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God, she's such a wingnut. I wonder what color the sky is in her world.

Funny, there's nothing about it on snopes.com.

Moreover, wouldn't that be an "exurban legend"?

Lime Green? Is Michelle Bachman one of the Lizard People?

She's kinda precious, like a cute dumb puppy, until she shits on the carpet.

I'm never quite sure which is crazier Bachmann, or the craziness she inspires.

She gives those bastards at WISpeak plenty of ammunition!

You'd go through a lot of bike tires trying to get around, vlado. It's kinda spread out.

I would like to nominate Bachmann for the most 1984-like representative in Congress!

One day she says one thing, the next it is the opposite.

She needs to get the ministry of Truth to do its job and touch-up her TV appearance so that she never really said that.

Oh and of course labeling people "anti-american" is key. How can you argue with that.

I'm convinced that Michelle Bachmann has access to a secret stash of laudanum. That would explain oh so much.

Given how poorly the GOP did elsewhere, did Bachmann actually benefit from the GOP pulling her funding during the election?

I think beth26 is new round these parts. Welcome!

The Republican Party needs all the members it can find, vlado4. Kwatt can show you the secret handshake.

G rote, I think both the GOP funding pullout and the flood of new money to El Tinklenberg came too late in the election cycle to have a huge impact.

I just noticed the italics HTML tags are turned off... can we get those back? Good for quotes.

I was commenting on vlado, there Dave.

Still getting used to the text editing functions.

Yeah, I don't like their vision for this country, either. They both hate cities, it seems to me, plain and simple. You could take any number of quotes from either of them to back this up. The only use they have for cities or the people that live there is to make them out to be an alien, ethnicy, elitist, un-American "other." They both align themselves with and celebrate this fictitious vision of a Christian agrarian exceptionalist America. Which is nonsense, especially considering what percentage of this country lives in urban areas.

Bachmann and Palin are bound to be what George Wallace was to the Democrats in the late 1960s and '70s -- a weird, radical fringe that slowly and painfully drops out of the mainstream.

Yeah sadly the rural areas of the US are fairly bleak.

Having visited MN, Iowa, Wisconsin, I can't say I am too impressed with "real America".

If industrial farming and monoculture is what you are into go for it.

The small-town, main street stuff I believe has been mostly lost.

The NYTimese and Daily show did reports on Waslla main street and it looked like a exurban shit-hole with 4 lanes of traffic, surrounded by Target, WalMart, Home Depot.

If that is small-town real American, I'll pass and stay in the gheto inner city with the rest of the sodomites.

Small towns aren't for everyone, vlado. I grew up in one. But I'm fairly certain The Daily Show doesn't give you the last word on small town life.

"I don't know why centrism is obnoxious. What's obnoxious the ragged edge of hysteria."

Rat, are you trying to call Bachmann a centrist? Because even the largest logical leap won't get you there. She's far right, especially from a social standpoint. Personally I believe she's an affront to American values and politics, but the painful truth is that she represents the attitudes of the majority of her district fairly well. She loses in Stillwater and St. Cloud (narrowly for the latter), but the rest of the district is a rather distinctive step to the right. With no pelvic thrust.

When did the expression go from yellow dog to blue dog? Back when I was a kid folks said yellow dog, now all I hear is blue dog for party loyalty. Maybe yellow dog makes people think of Old Yeller and they choke up.

I don't know that anybody has ever complained about you espousing the need for fiscal responsibility. If people are driven crazy by anything, it's that you are a self-professed democrat who often seems more at ease with right wing talking points.

Bachmann is going to end up talking herself right out of office. I say let her.

The only way that happens is if people react to her. If people just chuckle, and look the other way with a "there she goes again," nothing will change. People have to make others aware that her comments are offensive and unacceptable.

Considering the entirety of her district, I'm sure as long as she keeps preaching the good word and keeping her foot on the necks of Teh Gays, they'll keep voting her on in. Nothing short of some sort of sex scandal will change anyone's mind in Stearns county.

You might be surprised to learn that El Tinklenberg beat Bachmann in both Sterns and Benton counties, aliecat.

He also did very well in his hometown of Blaine and in Stillwater.

It was the rest of the 6th that voted for Bachmann.

The difference is that in Birmingham they love their governor.

Sweet Home, Anoka County, ooo, oo, oo!

Everybody sing the Song of the Sixth!

I hope the liberal elite will remember, CD6 don't need them around anyhow.

(guitar solo)

I was sitting here for like seven minutes trying to riff on the Neil Young/Lynnyrd Skynnyrd bit and came up with nothin'. I was like David Brent trying to come up with another dessert pun.