They say terrible things about Nancy Pelosi. Her response: Just win, Democrats
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - The crowd outside campaign headquarters was boiling, the angry mood matching South Florida's tropical heat, as Nancy Pelosi arrived to a shower of obscenities and crude insults in English and Spanish.
With the doors locked and police standing guard, the Democratic congressional leader delivered her exhortation to dozens of volunteers - Make those phone calls, walk those precincts, the future of America's at stake this midterm election! - as crisp and unruffled as her white pantsuit.
Pelosi doesn't care about the invective hurled her way, in whatever language. She doesn't care that her face has appeared, menacing and twisted, in thousands of Republican attack ads. She doesn't care that life is a full-time residency in travel hell - a blur of meals on the run, flight delays, a different hotel each night.
She cares about one thing, distilled in the advice Pelosi gives Democrats with any qualms about distancing themselves for political sake from the national party or its lightning-rod leader.
"Do whatever you have to do," she tells
