I can see it now: Bachmann - Palin 2012!

"We're crazy for America"

Oh I could see both of them run. They both would be fighting who god is talking to them the loudest. God help this country if either of them would make it near the white house. Both of them could care less about the people. Both only care about themselves.

I see her as the poster child for Kraft American Singles. Cheeeezy!

come on,becks her man he is a better vp candidate he's a clown and she's crazy

I think the Dem's should secretly help her win in Minnesota and pray that she get's nominated for the Republican candidate in 2012.

Yawn.

Correct.

Can't believe I'm agreeing with Ritarita, but Bachmann is a moron.
She is a Democrat's dream come true.

If the Republicans really want to push a woman, push Kelly A. Ayotte,
New Hampshire candidate for Senate, a lawyer, former attorney general,
has a brain. Please, end the Palin, Bachmann GOOBERFEST !

You got it sophia5, we LOVE us some Bachmann. But I submit that Bachmann isn't the problem, it's a GOP that's willing to welcome her and her kind with open arms. If they would disown representatives who call for armed revolt or suicide pacts against legislation they disagree with, the GOP would do better in national elections.

Redundant, Redundant. (moron, republican, reardongalt)

Perfected? As in creationism in schools, no abortions for women, homophobia rampant, HER brand of Christianity as the rule of the land and lunacy in economics and finance? In another galaxy, maybe.

Ann Coulter's 2nd Axiom: Use racially insensitive and arcane language as editorial backfill when crucifying the Democratic party.
Michele Bachmann's 1st Axiom: Use a mixture of idiotic phrases and juicy sound bites to distract the public from her profound lack of any common sense.

Take Bachmann out of Overdrive. T-shirt of the week, at best.

ann coulter has self-esteem and daddy issues...

Ann Coulter's 2nd Axiom: If you want to know what liberals are doing to you, just listen to what they accuse Republicans of doing.

Sophia, normally I would never disagree with you, but I stand by that statement. Even someone as wacky as Bachmann, is still better than the best Liberal. You won't catch her bowing to and kissing the ass of Dictators.

...wishes ronald reagan were still alive to procreate with.

I think 'reardongalt' meant "first rant", not "axiom."

I am going out on a limb and assuming your t.v. does not stray too far from FOX news much. Dumbass.

LOL as usual with criticism of Obama, there's lots of labels and name-calling "racist" and "socialist" and little to no backup with facts, links (thi is the internet!) and such.

Are you really defending Bachmann? Even diehard GOP members have to admit she's a little crazy.

You know, I'm a conservative Republican, but I can't abide by anyone speaking so disrepsectfully of Mr. Obama. He is my President, and he is yours, too. If we take away the civility from our discourse, we take away the honor from the American body politic. Without honor we are nothing but an empire, and we lose our dignity as human beings. God spare us from that. This congresswoman should bite her tongue, and so should her enemies.

You are adorable! Hugs!

Ignorance absolutely knows no bounds -- your statement proves it. Too bad you haven't a clue what you're talking about. Oh, and there is no comparison. Bachmann doesn't even have bats in her belfry -- it's absolutely empty. Makes you wonder about the folks in Minnesota? And folks like you. And perhaps, just maybe, had your last elected president not spent the Country into bankruptcy and then some, our newest elected one would not have to work to try and help us recover. And please don't tell me that doesn't count anymore. Eights months is a ridiculous amount of time to try and recoup what one idiot tooks 8 years to run up.

Wow. The Fringe is back, easily spotted by unsubstantiated claims like racism on Obama's part (vs. Beck's). That anyone would favort Bachmann's nutty oratory on superficial issues over substantive debate speaks poorly for the poster, not the target of the rant.

I think they're gathering nutbags like you down in Arkansas and planning for the big suck-session. Good riddance, you fool.

I think it is stupid for anyone to call Obama a "racist" if he is biracial. That would mean that he hated his own late mother, who was a white lady from Kansas - and everyone he's related to on her side of the family. He would also be at a constant state of war with himself between his black and white heritage. Furthermore, as I have said many times, the term "socialist" when applied to Obama is just a code word for the "N" word. So the haters need to stop claiming that they aren't racist for labeling him as such. They are such big liars, and don't want to admit it.

Actually, Goldwater did fairly well in the 1964 election. In Arizona.

Bachmann isn't qualified to clean the White House, let alone live in it.
Unless, of course, she has White Hope Lynn Jenkins to help her out.

marinersarenumber1: He won a few states in the deep south, too. Those are the ones I think Bachmann might win - Arizona is too smart these days.

AlanD2: As I recall, Goldwater really got smoked by LBJ.
Carried Arizona and 5 other states in the deep south.

