Amy did a great deconstruction of Bachmann's Bizarro World today.

[EFerrari]

"A Perfect Product of the Religious Right": Deconstructing Michele Bachmann’s GOP Presidential Bid



The rising star of the Tea Party movement, Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, has launched her bid for the Republican 2012 presidential nomination. On the eve of her announcement, Bachmann was tied with Mitt Romney in The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll, the first survey of voters who plan to attend the Republican caucuses. The former tax lawyer identifies as a conservative Christian and is a fierce opponent of abortion and gay marriage. Bachmann also supports teaching intelligent design in public schools, and she’s claimed that global warming is a hoax. She has largely built her campaign around accusing Obama of favoring government intervention, pushing the U.S. toward socialism and having “anti-American views” and is particularly fierce critic of Obama’s healthcare overhaul. While Bachmann is known for advocating a limited government, she has recently come under scrutiny for allegedly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in agricultural subsidies for her family farm in Wisconsin. We are joined by journalist Karl Bremer, who has covered Michele Bachmann’s political career for the last decade from Stillwater, Minnesota, which is where the Bachmanns currently reside. We also speak with journalist Michelle Goldberg, author of the book, "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/28/a_perfect_product_of_the_religious

When a friend first tried to explain the Christian nationalists to me, I thought he was being a little paranoid. Oops

[LiberalAndProud]

1. Minnesota, I've got a bone to pick with you.

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?

[Angry Dragon]

3. Minnesota has eight districts

The thing of it is, it seems all states have the crazy
It is just the ones that yell the loudest and are the most crazy get the most attention
and it seems they just crave the attention .......... media whores

[hifiguy]

4. She represents a district that is carefully gerrymandered

to include a slim but consistent majority of exurban snowbillies. Fortunately I live in Keith Ellison's district.

[pinto]

7. Gerrymandering, the bane of representative democracy.

And the off stage battle for 2012. :hi:

[LiberalAndProud]

8. If nominated, would she win the state?

For all the harm that Florida did, Gore would have won if he could have carried his own state.

[Tennessee Gal]

10. That will bother me for the rest of my life.

This country would be entirely different.

[hifiguy]

11. I doubt it

She's a lot kookier than "Shitweasel Norm" Coleman, and he lost narrowly to Franken. Amy Klobuchar crushed a reichwing goofball in the '06 US Senate race.

When it's head to head, with no third-party candidate, Minnesota as a whole still goes liberal more often than not. We have not had a head-to-head governor's race since 1994, which explains Jesse and Timmeh the Tool. Neither came close to majorities.

[kestrel91316]

2. The term "Christian nationalists" is a bit tame. They are more rightly

called Dominionists or christofascists.

Make no mistake. They love the Constitution only so far as it gets them into power. Then they favor the bible as the rule of law, and the Constitution be damned.

Leviticus is their particular favorite. And they long for its literal interpretation, complete with stonings.

[Enrique]

5. John Eidsmoe

I hadn't heard that name before, and I'm having a hard time finding information on him. There's no wikipedia entry, which is pretty unusual for someone that has published books.

[EFerrari]

9. I've never heard of him.

It looks like the RW lunatics try to hide him because he has overt connections to white supremacists.

[elleng]

6. Great to see this, esp from AmyG. Thx