[nathanbedford]

Coming as this does on the heels of the inquiries made by Representative Michele Bachmann concerning Hillary Clinton's assistant chief of staff and her connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, it is appropriate to ask whether that connection will now be raised in this context.

Because people like John McCain have thrown Michele Bachmann and her fellow conservative representatives under the bus it is difficult for prominent conservatives to come to her defense which means that it difficult for those interested in the truth to raise issues and survive politically. It takes someone with the backbone-or the absence of any hope of future political office-like Newt Gingrich to stick his head above the parapet and risk being called McCarthyite.

It will be interesting to see if Michelle Bachmann herself has the courage to make the connection, if any, between Valerie Jarrett with her communist connections tempered by her residence in her youth in Iran, and Huma Mahmood Abedin the assistant Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Clinton's "body woman." If Bachmann does speak out, will she be again thrown under the bus? Will she be left to twist in the wind?

Few could blame Mrs. Bachmann if she keeps her head below the parapet because it is well known that she is # one on the list of Republicans to be knocked out of the House of Representatives and the charges of McCarthyism will fly thick and fast in Minnesota and there'll be no lack of money poured into the race by the national Democrat party.

Just as it was politically incorrect in 2008 to inquire into Obama's pedigree so it is probably unavailing is 2012 to inquire into the pedigree of his Associates. Who will come to the aid of the party?

These are real and substantial questions of national security.

[arasina]

Because people like John McCain have thrown Michele Bachmann and her fellow conservative representatives under the bus it is difficult for prominent conservatives to come to her defense which means that it difficult for those interested in the truth to raise issues and survive politically.

It's not the first time John McCain has thrown "someone" under the bus. Some people have even suggested that he threw his own election under the bus. He is either enormously incompetent or owned and operated by a political mafia of some kind.

[VR-21]

What’s so frustrating (and lamentable) about the fact that so few have learned that history (Soviet archives, Venona transcripts etc.) has for the most part vindicated McCarthy. It’s maddening to me, how leftists and their media can still use him as a cudgel against anyone who opposes them.

[1010RD]

I don’t think so. I think that McCain and other “centrists” attacking Bachmann actually help get the truth out. Obama’s policies, along with a worsening economy on his watch will do the rest.