According to the Associated Press (AP) Republican Tea Partista (GOTP) presidential hopeful Michele “Krazy” Bachmann is now trying desperately to remake herself into someone who can unite the GOP’s disparate base and appeal to Republicans of all ideological stripes.
“Fiscal conservatives – I’m one of those. National security conservatives – I’m one of those. Social conservatives – I’m one of those. And the tea party – I’m one of those,” the Minnesota congresswoman said repeatedly in South Carolina this past week.
So, in other words, she has more personalities than Sybil?
Bachmann’s ability to overtake rivals Mitt “Flopsy” Romney and Reverend Ricky Perry is extremely doubtful, and only has any chance of success if – and it’s a very big if – she can somehow hoodwink the remaining sane portion of the GOTP into believing she’s the candidate for all people, and not just a right-wing nut job tool of the evangelical tea party constituency, both of which gravitate to her uber-conservative lunatic political philosophies.
Her task will not be easy. During her nearly five years in the House, Krazy has garnered a 100 percent rating from the influential American Conservative Union, based entirely on her far-right voting record. And she has repeatedly used her frequent TV appearances to stoke a national image as a favorite of the far-right Tea Partistas.
But as a presidential candidate, Krazy has to address her lunatic past, and the many controversial statements she’s made; during a recent debate, she tried to sidestep a question about a past remark wherein she cited the Bible as instructing wives to be “submissive to your husbands.” She attempted to explain it away as claiming the term “being submissive” actually was about showing mutual respect.
Not quite sure how she comes to that definition; submissive — adj of, tending towards, or indicating submission, humility, or servility sub’missively — adv sub’missiveness — n; inclined or ready to submit; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants; marked by or indicating submission: a submissive reply. Synonyms include, tractable, compliant, pliant, amenable, passive, resigned, patient, docile, tame and subdued. There is absolutely no mention of submissive equaling mutual respect anywhere. So, one has to wonder if Bachmann has suddenly thrown off her evangelical mantle to be a woman of ideals? She can’t have it both ways, either the Bible is to be taken literally, or it’s not. The world was created in seven days, and submissive means showing mutual respect; or, submissive means submissive and the world was created over billions of years. What exactly was Bachmann teaching her children during those home schooling years?
Krazy has also faced tough questions on the Sunday national news shows about statements that the gay lifestyle was one of “personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.” Not addressing such issues directly, she relied on answers such as “I’m running for the presidency of the United States. I’m not running to be anyone’s judge.”
But, that’s just the problem, and it’s the same for Reverend Ricky, who are you? You can make all the far-right statements you want, and then when you run for president no one can bring them up? Or do we really have Sybil running for president?
Krazy is showing her truly disconnected side when she begins her recent campaign speeches declaring, “We are going to make the case that we’re the unifying candidate who can beat Obama.”
So, now Krazy is using the third person when addressing herself, and two she really believes she’s the one who can beat President Obama?
Krazy is just that, crazy; she’s the Sybil of the GOTP field and she’s not even remotely electable. This is without-a-doubt the looniest group of misfits ever to seek a national party’s nomination, and Krazy is the looniest of the loons.