His vocal opposition to the impending Civil Rights Act of 1964
really hurt his chances with any northern states supporting the bill.

marinersarenumber1: I think his acceptance Speech as the 1964 Republican Presidential candidate did him in:

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

It's interesting that Bachmann's district is one of the poorest/least-educated in that entire state, which usually means little of the population reads papers etc....but she barely hung onto her seat this last time around.

Name recognition is right. Plus she's attractive in a paranoid christian fembot kind of way. She didn't win in a landslide and her opponent was named (get this), Elwyn Tinklenberg. He was simply an opponent and not a particularly strong one. It was her nutty extremism that was being challenged that brought money into Elwyn's campaign so readily other than support for the candidate. Put up a well spoken and intelligent moderate against her and she loses.

Really!?!?!?

Wow, of the many crazy things I have read in this post, someone defending McCarthy has to win the prize for the most nutty. Does the North49 stand for Oliver North? That would make sense...

You'd be closer to the mark if you'd said that J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI shared some files with him, and used McCarthy to get some New Deal liberals and leftists that he couldn't get any other way. Hoover was also an empire-builder and publicity hound, who used the information in his files to keep himself in power for 50 years. Unlike McCarthy, he really believed that commie agents were really trying to take over America.

Are you nutz?????

In the immortal words of Madeline Kahn, "He's such a nice guy."
You're comedy fiction and don't know it.

North49, you're throwing pearls to swine. These people are fundamentally incapable of doing research. Their idea of "research" is turning the channel to Jon Stewart.

HAHAHAHAHA
North49-
Your'e a mental case.

And Reardongall-
You're in tow.

mcmchugh99, if anybody understood communism it was J. Edgar Hoover. He actually wrote books on the subject. Have you cracked open "Masters of Deceit"? You might learn something there but I won't hold my breath ...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...ho boy, you guys are just too much. If you find a Democrat trying to help poor people you wanna lock 'em up forever, but if a thuglican ruins or ends the lives of dozens to millions, you'll go to any length to defend them. G. Gordon Liddy, Oliver North, and now McCarthy? Ha!

Anyone who can defend Joe McCarthy needs to have their head examined. Seriously.

You really are mad. That terrible creep ruined so many good and great American's lives. Him and his nasty little troll, who was gay and persecuted gays unmercifully. He was mad as a Hatter and thoroughly nasty. It was a modern Witch Hunt. I remember it as a child. My mother and grandmother were terrified. It was sick.

This communist influence since WW2 is the reason America is the poorest country in the industrial world. Oh, wait, we had 60 years of growth, didn't we? What the heck - how can we simultaneously claim to be crippled by liberals for 65 years and somehow end up the greatest country in the world? Can someone on the right please get their talking points straightened out?

I sure hope so. I for one would like to welcome our new socialist overlords...

Michael Savage? Huh.
All right, I personally would love to see him vetted in the political arena. Wonder how he's going to explain his gay sexual shenanigans to the christian right. Big tent (pole).

The Right loves the BIG LIE. They figure if you say something enough times, sooner or later it becomes fact.

What Are you two doing here anyhow ? Do you even think you are going to change anyone's mind ? Do you just like to be obnoxious ? Probably. We lefties are open to rational discussion, but this is nonsense.
Just give it a break . You are obviously real honest to goodness rightwingnuts...gosh...like we dont see enough of your ranting everyday. I for one, dont need to waste my mind on your pitiful propaganda.

JohnJay60, 60 years of growth since WW2? Did you take into account the fact that the dollar has depreciated since the creation of the Federal Reserve to less than 5 cents today. Don';t forget to account for the fact that productivity has increased with advances in technology over that time. Next you'll be spinning a yarn about the good that government does in bringing about the "good life".

reardongalt, part of the fun in coming to this site is hat if you want to make silk purses out of sows ears, there is no shortage of raw material to work with.

Nancy Pelosi did not vote against equal pay for women.

The crazy woman Bachman did.

You have to admit unless your a dining room table that any woman who would vote against all women receiving equal pay for the same job a man's does is crazy.

Why does Bachman think it's OK for women to receive less pay.

I want to know why any Republican woman would support that.

Why would any woman be a Republican if that is the Republican position.

You can ask the same of any minority. All Republicans aren't racist but most racists are Republicans.

Then you can ask the same question for anyone who makes under a million a year.

The Red states are the least educated, worst employment and least insured in the country.
There states take in more money than they send to the federal government.

Yet they vote republican. It's the craziest thing i have ever seen.

Without stupidity and hate the Republican party could not exist in this country.

I'll give you that one. Everybody has that one embarassing family member they wish would stay home and shut up.

Natural-Selection: She's the most powerful person in the House.

