from George Will’s column:
WASHINGTON — When Marcus Bachmann came home that Saturday evening in 2000 he checked the telephone answering machine and was mystified by the many messages congratulating his wife for something. “Michele,” he said, “do you have something to tell me?” She did.
The state senator from her district in suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul had been in office for 17 years, had stopped being pro-life and started supporting tax increases, so that morning she had skipped washing her hair, put on jeans and a tattered sweatshirt and went to the local Republican nominating caucus to ask him a few pointed questions. There, on the spur of the moment, some similarly disgruntled conservatives suggested that she unseat the incumbent. After she made a five-minute speech “on freedom,” the caucus emphatically endorsed her and she handily won the subsequent primary.
For the full post:
http://townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/25/gops_new_lightning_rod
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October 25, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Stothes
Bachman? Really? Does outlandish loopiness make one a “lightning rod” these days.
And she’s not a conservative. She’s just another religious righty/neocon pretending to be a conservative. If Michelle Bachman is the barometer for lightning rod conservatives then we could probably stop buying oil from Iran and Venezuela and just harness the power from Jefferson, Taft, and Goldwater perpetually rolling in their graves.
October 26, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Interested Bystander
Hey All,
“outlandish loopiness”;
Sounds like something Obama or his minions would post.
Wouldn’t want someone to bring religion, morals or reality to the people, now would we Stothes? Gotta keep the public in line, isn’t that right Stothes?
Stothes,
You do realize that we have more oils reserves RIGHT HERE in the United States than anywhere in the world, but our own Government keeps us dependent on foreign oil, don’t you?
Then again, maybe you don’t.
October 26, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Stothes
We live in a free society, not a theocracy. It’s not the government’s place to “bring religion” or legislate morality.
And it’s funny that you mention “reality”…considering the content of your last sentence was so stunningly untrue. More oil than anywhere in the world? Um, no…
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2178rank.html