CNN’s Borger: Best Way to Defeat a Woman Is to Portray Her as ‘Emotional Wreck’

Mediaite - CNN ^ | May 20th, 2014 | Noah Rothman

[george76]

CNN’s Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger argued on Tuesday that the “war on women” is actually tenable politics. At least, it is when Democrats are that war’s prosecutors.

In a discussion regarding the uncovering of Oregon Republican U.S. Senate candidate Monica Wehby’s police records pertaining to past domestic disputes – records which were reportedly dug up by the state’s Democratic Party — Borger said that the Beaver State’s Democrats were merely playing smart politics. The surest way to make a female candidate toxic to persuadable voters, she said, is to portray that candidate as a basket case.

“What do you do when you don’t want a woman winning a Senate seat?” Borger said, channeling the frustration of a hypothetical imperiled incumbent. “You portray her as some kind of an emotional wreck, okay, who can’t possibly be trusted with the high office.”

[Secret Agent Man]

i thought it was to find someone that looks like her and make the character actor be a stupid idiot.

[henkster]

In other words, calling a liberal woman an emotional wreck is sexist, but calling a Conservative woman an emotional wreck is OK.

[Fuzz]

Probably a good way to defeat any opponent in an election would be to bring up their arrest records.

[Adder]

will certainly work for hitlery...there enough pics of her going off...

[DJ MacWoW]

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[TexasCajun]

Just watch or read all the trash Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann have had to endure over the years.

[null and void]

No kidding?

[null and void]

[2banana]

And just how did the press treat Sarah Palin?

Shall we review some SNL tapes?

[Nachum]

Ah, the old ‘nuts and sluts’ defense.

[Noamie]

Nothing is believable unless it has a basis in reality.

Wait, what are we talking about again?

[Bidimus1]

Because men with emotional problems tend to be promoted and advanced.. oh never mind

[MUDDOG]

It's not just women.

Ed Muskie was done in by crying outside the Manchester Union-Leader in 1972.

[Obadiah]

Personally, I think Gloria Borger is bossy.

[null and void]

Because men with emotional problems tend to be promoted and advanced.. oh never mind

[AU72]

There's no crying in politics.
I'm talking to you, Boehner.

[MUDDOG]

LOL! He is one.

[Political Junkie Too]

How about calling her a stumbling, falling down drunk?

-PJ

[stylin19a]

that got warren elected