Michele Bachmann: George Will

by the Left Coast Rebel

Not many it today's politik can elicit the response from the vitriolic hate-left like Michele Bachman can. This is known. George Will in WaPo weighs in today on Bachmann with a nice little piece, perhaps even a little fluffy. Beware Will, moonbats have been released, scanning the comment section of his piece I......well, I'll fill you in later on that. Needles to say, the favorite moniker for Bachmann is Bat Sh*t Crazy. It's all over the net. Is she especially hated because she is a woman? I think so, you tell me.

The tolerant left......

Needless to say, I love finding an excuse to write about her because a mere mention elicits moonbat-traffic, comments and great hits to the site. I would say that only two others in today's world do the same for me.

- Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.

Although all 3 personalities are much different, they are nearly equally hated. Will today -

The state senator from her district in suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul had been in office for 17 years, had stopped being pro-life and started supporting tax increases, so that morning Michele Bachmann had skipped washing her hair, put on jeans and a tattered sweatshirt and went to the local Republican nominating caucus to ask the incumbent a few pointed questions. There, on the spur of the moment, some similarly disgruntled conservatives suggested that she unseat him. After she made a five-minute speech "on freedom," the caucus emphatically endorsed her, and she handily
won the subsequent primary.

After six years in the state Legislature, she ran for Congress and now, in her second term, has become such a burr under Democrats' saddles that recently the New York Times profiled her beneath a Page One headline: "GOP Has a Lightning Rod, and Her Name Is Not Palin." She is, however, a petite pistol that occasionally goes off half-cocked.

Bachmann, an authentic representative of the Republican base, had quite enough on her plate before politics. She and Marcus, a clinical psychologist, were raising their children -- they had four then; they have five now -- and, as foster parents, were raising some other people's children, 23 of them, a few teenagers at a time.

I love that her candidacy began as the equivalent of a business idea on a napkin. She is a true, authentic representation of the GOP base that is always maligned and mistreated, talked down to and tossed around like a ragdoll by the party hierarchy. Not to mention the national press. Does she sometimes go off a bit half-cocked? Sure she does. But that merely means she is just like you and I.

Via WaPo
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