Why Won’t Nancy Pelosi Just Retire Already?
Derek Hunter
5–6 minutes
She “stepped down” as Speaker of the House after the 2022 midterms, and was set to retire shortly thereafter. So, why is Nancy Pelosi still in Congress? More than that, why is she running for reelection in 2024?
There are a lot of people who overstay their welcomes, and there are a lot of famous people who stay on the national stage longer than they should. In sports, there are countless examples of star athletes who refused to retire when their team watched their skill deteriorate and had to move on past the glory days of old. Brett Favre should never have been a Viking, Patrick Ewing should never have been a Sonic, Emmit Smith shouldn’t have been a Cardinal, and the list goes on and on.
Why’d they do it? I honestly don’t know. Did they not like their families? Did their families not like them? Did they really think they were that important to a team or the game? Or were they simply unwilling to accept that age got them too?
In politics, the same thing happens. Dianne Feinstein stayed in the US Senate into her 90th year, dying in office rather than retiring a decade or two earlier and living her remaining years surrounded by family and friends.
You could name dozens of people who simply won’t go away, won’t retire, even though it’s painfully obvious to everyone not them that it’s well past time.
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https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2023/10/31/why-wont-nancy-pelosi-just-retire-already-n2630548
