{"id":184155,"date":"2012-07-19T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/19\/when-ed-fing-rollins-finds-a-republicans-political-statement-beyond-the-pale\/"},"modified":"2012-07-19T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T00:54:00","slug":"when-ed-fing-rollins-finds-a-republicans-political-statement-beyond-the-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/19\/when-ed-fing-rollins-finds-a-republicans-political-statement-beyond-the-pale\/","title":{"rendered":"When Ed F%$#ing Rollins Finds a Republican&#8217;s Political Statement Beyond the Pale\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/73a3M.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/73a3M.png\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>C. Megalodon<sup>*<\/sup><\/div>\n<p>You have not just jumped the shark, you have jumped C. Megalodon, on a unicycle, while wear nothing but piercings and a rose between your teeth.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0712\/78692.html\">Michelle Bachmann has managed to cross this event horizon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Rep. Michele Bachmann\u2019s former campaign manager has joined the bipartisan chorus criticizing the Minnesota Republican for questioning the loyalty of State Department aide Huma Abedin and alleging she has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades,\u201d Ed Rollins wrote in an op-ed for FOX News. \u201cThere is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. I have to say that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann\u2019s outrageous and false charges against a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin reaches that threshold.<br \/>\u2026\u2026\u2026<br \/>\u201cHaving worked for Congressman Bachman\u2019s campaign for president, I am fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty with her facts, but this is downright vicious and reaches the late Senator Joe McCarthy level,\u201d he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Generally, Republicans are busy saying that Joe McCarthy has been given an unfair rap by pinko historians, so this boggles the mind.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is whether the Beltway gasbags&nbsp; will start treating her like that crazy guy in a bath robe on the soapbox in the park.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">The largest shark, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Megaladon\">likely largest predator fish ever<\/a>.  It died out some 1.5 million years ago.  The Genus is still in dispute, between either Carcharodon (Great White) or Carcharocles (broad toothed Mako).  But in either case, you are jumping C. Megalodon, you have jumped the biggest shark ever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size C. Megalodon* You have not just jumped the shark, you have jumped C. Megalodon, on a unicycle, while wear nothing but piercings and a rose between your teeth. It appears that Michelle Bachmann has managed to cross this event horizon: Rep. Michele Bachmann\u2019s former campaign manager has joined the bipartisan chorus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,969,978,1021,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-evil","category-politics","category-religion","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}