"Michele Bachmann tops a team of conspiracy-crazed clowns" By David Horsey at the LA Times

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Michele Bachmann tops a team of conspiracy-crazed clowns

By David Horsey at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-clowns-20120719,0,6516965.story

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Boykin and Gaffney have advanced another fanciful story that Bachmann has taken up as her own. They contend that the Obama administration somehow engineered the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate in the recent Egyptian presidential election. Visiting Egypt this week, Clinton’s motorcade was assaulted by an angry crowd throwing tomatoes and shoes. The Internet-savvy mob had picked up on the wild speculation of Bachmann, Gaffney and Boykin.

When pressed by American reporters about the questionable source of their information, the protesters refused to believe that a former general, a member of Congress and a pundit would just dream this stuff up. They do not understand that it happens every day in the "land of the free." Heck, on Tuesday, Limbaugh said godless liberals had something to do with the fact that the evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane -- you know, like Mitt Romney’s company, Bain Capital -- even though the Bane character was invented by a comic book artist 20 years ago.

American conservatism has come to be dominated by conspiracy-crazed clowns. This presents a problem for members of the Romney team as they schedule speakers for the upcoming Republican National Convention. How can they keep from giving a few of these cranks a speaking role? Bachmann, after all, was a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination at one point. Another firebrand who adopts the conspiratorial tone with regularity is Sarah Palin. She holds no office and was not a candidate this year, but she is hugely popular in the party. Can she be denied a prime-time rant?

The quandary Romney faces and has faced throughout the campaign is that the conspiracy clowns include not just a few members of Congress and a bunch of conservative pundits and celebrities. Their ranks extend to all the folks who believe the same crazy stuff as Bachmann -- a broad segment of voters that just happens to be the base of the party Romney is trying to lead

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[dougolat]

1. Clear back when she first got into Congress...

... and made that speech about the impossibility of carbon-dioxide being a pollutant, since it's a vital part of the life-cycle, I suggested we send dunce-caps to her district.
Well, her inappropriate self-confidence just keeps on embarrassing; but the Presidential bid is the all-time groaner.
(Not that she lacks for company!)