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Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 7:37:07 AM

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This is the second assertion making the rounds in the media that Bachmann is a serious threat, and that the left would be foolish to dismiss her. There was a similar discussion about that issue on Bill Maher's show last Friday, with Chris Matthews claiming she will win Iowa.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 7:41:24 AM

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Worth some bandwidth:

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don't laugh.

It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics...

Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. "It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world!" she gushed. "You are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard."

I said lunch, not launch! But don't laugh. Don't do it. And don't look her in the eyes; don't let her smile at you. Michele Bachmann, when she turns her head toward the cameras and brandishes her pearls and her ageless, unblemished neckline and her perfect suburban orthodontics in an attempt to reassure the unbeliever of her non-threateningness, is one of the scariest sights in the entire American cultural tableau. She's trying to look like June Cleaver, but she actually looks like the T2 skeleton posing for a passport photo. You will want to laugh, but don't, because the secret of Bachmann's success is that every time you laugh at her, she gets stronger.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 7:46:10 AM

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I have no regard that this women is going to be nominated, much less elected, to the presidency.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 7:58:26 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: kalikshama

Worth some bandwidth:

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don't laugh.

It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics...

Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. "It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world!" she gushed. "You are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard."

I said lunch, not launch! But don't laugh. Don't do it. And don't look her in the eyes; don't let her smile at you. Michele Bachmann, when she turns her head toward the cameras and brandishes her pearls and her ageless, unblemished neckline and her perfect suburban orthodontics in an attempt to reassure the unbeliever of her non-threateningness, is one of the scariest sights in the entire American cultural tableau. She's trying to look like June Cleaver, but she actually looks like the T2 skeleton posing for a passport photo. You will want to laugh, but don't, because the secret of Bachmann's success is that every time you laugh at her, she gets stronger.

I tried, but no way I can keep from laughing

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 8:06:52 AM

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Bachmann could very well gain the nomination, the regressive party has been taken over the crazies in recent years. She'll never win the general election, however. there are simply far too many sane independents.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 8:25:31 AM

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I think the left is wrong to dismiss her out of hand, but I also feel she stands little chance of winning the nomination. Sure, she'll probably pick up a ton of support in the Midwest and Bible belt where people actually believe her American Taliban BS, and the right wing establishment/RNC will happily endorse her because she's stupid and malleable enough to do what they tell her to do, but I don't think she stands a chance of winning the support of moderate Republicans let alone the undecided 8% in the general should she be nominated unless something dramatic happens economically in the next fifteen months.

You know, like a complete economic collapse engineered by the Republicans in Congress through something like a refusal to raise the debt ceiling or pass a budget causing what little global confidence in the dollar as reserve currency to tank, because they're so obsessed with winning the presidency next year they'll do anything and everything they must to do it (as per comments by Mitch McConnell and John Boehner made shortly after the 112th Congressional session began).

Either way, I'm very interested to see how the Republican primary season plays out. There are maybe two electable candidates in the Republican field in my opinion (Romney and Huntsman, the latter of which could absolutely curbstomp Obama), neither of which are acceptable to the teabaggers, and the rest are just clowns who stand a snowballs' chance.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 8:28:48 AM

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She stands no chance whatsoever of being elected president, why shouldn't the left dismiss her out of hand?

Are you going to the 1 week long marathon on the uses of tinfoil hatting in political-religious cavern societies within the teabagging party, or you going to dismiss it out of hand.

Ja, that's sort of where I am at.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 8:40:10 AM

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I don't think she stands a chance of winning the support of moderate Republicans let alone the undecided 8% in the general should she be nominated unless something dramatic happens economically in the next fifteen months. You know, like a complete economic collapse

Wouldn't this help Romney or Huntsman instead?

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 8:56:36 AM

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This article has me rolling! (And afraid.)

