Bachmann and Pawlenty: The Obsessed and Deranged

[Minnesota Raindog]

Michele Bachmann (R-Crazy) and Tea-Baggin Timmy in the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28rich.html?ref=opinion

And so — just one day after Stack crashed his plane into the Austin I.R.S. office — the heretofore milquetoast former Minnesota governor, Tim Pawlenty, told the audience to emulate Tiger Woods’s wife and “take a 9-iron and smash the window out of big government in this country.”

Such violent imagery and invective, once largely confined to blogs and talk radio, is now spreading among Republicans in public office or aspiring to it. Last year Michele Bachmann, the redoubtable Tea Party hero and Minnesota congresswoman, set the pace by announcing that she wanted “people in Minnesota armed and dangerous” to oppose Obama administration climate change initiatives.

[CatholicEdHead]

1. They are reaching out to the "base"

which is unfortunately detached from reality and normal governance of society. It is the anti-intellectual streak coming to prominence and fruition in the party.