# Batshit crazy Michele Bachmann strikes again! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 18, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497 "2008-10-18T05:02:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/21 "2008-10-18T17:25:07Z")
Ha! My Congressman is the actual honest-to-Allah Black Arab Muslim terrist! Suck on\* that\*, 6th District wussies! ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/22 "2008-10-18T17:33:19Z")
Since there’s only one of those, we must live in the same district. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/23 "2008-10-18T17:39:08Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > Well, you may have more luck with 2 out of 3 Congresscritters this year. You may be right. Berkowitz is leading Don (fuck you) Young 51-45, and Begich is trailing Ted (intertoobs) Stevens by only 49-48. Nobody has ever come that close to Stevens. If Stevens’ trial turns out bad for him, we could have a new senator, and a Dem to boot. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/24 "2008-10-18T18:24:56Z")
I just read that Elwyn Tinklenberg (who seems to have been named by J.K. Rowling), Bachmann’s opponent, has raised $168,000 since Bachmann made her comments. That’s extraordinary. He’s going to do a press conference at 3:00 and may have cleared $200,000 by then. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/25 "2008-10-18T19:36:31Z")
Hello, my name is Chimera, and I live in Michele Bachmann’s district. (Hello Chimera!) It horrifies me beyond all belief. It’s really bizarre how the evangelical nutbags have taken over in this area. Why couldn’t the guy running against her have a normal, Minnesotan sounding name like Johnson or Anderson? Why does he have to sound like some parody character? Is it too late to have him pull a _Simpsons_ and change his name to Max Power? Can we lobby to have Bachmann involuntarily committed? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/26 "2008-10-18T19:49:33Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > I just read that Elwyn Tinklenberg (who seems to have been named by J.K. Rowling), Bachmann’s opponent, has raised $168,000 since Bachmann made her comments. That’s extraordinary. He’s going to do a press conference at 3:00 and may have cleared $200,000 by then. [Tink says “thanks!” to DailyKos for the “Hell To Pay” style fundraising drive.](http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/18/2550/3286/381/634245) [“Censure Bachmann” petition.](http://www.censurebachmann.com/) By the way, this week’s actual [“Hell To Pay”](http://www.actblue.com/page/orangetoblue?refcode=thermometer) fundraiser is [“Equality For All,”](http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/17/1817/5879) to [defeat California’s Proposition 8](http://www.noonprop8.com/)initiative to repeal same sex marriage. Just in case anybody feels like chucking in some cash to fight intolerance. There’s a ton of out of state money coming in to push Prop 8 through and they could use some help pushing back. The ActBlue page for Equality for All isn’t active yet, the fundraiser starts tonight at 8pm EDT. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/27 "2008-10-18T19:57:54Z")
Chique, I’m so sorry. I moved out of her district. I’m in with elucidator and cricetus now. She is so embarassing. Let’s hope Tinky kicks her out. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/28 "2008-10-18T20:51:58Z")
I just contributed to his campaign. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/29 "2008-10-18T21:07:46Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Ha! My Congressman is the actual honest-to-Allah Black Arab Muslim terrist! Suck on\* that\*, 6th District wussies! > [@cricetus](#): > > Since there’s only one of those, we must live in the same district. > [@The\_Punkyova](#): > > Chique, I’m so sorry. I moved out of her district. I’m in with elucidator and cricetus now. Gee, thanks. Any of you want a roommate? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/30 "2008-10-18T21:45:11Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > I just contributed to his campaign. And this just in… > [@](#): > > …Since Congresswoman Bachmann’s outrageous remarks, my campaign has raised $438,346.57, and we’re working to reach $500,000 by 5 p.m. today… [http://www.tinklenberg08.com](http://www.tinklenberg08.com) (So, Butch…that 57 cents? That was you?) ---
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/31 "2008-10-18T22:38:20Z")
This round of “Liberals are Unpatriotic” did me in. I donated a few bucks to her opposition even though I don’t live in MN. She is an asshole. I hope she’s voted out of office, has no money left, and has to exist by traveling around the country in a “Punch Michele Bachmann in the Taint” booth at carnivals. I’m just so very tired of it. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/32 "2008-10-18T22:55:55Z")
Damn, those are some fucking amazing numbers! Dems from across the country probably just doubled Tink’s budget, right when he needs it most–I love it… [QUOTE=Valerieblaise] …has to exist by traveling around the country in a “Punch Michele Bachmann in the Taint” booth at carnivals. [/QUOTE] Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/33 "2008-10-18T23:57:03Z")
