Rep. Michele Bachmann has the potential to become a Vice Presidential nominee if she runs a very good campaign and avoids embarrassing missteps. However, she keeps running into to “fact problems”, which diminish her credibility and make the Minnesota Republican appear not ready for Prime Time.
Given Bachmann’s anti-intellectual style, it is not surprising that she either makes things up or fudges the facts. But, one would think that by now — the day she launches her presidential bid in Waterloo, Iowa — she would have hired competent staff to fact check her speeches and public statements.
The New York Times reported on her latest screw-up:
Mrs. Bachmann, who rose to prominence with her evocative quips and spirited presence in television interviews and appearances at Tea Party rallies last year, has also experienced a string of gaffes. She added a new one to the list during her visit back to Waterloo, a city that she left in 1968…As she stood in her old neighborhood, she misstated a piece of Iowa lore as she explained the important role that Waterloo had in shaping her character.”John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa,” Mrs. Bachmann told Carl Cameron of Fox News in an interview. “That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.”
The actor was actually born in Winterset, Iowa, which is about 150 miles southwest of Waterloo. It was John Wayne Gacy, known as the killer clown who raped and murdered 33 teenage boys in the 1970s, who lived in Waterloo.
A few more gaffes, such as this one, and Bachmann’s political career will dead end as a punchline on Saturday Night Live.
Keep ‘em coming, Michele! Bachmann-Palin 2012!
Hopefully Waterloo will be synchronistic for how her campaign will go. Speaking of ‘killer clowns’, if you haven’t seen the movie Killer Clowns from Outer Space–get it, it’s pure camp and supper funny.
As usual, she can’t connect her thoughts and her words and both are usually divorced from reality. I’m sure she meant John Wayne, born Marion Mitchell Morrison in Winterset, Iowa about three hours from Waterloo. John Wayne Gacy aka the Killer Clown who raped and murdered 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978, moved to Waterloo, Iowa in his 20′s and was first arrested for crimes against teen boys there.
I’m sure it was just her usual stupid, half witted, imbecilic, ignorant, half assed researched statement. Even so, if it wasn’t, she would have had something in common with Tea Party darling Ayn Rand, who had a thing for psychopathic serial killer William Edward Hickman, whose gruesome, sadistic dismemberment of 12-year-old girl named Marion Parker in 1927 shocked the nation.
Whether it was her screw up, or that of one of her campaign workers, her inability to keep her ‘facts’ straight without mixing completely different wikipedia or google postings might not be so disturbing if it didn’t seem to be a daily or sometimes hourly happening. Whatever, I hope she doesn’t decide to give a talk about Ron Paul because she would probably come up with a lot of information mixed from postings on Ron Paul and Ru Paul! Actually on second thought that might be extremely entertaining!
oops meant super not supper.
A Bachmann-Palin 2012 ticket would be a halarious Godsend! There simply aren’t enough stupid people in this country to vote for these idiots. I almost hope it happens. Then we can watch the fun!
*hilarious godsend.
As I seem to recall your beloved president Obama
thought that there was 57 states in the Union.
Al Gore turned making gaffs into a fine art, and on it goes……
No Brad, he didn’t say he visted 57 states in the union, he was referring to a different 57.