I have a hard time believing that anyone who signed an anti-pr0n manifesto produced by an all-caps fringe group can ever be elected president. I just don’t see that happening, no matter how bad the economy gets. But the movement to paint the girl with far away eyes as a surprisingly serious homegrown Hamiltonian has begun in earnest:
Here was Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann on CNN June 28, responding to a question about whether she is being taken seriously: “I’m introducing myself now to the American people,” she replied, “so that they can know that I have a strong academic scholarly background.” Here is her husband, Marcus, in a new National Review story, describing their early courtship in strikingly high-minded terms: “Michele was interested in intellectual, philosophical, and political conversations.” And here she was in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks back, describing her affection for the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises: “When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von Mises.”
While it’s been hard to hear over the liberal blogosphere’s hooting and hollering at her recent gaffes, Michele Bachmann is pushing hard to establish her intellectual bona fides. If she succeeds, it will help dispel any lingering public misperception that she is a Midwestern version of Sarah Palin.
Bobo was burned by his decision to portray Bush II as a Churchillian genius, so he may go the “I can see why voters like Bachmann given the way Obama has blah blah blah” route rather than the “Bachmann has ennobled and saved American conservatism” route. Only time will tell.
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