Michele BachmannRep. Michele Bachmann’s copy of the GOP’s talking points must be getting dog-eared. After telling radio host G. Gordon Liddy today that the Obama administration’s economic policies amount to “a great leap forward toward finalizing a place of socialism in American economic life,” she took the Socialist Scare Tour to William Bennett’s radio show. There, her language was only slightly different, “If you look at FDR, LBJ and Barack Obama, this is the final leap toward socialism.” Then she made a final leap of her own — stating that the president is implementing the policies of Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill.

She said, “But what I think we’re seeing is an implementation of all of the radical ideas that Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill — the radical ideas that we’ve seen on some college campuses, they’re now being implemented in our government, and they’re taking a nefarious route when it looks at the economic recovery.”

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