Is Michelle Bachmann just full of the stupid or what

[Hugabear]

Over the past few weeks, Bachmann has come out with the following ideas:

1. Promising to bring gas back to under $2/gallon

2. Saying she'd consider scrapping federal minimum wage laws

3. Proposing to drill for oil in the Everglades (not even Florida rethugs are that stupid)

Is she really this stupid, or does she people will actually go for these ideas?

[Chipper Chat]

1. She lives in an alternate universe.

It's called "Pollyanna"

[JohnnyRingo]

2. I think she tells her supporters what they want to hear.

...and by all appearances, they lap it up like a poodle.
It probably says more about the people at her rallies than it does about the candidate. If you see a car on the freeway with a "Bachmann 2012" bumper sticker, I'd offer a wide berth.

[Kennah]

3. Perry folks could be prompting her so Perry draws less scrutiny

[Cosmocat]

12. She is desperate and weak

Her and Huntsman are the two candidate who obviously are folding. Huntsman doing whatever he can to try to get some traction, and Bachmann knows that Perry is her death knell, and is saying ANYTHING to try to avoid actually sitting on the back bench she was ushered to the moment Perry announced.

[SheilaT]

4. She's an idiot.

1. She has no idea how prices of things like gas are really set/determined.

2. She obviously knows no one who works for minimum wage. She has no clue how low it really is.

3. There's oil in the Everglades?

[Hugabear]

5. Guess you'd have to drill everywhere to find out, eh?

Fuck it, let's just start drilling in EVERY national park and wildlife refuge. We're bound to find oil somewhere

[Kalidurga]

6. She is so stupid we need to invent another word for it....

seriously, stupid doesn't even come close to how stupid she is...

[JohnnyRingo]

7. She probably figures God had to put oil under His favorite country

Why would He bury it all under Saudi Arabia, what with their mosques and everything?
Hahahaha

[Skittles]

8. dumb as a fence post

but she spouts stupid shit that stupid voters just eat up

[malaise]

9. Yes she's stupid and ignorant

and no one has told her

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Maybe she's a genius

and knows how to capitalize on the stupid. She has certainly stamped her brand on stupidity.

I'm guessing "dumb like a fox"

She and Perry.

Heck, a lot of "undecideds" might buy the message. We can underestimate her at our peril.

:hi:

[Kennah]

18. Because only a genius could feign such stupidity?

[FLPanhandle]

11. I'll go with the stupid option.

Has about as much going on upstairs as Palin.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. She is running for a FAUX NEWS Show, taken in this context

it is pretty clear that saying things that have no basis in reality is exactly the right thing.

[chelsea0011]

14. She has not followed the Palin mode of running for office....

Never talk about anything todo will policy. You will look uninformed and come off as a simpleton with a touch of lunacy.

[lunatica]

15. She plans to be Queen Dictator and rule by decree

To hell with Democracy. She will make it illegal to be gay and the punishment will be death by stoning. She will put Americans to work in factories at minimal wages which will bring corporations back in droves because we'll work cheaper than any third world population. She'll make it mandatory to go to church, burn all remnants of Darwinism, and create laws making the Christian Right the ruling party.

Yay. What exciting times she'll bring.

[Blue Owl]

16. Michelle's pretty, pretty ideas

n/t

[progressoid]

17. Not as stupid as her supporters.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. It's getting harder and harder for them to outflank each other on the right

Since Rick Perry is about as extreme right wing as it gets, what novel ideas can Bachmann come up with to go farther and farther out on the right wing to regain the momentum? It must keep her up at night, writing notes and then crossing out such crazy ideas as repealing the 13th amendment and bringing back indentured servitude, proposing that corporations run for the presidency (since they are people), or completely privatizing all of the federal government including the military.

[hifiguy]

20. Bachmann is stupid in much the same way

metallized hydrogen is dense: indescribably.

[LondonReign2]

21. Not stupid, delusional

She truly believes that every thought that comes into her head was put there by the magical sky wizard, and therefore must be the unvarnished, wholly accurate truth.

Delusional.