Gephardt receives support from top House Democrats

STLtoday.com ^ | 5-13-03 | Deirdre Shesgreen

[FairWitness]

WASHINGTON - A coterie of House colleagues will endorse Rep. Richard Gephardt's presidential bid Wednesday, including his successor as House minority leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Gephardt, the Democratic leader in the House for eight years, has been wooing his colleagues privately for months, hoping to demonstrate deep support from House members and to tap the fund-raising and political skills of his fellow lawmakers.

[FairWitness]

"She is a huge prize," Norman Ornstein, a political expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said of Pelosi.

Well, if she's "first prize", I'd sure hate to be the winner of second prize.

[Joe Boucher]

Gephardt is a jelyfish. He has no spine and would bend any way a union would have him.
Core values? He has shown time and again that like algore he will turn his back on his original views as to abortion and homosexuality and any other he may have had at one time.
Just the type of non man we need to lead the free world.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

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How can they possibly describe someone so tone deaf as a shrewd politician? And as far as Stony Hoyer is concerned, if you don't live in Maryland or possibly VA. it is unlikely you've ever heard of him.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The St. Louis newspaper is a bit, ah...liberal.

[FairWitness]

The St. Louis newspaper is a bit, ah...liberal.

No doubt about it.