As Congresswoman Michele Bachmann heads to Waterloo, Iowa, to kick off her campaign to become the 2012 GOP Presidential nominee, her interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace this morning set the stage for what Bachmann will be up against with serious journalists who'll be covering Madame Tea Party's campaign.
Bachmann, now a third term Congresswoman from Minnesota, has a long history of playing fast and loose with facts, often getting them wrong, or just making them up to rile her angry base. From falsely claiming John Quincy Adams "would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country," to wanting to hear from General David Petraeus on how to proceed in Libya, when Petraeus is not even in the chain of command on Libya, to a speech she gave to voters in New Hampshire, claiming the "Shot heard round the world" happened in the Live Free or Die State and not Massachusetts, their liberal neighbor, straight through to this morning, on Face the Nation, when she told Host Bob Schieffer President Barack Obama released "all the oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve," (30 Million barrels of the 730 Million barrel reserve was released), it's difficult to take Bachmann seriously when so much of what comes out of her mouth can be instantly discredited.
Though not addressing a specific instance of a Bachmann assertion gone wrong, Chris Wallace just flat out asked Bachmann on Fox News Sunday, "Are you a flake?" Bachmann seemed to take offense to the question and replied, "I think that would be insulting to say something like that because I'm a serious person." She then went on to tout her personal resume and seemed to get those basics about herself right. It's just the facts she uses to refute or discredit others where she consistently earns failing grades.
Michele Bachmann is no flake! She's attractive, well-spoken, with boundless energy and a spine of, in her words, "Titanium." Bachmann may not be an intellectual, but she is indisputably an ideologue who is happy to use fiction and falsehoods to make erroneous charges to further an extreme far right agenda, which is out of step with all but a very limited base of Tea sippers. As both a State Senator and Congresswoman, she hasn't passed any meaningful legislation, preferring to be cast as a lightening rod on cultural issues. In the comings months, her "shock" standing (virtual tie with Mitt Romney) in the first Des Moines Register poll of GOP Presidential candidates, will be exposed as nothing more than a summertime fluke!
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