Michele Bachmann: Marriage equality a "frivolous," "fringe" issue... — Page 2

If they tried hard enough, they could have easily found a more flattering picture. Of course, they could have just as easily found countless pictures that make her look much crazier.

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She makes me feel like I should be baking a pie and singing Somewhere That's Green.

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It's a shame that she's such a fantastic speaker because people who are oblivious to politics fall for her bullsh*t. She's like a modern day Hitler.

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That was Kim Carnes.

I don't see how anyone could even begin to defend this woman and her craziness. Her husband psychotic too.

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Updated On: 8/9/11 at 01:21 AM

Oh come on. They used a super crazy looking photo 100% on purpose. It feeds into that whole "liberal media" thing.

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Girl needs some eye cream!

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Well, I suppose this now makes Bachmann a "gay icon".

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An entirely new congress was elected in 2010 based on sound bytes, hysteria, and fear-mongering.

You think anyone's gonna learn from that in time for 2012? Not a chance.

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"People want a strong and decisive leader, but not if its a female."

I'm going to have to completely disagree. She ran a poor campaign, and was outmaneuvered at virtually every point by the Obama campaign. Is there misogyny? Absolutely. Is there racism? Umm...I'll guess 'yes'. But somehow, we got an African American president, and one named Barack Obama. And Palin didn't lose because she's a woman. She lost because she was put into a position for which she was woefully unprepared. She's only become a cult figure for the right because she's a woman.

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>> Maybe Sean, but I wasn't addressing the general climate of anti-incumbency.

2010 had little, really, to do with anti-incumbancy. 2010 was the GOP trying (and wildly succeeding) at making 2010 a referendum on Obama, and it used every possibly trick in the book to do so. It worked brilliantly because people were so scared by everything that they were willing to jump to a group that was, even then, a walking joke. And I dont see much of that mentality changing in 2012, not unless by some miracle the economy turns around and we're looking at less than 7% unemployment. Even though it was, in the main, their actions that caused this mess, the GOP will play it like a violin, because they're very, very good at that.

Now, having said that, they're gonna need a candidate with more credibility than this woman. But I'll happily bet you that they'll try to put her in the VP slot — and unlike Palin, she'll work, because she knows how to talk to people and sound like she knows what she's talking about. Palin couldnt talk her way out of a paper bag with a prompter's script in hand, but Bachmann? Whole different story. No, she's not presidential material... but as Veep under Romney? With another fear-and-awe campaign? I'd say the Dems are right to be nervous.

And I only have to direct you to what happened in Wisconsin yesterday to underscore the point.

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