Lambert: I Love Bachmann’s Cowgirl Nihilism

This entry was posted by owl and bear staff on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 2:03 pm.

Talking to Michelle Bachman is bound to leave a befuddled look on your face. If you talk to her long enough, your face may stay that way.  Behold the Bachman effect (above).

Since Sarah Palin, liberals have been loving GOP extremists–because they have the loudest voices and say the most embarrassing things. Brian Lambert elaborates.

Our girl, Michelle, is obviously making the familiar calculation that there really is no such thing as too much, too far or excess when it comes to rallying the Republican Party’s activist base. Her line about getting “armed and dangerous” in opposition to President Obama’s carbon tax–a little straight-from-the-hip-shootin’ delivered on John “Powerline” Hinderaker’s The Patriot 1280 radio show this weekend–was another example of where conservative leadership is in the country today, post two straight lost duels at the ballot box.

The kerfuffle over Rush Limbaugh as Putative Head of the GOP has barely died down when we are reminded that Bachmann is working off the same game plan that her party rode to pyrrhic victories with Bill Clinton’s impeachment and George W. Bush’s presidency. Likewise she is a woman who has plainly studied the meteoric rise and attention accorded Sarah Palin, another good-looking gal with minimal qualitative intellect but high self-esteem and ambition.

Put simply, the time-tested strategy is: Fire-ready-aim cowboy/girl nihilism.

“They” (liberals, Obama, Barney Frank, etc.) are so bad that we “real Americans” need to think B-movie destruction. And don’t get all mired down and “nuancy” about a plan to bring the cattle in off the prairie and get them to market. That “plan” stuff is for Hollywood liberals.

[Lambert to the Slaughter]