Comments on: Michele Bachmann: Waiting for the other shoe to drop?

By: scidog

scidog — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:08:09 +0000

she is just recovering from having a new chip installed.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:29:54 +0000

That sounds good in part, but do keep in mind that the national party has little to no say in who runs for office within a district, and any give new Member probably got there based on a combination of their own strength and the activities of the district itself, and the state. Once in, the national party still has only a certain role. I don’t think there is a much planning in electoral politics as some may be assuming here. The national level activities have to do with appointments once in Congress, which indirectly but powerfully influences what happens, and the national committee (for each party) for candidates in each house of congress, which I believe did not come into play for Bachmann this year, but Graves got some money from the Dems, IIRC.

By: Art

Art — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:48:19 +0000

I have long suspected that Bachmann was the designated the ‘cat-swinging crazy lady’ of the GOP intended to highlight just how serious and reasonable the rest of the GOP was. They set her up in a rock-solid GOP district and told her to play the part and give her a general direction to aim the crazy. Well … the district kept her in office, as designed, despite her braying, but the crazy cannon didn’t work out the way the GOP directorate wanted. It didn’t win them the votes and suppress the Democratic vote. The association of the GOP with lunacy was too on-point and clearly contrived, like Romney’s Etch-a-Sketch talking points, it backfired.

So they told her to cool it a while. She is awaiting her next set of orders. She is nowhere near as unintelligent as people assume. It is just a part she plays.

By: Chasmaporthetes

Chasmaporthetes — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:06:08 +0000

Any and all of the reasons given above for Ms. Bachman’s silence are plausible. The Republicans, stricken with terror and doubt over God’s Plan For America, are are currently blasting away in a circular firing squad. Since the arid waste that constitutes the Republican hive mind (such as it is) is impenetrably hostile to normal earthly life, there’s no telling what’s going on in there.

I’ve been wondering about George Dubya Whatshisface’s radio silence for the last couple years. Have they got him in a witness protection program? Failing health? Did he finally put down the bible and pick up the bottle? Is it some sort of omerta thing with Cheney and the gang? Is everything OK at home George? As a citizen I’m concerned.

By: Nice Ogress

Nice Ogress — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:25:01 +0000

It’s always a little treacherous to read something into the absence of data.

Could be she’s taking the time for the nonpolitical aspects of her life – she surely has some – and tabling her political whatnots until after Xmas. It’s not necessarily her handlers making her not-do things.

It’s also equally possible she *is* doing things, just not in the public eye. Speeches and gladhanding and closed-door meetings aren’t necessarily absent. Reporting requires that journalists are paying attention and getting access to their subject.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:14:08 +0000

Sarcastico, I agree withi what you are saying generally but I think the loser in the presidential race traditionally disappears for a while.

By: MikeMa

MikeMa — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:22:52 +0000

@sarcastico,
Well said. They god-loons had ample warning that they were about to be taken down though. At least 4 of the GnoP candidates had god’s direct backing. Perry, Cain, Bachmann and Santorum all referred to god’s plan driving them forward. Mitt had his magic underwear and a mormon prophesy to fulfill.

None of them are president. That should be taken directly as god’s will.

By: sarcastico

sarcastico — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:10:34 +0000

Michele B and Mitt Romney have both dropped out of the public eye and I suspect the reasons are much the same. Michele got thrashed as a presidential candidate and barely kept her seat despite outspending her opponent 12 to 1. The republican party as a whole got their @ss handed to them by a Kenyan Marxist Socialist Muslim Atheist. For the”Chosen of God” who think they know gods plan and think they have part to play in it,–well, that is just not how things were supposed to play out.
Most of the conservative echo chamber are having to come to grips with a reality they cannot comprehend, but for the people like Michele and Mittens, who thought they were major players in God’s plan, the fall from Grace is even more difficult to embrace. Is their faith being tested? Did they misinterpret the signs they were shown? They are having to construct a new rationale that explains to themselves why they were so completely wrong –and allows them to move forward with the same clueless self confidence they had before reality d#ck slapped them up the side of the head.

By: MikeMa

MikeMa — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:01:07 +0000

Another option: Bachmann’s trending downward spiral might have finally penetrated her thick skull. Nah.

By: Drivebyposter

Drivebyposter — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:34:04 +0000

I would counter with the GOP is ignoring her because she is a woman and not that they are taking things out on women, but much of the lunatic right feels the reason they lost was they weren’t insane enough. They had to ramp up the anti-gay, the anti-women, the anti-immigrant, etc stuff in order to win. It might just be a part of the ramping up.

Or maybe, they realized Bachmann is a liability because the crazy doesn’t appeal to most Americans.

Or maybe it’s just revenge for running against Romney and presumably taking a few shots at him while she was campaigning.