Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) made a startling claim in South Carolina yesterday. As one of the Minnesota bloggers tracking and categorizing the insanity that is the Life of Bachmann, you'd think little would startle me. While Bill Prendergast insists she's said this before on the Presidential campaign trail, this is the first time I've come across it:
"I am the unifying candidate," representing Republicans, independents, libertarians, "disaffected Democrats," and people all over the political spectrum, she said. But she's not a part of the "good ole' boy club" and not a liberal, [Bachmann] said.
The article goes on to note several good reasons why she's not going to unify:
Richards McCrae, chairman of the York County Democratic Party, said Democrats weren't likely to come to her side.
"Bachmann supports phasing out Medicare and Social Security, thinks global warming is a hoax, has voted against increasing access to federal student loans, is a leading proponent of overturning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and is staunchly opposed to abortion rights," he wrote in an email to The Herald. "If you agree with Bachmann on these issues, then you're probably not a Democrat."
Others have questioned whether Bachmann has the experience to make it to the White House, including Ron Carey, a former chief of staff.
They note Carey's op-ed in the Des Moines Register, her out-of-control office and her utter lack of any legislative accomplishments.
I had thought that The Onion was kidding when they had her claim she was the unifying candidate, but here she goes and says it herself.
How can a woman who says and/or believes the following claim to be a unifying candidate:
- Democrats in Congress hold Anti-American views
- Wants her supporters to be 'armed and dangerous' over cap-and-trade legislation
- Said that in Washington, DC she feels like an correspondent behind enemy lines
- we don't need to save the planet from global climate change because Jesus had already saved it
- Democrats have a real aversion to capitalism
- She believes that Catholics follow the anti-Christ
- foments armed revolution as a way to stop Democrats after Dems won 2008 election
That's just a few of the "unifying" statements she's made that I could think of off the top of my head. For more unifying statements from Bachmann, check out the Michele Bachmann Bizarro World.