re: #33 LudwigVanQuixote

I think Bachman is worse than Palin. She is much more loopy. Palin is dumb as a box of hammers and probably doesn’t even understand half of what she herself says. Bachman is a true believer of average intelligence who was utterly brainwashed.

Completely agree. Palin was a not-very-bright, self-promoting, narcissistic opportunist. Bachmann is truly a woman with a mission. She’s smarter than Palin and she completely believes what she says.

For better or for worse, this is likely to do her in. A politician can’t get very far in today’s world without the ability to prevaricate, finesse, or sometimes just lie. When Bachmann says daft things, she isn’t lying, and “finesse” isn’t her mode either, though she did manage to imply that she was OK with New York’s gay marriage law (on states’ rights grouns) before admitting that she’d work to overturn it via constitutional ammendment.