Posts tagged as Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann, America's Perfect Monster
In a campaign field that includes a twice-divorced anti-gay-marriage candidate who took an oath against adultery and who believes in mining the moon, it takes a special candidate to stand out. Michele Bachmann is just that special. READ MORE
Early Press Mentions Of The Republican Candidates
Opposition research—political Dumpster diving perfected by Lee Atwater and Roger Stone—has been a part of American politics for nearly 200 years. Your familiarity with Willie Horton, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and John Edwards' $400 haircut is a tribute to its irritating persistence as a campaign tool. What follows is oppo research, but we do not aim to inflict damage. In fact, The Awl's effort, a collection of early media mentions of the Republican candidates (sometimes appearing under their given names), may actually endear these Presidential hopefuls to you. Or am I the only one charmed by 11-year-old zoo booster Newton Gingrich? READ MORE
Inside Last Night's Michele Bachmann Debate-Watching Party
"Oh my God, who invited you?" That's the first question Chelsea, the young woman with the Michele Bachmann event tag dangling from her neck, asked me when I told the Champps hostess I was here for the Fox News-Google GOP debate viewing party. READ MORE
The Rogue, Undefeated, Reformed and Saved Sarah Palin
At a recent New Hampshire tea party rally, Sarah Palin spoke of the regulatory burdens on the area's Yankee Fisherman's Cooperative, a group that she compared to "our own commercial fishing family." Back in June, on a previous trip to New Hampshire, she said, "Well, commercial fishing is near and dear to my heart of course. You know, having fished for so many years. And I understand fish politics. I understand what these fishermen are going through." READ MORE
On Her Way Offstage, Michele Bachmann Leaves a Gruesome Legacy (Updated w/ New Video)
On Monday at the CNN-Tea Party Republican presidential debate, Michele Bachmann pounced on the fact that Rick Perry signed an executive order in 2007 mandating all girls in his state be vaccinated against HPV. She was accusing the Texas governor of crony capitalism. READ MORE
My Migraines Are Making Me Root For Michele Bachmann
When I found out that Michele Bachmann got migraines she ceased to be this distant caricature of a crazy-eyed ideologue. The Buddhists say that understanding someone else’s suffering leads to compassion, and as stupid as this sounds I found Bachmann instantly more human simply because I get migraines too. It changed my bias. I stopped seeing her religious crap as some insidious flaw. Now I see it as a well-meaning flaw. I’ve been secretly rooting for her to win the Republican nomination ever since I learned about her affliction, ever since people started saying it somehow disqualifies her from office. Who you like in politics can be a weird and visceral thing. READ MORE
Some Jews Are Dumber Than Dirt
Look, I realize that race is a social construct, that ethnicity and religion are simply affiliations based on tradition and location, and when it comes down to it we are all the same under the skin and that to somehow prize your own racial/ethnic/religious group above others, to attribute it with specific superiorities, is to fall prey to the same small-minded tribalism that has been the cause of so much bloodshed and conflict throughout human history. As a rational human being I know all this. I do. Still, there's some part of me that can't help but be disappointed every time I am reminded that Jews can be stupid too.
Cheap Gas? It Could Happen!
How Michele Bachmann could bring back $2 gas: "Bachmann’s economic policies (such as immediate drastic cuts in federal spending) would surely cause a new recession, the recession would also affect Europe, China, India and other major oil consumers. Oil prices would collapse and gas prices would indeed plummet below $2 a gallon (just as they did in late 2008)."
Palins And Bachmanns And A Huckabee: At the Iowa Straw Poll
When word went up in the press filing center Friday that Sarah Palin had rolled onto the grounds of the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines—unannounced, of course—a group of reporters, chasing a rumor about her location, immediately scampered off, weaving through the swine and cattle barns, dodging stony-faced teenage farmers and piles of pig shit. When we found her, near a row of massive steer, the scrum was already enormous. READ MORE
Anders Breivik, The American Tea Party, Norway and "Sharia Creep"
The attacks were "a despicable act directed at everyone in Norway," said Siv Jensen, the leader of the Norwegian Progress Party. While her assessment of the 76 dead and nearly 100 injured may be philosophically true, it's technically false. The bombing and mass shooting late last week was in fact directed at a very specific group of Norwegians. These "summer camp" teens weren't shot for taking canoe lessons; they were shot for being political activists, or children of such. (This was something made very clear by Tea Party leader Glenn Beck, when he functionally ended his corporate career days later by comparing the dead to Hitler Youth). READ MORE
