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The Mental Health of Michele Bachmann
Politics and psychiatry converge as a conservative website reveals that the surging Republican candidate “frequently suffers from stress-induced medical episodes that…occur once a week on average and can ‘incapacitate’ her for days at time. On at least three occasions, Bachmann has landed in the hospital as a result.”
Doubts about her state of mind keep multiplying after stories of her fervent prayer five years ago predicting an apocalypse:
“Lord, the day is at hand. We are in the last days. You are a Jehovah God. We know that the times are in your hands. And we give them to you…The day is at hand, Lord, when your return will come nigh. Nothing is more important than bringing sheep into the fold.”
Her admirers may shrug off such revelations as prejudiced attacks on a highly spiritual candidate, but Bachmann has exceeded the speed limit for normal since she was elected to Congress in 2006.
Only weeks afterward, she drew attention at the State of the Union by groping the President and not letting go.
6 Responses to “The Mental Health of Michele Bachmann”
I may think that Michele Bachmann is a loon, but it has nothing to do with her medical condition — MIGRAINES. Please get your facts straight. Migraines are not a psychiatric condition or mental illness. They are a medical condition, and they are preventable and treatable. They occasionally require hospitalization for severe episodes. Just because they are stress-related doesn’t make them a mental condition; heart attacks are also stress related.
The religious angle has nothing to do with mental health IMO. Lots of Christians believe that we are, “in the last days”, because the Jews have returned to Israel. I find the prayer innocuous and common. The “groping” video is not groping. The word groping has a sexual connotation. It’s pretty clear to me that Bachmann is just trying Keep Bush close enough for a photo shot with him. Which she gets. The migraine episodes described as, “due to stress”, could be indicative of something more ominous psychologically or physiologically. None of this is really a big deal to me. Though some of her public comments have been of enough concern to me that I doubt her ability to perform.
The dinosaurs on the Left remain descended relative to others here.
As I’ve correctly said, her verging into the (true, not fictitious leftists’) far Right still places her (partially, at most) with the least of two evils.
The far Left and retrograde left dinosaurs continue to be vicious.
As for her health, at least one feminist article got it right — if Kennedy could take drugs and suffer health problems that were serious (and, for that matter, if Roosevelt were physically handicapped), and could still do the job, and liberals would insist either be allowed today to do the job, then Bachmann’s not disqualified, obviously, on any similar grounds. So why does even the GOP bash Bachmann? The feminists imagine sexism routinely when and where it doesn’t exist, but the remote partial chance always is there. I hold the mainstream view that their concern — as well as that of less-deranged people on the Left — is that the migraines could be the GOP’s excuse to disqualify her when they really fear her electability problems; she aligns with the social and religious conservatives, which turn off many conservative and independent voters as well as liberals, and of course the liberal media and commentators and slimier political comedians, for example, will simply destroy her and get Obama re-elected.
(I don’t believe any Republican can defeat Obama in 2012.)
ktmoxie: Thanks for your post and clarification about the migraine issue. It has long been established that migraines are a medical issue. I find the attacks on Bachmann totally unfair in this area and I’m not surprised to see the Republicans doing the attacking. As I’ve said elsewhere, Ms. Bachmann frightens me in a number of areas, but going after her for migraines is stepping over the line. I’m much more concerned about the comments she has made regarding gender issues as well as a number of other areas. This is the stuff to be worried about.
The GOP is fearful she will be nominated and she is unelectable.
Tim Pawlenty’s cheap shot at Bachmann was really pathetic.
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