Posted on 12/14/2012 3:50:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Before Democrats start to re-write history and play the race card for their own personal political gain, let's just be clear: It was the left -- not the right -- that took Susan Rice out.
Certainly, Republicans like John McCain and Susan Collins had issues with Rice, and made that clear (although McCain also "softened" his opposition). But is there any thinking person out there who believes the Obama administration would have accepted her withdrawal if opposition to her could have been portrayed as some kind of right wing "dog whistle"? Please.
What ultimately did Rice in was criticism from the likes of Maureen Dowd (twice -- here and here) and Dana Milbank and Lloyd Grove and in the Atlantic magazine(both here and here) and in Foreign Policy even in a piece on the hallowed (to liberals) op/ed page of the New York Times. Hillary Clinton let her opposition to Rice be known. Those are the kind of opponents that a Democrat nominee simply cannot overcome -- not a couple of Republican senators when the administation's customary M.O. is simply to attribute everything to race and gender.
Note also that the Republican opposition was based specifically on Rice's misleading statements in the wake of Benghazi. It was her critics on the left, in contrast, who highlighted gauzier, more personal issues, characterizing Rice as someone afflicted with a supposed "personality disorder" (Grove), who is "ill-equipped to be the nation's top diplomat" because of her "shoot-first tendency" and "pugilism" (Milbank), with a "bull-in-the-china-shop reputation" (Dowd).
The effort to pin the race/gender card on the GOP had already begun, with Ben Smith writing about why the Repubilican "war"on Susan Rice held political risk, and after her withdrawal, the predictable Andrea Mitchell (below) pulling out the stops:
Andrea Mitchell On Susan Rice: "Woman Of Color Has Been Forced Out"
So again, before Obama sycophants try to turn Rice withdrawal lemons into racist-sexist-GOP lemonade, let's be clear for the record: It wasn't the Republicans who forced Rice to back out.
I do not believe for one minute that lord McCain was ignorant as to the purpose of the Benghazi mission. Lord McCain was Obama’s biggest cheerleader in the take down of Colonel Q.
There, fixed it.
You of course are correct literally. However, I would not mind seeing a liberal food fight over who really masterminded the reason why the Senate would not approve her nomination.... Flowery words like war hero would be a distraction to the left and usage of those words might awaken the sleeping ‘right’.
Make no mistake, she did not make this decision on her own. She was TOLD to bail out.
She was used. Look back at her facial expressions, there are none. She didn’t really want the position.
Rice was a tool to portray the repubs as racist women haters.
The campaign hasn’t stopped.
She is still on the team and will turn up somewhere else out of the public eye.
Like Van Jones.
John McCain and Susan Collins are part of “the left”.
Susan Collins, probably, but if you check John McCain always votes with his party, the Republicans
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Dang, this Liebau lady has written a real zinger here. It reads like a tightly edited fight scene in a kung fu movie.
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Obama, where was he?
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Obama, where was he?
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Too bad Rice is not the SOS. She would have been a constant reminder to the Americans of the Benghazi scandal.
This is not politics before country, because anyone obozo puts there will be a disastrous SOS anyway.
The left is smart in this case.
Kerry at State, Hagel at DOD. Obama’s strategy appears to be to exploit Senatorial Courtesy to avoid any bruising confirmation battles.
BTTT. The GOP should be shouting this from the rooftops.
Interesting FYI - thanks.
We need more people like her who can write with a razor blade.
“Susan Collins, probably, but if you check John McCain always votes with his party, the Republicans”
Always? Here’s the latest on McCain:
“John McCain, Colin Powell support expanding military abortions”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2968965/posts
“The bill now goes to committee where Sen. McCain has cast his lot with Senate Democrats.”
I am going by the Senate.gov sites. And if you noticed I said he votes mostly with the Republicans, I did not say always
Not trying to pick a fight here but as a matter of fact, you did say, "always".
John McCain always votes with his party, the Republicans
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