The Borking of Michele Bachmann

American Spectator ^ | April 07, 2013 | JEFFREY LORD

[Steelfish]

The Borking of Michele Bachmann By JEFFREY LORD Another conservative gets the Washington treatment.

Shocker. Having failed to end Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s congressional career at the polls, the left is now moving to do it the old-fashioned way: Bork Bachmann unto political death. The problem? This really is the old-fashioned way.

And any conservative even semi-awake recognizes the game instantly. In this case the game being played with the so-called Office of Congressional Ethics, the OCE.

This is what we now call “Borking.”

The method of choice of liberals when they are frustrated by the public’s attachment or potential attachment to a political figure on the Right.

From then-California Senator Richard Nixon’s 1952 “scandal” about a campaign fund to Barry Goldwater’s 1964 “ties” to German Nazis to 1988 allegations that Dan Quayle bought drugs to Sarah Palin’s 2008 episode over Alaskan state troopers, the story is the same. From charges designed to immolate any conservative from the late Robert Bork in 1987 (whence the Borking game took its name) to Clarence Thomas in 1991 or, in the last few days, Dr. Ben Carson, the game never changes when the objective is to destroy a prominent conservative.

Now comes Michele Bachmann’s turn to be, as it were, Borked.

[bray]

Freepers fall for it faster than anyone else. As soon as the media attacks a Conservative they are in with both feet.

Pray for America

[cripplecreek]

Freepers fall for it faster than anyone else.

Sadly yes. When she commented that we can safely drill for oil everywhere, even in the Everglades, lots of FReepers found their inner enviroweenie and threw a tantrum. Then they kept quiet when it was discovered that there are working gas wells in the everglades today.

Then she "exposed top secret" Pakistani nuke sites. The fact was that they weren't top secret and American Spectator had showed them on a map some months before.

Then they treated her like a moron for saying that there is a terrorist threat posed by Cuba. Never mind the fact that she's a member of the permanent select committee on intelligence and actually knows what she's talking about.

The simple fact is that conservatives can forget about winning till they regain a sense of moral courage.

[cripplecreek]

And another thing...

Remember the question about Bachmann’s headaches and her fitness to serve?

Funny how Hillary Clinton can skip out on senate hearings due to a concussion but nobody questions her fitness to serve.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

Bachmann is a bit old, but I’d still totally Bork her.

[detective]

“Freepers fall for it faster than anyone else. As soon as the media attacks a Conservative they are in with both feet.”

I've noticed many FReepers just parrot the story told by the MSM. They get mad at whoever the MSM tells them to be mad at. They get all upset when someone thinks for himself and refuses to swallow the lies presented by the MSM.

Michelle Bachmann is being unfairly attacked just as Sarah Palin was. The goal is to force her from office.

[skeeter]

SOME freepers.

And you'll notice they're usually the same gang of moderates.

[cripplecreek]

I think its kind of interesting that Karl Rove can get away with making fried chicken jokes to Donna Brazile but if a conservative had said the exact same words in the exact same context, Karl Rove would be the first one calling them “unfortunate, thoughtless, comments”.

[Venturer]

I am all for Ms. Bachman.

By the way Ethics and Congress should never be mentioned in the same sentence, Congress has no ethics , they just use that to attack whomsoever they don’t like at the moment.

[cripplecreek]

Check this out, we managed to sneak a tea partier onto the national committee and they can't allow it to stand.

THE ESTABLISHMENT STRIKES BACK: MICHIGAN “RINO’S” MANEUVERING TO REGAIN CONTROL OF STATE PARTY

Demands for the resignation of Michigan’s Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema may be far less spontaneous than initially portrayed. Last week, Agema waded into the gay marriage debate with a controversial Facebook post opposing legalization. Almost immediately thereafter, aspiring political consultant Dennis Lennox has been loudly leading the assault on Dave Agema. In repeated written outbursts, Lennox proclaimed there is “no room for Agema in the GOP”, accused Agema of being a “neo-Know Nothing adherent”, and called Agema an “ignorant bigot.”

Oddly enough, in his role as “columnist” Lennox failed to mention an important personal vested interest in his demands for an Agema resignation. Lennox failed to mention in his boisterous article that he served as one of Saul Anuzis’ most vocal supporters in Anuzis’ campaign for reelection as Republican National Committeeman. In the end, Dave Agema trounced Anuzis 69% to 31%, as many grassroots conservatives opposed Anuzis as insufficiently conservative.

And a little more about what kind of man Dave Agema is (the kind we want on the RNC)

CAIR: Michigan Governor Urged Not to Sign Anti-Islam Legislation

State Rep. Agema wants Michigan to require pledge, teaching of historical U.S. documents

Saul Anuzis on the other hand is a progressive scumbag who managed to get slapped by the RNC for using an official RNC letterhead to promote the national popular vote.

[a fool in paradise]

Ted Kennedy (who invented Borking) is dead. Call it what it is, a political witchhunt.

[cripplecreek]

And they're always so "concerned" about the future of the GOP.

Mich. RNC member: I won't resign for Facebook post (about statistics on homosexuals)

[RedMDer]

Please help Finish This
FReepathon THIS Month!!

[onyx]

Writer Jeffrey Lord, lost me on page 6.

I’ll go ahead and pronounce Michelle Bachmann INNOCENT.

[cripplecreek]

Her 57th birthday was yesterday.

[detective]

I’ve noticed Karl Rove and so many other Republicans are afraid to tell the truth about the corruption in Washington and the evil in the Obama Administration but they are quick to attack “Tea Partiers”, Conservatives, Sarah Palin etc.

[cripplecreek]

I call him Kapo Karl. He just wants concentration camp administration to like him and throw him a few extra crumbs.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Borking" is just Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #5.

Tried and true. And we fall for it every time.

[Third Person]

MILB.

[detective]

“I call him Kapo Karl”

LOL.