The Bachmann Chronicles
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
Let’s talk about Michele Bachmann.
Look, you should thank me for not bringing up Greek debt. Afghan violence. Economic indicators. Show some appreciation.
Bachmann is a challenge for feminist-friendly voters. Was it sexist to talk about her migraine problem? For Newsweek to run the cover that made her look like a well-groomed zombie? Should we have applauded the Iowa Republicans when they put a woman at the top of their presidential preference list, even if the woman in question blamed government spending for the earthquake in Washington?
Wow, it seems like we went through all this with Sarah Palin yesterday.
(More here.)
NYT
Let’s talk about Michele Bachmann.
Look, you should thank me for not bringing up Greek debt. Afghan violence. Economic indicators. Show some appreciation.
Bachmann is a challenge for feminist-friendly voters. Was it sexist to talk about her migraine problem? For Newsweek to run the cover that made her look like a well-groomed zombie? Should we have applauded the Iowa Republicans when they put a woman at the top of their presidential preference list, even if the woman in question blamed government spending for the earthquake in Washington?
Wow, it seems like we went through all this with Sarah Palin yesterday.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
Ron Carey, the former Chairman of the MN-GOP and short-time Chief of Staff to Ms. Bachmann was asked on Cooper Anderson's 360 program the other night about her ... this was his response :
Well, Michele is very impulsive from a personality standpoint and, to her credit, she reads an awful lot of information, but sometimes I’m afraid that she reads maybe 80 or 90 percent and leaves out or forgets the ten or 20 percent that can change the outcome, so her impulsive nature coupled with the fact that she sometimes doesn’t digest information as carefully as she should leads to these kinds of impulsive statements that sometimes are just off the mark enough that it makes her into more of a provocative, controversial figure.
He continued:
One of the challenges I’ve found with working with Michele, and it’s consistent with other people who have worked with her, is the fact that she doesn’t use her staff well. She’s pretty much independent and does her own research. She’ll be out there on the stump, preparing her remarks and speaking off the cuff with no staff intervention or involvement whatsoever, so it’s really difficult to prep her and help her kind of back-check before she goes out speaking because she will be out there speaking and you’ll say, “Where did this come from?” and it’s something that she maybe heard on TV.
Mr. Carey's comments are not a surprise ... remember Ms. Bachmann's warning of the future on Iraq that she had knowledge of Iran’s plans that “half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is going to be called the Iraq State of Islam,
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