Original AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

In yet another attempt to back pedal from the brink political extinction Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential wanabee Michele “Krazy” Bachmann reportedly said Monday – according to the Associated Press (AP) – she was not arguing a vaccine intended to prevent cervical cancer caused mental retardation when she repeated the scientifically unfounded claim last week.

Oh OK; so, a responsible candidate would normally just throw stuff like that out there because she didn’t believe it? Excuse me, but does anyone out there speak “Krazy” talk?

Krazy said she was only relaying what a seemingly distraught woman had told her after the last GOTP presidential debate in Florida. It was during that “debate” that Bachmann criticized rival the Reverend Ricky Perry for ordering the vaccine in Texas.

“All I was doing is relaying what a woman had said,” Krazy told the AP. “I relayed what she said. I wasn’t attesting to her accuracy. I wasn’t attesting to anything.”

“I was only, sort of, saying what she said was true,” her Brain Captain tried to get her to say.

Krazy has accused Reverend Ricky, the once and future king of Texas, of abusing his authority by signing a 2007 executive order requiring school-age girls to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease linked to causing cervical cancer. Following the debate, Bachmann described – for Sean Hannity – an alleged encounter she had with a woman she says approached her.

“There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine,” Bachmann reportedly said on FOX PAC. “She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result. There are very dangerous consequences.”

Perry said Krazy’s comment after the debate was unwise “when she had no scientific backing, to say the very least.”

Come now Reverend, when have facts ever stood in the way of accusations leveled from the mouth of any conservative?

I was going to say Krazy’s antics demonstrate how desperate her campaign is becoming, but she’s always been like this; she’s always said whatever her Brain Captain says – even though he’s apparently DWI most of the time – and then she tries to recant what she’s said. It’s the whole, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” moment, repeated over and over again. It used to be fun watching her, now it’s just becoming sad and pathetic.