IF YOU REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH
By Mowbray on Uncategorized
Even people normally inclined to support Bolton seem to be getting sucked into the Dems unrelenting character assassination. A conservative journalist (who shall remain nameless) said to me privately, “While I’m not comfortable with someone who abuses his staff…” Though he supports Bolton, he seemed to be taking it as a given that Bolton is mean. Granted, he’s not been following everything terribly closely, but nor does any average American. What the Dems understand better than anyone is that the echo chamber approach creates a white noise, and that white noise then becomes accepted fact.
Here’s the key question: where were character witnesses speaking in support of Bolton before the committee? The GOP staff — or maybe Lugar himself, who is no fan of Bolton, but believes in giving the President his choice — must think that “balance” is having Bolton vs. four very loud critics. Remember what helped salvage Clarence Thomas’ nomination: Phyllis Berry Myers and other character witnesses who made clear that Anita Hill was not describing the Clarence Thomas they knew.
If the Senate Foreign Relations committee been on its game, here’s what the country would know by now: Bolton is not cuddly or touchy feely, but he is an old-fashioned gentleman. People who’ve worked for him have enormous loyalty — not a small thing in the warped beltway culture. People who’ve seen him from a distance — but closer than Carl “conservative to the core, but not too conservative to cut checks for Charlie Rangell and John Kerry” Ford — have told me that they never once saw (or heard of) Bolton mistreating, let alone “abusing,” any subordinates. And if this humble journalist, as one solitary guy, can track down people who’ve worked for or with or around him, why didn’t Lugar’s committee?
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