Lost On The Stupid
Talking Points Memo on why lefties hate Michele Bachmann:
Michele Bachmann (R-MN) sat down for an interview with MinnPost, and among other things was asked why she is the object of so much loathing among liberals.
“I don’t know. I’m a lovable little fuzz ball!” said Bachmann.
I am starting to get the impresison that Bachmann has the one thing any conservative woman must need to stay in the game without going nuts; the ability to keep her most deranged detractors firmly in perspective.
Which is a nice way of saying “mocking them”.
”I have no idea what they would have to fear. I guess you would have to ask them; they would have the better answer to your question. I am doing my job. That’s what I was elected to do. I don’t fear the left, and maybe that’s part of the loathing that they feel toward me. I’m not afraid to speak out on conservative positions and on issues.
Which is, of course, the problem for the left; wimmins are supposed to be barefoot, pregnant and dewy-eyed over Obama.
Eric Kleefeld, the writer, tries to answer Bachmann’s question – sort of:
Bachmann has previously wondered why Democrats don’t like her. We’ve collected some of the reasons — such as her having called for revolution against President Obama’s Marxist tyranny, and calling upon conservatives to slit their wrists and become blood brothers in the fight against the Democrats on health care, and many other examples.
I”m always fascinated that the party of “nuance” gets so flatly literal when a conservative woman talks.
But here’s a serious question: whenever a woman “comes out” as a conservative, she is instantly branded “teh crazee”, “extremist”, “stupid”, and the whole range of petty defamations. For Bachmann, of course, it’s old hat – her detractors date back to before her time in the State Senate, when she started the Maple River Education Coalition; the regional left has been sputtering over Bachmann for over a decade. The contradiction is grating; Bachmann is vastly more accomplished than Betty McCollum, and no more “extreme” to the right than McCollum is to the left.
But I am assured by various liberal friends out there that “there are consevative women that we can respect”.
And I disagree. Until we reach some critical mass of conservative women in this country, I suspect that every single woman who comes to prominence as a conservative will draw the attentions of the liberal machine. I can not thing of a single woman of any prominence as a conservative at any level, from local through national, that doesn’t draw the same exact response.
So prove me wrong. Name a conservative woman of any prominence that hasn’t gotten smeared beyond reason. And by “conservative”, I mean conservative; not Christine Todd Whitman or Olympia Snowe.
Ready? Go.
Cross-posted at Shot in the Dark. Comments welcome.
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