clarification ...

I was in error, lumping the Pelosi vote in with Obama's election year, that Palazzo video is the 2006 vote (but wasnt there another Speaker vote in 08'?). At any rate, I feel my basic point still stands - "every" Democrat did not vote for Pelosi. Ford of Tennessee ran against her. Taylor had a choice, he took the politically prudent option over the principled one (Ford was clearly the moderate alternative). Taylor knew who she was / what she would advocate. So lets use the 2006 dateline. The scenario he's portraying is in 2006 when it would have been politically difficult (read: publicly) to vote against the extremists in his Party (Pelosi), he caved; but when it was easy, in the privacy of his 2008 ballot for president, he made the principled stand. And he has such "balls" that he kept that principled stand secret for 2 years, disclosing it in 2010 only days before he is likely to lose the only close race of his career. So tell me, how does this timeline clarification help his case?

Would Taylor vote for another Pelosi? Did he really vote for McCain? I dont know. Maybe. And that's Gene's problem. South MS voters DO know what Palazzo would do. Why vote Taylor when you can get all the same (presumably a bit more) conservative stances with the other guy, only without the risk of electing another Speaker Pelosi? You use your Democrat registration/vote to filter the Pelosi's of the Party out. He used his to put one in. The problem isnt that Gene is a Democrat, the problem is he caucuses with them, adding to the power base of the extremists that lead his Party. And I'd dare say Titus, if your Party affiliation directly contributed to the authority/ability of Nancy Pelosi to maintain her control, you'd end that affiliation in a heart beat. Taylor chose not to.