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Forget The Migraine Headaches, Michele Bachmann Is Way Too Crazy To Be President
The physical and mental health of presidential candidates has become a paramount concern and Michele Bachmann, who is the frontrunner in some Republican polls, raises troubling questions in both areas.
The timing of the revelation that she suffers from weekly crippling stress-induced migraine headaches and mood swings just as her candidacy is surging is no accident.
Mainstream Republican bigs like Karl Rove, whose weapons of choice are long knives, know that if the Minnesota congresswoman gets the party’s presidential nomination she and the party will be toast in the 2012 election, but are too cowardly to confront Bachmann on policy issues for fear of alienating the junkyard dog wing of the party. And yes, some of the piling on is because Bachmann is a woman.
I presume but cannot say with authority that the 55-year-old Bachmann’s physical issues can be dealt with by medications unless she is, for example, profoundly bipolar and the mood swings are a result of chronic depression.
Besides which, she will be sure to release her medical records if she gets either the presidential or vice presidential nomination. All four candidates in 2008 did so, of course . . . Oh wait, Sarah Palin issued a muddled letter from her doctor on election eve and then refused to release any more information because the McCain-Palin ticket got creamed the next day.
What is troubling to me is Bachmann’s well-documented nutiness, which seems to be driven less by her physical problems than a world view fed by Christianist leanings, gay bashing, Tea Party dogma and outlandish conspiracy theories.
And do we want someone in the White House who rides the apocalypse bandwagon?
My blogging buddy Bob Stein said it best when he wrote that 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.”
8 Responses to “Forget The Migraine Headaches, Michele Bachmann Is Way Too Crazy To Be President”
“What is troubling to me is Bachmann’s well-documented nutiness, which seems to be driven less by her physical problems than a world view fed by Christianist leanings, gay bashing, Tea Party dogma and outlandish conspiracy theories.” That quote is all that needs saying about her. It also pulls in the likes of Cain, Santorum, Perry and the rest that think it’s only about them and their disciples.
Such charges are very, extremely ironic if and when the far Left makes them (with that viciousness ever present, too). Her views range into the (true) far Right, but that’s greatly the least of two evils.
Thanks for keeping the primary issue in the forefront. I find the attacks on Bachmann for her headaches in particular to be totally unfair. This is almost certainly from other Republicans going after her. Let’s keep in mind the real issue: Ms. Bachmann is a right wing radical in her beliefs in a number of areas, most obviously what she and her spouse have said on numerous occasions regarding gender issues. She is pretty scary in this area. If she were to use the same wording regarding any other minority group, she would be done for in 20 minutes. Yet we somehow continue to excuse such hate speak when it comes to gender issues.
All concessions to polite restraint notwithstanding, the last thing our ailing country needs in 2012 is it’s first loonytunes president. The fact this even has to be pointed out shows how far the lowering of the crazy threshold has gotten. Now that I think of it, the national embarassment threshold is also pretty damned low. I’m grateful for my sense of humor in times like these. My reflex is to say the electorate would never be so far gone as to vote a Bachmann into the White House, but I thought that about George Bush too.
The GOP (who has attacked Bachmann because of her migraines*), is fearful she could win the GOP nomination and that she’s unelectable.
Don’t be surprised if she doesn’t get the VP nomination, either.
* Did anyone learn of Desperate Tim Pawlenty’s second attack on Bachmann? “I’m not saying she’s unable to do the job, that you have to do every day [, but I want all of you to become uneasy so my chances improve].” (Translated from his cheap statement)
Shaun,
President Obama did not release his medical records in 2008. The released a one party summary. http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/05/obama_releases_health_informat.html
Is Palin was wrong for releasing a one party summary, was President Obama wrong for doing the same thing? Please try to be the least bit consistent.
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