This Daily Beast story about Michele Bachmann’s extremism is required reading. Here’s the teaser paragraph:
- Danny Schwartz
Her anti-gay platform has alienated parts of her family. A mentor she described as a “great influence” has a history of addresses to white supremacists. A book she collaborated on advocates theocracy. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s impressive performance at Monday’s debate has catapulted her near the front of the GOP pack, but the radical roots of her ideology remain poorly understood. The Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg reports.
Here’s an interesting passage from the story, about a (five-foot-tall) woman named Pamela Arnold who attended a Bachmann town hall:
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!”
(Thanks, Slog tipper Matthew.)
If she can hold it together, I could see her as Romney’s running mate.
It’s chilling that she was so willing to throw her stepsister, whom she had once been close to, under the bus because she was a lesbian. And she wasn’t moved to change her views, or even tone them down, by her family’s objections to her position. Someone willing to sell out their own family for a rigid ideology is someone you want to steer clear of.
Also: she has the crazy eyes.
And on more than one occasion last night I noticed that she seemed to be talking toward the ceiling. Why can’t the woman ever figure out where the camera is?
@3: The crazy eyes are just a reflection of the crazy brain behind them
The crazy eyes are HOTT. I want to make a sex with her and kill her right when she comes.
She’s magnificent. I hope she runs and runs.
Glad she’s part of the Crazy Kennel of people who will not be the candidate.
This is nothing. I lived in Minneapolis for 10 years and the stories about her are legion. When you hear the baristas talking about how she’s a paranoid schizophrenic, you know it’s bad.
@9 And we all know how keen baristas are in their psychological evaluations.
Actually, the crazy on Bachmann is pretty hard to miss. No surprise that people who see her in non-scripted settings would be scared of her. There really could be a serious mental illness just waiting to fully flower. A campaign will be more than enough stress to burst that bud.