ve no idea which sort Ms. Pelosi is – I don’t think it matters much. _ **But** _, I’ll bet money and lay heavy odds that Ms. Pelosi knows very well the difference between the 1st and 2nd Amendments! In the video, hers was a misspeaking, a slip of the tongue. Doesn’t that ever happen to you?
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> I’m smarter than most Dopers think (really! 😛 ) but if someone followed me around with a tape recorder and edited a Septi’s Worst Bloopers tape I’d come across as a blithering idiot. Capische?
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> I’ve no idea what percentage of Congresspeople remember which Amendment was the 3rd, or what the precise difference is between the 9th and 10th Amendments. But few Americans can forget the 2nd Amendment with gun nuts harping about it over and over and over and over and over and over and over. _Hers was a slip of the tongue!_ Get it?
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> For your rebuttal, I suppose you’ll find a YouTube of Ann Coulter haranguing for 15 minutes without a slip! :smack:
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### Author:  [@Citizen5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Citizen5)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-woman-get-elected-pelosi/702982/40 "2014-10-30T13:36:01Z")
Then why did you come on to this thread. Wasn’t the title clear enough for your comprehensive abilities? (rhetorical):rolleyes:
> [@Smapti](#):
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> So we have a poster who doesn’t live in the San Francisco area, posting to a Chicago-based message board, asking a crowd of people who almost universally also don’t live in the San Francisco area, to vote out a person who won’t be on their ballots because she misspoke, while repeatedly misspeaking himself?
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> This may be the most pointless thread ever.
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