From the Daily Beast via Balloon Juice: Hilarious Michele Bachmann Story!

[markpkessinger]

Open thread – This sounds like one of my stories…

by Sarah Proud and Tall

Jesus, what a freak.

From Michelle Goldberg at the Beast, via Jezebel.

A few dozen people showed up at the town hall for the April 9 event, and Bachmann greeted them warmly. But when, during the question and answer session, the topic turned to same-sex marriage, Bachmann ended the meeting 20 minutes early and rushed to the bathroom. Hoping to speak to her, Arnold and another middle-aged woman, a former nun, followed her. As Bachmann washed her hands and Arnold looked on, the ex-nun tried to talk to her about theology. Suddenly, after less than a minute, Bachmann let out a shriek. “Help!” she screamed. “Help! I’m being held against my will!”

Arnold, who is just over 5 feet tall, was stunned, and hurried to open the door. Bachmann bolted out and fled, crying, to an SUV outside. Then she called the police, saying, according to the police report, that she was “absolutely terrified and has never been that terrorized before as she had no idea what those two women were going to do to her.” The Washington County attorney, however, declined to press charges, writing in a memo, “It seems clear from the statements given by both women that they simply wanted to discuss certain issues further with Ms. Bachmann.”

Read full article at: http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/06/15/open-thread-this-sounds-like-one-of-my-stories/

[Mz Pip]

1. Too bad they didn't

flush her down the toilet. :eyes:

[MadMaddie]

2. She cannot function in a world that is not controlled.

Democratic strategist need to note this and make sure that the ride for her is very uncomfortable.

[rurallib]

3. isn't there a pic of her hiding in a bush stalking somebody?

can't remember any more details ........

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Google THIS! Here's Bachmann hiding and spying on teh gayz.

[pacalo]

4. Wow. That's bizarre.

:popcorn: by the truckload for this campaign season.

[lilyin]

6. Proving that she

really IS batpoop crazy. Heaven help us if she's what the GOP has to offer as presidential material.

[patrice]

7. Shows that Bachman is a weakling who can't function outside of her own political hothouse.

When you live your life on tax-subsidized privilege, apparently the result is that you can't think "on your feet".

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Worth clicking through to the full Daily Beast story

Bachmann really is obsessed with homosexuality. It's not just a bit of pandering to Tea Party voters.

In the statehouse, Bachmann made opposition to gay marriage her signature issue. Both she and her husband, by all accounts her most trusted political adviser, believe that homosexuality can be cured. Speaking to a Christian radio station about gay teenagers last year, Marcus, who treats gay people in his counseling practice, said, "Barbarians need to be educated. They need to be disciplined, and just because someone feels this or thinks this, doesn't mean that we're supposed to go down that road."

In 2004, Bachmann gave a speech warning that gay marriage would lead to schoolchildren being indoctrinated into homosexuality. She wanted everyone to know, though, that she doesn't hate gay people. "Any of you who have members of your family in the lifestyle, we have a member of our family that is," she said. "This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay."

She was clearly talking about her 51-year-old stepsister, Helen LaFave, who had lived with her partner, Nia Wronski, for more than 15 years. As Bachmann became the public face of opposition to gay marriage, her relationship with her stepsiblings grew strained. "Helen always liked Michele, always," says Linda Cielinski, one of Bachmann's other stepsisters. "They lived together as teenage girls. They were very close at that time."
Bachmann's anti-gay activism, Cielinski says, "was a hit to the gut."
...
The ensuing brouhaha further tore at the family. In a Star Tribune story headlined "Bachmann, stepsister hold opposing views," Bachmann claimed that she'd polled her siblings and stepsiblings, and that six of the nine agreed with her. Her stepbrother Mike LaFave was horrified. "The reality was she hadn't taken a family vote count, nor would my family ever do such a thing," he says. "I just find it terrible that when Michele was taken by surprise by a question she wasn't prepared for, the first thing she did was throw not only my sister but her whole family under the bus."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/14/michele-bachmanns-unrivaled-extremism-gay-rights-to-religion.html

And she has a long-standing belief that the USA really is a theocracy - that the constitution derives its authority from the Christian God.