From the “Self-Awareness, Lack Thereof” file…

Michele Bachmann is flummoxed by Democratic opposition:

In being forceful and fighting for the positions that I’m standing for, I obviously must pose a threat for liberals advancing their agenda. I say that because I grew up a Democrat in a Democrat family. My husband and I both worked on Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign. The first time I ever came to Washington was to dance at Walter Mondale’s inaugural ball. It was a thrill for my husband and me, and we were both happy to work on behalf of Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter. We really believed in them when we were in college. So in some ways I don’t understand why the Democratic Party would be opposed to me, because I stand for the same values that my parents stood for when we were Democrats.

Indeed, why on earth would any Democrat object to being labeled “un-American” and “socialists”? Who could hold Bachmann’s madcap, zany adventures—like exhorting a motley scrum of birfers and assorted teabag loons to invade congressional office buildings—against her? She voted for Jimmy! Carter!

[H/T: TPM]

Posted by Betty Cracker on 11/23/09 at 11:39 AM • Permalink

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I’m going to go out on a limb here, and suggest that Bachmann and her ilk on the far right are so completely invested in their Bush/Cheney/Rove version of reality that the blinders have been welded on.

Seriously, about 20% of our country is beyond help. We need some sort of “bread and circuses” initiative to keep these people permanently distracted. Perhaps a lifetime supply of Doritos, Celebrex, and American Idol would do the trick.

Comment by Pumalicious! on 11/23/09 at 12:12 PM

ZOMG, Bachmann is an ACORN mole!

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 11/23/09 at 12:18 PM

So, she was a stripper at Mondale’s inaugural ball? Or is she saying that Walter exercised some sort of Jabba-like droit du seigneur privilege over the hired help?

Maybe I’m just reading that wrong.