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?page=3

Snickering readers in New York or Los Angeles might be tempted by all of this to conclude that Bachmann is uniquely crazy. But in fact, such tales by Bachmann work precisely because there are a great many people in America just like Bachmann, people who believe that God tells them what condiments to put on their hamburgers, who can't tell the difference between Soviet Communism and a Stafford loan, but can certainly tell the difference between being mocked and being taken seriously. When you laugh at Michele Bachmann for going on MSNBC and blurting out that the moon is made of red communist cheese, these people don't learn that she is wrong. What they learn is that you're a dick, that they hate you more than ever, and that they're even more determined now to support anyone who promises not to laugh at their own visions and fantasies.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 9:00:01 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: EternalHoH

This is the second assertion making the rounds in the media that Bachmann is a serious threat, and that the left would be foolish to dismiss her. There was a similar discussion about that issue on Bill Maher's show last Friday, with Chris Matthews claiming she will win Iowa.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622

Only if she slips something into our water supply that makes us as crazy as she is.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 9:03:48 AM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDeOoS8b0zQ

Sorry, LT....it needs sayin, and it fits.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 9:38:15 AM

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

Wouldn't this help Romney or Huntsman instead?

They'd have to get nominated first.

The way I see it, the GOP has seriously painted themselves into a corner for 2012. They really whipped their lunatic fringe into a frenzy in 2009-10, to the point the lunatic fringe took on a life of their own and managed to usurp the Christian dominionists as the Republican base. The tea party, if anything, has proven itself to be highly motivated and active if not terribly intelligent, internally consistent, or capable of critical thought, and simply put any Republican candidate that wants to get nominated is going to have to pass the tea party litmus test. The unintended consequence of that being the moderates and undecided 8% are going to look at the candidate and say "oh hell no, they're nuts/stupid!".

Let's be honest, two things sunk the McCain/Palin ticket: the 2008 economic meltdown, and Sarah Palin. The American electorate in a highly uncharacteristic moment of critical thought strongly rejected her as anyone that can, or should be, anywhere near the nuclear football.

Honestly, this may be restating the obvious but I think the real power play here is intentionally tanking the economy and turning the 2012 election into an economic referendum, banking on voters overlooking the tea party/moderate dissonance and fact the Republicans did it. Seriously, as I mentioned McConnell and Boehner are already on record saying that almost word-for-word.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 10:09:03 AM

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She stands no chance whatsoever of being elected president, why shouldn't the left dismiss her out of hand?

This is why she should be taken seriously:
The voter suppression laws so recently passed in state slike Ohio and Wisconsin.
Obama's failure to satisfy his progressive base which will cause many to stay home or cast protest votes for third party candidates.
The struggling economy which historically causes people to vote against incumbents,
Citizen's United
Evangelicals know they're one SCOTUS nomination from overturning Roe and Griswold.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 10:32:02 AM

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You think people will stay home? I have a feeling we may be headed for another remarkable turnout.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 10:34:09 AM

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I believe that there will be a massive 'refudiation' of the miserly, worthless, do nothing, hard right in the house.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 10:36:26 AM

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I believe more than a few people voted, less FOR our president but against the Republican ticket combo pack. I don't think it was a huge group but I know it existed. I believe a Republican ticket, with Bachmann on it, would increase that voting population.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 10:39:14 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: DomYngBlk

quote:

ORIGINAL: kalikshama

Worth some bandwidth:

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don't laugh.

It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics...

Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. "It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world!" she gushed. "You are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard."

I said lunch, not launch! But don't laugh. Don't do it. And don't look her in the eyes; don't let her smile at you. Michele Bachmann, when she turns her head toward the cameras and brandishes her pearls and her ageless, unblemished neckline and her perfect suburban orthodontics in an attempt to reassure the unbeliever of her non-threateningness, is one of the scariest sights in the entire American cultural tableau. She's trying to look like June Cleaver, but she actually looks like the T2 skeleton posing for a passport photo. You will want to laugh, but don't, because the secret of Bachmann's success is that every time you laugh at her, she gets stronger.

I tried, but no way I can keep from laughing

I thought you wanted to fuck her, not laugh at her.

by the way, wb

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 10:41:33 AM

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I thought he wanted to fuck Palin.... maybe a threesome is in his future?

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 10:42:45 AM

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Well, he aint gonna get mom and daughter Palin if he's sniffing around Bachmann, they ain't that kinda poly.

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RE: Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann - 6/23/2011 10:43:30 AM

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Hey, I bet for enough money, they would be.

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