In South Carolina yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) went all the way out in a ranting speech accusing President Obama of “brown-nosing” the elites.

“Our Peace Prize-winning president is very busy bowing these days to kings,” she said. “He is bending down to dictators, and he is brown-nosing the elites that are in Europe, and he’s babying the jihadists who are following Sharia-compliant terrorism.”

Wow. Just so everyone’s clear about this: she’s saying that Barack Obama is kissing the ass of “the elites,” and getting feces on his nose.

Stay classy, Michele.

Bachmann also said that “bureaucrats” (what does that make her?) are conducting a “war on fertility,” and that all of America’s problems will be solved if we prevent gay people from marrying each other.

She added, “The bureaucrats now hate our values; there’s a war on marriage, a war on family, a war on fertility all while funding and promoting abortion.”

Bachmann continued, “We don’t need political correctness because most fundamentally I believe the building block of the family is what the government needs to do right now and support two-parent families as the foundation of our economic and social policy.”

She said for that reason, social issues need to be a priority. “We can’t put the so called social issues on the back burner while we are solving our economic challenges because the family is the solution to those challenges.”

It’s difficult to express how disconnected from reality this kind of magical thinking is. Bachmann and her religious fanatic fan base actually seem to believe they can solve economic problems by discriminating against gays.