Michele Bachmann aspires to be her own generation’s Joe McCarthy. But we don’t need to do six degrees of separation to prove that she’s insane. I wonder when her constituents will notice.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Apparently the people who vote for her are just as crazy as she is. Or they’re determined to vote for an R no matter how bizarre the candidate.
She speaks with religious fervor, and people who share her beliefs are conditioned to follow those types. Watch her eyes when she’s speaking to a crowd: they’re huge and spinning like pinwheels. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if at some point she dropped to the floor and started rolling around.
We mock these candidates, some of them so “out there” that it seems inconceivable (and I DO know what that word means) that anyone would actually vote for them. But they keep getting elected.
They’ll notice when she sprouts wings and flies.
anyone read this from Dick Halperin today? Status of Bain and Romney’s Tax Returns
hmm, the hack Halperin sounds nervous for hs BFF doesn’t he. dude is a hack but still…
Now that I think about it, there has been remarkably little Muslim-bashing from the right lately. I wonder why that is.
Because they fear it might ignite Mormon bashing, give some Christians the idea to tear into Mormonism–yes, this bigotry, disagreement, is as old as Joseph Smith himself. Religious affiliation has become a issue to cause shudders in the upper repugnant hierarchy, out of bounds, the base might get some wrong ideas—other kinds of taunting and persecution are, of course, fair game, see voter ID for example.
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More revelations sure to come and give ‘m a final whack on his (lacking) foreign policy. I would presume Romney will not venture farther than his beloved Israel. Confront Willard with his two large donors and turn it around as a liability: Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn. Romney is detached from Main Street and the poor in America.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Not sure if that’s quite the whole explanation, but you raise a good point: Mitt “Kolob” Romney isn’t exactly the ideal candidate for St George, slayer of anti-christian dragons.
Team Obama can be counted on to do the classy (and smart) thing and not so much as hint at the Mormonism issue, but R-Money is still left with a hell of a balancing act: almost literally every move he makes and every word he speaks conveying the merest hint of religious overtone has the potential to spark Xtian fundamentalist backlash.
It’s almost as if the GOP went out of their way to field a candidate least suited to taking on a “Marxist Kenyan Anti-colonialist Communist Stalinist Muslin (sic) with a deep-seated hatred for white folk did-I-mention-Kenyan” incumbent President. Almost.
Not making an attack on mormonism is not the “classy thing”. It is politically smart. Only a total moron would put his name on an attack on religion. Some will attack the Wearer of the Purple Undies, but those attacks will not have Obama’s name.
Classy=smart, in this context. You DID notice my parenthetical insert up there, didn’t you?
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Not surprised to find her in the rank and file of the likes of Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, David Horowitz and the Dutchman Geert Wilders. Doing Israel’s bidding …
See for full comment – Before or After Reagan’s Support of Mujahideen?
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."As we’ve come to expect from Bachmann, this more closely resembles six degrees Fahrenheit of excess fever in the brain at some point in her career.
Ron Reagan’s gift to the conversation yesterday, “If crazy were people, Michele Bachmann would be China”
As the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported today, Bachmann is the best funded of all MN candidates of either party, and her funding comes mostly from out-of-state. She will be hard to beat.