“It was really a beautiful sight to behold,” Bachmann said of the often boisterous forums held throughout August. “This was not something that was generated or created by any political party because the people who come to these town halls aren’t necessarily Republicans, they are Democrats and independents.”

She continued, “In fact, the woman who took Barney Frank to task in his town hall, and she held up a picture of Obama as Hitler, she was a Democrat, so this isn’t just Democrat, Republican, independent.”

“This is about people saying ‘I don’t want the government to control my health care.’”

As the Washington Independent’s David Weigel noted last week, the woman with the Obama-Hitler poster was a member of the Lyndon LaRouche movement. Across the country LaRouche supporters are bringing Nazi imagery to town halls to oppose health care reform for many of the same (often misinformed) reasons Bachmann opposes health care reform.

“The LaRouche cultists oppose Obama’s plan because they think he’s trying to euthanize old people and the infirm,” writes Weigel. “They oppose it for one of the reasons that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) oppose it, and they’re providing a lot of the ‘research’ for this smear.”

While Bachmann appears to be trying to tie Democrats to the Obama-Hitler protest signs, she forgets that the people carrying those signs are on her side.

LaRouche, who has run for president as a Democrat since 1976, hasn’t had the support of the party.

Conor Clarke of Atlantic Monthly explains: “LaRouche (whom I interviewed and profiled for the New Republic a few years ago, and who really doesn’t like me) has never been recognized by the Democratic Party, which won’t let him seat delegates at its conventions and has cited his ‘explicitly racist and anti-Semitic’ views as a reason for the ban.”

“This event is a call to action for voter participation, education and training and a rallying event for patriotic Americans who want to transform the political landscape on issues such as the sanctity of life and marriage, illegal immigration, religious freedom, health care, radical Islam, judicial activism, Hollywood’s influence, the media and much more,” said FRC Action President Tony Perkins.

Also confirmed to speak: the addict-turned-born-again Baldwin brother, Stephen.

Bachmann will also be testifying on behalf of the lord at the State Fair; you can check her out speaking at the booth of KKMS, a hard right Twin Cities Christian talk radio station. She’ll be there Wednesday afternoon at 3 pm.

Meanwhile, a new survey indicates that the growing conflation of religion and politics has the majority of Americans concerned. A Pew Religion and Public Life Survey shows a steady increase in the percentage of Americans worried about churches endorsing politicians (such as Pastor Mac Hammond endorsing Bachmann). Fifty-two percent say politics and religion should remain separate –a figure that includes 36 percent of self-identifying evangelicals. Four years ago, only 16 percent of evangelicals said the two should remain separate.

But that hasn’t stopped the religious right from attacking Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden. The Family Research Council went after Biden only hours after his nomination and several “Catholics Against Biden” groups have sprung up overnight (Biden himself is a Catholic). The opposition has made it clear: on the religious right are the true Christians.

“Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden sends a clear message, true Christians need not apply in the Democratic Party,” said Dr. Gary Cass, Chairman and CEO of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. “Instead of picking a true Christian, Obama, a fake evangelical, has selected Biden, a fake Catholic.”