Bachmann: Tea Party represents 90% of Americans

Minnesota congresswoman and GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann says the Tea Party represents “virtually 90 percent of America.”

Evidence to the contrary aside, a sample taken from the crowd of roughly 150 supporters at Patriots Point in front of the aircraft carrier Yorktown on Friday might have suggested she was right. In marked contrast to Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign announcement speech last weekend, Bachmann made direct appeals to the populist conservative movement, drawing enthusiastic cheers even in the unshaded afternoon heat. In her speech, Bachmann scoffed at left-leaning pundits who she said had blamed the debt-ceiling crisis and subsequent federal credit downgrade on the Tea Party.

I’m sure she means real Americans and not commie liberal pinkos like independents and democrats.