Michele Bachmann is a "Sarah Palin with a brain"?!?

[Formaldehyde]

Some of those goofy ultra-conservative voters in South Carolina are now rejecting Sarah Palin as a legitimate presidential candidate, because they now think she is too ignorant to perform the job.


Even among some GOP faithful in S.C., Palin's star is fading

ROCK HILL As Sarah Palin wonders whether to run for president, she might want to talk to people in places such as South Carolina.

She'd find her star fading, and her prospects daunting.

Republicans still like her, but now they openly question whether she could or should be nominated for president, let alone elected.

At a recent gathering in South Carolina, the site of a crucial early presidential primary next year, party activists said the former Alaska governor didn't have the experience, the knowledge of issues or the ability to get beyond folksy slang and bumper-sticker generalities that they think is needed to win and govern.

Fair enough. But what took them so long to acknowledge the obvious?

Here's the part I find disturbing:

Many are shopping for someone else. They're looking at Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., for example, and seeing what they call a smarter, more experienced candidate who's equally as conservative.

"Sarah Palin with a brain," said Gail Moore, a Republican from Columbia.

Is it really possible to discern a difference between these two Republicans regarding intelligence or education?

Here's a compilation of some of Bachmann's remarks:

1. "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 2009

2. "I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?" -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a new McCarthyism, Oct. 2008

3. "Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, June 2009

4. "During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy. It would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed … The government spent its wad by April 26." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, accusing the Obama administration of premature fiscal ejaculation, May 2009

5. "That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions." -Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), a pro-lifer who completely missed the irony of using the same slogan as the pro-choice movement in arguing against health care reform

6. "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, April, 2009

7. "There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, Oct. 2006

8. "I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people -- we the people -- are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country." -Rep. Rep. Michele Bachmann, March 2009

9. "Does that mean that someone's 13-year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus? That night, mom and dad are never the wiser." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on health care reform's potential to dupe parents, October 2009

10. "I don't know where they're going to get all this money because we're running out of rich people in this country." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, accusing the Obama administration of plotting to divert money from Republican to Democratic districts and planning to tax the wealthy to fund the windfalls, Feb. 2009

Cenk Uygur weighs in:


Link to video.

It's not whether or not I agree or disagree with Michele Bachmann. It's that Michele Bachmann is a moron. She doesn't know what she is talking about. And, what is amazing about her, is that she doesn't care to know...She's proud of her ignorance. In that way, unfortunately, she represents the current Republican Party perfectly.

If you keep putting this woman into Congress, in that district in Minnesota, what you are proving is that you like stupid people.

For those of you who prefer Michele stating some of the remarks herself:


Link to video.

But the Lord says, be submissive. Wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.

Is this a matter of what the Daily Show euphemistically called The Men Who Stare at Votes? (2 min in...)

So, what do you think? Is Michele Bachmann a Sarah Palin with a brain? Is this being unfair to both of them by even trying to find a difference? Should the Republicans demand a slightly larger brain for a welcome change? Should we restrict the chest size of attractive female politicians?

 

[RedRalph]

She's a moron too. Most of these Tea Partiers are.

 

[Oishi]

I'm sold. Who's next?

 

[Ajidica]

Be glad she isn't from your state.

With any luck people will realize in the next election how nutty the GOP is becoming after they tried to ride the Tea Party train.

 

[useless]

A true representative of the Republican side

 

[Rashiminos]

The question should be: Is she actually smarter?

Let's not begrudge some real improvement on the issue if it is to be found. One step at a time, please.

 

[JollyRoger]

I think they will have to mud wrestle for the South Carolina vote.

 

[Ajidica]

The question should be: Is she actually smarter?

No.
Sarah Palin twists the truth, Bachmann lies through her teeth because she is too stupid to know any better.

 

[MobBoss]

Can anyone give us a compliation of Bidens moronic sayings? Or Obamas gaffes for equity?

 

[JollyRoger]

Can anyone give us a compliation of Bidens moronic sayings? Or Obamas gaffes for equity?

No free lunch. Pull on those bootstraps and do it yerself.

 

[Ajidica]

Did Obama or Biden say:

"We should all cut our wrists to bleed ourselves before Obamacare"?
"Census forms are big government"?

Face it, while Obama and Biden have gaffes and mispeak, she believes what she is saying and stands by it even when challenged.
Gaffes != idiocy.

 

[Formaldehyde]

The question should be: Is she actually smarter?

Let's not begrudge some real improvement on the issue if it is to be found. One step at a time, please.

It's a tough call. I'd probably have to go with the momma grizzly bear. At least Palin hasn't publicly stated that fellow politicians should be judged on whether or not they are "anti-American", that Americans should arm themselves to fight back if necessary against pending legislation, or insinuated that swine flu might be an insidious Democrat plot. I think not only is Bachmann less intelligent, but that she is quite likely mentally deranged.

 

[MobBoss]

No free lunch. Pull on those bootstraps and do it yerself.

I guess I am just not rabid enough to care to do it.

Need more angst I guess.

Did Obama or Biden say:

"We should all cut our wrists to bleed ourselves before Obamacare"?
"Census forms are big government"?

No, but they have said some equally moronic things. Every politician does. Getting all bent out of shape about it is just silly to be honest. Its like wigging out when it rains.

Face it, while Obama and Biden have gaffes and mispeak, she believes what she is saying and stands by it even when challenged.
Gaffes != idiocy.

I'm pretty sure guys like Biden and Obama believe what they say as well.

 

[Ajidica]

I'm pretty sure guys like Biden and Obama believe what they say as well.

Do they stand by their assertion even when it is pointed out to them that factualy they are wrong?

Have either of them argued for the effective ressurection of HUAC?

 

[useless]

Doesn't Bachmann believe that vaccines cause Autism? LOL

 

[Godwynn]

Politifact's file on Michele Bachmann.

 

[JollyRoger]

I guess I am just not rabid enough to care to do it.

Need more angst I guess.

Or get up and go.

 

[MobBoss]

I guess its ok for you guys to have your fun. It would be like me doing the same for Maxine Waters, but thats truly like shooting fish in a barrel.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Can anyone give us a compliation of Bidens moronic sayings? Or Obamas gaffes for equity?

I fully refudiate this post.

 

[JollyRoger]

I guess its ok for you guys to have your fun. It would be like me doing the same for Maxine Waters, but thats truly like shooting fish in a barrel.

We still await you taking a few shots. If shooting fish in a barrel is anything like hitting the broad side of a caribou, I hope for your sake that you are a better shot than Mama Grizzly.