It is not only the media bashing her constantly. It’s decent people who don’t stand up for her and shout the bad guys down.

Restraint, in that case, is not a virtue. It is a cooperation with evil out of cowardice or laziness or opportunism.

Not standing up for a person like her when she is attacked? There is noting good about that. Nothing. People should be ashamed.

Michelle Bachmann’s conduct in Congress won her few friends and the distrust of even some allies. She was a showboat for the cameras and quite strongly outspoken in ways that pleased her partisans but did nothing to convince the undecided, much less her opponents. She was anything but a workhorse in committees or caucuses, and as Jennifer Rubin notes, did not attach herself to an issue in which she could make a difference.

As such, she limited her influence in Congress and the country as a whole, which meant that she did little to advance a conservative agenda in the real world, outside of speeches and television appearances. Which is a shame, because she had the potential to be so much more, with a little application and patience and focus.

“Let’s face it: Alinsky wins again. Isolate it; Personalize it. Demonize it.”

Quoted for truth. And they are able to achieve that goal by means of their near-monopoly on the media.

I’m compelled, as always, to compare the GOP’s brain-racking as to the appropriate message with the same by the people responsible for my country’s PR effort. In both cases, I say: It’s good and fitting to think about the best message you can convey, but you mustn’t lose sight of the reality that there’s an enemy media blockade that means even the best message won’t be allowed to get out. That’s in addition to the fact that this enemy near-monopoly on the media is instrumental to their drip-drip-drip indoctrination of the public as well as swift demonization of targets like Palin and Bachmann (and my entire country).

The trouble is, all legal ways of dislodging the ProgLeftist stranglehold on the media are too slow. I wish I knew of a way that’s both legal and quick, since I’m done waiting for Godot to save the day.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Sorry to See Michele Bachmann Go
Andrew Klavan
PJMedia.com
May 29th, 2013 – 11:04 am

Once, when I was attending a David Horowitz Freedom Center event – in Florida, I think it was – I wandered into a private meeting between Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and a handful of the center’s big donors. I can’t remember why they let me stay. I think I agreed to clean out the ashtrays or something. Anyway, it was fairly early in Obama’s first term and Michele was outlining her views on the economy and what she considered the proper Republican response to the onslaught of tried-and-false government solutions coming out of the administration.

The woman I heard speaking in that room was as sharp as any politician I’ve ever heard, and a lot sharper than most. Concise, realistic, clear-eyed, strategic – and with a grasp of economic realities that made the president look just plain stupid, which I don’t believe he is.

She was brave too. In the speech she had given at the event, she said, in effect, “Why should we be afraid of expressing our opinions? We’re the ones in the right!” I shouted out, “Sing it, sister!” Which is not like me. But how true is that? Let me help you: it’s very true. And she was as good as her word in the House.

Look, I won’t pretend I agree with her on every issue. I’m to the left of her socially – and certainly, where she sees a homosexual menace threatening the nation, I see gay colleagues, relatives and friends and wish them well.

But our dishonest media used her social opinions and a few meaningless gaffes to depict her as some sort of crazed extremist. She’s not. She’s a smart, tough lady with more sense in her head than any six Nancy Pelosis and more integrity, I suspect, than a dozen Harry Reids. I’m not sure why she’s decided not to run for another term, but I admire her and like her and I’m sorry to see her go.

I liked Michele Bachmann a LOT when she’d go one-on-one with Sean Hannity on my drive home from work back east. I remember a few of these. I liked her and I wanted to love her, but that was not meant to be.

Others here (especially Ann, 4:27 pm) have detailed her problems. Michele Bachmann simply was not ready for prime time — like Sarah Palin (truth be told). Both are very bright, very capable women, and both of whom I liked and wanted to love (politically). But intellectual and emotional honesty just wouldn’t let me do it.

Both were skewered, most often unfairly, by the enemedia. But that does not mitigate the fact that they were not ready for the limelight, for the vetting, much less for the proctological examination the enemedia had waiting for them.

The attacks worked because the Left is vicious and the right is cowardly.

She is a “loose cannon” because people said things like, “She’s a loose cannon”.

Bachmann and Palin are what feminists always said women could be. Now we know that “feminists” were not the least interested in women at all. That was a ruse. They are interested in making more money and destroying men and often both. The rest is total unadulterated complete and perfect hogwash.

A nice and deserved goodbye from the Powerline folks.

Rubin thinks her career should serve as a warning. REALLY. It should serve as a template. She never lost a race, was honest and forthright over political (aka theatrical), and will go on to well deserved things.

I think I detect the sniff of envy.

Rubin is disingenuous, at best, when she calls Bachmann foolish. She is certainly self-serving. Often being attacked by media is precisely an indication that you are right in a conservative sense.

I guess what Rubin, along with others, really means is that Bachmann should have been more of a McCain style maverick; that is one who attacks their own party.