Bachman frightens the Democrats

NY Times:

Representative Michele Bachmann will appear in the 2010 calendar of “Great American Conservative Women” (she will be November). Her likeness has been transformed into an action figure. And, so far in 2009, she has been interviewed on a national cable news show every nine days, on average, an analysis by Smart Politics, a nonpartisan blog affiliated with the University of Minnesota shows.

Not bad for someone less than three years on the job.

Here in Ms. Bachmann’s district, and in much of the country, that outsized celebrity has boiled down to this: They adore her or they loathe her.

As the health care overhaul moves closer to a full debate in Congress, Ms. Bachmann is under attack from the Democratic National Committee for spreading “reckless lies” about the overhaul, one of a handful of Republicans singled out as part of the committee’s “Call ’Em Out” campaign. Back home, two Democrats already say they are seeking Ms. Bachmann’s seat in next year’s election, and are raising a lot of money to do so.

“People are struggling to stay in their homes, and she’s off trying to be on Fox News,” said one of those Democrats, Tarryl L. Clark, a state senator.

Some of Ms. Bachmann’s fellow Republicans, meanwhile, are drawing glowing comparisons between her and Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican candidate for vice president. Sean Hannity, the conservative talk show host, has introduced Ms. Bachmann as “the second-most-hated Republican woman in the country, second to Governor Palin, which is a good position.”

Ms. Bachmann’s admirers point to her uncompromising, unvarnished stances against big spending, big government programs, tax increases and abortions. Her detractors moan that she opposes anything a Democrat says, and assert that she has transformed herself into a cable television gadfly.

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What is beyond dispute is that Ms. Bachmann’s remarks are seldom dull. She has encouraged an “orderly revolution” against the Democratic establishment and has suggested that she fears that the Obama administration is trying to do away with the dollar.

Last week, she called on Minnesota’s governor to appoint a special investigator here to look into Acorn, the Democratic-leaning community group under fire nationally. In June, she said she would not complete all of her United States census forms next year because such forms were inappropriately intrusive.

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I like her. Anyone who makes Democrats crazy is a pretty good Republican. Since most of my votes are more against Democrats she fits my idea of a good candidate. I would like to see more Republicans like her.

I have so little respect for most Democrats that it is nice to see candidates who share my lack of respect for the Democrats support for the evils of liberalism. One of the reasons for that lack of respect is the arrogance of liberals who think they are smarter than the rest of us. They also seem to think that it is mean to disagree with them. I don't think many of them are thoughtful enough to even consider there are other reasons for opposing their control freak policies.