Here on Earth, meanwhile, the guilty are bent to the will of a marauding Satan who appears at first in the guise of a smooth-talking, handsome, educated, pro-government, superficially pacifist, internationalist politician named Nicolae Carpathia — basically, Barack Obama.
Bachmann has ties to the Left Behind crowd and has even said that Beverly LaHaye, wife of LB co-author and fundamentalist godfather Tim LaHaye, was her inspiration for entering politics. As Bachmann has told and retold her story as one of divine inspiration, she has recast her biography in ever more grandiose directions. But in — 10 years after any of her foster children had been in her home — Bachmann was talking as though she was still dashing home from Congress to cook for them.
So I go to the grocery store and buy a lot of food. It is difficult to tell whether this sort of thing is delusion, artifice or both. It was the same in October , when Bachmann went on Hardball With Chris Matthews and effectively accused both her fellow members of Congress and soon-to-be-president Barack Obama of being witches who should be thrown in a lake to see if they sank from lack of patriotism. Since arriving in Congress, she has been a human tabloid-copy machine, spouting one copy-worthy lunacy after another.
Most significantly, she cannily positioned herself as the congressional champion of the Tea Party; last summer she formed a Tea Party caucus, which she now leads. At the republican debate at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire on June 13th, which marked the unofficial beginning of the GOP presidential race, Bachmann wiped the floor with the other candidates — admittedly not a terribly difficult thing to do, given that this may be the sorriest group of presidential hopefuls ever assembled.
Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty looked like a bunch of rumpled businessmen in a subway car watching an old lady get mugged, each waiting for the other to do something about it.
With a little imagination, you can even see a clear path for her to the nomination. Though she outraged Des Moines Republicans by blowing off a party dinner in late May, she had already visited the state four times this year and scored key endorsements there. Pawlenty and Bachmann have tangled for years over a variety of issues ranging from school standards to health care to a cigarette tax.
Even other Republicans, it seems, are making the mistake of laughing at Bachmann. It could happen. Michele Bachmann has found the flaw in the American Death Star. She has brilliantly piloted a media system that is incapable of averting its eyes from a story, riding that attention to an easy conquest of an overeducated cultural elite from both parties that is far too full of itself to understand the price of its contemptuous laughter.
And to them, it turns out, we suck enough to make anyone a contender. Illustration by Victor Juhasz. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. I think this is encouraging : When Minnesota Rep. Unfortunately, the message most Republicans get on the record is more in line with George Will's encomium to Bachmann : For example, appearing on MSNBC's "Hardball" 18 days before last year's election, she made the mistake of taking Chris Matthews's bait and speculating about whether Barack Obama and some other Democrats have "anti-American" views.
Michele Bachmann is f ckng the Republican Party. Super pissed. Michele Bachmann is not going to win the Republican primary. Rick Perry is the de-facto, and inevitable, winner of the Republican primary. Obviously and hopefully too extreme for the party, Bachmann is going to drag Perry through the electoral mud. And while I think Perry may and disastrously for any free-thinking, informed American have a real shot at winning the general, he will be a shell of a candidate once he takes on the brilliant and eloquent Obama.
So…while I love the idea of a woman giving the political world a real shot in the arm at the podium, Michele Bachmann is going to isolate and divide the Republican Party and its shot at the Presidency. Her most important message was to justify all-out opposition to Obama — otherwise, America would crumble.
Racism is ugly. You hate racism, I hate racism," she told Sean Hannity in July Obama's spending showed his "infantilism," she said in September , but on Election Day, " Liberty will be refreshed in our country. Establishment Republicans didn't just like this message, they made it a strategy. Instead of negotiating over health care reform in , they fought to stop it from passing. They failed. They tried to repeal it. They tried to get it overturned by the Supreme Court.
They failed there, too. Stop Obama at all costs — that was the message of Republican leaders: " The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in October
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