Michele Bachmann Said What!?

[Fleshdancer]

This article is a good start at documenting her history of batshitcrazy. There are so many quotes to choose from...


Your guide to the Minnesota firebrand's most outrageous, outlandish, and out-there remarks.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/michele-bachmann-greatest-hits?page=1

2004: Songwriter Melissa Etheridge has breast cancer. That's bad news. But there's good news too, Bachmann tells the conservative education group EdWatch: maybe the cancer will give her time to reflect on her sinful lifestyle: "Unfortunately she is now suffering from breast cancer, so keep her in your prayers. This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian." In the same speech, she alleges that "almost all, if not all, individuals who have gone into the lifestyle have been abused at one time in their life, either by a male or by a female."

2008: Just two weeks before election day, Bachmann calls for an investigation into the anti-American ambitions of Barack Obama and congressional Democrats: "What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out if they are pro-America or anti-America."

2011: In an address to the group Iowans for Tax Relief, Bachmann praises the Founding Fathers for their commitment to…diversity: "It didn't matter the color of their skin, it didn't matter their language, it didn't matter their economic status, it didn't matter whether they descended from known royalty or whether they were of a higher class or a lower class, it made no difference. Once you got here you were all the same. Isn't that remarkable?"

[Solomon]

1. What? Should we start a list? It'll be the longest one on DU

I myself donated money to her opponent after I heard her blame the housing market crash on black people. And I live far far far way from Minnesota.

Words can't convey what I feel about asses like that one.

[Deep13]

2. "...abused at one time in their life..."

Yeah, by bigoted assholes trying to "cure" them.

[Deep13]

3. Her remark about the Founding Fathers ...

... makes Palin sound like some kind of Rhodes Scholar in comparison. And it sure as shit did matter what ones race was since several of them owned Black people. Their economic status mattered too since the delegates to the Continental Congress were largely self-financed. The whole reason we pay public officials is to avoid a situtation where only the independently wealthy can afford to hold office. None of the delegates had any connection to royalty. The king's relatives did not get sent to remote backwater colonies like America except maybe for brief periods of service in the army or navy. I rather think also that they would have been ineffective delegates if they did not speak English. Finally, the one catagory she avoided mentioning--gender--obviously mattered too as she tacitly acknowledges by the expression "Founding Fathers."

[AlanCranston]

4. i'm surprised they elect a fuckwit like her

didn't that used to Bill Luther's district?

[hifiguy]

5. The district was redrawn since then

and was designed to contain a high percentage of exurban snowbillies. Thankfully Keith Ellison is my rep.