Reason and Sanity

Leadership is difficult.

Nancy Pelosi is learning a valuable lesson; at least she should be. Her leadership role, until recently, has always been based in destuction. Essentially, she led by bashing. She, along with the rest of the left, bashed the Bush administration from start to finish.

And while the liberals do not hesitate - I think my head will explode the next time I hear about the failures of the last eight years - to bash the previous administration, the fact is, now they are the leaders.

The lesson Pelosi should be learning is that true leadership is about faith and passion and belief and commitment to an idea - wow, sound linke something familiar, but hey, you decide what that is. You know, like the committment Bush made to keeping America safe, even while being ripped apart by the left; the left that has deliberately mislead the public with their "Bush Lied, People Died" rhetoric. (This lie is refuted here.)

Leadership is about building and not destroying. Now that the Bush administration is not around, the left is starting to find out, that leadersip is not simply throwing sand in the face of your opponent or heaving a snarky "we won" comment in their direction. You actually have to do something. You actually have to take a stand and defend it even if it may not be the popular thing to do.

Here is where Pelosi has failed miserably. Instead of fessing up and saying, Yes I knew about EIT's, including waterboarding, and those techniques helped keep this country safe, she is clinging to the lie that she was the one who was mislead. It is becoming clearer every day that she is standing on a position built upon quicksand, so desparate she is to blame others for her own shortcomings.  

If the CIA lied to her, why only her? Hmmm! And if they have been lieing to her for the last seven years, how is it that such a "smart" lady has been duped all this time? Maybe, just maybe, she isn't that smart.

And maybe some of the moderates are seeing her for what she really is.