Michele Bachmann And The New McCarthyism

Folks, bookmark this post. Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann goes off the charts here on the wingnut Obama-hating insanity.



"What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out if they are pro-America or anti-America."

Folks, this is a sitting member of Congress asking for investigations of Barack Obama and other sitting Democratic members of Congress and the media for what amounts to suspicion of treason. You do not get any more wingnut batshit crazy then this. Do you think she will "reach across the aisle" to embrace a President Obama?

Afterwards, The Nation's Katrina Vanden Heuvel takes Michele McCarthy out back to the woodshed, and not even Pat Buchanan will defend her.



At least there are some folks willing to stand up to incendiary nutjobs like Bachmann (and Sarah Palin for that matter) but there is a violently angry wing of the GOP that will never, under any circumstances, accept a Democrat in office. To them, a Democrat elected over a Republican is against the natural order of things...and one as President is tantamount to the most foul blasphemy. Throw in the fact this Democratic President is an African-American, and you get Michele Bachmann's tirade tonight on Hardball.

To her, Barack Obama literally represents the End Of Days. There are millions more folks like Michelle Bachmann out there, ranging from ignorant to hateful to downright violent. The GOP will let Bachmann and others like her spout their tirade, with the whole point of the exercise to dehumanize Barack Obama to the point of illegitimacy.

They honestly can't believe he will President. But he is not their President if elected, oh no. They will not recognize him as such if he wins. He will never be legitimate to Michelle Bachmann and her hate squad. They will attack him in a fashion that makes the GOP crusade to impeach Clinton look like a "minor playground misunderstanding."

This is the new McCarthyism, folks. Democrats are the Enemy. They must be destroyed by any means necessary. Should Obama become our next President as he most likely will be, they won't rest until Obama is gone. And you can take "gone" in any number of unpleasant ways, including the most dire.

We have a Secret Service protecting the man for a reason. And tirades like Michele Bachmann's exquisite little mountain of bile there serve only to fuel the need for more Secret Service protection for the President. My greatest fear is that somebody from this vile, hate-filled little place will say "Hell yeah, he's a damn traitor!" and take it upon themselves to rescue the country by doing something horrendous. We have quite a long history of good Presidents having their terms cut short.

I cannot help but pray that when that security detail is tested...when, not if...that our country can survive. I say "when" because various attempts have been made on every President's life since Kennedy's assassination. Of 43 Presidents, four have been assassinated. Two more were rumored to have been assassinated, and again, various attempts have been made.

It's not really a question of "if", really. It's how many...how many will be fueled by this sort of "free speech"?