Michele Bachmann has built her career — such as it is — by stirring up the crazies. Now they have turned on her.
Her renouncing her dual citizenship with Switzerland just two days after it was revealed is clearly in response to extremist blogs that called it “outrageous,” “treason,” “career-ending,” “an insult,” and “an egregious offense.”*
* “Bachmann blasted by right blogs,” Tim Mak, Politico
One of the results of Sarkozy’s harsh austerity measures in France — aside from his own loss yesterday — was the best showing ever for the far-right, fascist party, which got more than 18% of the vote. The party played down its anti-Semitic and racist views to focus on economic issues, especially leaving the Euro, saying that both major parties (Sarkozy and Hollande, who came in first) speak for the elites.
A very troubling development, but not really surprising.
From “The Sweet Spot,” Bill Keller, NYT:
“My hunch is that Romney will manage to shake off most of his extremist accouterments, because they never seemed to fit him. It is true that if elected…Romney would be obliged to tithe generously to the right, by choosing Supreme Court nominees of the Scalia/Thomas persuasion, for example, and by populating regulatory agencies with polluters and plunderers. But those concerns tend not to alter election outcomes. Even with pro-Obama super PACs painting him as a mean-spirited zealot, Romney should be able to recapture the old campaign aura of a moderate Mr. Fixit.”
I agree with Keller that “those concerns” don’t affect elections, but they should!
So Mitt is re-setting the Etch a Sketch for the general to run from the base and then will re-set it again if elected to embrace them. They’ll keep him on a short leash under the threat of getting primaried for 2016. They already don’t like or trust him, so he’d better behave.
Embattled Farmers 