Ms. Pelosi, do you have a soul?

Nancy Pelosi's slip is showing... or, rather, her focus-group exit-poll talking-points mentality is glaringly obvious. Note this, from her appearance on Lou Dobbs last night:

PELOSI: And we have to define what values are. Values are, of course, being persons of faith and family and love of country. They also are about ministering to the needs, as it says in the Gospel of Matthew, of the least of our brethren.

So we have to grow the middle class and expand it. We have to protect the environment, which is God's creation. We have to meet the needs of the American people. We have to reach to a higher purpose, and I believe we have that opportunity now.

DOBBS: Minority Leader, I'm just -- I'm just a simple fellow, secular as I can be. Are we going to hear every politician now, because of exit polls, start couching every issue in moral or religious terms? [can you not envision him rolling his eyes in disbelief at what she just said? --ed.]

PELOSI: I believe that you will see more of that, but I quite agree with you, that we have to get to the issues that are the role of government. I think on the values side, the so-called religious issues side, we have to enlarge that issue, because what we're in danger now in our country is the blurring of the issue of church and state. But I as a devout Catholic was concerned when bishops -- some bishops, not all bishops said that it was a sin to vote for John Kerry. That's absolutely wrong. And that -- our own Constitution is at stake if they think that they can blur the issue of church and state.

So I think that, as President Kennedy said when he ran in 1960, imagine then, they didn't want religion to have a strong role. At that time, he said, "The issue is not what church I believe in, the issue is what America I believe in." And that's where we have to take this issue.

She is blatantly adopting the lingo of people and things she knows NOTHING about. She is no different than John Kerry in this -- the sense I always got from watching and listening to him is that literally *everything* he said or did stemmed from a poll or a focus group... that there is no actual person behind the eyes, that there is no SOUL or conscience or set of core beliefs. Nancy, if you really believed what you were saying, you'd have already been saying it. Faith is not something you can just put on and take off like a jacket... it either IS or it ISN'T.

I'll leave it to my readers to decide where she stands.