{"id":12020,"date":"2013-05-30T18:35:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T01:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=12020"},"modified":"2013-05-31T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:33:18","slug":"the-problem-of-michelle-bachmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/05\/30\/the-problem-of-michelle-bachmann\/","title":{"rendered":"the problem of Michelle Bachmann"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overheard conversation between two people — clearly liberal in the politic, one reasonably flamboyantly gay and the other– I’m not really in the interest of trying for “gaydar” crap — during the 2012 Presidential election Primary (which is to say in 2011)<\/p>\n

“God, I would want to switch parties to Republican just to vote for Michele Bachmann.”
\n“Hm.”
\n“For the entertainment value. \u00c2\u00a0Crazy as a loon.”
\n“Hm.”
\n“And you know… get a load of her husband. \u00c2\u00a0Total Fag!”
\n“Hm.”<\/p>\n

It is a conversation like this, that gave me a gut feeling… Bachmann won’t last. \u00c2\u00a0Not saying as a “Presidential Nominee Front-runner” — that was a given. \u00c2\u00a0But Bachmann will either \u00c2\u00a0lose an upcoming \u00c2\u00a0election or come close enough that she won’t want to run the next time out, or the ethics charges would undo her. \u00c2\u00a0At any rate, the “flash in the pan” is at work yet again. \u00c2\u00a0And this does beg an interesting question…<\/p>\n

What is the “it” quality for longevity? \u00c2\u00a0We won’t have Michele Bachmann to kick around anymore<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Historically speaking, some lightning storms came and went — oh, Joseph McCarthy — but we had to endure Strom Thurmond for ages…<\/p>\n

… One was Wisconsin and the other South Carolina. \u00c2\u00a0Heh.<\/p>\n

Is Ted Cruz going to stick around? \u00c2\u00a0That’s the question I have to ask. \u00c2\u00a0(Jim Demint decided to skip to the bottom line of “Think Tank” land — why wait to cash out?)<\/p>\n

And what Michele Bachmann turned out to be good for — a sort of weekly “Wow. \u00c2\u00a0She said that” — turns to other peopl<\/a>e. \u00c2\u00a0Basically that space that once fell to Michele Bachmann in filling liberal blogs can filter through with just slide in with this cast of characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overheard conversation between two people — clearly liberal in the politic, one reasonably flamboyantly gay and the other– I’m not really in the interest of trying for “gaydar” crap — during the 2012 Presidential election Primary (which is to say in 2011) “God, I would want to switch parties to Republican just to vote for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12026,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions\/12026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}