re: #322 ralphieboy

Timothy Egan has a good piece slamming Bachman in the NYTimes:

The media jackals have been all over Representative Michele Bachmann for misstatements, zany ideas and alterations to history as she kicked off her presidential run in Waterloo, Iowa, home to serial killer John Wayne Gacy — not the actor John Wayne, as she said in her evocation of dreamy small-town life.

From her contention that eliminating the minimum wage would mean full employment to her assertion that “almost all” people in the “gay lifestyle” have been abused, these things can be explained. Bachmann has a worldview that requires constant reshaping in the face of real life. However, if God is writing the script for her campaign, as she says, He needs a fact-checker.

I think it’s going to be real hard for her to gain any traction on the intellectual right.