Rachel Bachmann??

Excellent post, but that's Michele, not Rachel, Bachmann.

"wondering why on earth Republican leaders like Mike Huckabee or Reps. Michele Bachmann, Steve King, Tom Price, Tom McClintock and Trent Franks are inexcusably lending credibility to this event and to its organizers."

The issue really is that these "leaders" of the Republican Party are as unhinged as their fringe organizations. The Republican Party has become unhinged.

...and Michelle Bachman? She's a leader of the Republican Party? That says it all.

Yeah, but if you recognize that it's the crazies who go crazy about these crazy things, and the crazies approve of these crazy things with the crazies, then there are no more crazies to go crazy about the crazy things with the crazies.

more gomorra america -- and no mittens?

being a history of the church buff, this shit really gives me the tingles... but wish shit-fer-brains romney were in on it.

i am hoping that the slowly coalescing merger of 1) roman catholicism (american-style) 2) fundamentalist/hard core calvinist prot religionists, and 3) the US answer to Islam, Mormonism.
This all will lead to a "1000 year reign" of the Lord God Jahovah to whom every god damn one of you shall bend your knee... or bend it at least to his surrogate and viceroy, the next republican president of the united states.

Mittens better git his ass to st louie...

Yeah, but if you recognize that it's the crazies who go crazy about these crazy things, and the crazies approve of these crazy things with the crazies, then there are no more crazies to go crazy about the crazy things with the crazies.

Do all Repuglicans (elected and self-identifying) live in UPSIDE DOWN WORLD??? Witness Isakson (?) just saying on radio message that Dems are trying to "push through" health reform without considering the wishes of the people...DUH!!!???

There's an odd expectation that Republican officials will hang out with obviously insane right-wing activists

Surely the odd expectation is that that people like King and Bachmann wouldn't hang out with obviously insane right-wingers. "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" may have worked for Groucho, but these people don't have the self-deprecating irony (or the sanity) to pull it off.

I'm sorry, but I don't see any "GOP leaders" in that group attending. (Okay, maybe Huckabee qualifies, but he doesn't hold any public office right now and isn't a favorite of the party establishment.) Of those five congressmen, not one of them is in the GOP leadership, one is a nameless freshman (McClintock) and two are locked in a death struggle for the title of "Most Batshit Crazy Member of the House." No leaders here.

But I will agree, the fact that elected GOP officials would hang out with people who seriously think the H1N1 flu is a government plot shows that the line between the GOP "mainstream" and the crazies on the far right has pretty much disappeared.

This right-wing extremism leads right into events like the tormenting murder of the Census worker, and will lead to more of the same. Yet they gripe about one or two dishonorable employees of ACORN, a problem which any organization has to put up with.

If I was Obama, I'd used sarcasm and humor to deal with these people. In press conferences, when the Fox News reporter asks a question, I'd turn to one of my aides and say, "How are we comin' with those internment camps for conservatives?"

My takeaway from this post is "internment camps for Conservatives" Hmmm, interesting idea.

Michele Bachmann could not lend "credibility" to anything, anywhere, anytime. Her showing up just puts the button on this event being for nutjobs.

the left's agenda tends to be pretty mainstream

That's amusing.

Michele Bachmann has got to go! Democratic candidate Dr. Maureen Reed is running against her and she is the ticket to beating Bachmann's craziness! You can learn more about Maureen, and donate, at:
http://maureenreedforcongress.com/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Reed

recycling a comment from yesterday : bachmann and king should go "hiking in the appalachians" together...as long as they don't breed

"That's amusing." MRM @ 3:46 PM.
And I thought laughing in the face of defeat was just a cliche!

I'm sorry, but I don't see any "GOP leaders" in that group attending. (Okay, maybe Huckabee qualifies, but he doesn't hold any public office right now and isn't a favorite of the party establishment.)

Maybe, but you'd have to agree that Bachmann is certainly a major spokesperson for the GOP. Her mug is all over the TeeVee....she never misses an opportunity for mic time.

What the Republicans desperately need is a charismatic, sensible leader who can reassure Americans that the full-tilt asinine years of Bush were an aberration that could never happen again, and who can articulate a visionary Republican policy that doesn't sound like it was written by the monkey people in "The Jungle Book".

In the conspicuous absence of such a leader, the Republicans are sitting down to eat their seed corn. Rolling in the dirt and snapping at each others' entrails as they fight to see who can most boldly insult the President, who can be more nakedly seditious (and make no mistake, that's what publicly announcing one's intent to disobey the laws set out by the government in power is, something a few people are going to find out if law enforcement ever gets around to enforcing the law) merely ensures that the slobbering, crazy remnants of the GOP will remain far from power for a generation.

And that's bad for America. After the Bush years, some say no agenda could be too liberal. Well, yes, it could. Every political party gets carried away if it has no opposition, and veers too far in one direction or another - Exhibit A, the Republicans under Bush. A loyal, reason-driven, non-crazy opposition with just enough clout to represent a threat helps keep the trains running on time, and can sometimes even help repair bad legislation before it goes up for approval.

Needless to say, today's GOP does not constitute an opposition in any context other than the literal definition.

Posted by: MatthewRMarler on September 26, 2009 at 3:46 PM

never as amusing as an ignorant clown like you, who apparently thinks the rightwing agenda is mainstream.

Kew The author was a clueless liberal as soon as I got to the second paragragh.
"It's amusing, of course, because the left's agenda tends to be pretty mainstream, and there's no reason for Dems to keep the progressive base at arm's length. But it also raises a related point: it's exceedingly difficult for a conservative to be too crazy for the Republican Party."

The left's agenda tends to be mainstream? Bwhahahahahaha! You lost me right there, clown. When will you liberal elitists wake up and realize that the majority of Americans do NOT go for your agenda? You are not mainstream; we are!

"...the left's agenda tends to be pretty mainstream."

What color is the sky in your world?

Gay marriage? Socialism? Higher taxes? Gun control? Late term abortions? Amnesty for illegals? Cap and trade?

The left's entire agenda is out of the mainstream.

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