When TIME’s Best of 2008 series came out, I was surprised that Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann didn’t make the cut. Her infamous October appearance on Hardball didn’t merit mention in the Top 10 Campaign Video Moments (which, rightfully, saw Sarah Palin’s Katie Couric interview at the top) or Top 10 Campaign Gaffes? Now, as 2008 winds down, we’ll start seeing more of Michele. The first two: Today, the New York Times’ Ginia Bellafante includes Bachmann’s “most embarrassing moment” on Hardball in her list of TV “Moments that Float and Sting.” Meanwhile, Comedy Central’s Indecision 2008 recognizes the 6th district U.S. representative for “channeling Joseph McCarthy” on the MSNBC show. She’s competing against the likes of Joe the Plumber, Rush Limbaugh, PUMAs and Barack Obama (”for being a Muslim, Arab, too-black, not-black-enough, Communist, socialist, Marxist, non-flag-pin-wearing, baby-killing, Hamas-endorsed, appeasement-practicing, elitist, community-organizing, eloquent, big-eared man who pals around with terrorists and can’t bowl”) for Best Campaign Villain of 2008. Readers can cast their vote on that one here. (She’s currently leading the pack, with 34 percent of the vote.)
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Comment posted December 20, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
It still makes my mind wonder just how dumb and ignorant the Sixth District voters are, to re-election this brain dead individual to represent them in Congress. I guess a fence post with the R behind their name on the ballot and they will be elected in the 6th?
Comment posted December 20, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
You can’t paint the entire 6th District with the Bachmann brush. In both 2006 and 2008, Bachmann’s own precinct rejected her, as did her hometown of Stillwater. And in 2008, even Washington County wanted to give her the bum’s rush after a solitary embarrassing term. Alas, we are outnumbered by the fundamentalist whackjobs in the rural portions of our district–Benton, Wright, Stearns, and portions of Anoka and Sherburne counties. If they don’t take their marching orders from the pulpit, they take them from MCCL. This district is so gerrymandered our best hope is to redistrict Bachmann right out of a job in 2012.
Comment posted December 22, 2008 @ 7:24 am
I have never heard the 6th described better than what Karl Bremer does right here. Just too bad the far right has such influence in the 6th District. Like Jeff says too they would vote for a fence post with an R on it up there in the true Neo Con part of Minnesota. How Sad ! !
Comment posted December 22, 2008 @ 8:13 am
Bachmann easily get the “Ignoramus of the Year Award”, hands down.
She is s-o-o-o fricking full of herself. She is nauseating everytime
she shows her face when being interviewed. Nobody’s impressed Michele!
Comment posted December 28, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
Regarding Karl Bremer’s comment posted December 20, 2008: Bachmann lost actually *lost* in Stearns and Benton counties. She held on to her seat on the back of Wright, Sherburne, and Anoka County voters.
On a second point, we don’t have to tolerate Rep. Bachmann until 2012. She can be defeated in the 2010 Republican primary with a strong independent turnout and a significant Democratic crossover vote.
In the Sept. 9 primary election, she received significantly fewer votes than the combined vote of her Republican challenger (Immelman) and the unopposed Tinklenberg in the Democratic column.
If Rep. Bachmann gets past the 2010 Republican primary, she’ll win reelection. The real battleground will be the September 2010 primary, not the November 2010 general election.
Comment posted January 7, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
“A state that once again rules in God’s name can count not only on our applause but also on enthusiastic and active cooperation from the church. With joy and thanks we see how this new state rejects blasphemy, attacks immorality, promotes discipline and order with a firm hand, demands awe before God, works to keep marriage sacred and our youth spiritually instructed, brings honor back to fathers of families, ensures that love of people and fatherland is no longer mocked, but burns in a thousand hearts. …We can only plead with our fellow worshipers to do an they can to help these new productive forces in our land reach a complete and unimpeded victory.”
- Easter Sunday Blessing from Protestant Pastors in Bavaria, April 16, 1933 (Supporting the Nazi Party)
Comment posted January 7, 2009 @ 7:16 pm
“The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.”
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf Vol. 1 Chapter 12
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