If you are interested in the circus that is American politics, you probably know by now that over the weekend Michele Bachmann, speaking in New Hampshire, the venue of the first primary election of the 2012 presidential sweepstakes, informed her auditors: "You're the state where the shot was heard 'round the world at Lexington and Concord."
It's so tricky! Two towns, Lexington and Concord, two states, New Hampshire and Massachusetts: how can anyone keep it all straight? It would be, like, comprehending that John Adams qualifies as a founding father but that his son, John Quincy Adams, does not.
Here is her defense, posted on her Facebook page: "So I misplaced the battles Concord and Lexington by saying they were in New Hampshire. It was my mistake, Massachusetts is where they happened. New Hampshire is where they are still proud of it." What a zinger! (Our socialist, Kenyan-born president carried both states.) That was Saturday at 3:57 p.m. At 9:56 p.m. she added, "By the way, that will be the last time I borrow President Obama's teleprompter!" So hilarious I can hardly believe it took her just six hours to think of it.
Bachmann is such an embarrassment that I grew curious about what the Power Line philosophers might be saying about her. Nothing, so far as I can tell, since before she delivered herself of some revisionist history in Iowa a few weeks ago. I did however collect a few of Hinderaker's past Bachmann droppings.
"A tax litigator by trade, Michele is smart, articulate and telegenic." (October 9, 2009)
"Bachmann is infinitely better informed than [Nobel prize-winning economist Paul] Krugman." (January 11, 2011)
"Michele was, of course, a beginner at one time. But that was some years ago." (July 20, 2010)
"A former tax litigator, she is as shrewd a critic of the Left's would-be takeover of the economy as we have in the conservative movement." (October 24, 2009) (God help them!)
Let us close with one I can agree with him on: "To say that the Palin-Bachmann alliance is natural is an understatement. The two women have a great deal in common. . . ." (April 7, 2010)
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