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.”

[ViLaLuz]

A 70-year old LADY? Nooooo, that ain’t no lady.

[mjp]

It represents a calculated shift from campaigning on the issues to campaigning on character,

Moral judgement of a person's character and conduct in necessary to distinguish the individuals who choose to recognize reality from the those who choose to evade it. Such knowledge is necessary on practical grounds, in order to plan one's actions and protect one's interests.

[LadyBuck]

CNN oughta know about female emotional wrecks, just have someone ask Carol Costello about her “friendship” with CBS’s Bob Orr...

It’s an inside joke that only you, me & a million Columbus, Ohio tv viewers are in on.

Heh

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art., Gloria Borger quote]
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.

Thanks, Gloria, good one. We'll remember that when Her Thighness, Empress Hildebeast I Cankles, declares her incumbency.

[jospehm20]

Most liberals, female or male, are emotional wrecks.

[jospehm20]

I like the PIAPS nickname for her.