Taking aim at Bachmann...and her God

One thing that pundits like Charles Krauthammer, politicos like Donald Rumsfeld, and academics like Judith Liu can all agree on: “Democracy is messy.” It’s also noisy, and nothing brings out the noisy mess like the anticipation of the next national election.

In the recent Iowa straw poll, the landscape of challengers to unseat incumbent President Obama was pruned somewhat as Congresswoman Michele Bachmann surged to a surprising first place finish. Both Bachmann and second place finisher Ron Paul nearly doubled the votes received by third place Tim Pawlenty, causing the latter to remove himself from the race for the nomination.

Although some of the media “noise” had begun before the Iowa vote, it has clearly escalated since then, and not very favorably for Bachmann.   Read more...