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Maybe 2012 isn’t Bachmann’s year. Maybe 2016 is.

Now, I think she’s a lunatic. And I think she’s wrapped up the paranoid-schizophrenic vote, but she doesn’t even need to be on a ticket for that crowd. But as VP she would wrap up the Religious Right vote, the anti-gay vote, and the Government sucks because it’s trying to take away my light bulbs vote. And as such, she’d be a plus for anybody except Rick Perry, who has already made great strides along those lines. So, we’ll see if she drops out soon, citing problems with ‘fundraising’ or ‘time away from my duties as a congressional representative’ but not ‘this process was grueling and inhuman and anybody running for President is probably a pathological narcissist’.

On one hand there is the very human desire to see a spectacle. If it was announced that ‘the Mexican air force is going to crash land in a liquid natural gas facility’ I would try to keep people safe but I would also have someone save me a good seat to watch it from.

If it is going to happen anyway, no matter what you may do, you might as well get comfortable and take in the spectacle. It would be a shame to miss it.

On the other hand what the GOP has done to the US makes Mel Gibson’s snuff film look like a depiction of casual street violence. This has been planned, coordinated, structured, times, and orchestrated over something north of forty years. And, whereas Gibson’s concern is the suffering of but one, this involves hundreds of millions of Americans and billions of non-Americans. The time, toil, mental health, and blood of vast numbers of human beings.

It would be a shame to miss seeing the pivotal points and spectacular action. But, in a very profound way, we are all on the metaphoric planes about to crash. In short order we will be in pain and surrounded by the wreckage of our once great nation and our once comfortable lives. It would be a shame to be so caught up in our workaday lives to miss the wider spectacle. It would be a shame to find ourselves broken and not know how we got there.

So yes, take the time to set back and observe after you have a good laugh, and a cry. “Embrace the horror”.

Modified statement about Nixon: After his Checkers speech, no one expected him to become president. Even him.

I read in another story about Rollins leaving that Bachmann is infamous on the hill for her top staff leaving in a somewhat to fairly consistent basis.

Yes, it did seem unlikely at the time. But this is one of those cases where you take 10c from a dollar and everybody says, “look you’ve got money left, what are you worried about?” And then you do it again and again, until everybody is used to the fact that every time you take 10c from a dollar, there’s money left. And then it’s then tenth time – what happened?

You’re wrong about Nixon though. The old crook was a professional politician to the bone, and he was always a serious runner. He might have won in 1960, but for Richard Daley, and in ’68 Humphrey was a lousy candidate and the Democratic Convention events were enough to alienate any independent.

If the gaffes were hers, then she is an idiot, and if they were orchestrated as deliberate sabotage, then she is an incompetent idiot (both for not catching the saboteur and for not catching the gaffes in the first place).

Not much of a choice there, is it?