Is it possible you are jealous, Natural-Selection?

I raise you with Palin, Bachman, congressmen Fox and Lyn Jenkins, Liz Cheney et cetera. All undereducated and all loony.

Still don't get this fear and loathing of Nancy Pelosi bit. Never any reason why she's so scary, just her name, as if it's supposed to be self-evident. I think some people are just resentful of women who have political power. Then there's that Bla...I mean Socialist President.

@nortonclybourn: It is because Nancy Pelosi is a liberal Democrat who is second in line to succession to the POTUS as Speaker of the House, and this makes her a very powerful woman in congress. But if she was a wingnut Republican like Sarah Palin, then the righties would have fallen in love with her.

You forgot the true America Haters and vile enviromental wackos on the left: Van Jones, Carol Browner, and John Holdren. These people are more dangerous than a thousand Palins and Bachmanns. Did you see Holdren on Letterman? That this person is advising anybody tells one all they need to know. Assuming the ability to read, of course.

John Holdren: "Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock."

You vitiate your point by the name-calling. The choice for you: hack mouthpiece, or responsible voice of the left.

jj must be drunk; I don't see a lick of name calling in your post. Or maybe the 9th grade had vitiate in their vocabulary quiz this week and he wanted to use it in a sentence?

johnjohnson68510: Yes, it was unkind of me to use facts, since it is well known that reality has a liberal bias.

The wingnuts who have taken over the G.O.P. have given Republicans and conservatives a bad name.

Texas wants to divorce America...and become a new third world nation...she would be perfect for that scenario.

Yeah, the 2% of the nation that think Limbaugh is an intellectual and George Bush was real smart ' cause he didn't need no telemeprompter to misdeliver his speech thingamajigees to the morons who thought he did a really good job.

I was being sarcastic. I think this writer is generally terrible in her points of view. Her interest in the fringe is like that of zoo animals. Instead of sharing observed insight it comes across as a fetish. If only she were more obvious about that, it would be so much more persuasive. A number of people who regularly post comments here could do a lot with this juicy material.

Grim, I give you No Child Left Behind, from the Bush brain-trust

The Bush Administration underfunded NCLB at the state level, while requiring states to comply with all provisions of NCLB or lose federal funds. This forces states to make budget cuts in non-tested school subjects (science, foreign languages, social studies and arts programs, and for books, field trips and school supplies).

NCLB rewards teaching children to score well on the test, rather than teaching with a primary goal of learning resulting in teachers teaching test-taking skills. States set their own standards and write their own standardized NCLB tests, therefore they can set very low standards and make tests unusually easy so everyone passes.

NCLB requires new teachers to possess one (or often more) college degrees in specific subjects. These requirements make it difficult for the districts that need it most to obtain qualified teachers(rural, inner cities).

jbo206,

I don't really know all of the details of NCLB and whether or not your points have merit or not -- not saying they don't just saying I don't know enough. I was merely responding to the ridiculous assertion that Bush had slowly starved public education in the face of his ever increasing budgets. Now you may or may not have a point that his programs were counterproductive or nonproductive but you can't accuse him of intentionally starving public education.

I wish that he had because there is no Constitutional authority for federal involvement in education. I would argue that all of these programs are mostly ineffective and mostly just serves to create another bureacracy and jobs program.

Grim

My general rule with GW Bush is the road to hell is paved with good intentions (Iraq, trickle down economics, etc.) The same rule applies here. Did he intentionally set out to dumb down standards for students while making it difficult for schools to hire teachers? Not in my opinion. Was that the result. Yes.

No, no intelligent person could agree with any of Limbaugh's points, let alone Beck and Hannity. Intelligent people do not let racism and hate control their thoughts.

did you just say that INTELLIGENT people could agree with Rush without engaging in destructive and inflamatory speech??!!!??

Have you ever actually listened to his program???? The man has some of the most destructive and inflamatory speach out there.

For you proof hounds.....one of the first if not THE first to say he wants Obama to fail....and has also called him a racist.

Peaceful and constructive?....I think not.......Ironic statement.....I think so.

Name one point.

Sounds like a great plan for America--stop funding education, build more prisons. It's been working great so far.

"A farmboy, educated at home, or a one room schoolhouse, circa late 1700's to late1800's, was more educated by the time he left high school, than most college graduates, and some post grads."
Really?
The predominate philosophy on the education of that time included the belief that children would become physically ill with too much schooling. Methinks you are romanticizing ignorance.

I didn't mean to insenuate that franken can't do good because I think he has the potential, but it is more the fact that he was a stand-up comedian/SNL star and how minnesotans get hopped up on those sort of credentials.

Jesse Ventura.....a complete and utter disaster, look it up....at least a few laughs.