Wait, stop, hold the phone, because I have an idea about how to save this country. I was here reading online articles about Bachmann Turner Overdrive, pausing only to clean the tears and vomit off my keyboard, when I had an epiphany. This country is being attacked by state-sponsored terrorism without, while lawless Wall Street renegades shred our economic fabric from within. But I have the answer, folks!! Cynthia McKinney and Michele Bachmann in 2008! We need to postpone the elections, suspend the constitution, and do whatever it takes to get these two onto a joint ticket and into the White House. Not a country in the _world_ would fuck with us. Not a trader would deviate from the straight and narrow. Both know that if they did, the guilty would wind up in the newly installed time-out room located somewhere in the White House basement guarded only by two secret service agents with Howitzers and a 400-lb hygenically-challenged evangelical Christian with Tourettes and a speech impediment who will be paid six figures to sit there and drone on and on about how his prediliction for necrophiliac bestiality has brought him closer to God. They would be released every Tuesday afternoon, because that’s the time of the week when Cynthia will take time out from squatting in some random taxpayers backyard and digging holes in the backyard with a bayonet while crying and muttering to the tune of “V is for Victory,” and Michele would hold off on drilling holes into the heads of cute, furry, Disney-TV-special-looking rodents and they would convene naked in the Oval Office while the Al-Qaeda squad commanders and inside traders standing side by side and dressed in harem costumes would throw them scraps of raw maggot-infested meat at the bloated and belching unwashed carcass-like masses on the couch. This would last until McKinney and Bachmann’s chemical imbalances kicked in, and their synapses started firing like Charles Whitman’s rifle inside their rotting brains, at which point, they would fall upon the prisoners and have their twisted degenerate ways for hours until they passed out sated and farting from exhaustion. The prisoners would then be dragged back to their timeout chambers, by which time the evangelical Christian would actually be looking good. This would last until the inside traders volunteered to teach ESL at an inner-city school until they were 73 and the Al-Qaeda fighters convert to Episcopalianism and meet every afternoon for pork rinds and beer at the local gay bar. Or maybe I should lay off these Bachmann stories. At least while I’m drinking and depressed. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/34 "2008-10-19T02:42:00Z")
Would Michelle Bachmann be less batshit crazy if she occasionally got laid? Discuss. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/35 "2008-10-19T02:52:56Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > (So, Butch…that 57 cents? That was you?) A guy needs to save enough money for beer on a weekend. What can I say? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/36 "2008-10-19T02:55:15Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > Would Michelle Bachmann be less batshit crazy if she occasionally got laid? > Discuss. Oh, hell no! _twitch_ ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/37 "2008-10-19T03:19:37Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > She called ANWAR the most perfect place in the world to drill. > [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#): > > Sadat’s dead, dude. Wait, wait - did she maybe mean [Gabrielle Anwar](http://www.gabrielleanwar.co.uk/picture.php?g=misc&p=16)? Because if so I have to give her credit for ONE sane idea ;). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/38 "2008-10-19T05:51:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg I’m sorry, but this name is just too big a handicap to overcome, no matter what sort of apocalyptic stupidity his opponent emits. Couldn’t he at least change it to Bubba Tinklenberg until the election? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/39 "2008-10-19T05:53:03Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I’m sorry, but this name is just too big a handicap to overcome, no matter what sort of apocalyptic stupidity his opponent emits. > > Couldn’t he at least change it to Bubba Tinklenberg until the election? What have you got against Hobbits, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497/40 "2008-10-19T08:58:46Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > **imthjckaz** and **chique,** I truly pity you guys. Does anyone know if there have been any polls? And how Tinky is doing? Latest polls show it as a statistical dead heat. Tink is 3% behind her, but the polls margin of error is 4% (and it was mostly taken before her latest comments hit the airwaves). Internal (non-public) polls began showing this a week or so ago. That was when the Republican CCC switched their Minnesota television time from supporting Erik Paulson in MN CD-3 to trying to support Madwoman Michelle Bachman in CD-6. Presumably, this means that they have recognized that Paulson is too far behind Ashwin Madia to win in CD-3, and that Bachman is in trouble in CD-6 and needs the help (I sure hope so). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batshit-crazy-michele-bachmann-strikes-again/468497.md?page=3)