It seems Michele Bachmann has been hard at work (with a little help from Fox News). But how do we feel about having a Rep. that Time Magazine mocks, saying “it’s not sporting or even reasonable to expect [her] to make sense”; and whose “wider background of knowledge” Salon describes as going “from the conservative blog RedState — led by a guy whose idea of a brilliant political tactic is sending fake dog poop to a Democratic congressman — to the WSJ’s notoriously ideological editorial page and then to the IBD editorial page, which is sort of a poor man’s WSJ for people completely uninterested in anything but a strict conservative line”?
Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., is still awaiting an apology from Bachmann for the use of Holocaust images in signs carried at her tea-party protest. See his YouTube video.
Still, the woman has been hitting the headlines full force. And now she has mainstream media speculating over her ambitions. Meanwhile, Taryll Clark sets out to depose her.
16 Reader Comments
10:46 am
Jesus tells me she has nowhere to go. And he’s right. The only district in Minnesota that could possibly elect her is one drawn to connect all of the most conservative regions of the state; and even then, I think you need the help of Minnesotans’ penchant of “genuineness” – I really don’t think the voters of the sixth are as conservative as she is.
That district will cease to exist in two years anyways; it will be a fight for her to remain so much as a congressperson then. Governor or Senator? Not in Minnesota. Maybe if she moved. Yay!
11:08 am
In Bachmann’s district, weren’t both her elections relatively close? Hard to call the 6th “the most conservative” if nearly half the voters cast ballots the other way.
11:24 am
No, I don’t think they were all that close – gaps of at least 10 points I think, even after all of her crazy shenanigans. Plus you have to balance it by the conservatism of the candidate. You’re talking about a district where 55% of the voters went for someone that takes her cues directly from God. She would never be elected in any other district, even the ones represented by Republicans. I thought it was pretty commonly accepted that the sixth was the most conservative in the state.
12:44 pm
Obama’s big tactic in dealing with this stuff works well: righteous indignation. A big “really?” response to her at a debate, a “have you no shame” commercial — these things would be incredibly effective.
The (very) few liberals who get moralistic against these nutjobs do well, those who respond with technocratic BS do not. Reasoning with voters in that district does little, as her previous challengers have shown. The DFL needs a credible moderate, who can take her on strongly and shame voters against voting for her.
1:39 pm
Politico’s Glenn Thrush questions whether Bachmann broke House rules with her tea party protest.
2:04 pm
Bachmann seems determined to move on to “the next big thing” and the far, far, far right seems just crazy enough to Palinize her in 2012.
4:14 pm
“Bachmann broke House rules with her tea party protest.”
Well, CNN has the reason why.She seems very confident.
“Since Bachmann’s arrival in Washington in 2007, she’s grabbed attention not so much for what she’s accomplished as for what she has said. Her statements are sometimes debatable, occasionally incendiary, always quotable. In October, she told conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation that she refused to “cower in fear,” and worry about media chatter. ‘”They’re irrelevant,” she said of mainstream journalists. “And I don’t play by their rules.”‘
4:16 pm
Link
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/11/michele.bachmann/index.html
4:27 pm
Rogue = “An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.”
At least you can’t accuse Palin or Bachmann of false advertising.
4:37 pm
She did pretty much the same in the MN Senate.
4:41 pm
Do you people have no shame, Bachman is the next Messiah and has risen. The only thing that can stop her now it the rapture when she is taken to heaven by god with all of his followers.
The sixth district is full of rich rednecks as a Friend of mine pointed out that lives there. God guns and guts that’s all you need to run on in the sixth. A very simple formula for winning. The sixth is full of right wing nut bags and the fourth is full of left wing nut bags. Our choices in this state are the usual ideological sheep.
4:44 pm
I think that definition leaves out a few things, ‘Nood. What about Robin Hood. Wasn’t he a rogue? Crash Davis in Field of DreamsThe problem with you guys is: You have no sense of romance. I think roguishness is often used in playful manner. Disreputable, but in a charming kind of way.
4:44 pm
@swandog: Are you obsessed with sheep?
4:45 pm
Crash Davis was in Bull Durham.Sorry about that
5:07 pm
Crash Davis was so rogue, he switched teams.
No, Robin Hood wasn’t a rogue. By stealing from the rich to give to the poor, he was either a criminal or a “Librul.” Maybe both.
11:28 am
“The sixth district is full of rich rednecks as a Friend of mine pointed out that lives there.”
Not all of us are rich, swandoggie.