Rachel Paulose plays seven victim cards

[babylonsister]

Rachel Paulose plays seven victim cards
Mon, November 19 2007, 2:30am
Follow-up

Good Monday morning Fellow Seekers of Wisdom and Truth,

The campaign to save Rachel Paulose’s job as U.S. attorney for Minnesota shifted into high gear last week. Perhaps she and her supporters believe that the decision will be made in the days ahead and want to rally some counterpressure. But the tactics and arguments employed make it even less likely that, if she keeps her job, she can reconcile with those she has alienated on her staff or function effectively as the leader of the office.

The Paulose campaign team seeks to portray her as a martyr and as a victim of most of the forms of prejudice and unfair smear tactics known to U.S. history. On Friday, Paulose herself became the spokesperson for the defense team.

The martyr piece is the argument that Paulose is under attack by dark forces inside the Justice Department who want to destroy Minnesota’s chief federal prosecutor as punishment for her aggressive prosecutions against human trafficking. That argument debuted on Wednesday. I’m still waiting for some evidence and a theory as to why these powerful unnamed Washington career-killers prefer that sex slavery go unprosecuted.

On Friday, Paulose, in a single 48-word sentence, played the race card, the gender card, the religion card, the age card, the ideology card, the Federalist Society card, and the Joe McCarthy card. That’s a large percentage of the cards available in the victimology deck.

Here’s the sentence, published Friday at National Review Online by Powerline blogger and Paulose friend Scott Johnson:

Paulose adds: “The McCarthyite hysteria that permits the anonymous smearing of any public servant who is now, or ever may have been, a member of the Federalist Society; a person of faith; and/or a conservative (especially a young, conservative woman of color) is truly a disservice to our country.”

Let’s parse that sentence.

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http://www.ericblackink.com/2007/11/19/rachel-paulose-plays-seven-victim-cards/

[SoCalDem]

1. Poor widdle rachel

[LaStrega]

2. Paulose steps down, takes D.C. job

Minnesota’s U.S. attorney, Rachel Paulose, quit today in wake of public comments last week.

http://www.startribune.com/10241/story/1561365.html

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