Ed Rollins, the onetime two-minute Bachmann man, writes for FoxNews.com a blood-curdling letter of astonishing disconnect. It specifically addresses, as I'm sure you already know, Michele B.'s "shock[ing]" irresponsibility in her character assassination of Secretary of State Clinton's high-ranking aide, Huma Abedin. Yet the terminology Rollins uses to describe Ms. Bachmann has been used to describe the GOP at large by responsible observers for at least a decade.
To wit, Rollins accuses Bachmann of being "outrageous," "false," "extreme," "dishonest," "downright vicious," "McCarthy[ite]" and "reckless," as well as possessing a "difficulty with ... facts" and being endowed by a "grievous lack of judgment."
All true, of course. Bachmann is ignorant, stupid, nihilistic, blindly doctrinaire, irrelevant to decency and reality and thus the very exemplar of contemporary GOP intolerance and hate. Indeed she ... is ... the ... GOP; she is Eric Cantor, she is Mitch McConnell, she is Louie Gohmert and Virginia Foxx and Jim DeMint and Rand Paul and Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
She is the embodiment of ideological lunacy and political unscrupulousness and a searing detestation of all that a socially just America can or ever could be. She is Mitt Romney's squalid ambition, she is the Republican-controlled Congress of America's sabotage, she is the Reince Priebus of talking-points fatuity.
She is everything the Republican Party aspired to, and has achieved. Of this, not a sober observer is unaware. Still, Rollins ponders in his letter that "The Republican Party ... is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate."
Ed, where the hell have you been?
He's just figuring this out now? Maybe he finally faced the fact that he can no longer deny reality.
Posted by: AnneJ | July 19, 2012 at 10:45 AM
No, she is their needed mascot to make the rest of them look close to sane in comparison.
Posted by: You Don't Say | July 19, 2012 at 10:53 AM
I believe he has been conducting an extensive gastrointestinal endoscopy utilizing only his own head. On the plus side he seems to have discovered what is making him sick.
Posted by: Peter G | July 19, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Did not PM say something yesterday about the GOP primary being a boxing match of a lightweight against a lot of featherweights?
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | July 19, 2012 at 01:22 PM
Rollins and all of the other republican power brokers have known about the crazy in their party, but they have failed to act. This has allowed the crazy to take root within the party. The reason the republicans have failed to address the crazy is that they harnessed the power of this group of individuals to win the House in 2010. They knew who/what people like Bachmann were like, so I'm not buying Rollins' claim that he didn't know this was happening within his own party. He did. He sat his behind up on Fox News and cheered the crazies on.
Posted by: majii | July 19, 2012 at 05:00 PM