Crazy politician watch: Michele Bachmann

[Armand Tanzarian]

To avoid starting a new thread every week or so, here's a thread dedicated to the Upper Midwest's own crazy bitch.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/michele-bachmann-i-want-p_n_178156.html

So, Shane, aqualung, Oriet, etc. you got your guns yet?

[Oriet]

No, but she makes me more inclined to get one... to protect myself from her and her ilk.

[MozMode]

She's fucking insane. Seriously.

[Trevelyan]

Sadly, this is all the Republicans have left to them. They gambled all their credibility in the last election and they lost. No one was interested in scare topics like gays and terrorists in the last election. Obama wouldn't play ball with the whole you're only running cause you're black, which turned into, you're not black enough, which turned into, somehow you are playing the race card even though we can't figure out how.

As such, the Republicans, while they didn't encourage this type of behavior, neither did they DISCOURAGE it. That being the whole, Obama is a muslim, his birth certificate is fake, etc. all of the was fueled by fundies. The Republicans did nothing about it thinking that it would help them and it didn't. Now they are stuck with people like this lady. If they come out against her and those like her, *cough*Rush*cough* actively, they would finally have to admit they are a pack of lieing hypocrites and they'd rather risk seeming like crazies than do that.

[Paradox]

They've stuck to their base. This is their base. This is all they have left. They've set themselves up as the party of rich, white, straight, Christian men. Most Americans are not rich, white, straight, Christian men, and most Americans seem to realize it now too.

Unless they jettison the crazy elements of their party like the Democrats did back in '47, the Republican party may well become a permanent minority.

[m52nickerson]

Was this the crazy women that called for a investigation into congress to find people who were anti-American?

[Paradox]

Yes. She got re-elected.

[m52nickerson]

I know she got re-elected, I don't understand it.

[Hades]

I've been seeing calls to arms a lot lately from republicans and fundies. There's nothing more terrifying than an angry and irrational zealot draped in ammo.

[ironbite]

the worst thing is....she could have been talking about having her people armed and dangerous with knowlege. BUT SHE'S NOT!

Ironbite-what is wrong with people?

[Damen]

Anyone else noticed this part?

Bachmann has encouraged resistance against President Obama before, saying that the Republican party needs "to do everything we can to thwart [the Democrats] at every turn to make sure that they aren't able to, for all time, secure a power base that for all time can never be defeated."

So basically what she's saying is "To hell with bipartisanship and actually helping people, we just have to be in power."

What a cunt.

[devilschaplain2]

Oh yeah, I know that crazy bitch, she's the one who said she wanted to hunt down un-American people in the House and the Senate. What a wacko.

[ldm]

If these people could actually come up with a tangible argument as to why they oppose Obama's policies that would be one thing, but she didn't say once exactly what upset her about this.

You don't get any support, respect or credibility by just frothing at the mouth.

[m52nickerson]

Mar 25, 2009 4:12:27 GMT -5 ldm said:

If these people could actually come up with a tangible argument as to why they oppose Obama's policies that would be one thing, but she didn't say once exactly what upset her about this.

You don't get any support, respect or credibility by just frothing at the mouth.

Tangible arguments take to much time and are to difficult for the average republican to understand. Far easier to call Obama a socialist because that sounds bad!

[funkenstein]

Of course, calling Obama a socialst wouldn't sound half as bad if the idiots who were calling him that even knew what the hell socialism IS.