Who'd Have Ever Guessed - Michele Bachmann Worked For Jimmy Carter...
By anniepa
@anniepa (27955)
United States
January 2, 2011 3:44pm CST
...and she was "ruined by Gore Vidal?
"I didn’t realize until I went off to college one day — this is the honest to God truth — I was going off to college, and I was reading this snotty novel. It was written by Gore Vidal, and I was maybe like a junior in college, or — yeah, I think was maybe a junior in college. [...]
And as a reasonable, decent, fair-minded person who happened to be a Democrat, I thought, ‘You know what? What he’s writing about, this mocking of people that I revere, and the country that I love, and that I would lay my life down to defend — just like every one of you in this room would, and as many of you in this room have when you wore the uniform of this great country — I knew that that was not representative of my country.
And at that point I put the book down and I laughed. I was riding a train. I looked out the window and I said, ‘You know what? I think I must be a Republican. I don’t think I’m a Democrat.’ "
http://wonkette.com/433801/michele-bachmann-worked-for-jimmy-carter-was-ruined-by-gore-vidal
WTF??? Any comments?
Annie
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5 responses
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
2 Jan 11
This one goes right over my head.
I responded, however, because I think I have a lot to add to this discussion - something it's missing.
PALIN!
Okay, I'm finished.
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@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
3 Jan 11
Boy, I wish I could comment on this but I have no idea who Gore Vidal is or what he represents. Oh, I've heard of him, but beyond that, I know nothing about him. As far as her being willing to lay her life down for her country, why is it that Democrats in Congress FAR OUTNUMBER Republicans in service to their country? Wouldn't you think that her willingness to die for her country makes her more DEMOCRAT when based on those statistics? 
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
3 Jan 11
The Republicans, not all of them but the chicken-hawk variety such as the D1ck Cheney love to talk about how much they love their country and how willing people should be to lay their lives down, but the problem is it's only other people's lives.
Annie
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@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
4 Jan 11
I have one problem with this, I would have to accept that Michele Bachmann was intelligent enough to read a book written by Gore Vidal. My conclusion is that Michele Bachmann was at one time intelligent enough to read a book written by Gore Vidal, but after reading Burr, her intelligence started to slip until it got to where it is now.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
6 Jan 11
Now her lack of intelligence has landed her a spot on the House Intelligence Committee and she's looking at a possible run for President! Maybe she doesn't really remember what book she read; look at Michael Steele, he said his favorite book was "War and Peace" and then he recited a quote from "Tale of Two Cities"...lol!
Annie
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
2 Jan 11
I would guess that listening to or reading Gore Vidal could turn anyone Republican, although Vidal has expressed no love for either party. Instead, he was one of the founders of the People's Party, whose goals included such thing as a "maximum wage". He's a long-time conspiracy theorist, believing everything from the Japanese wanted to surrender in WWII but Truman didn't let them so he could drop the atom bomb to various 9/11 conspiracies. He tried to pull a Truman Capote, in corresponding with Timothy McVeigh and concluded that McVeigh was justified in retribution for Waco. Unlike Capote, he didn't get a hugely successful book and movie out of his delving into the mind of the criminal.
Gore Vidal is an intelligent, witty man who is also an excellent writer, but as a political analyst, he's a wacko.
I don't really understand, therefore, why you find Michelle Bachmann's moment of light and truth to be so hard to understand. Everyone has a moment when they realize what they really stand for and believe and why.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
3 Jan 11
Why would you understand that reading a novel by an author who, according to your own words, expressed no love for either party, would turn someone from not just a Democrat but one who had been actively working for a Presidential candidate of that party to Republican?
Actually, I doubt that Michele Bachmann has had a "moment of truth" in her entire life. Talk about someone being a wacko...
Annie
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
3 Jan 11
Well, maybe because the novel in question is about Aaron Burr and basically puts forth some very unflattering portraits of the founding fathers based mostly upon aberrant thoughts that floated through Gore Vidal's mind and very little in fact. When reading such a novel, anyone who revered the likes of Washington and Jefferson and the principles they founded the nation upon, might then determine that she disagreed with the novelist's position.
Although he did eventually start his own political party, Vidal previously ran for Congress as a Democrat.
There's comes a time in everyone's life where he or she must decide what values and ideals he or she holds dear and which form of fashionable disdain is too ridiculous to continue to hold onto. I think Gore Vidal became too ridiculous a political fashion many years ago.
@artistry (4151)
• United States
2 Jan 11
....Hi annie, The woman was going to turn anyway probably. What I want to know more than anything, is who in the world put her crazy brain on the Intelligence Committte? More than elevate her by doing that, they lowered my respect for the committee and are scaring the grapes out of me with her sitting there. She will more than likely be leaking secrets, doing stuff that could harm the country, nosing into offical's private information. What in the world were they thinking, a person who wanted an investigation into the un-American activites of other people in Congress? This is totally bizarre. Cheers.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
3 Jan 11
I agree, the woman in dangerous and scary. Talk about the ultimate oxymoron - Michele Bachmann on the Intelligence Committee. There's no way she should be trusted with classified information, that much I can assure you. People who only want to divide the country shouldn't be trusted to have any hand in protecting and defending it.
Annie
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@artistry (4151)
• United States
3 Jan 11
...Hey annie, If I thought it would make a difference I would write somebody, maybe even Joe Biden. This is truly terrifying. She is worse than an outside terrorist if you ask me. I just can't believe they just put her behind on that committee unless they thought that would somehow be a controller of some sort. Which I would think would be quite the opposite. I'll be waiting for the first dust-up on the committee over something she leaked intentionally. Take care.
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