George F. Will on GOP lightning rod Michele Bachmann

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washingtonpost.com - 10/25/2009

George F. Will on GOP lightning rod Michele Bachmann

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when Marcus Bachmann came home that Saturday evening in 2000, he checked the telephone answering machine and was mystified by the many messages congratulating his wife for something. "Michele," he said, "do you have something to tell me?" She did.

theatlanticwire.com - 10/27/2009

LIGHTNING ROD: Ross Douthat's Holy War

— theatlanticwire.com — In his Monday column, the New York Times' Ross Douthat airs his take on the recent Anglican-Catholic... rapprochement (which the Wire covers here and here ). Pope Benedict is welcoming Anglicans back into the fold, he suggests, with "a deeper conflict ... (more) LIGHTNING ROD: Ross Douthat's Holy War

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washingtonpost.com - 10/24/2009

White House volunteer 'misled' about talk show

— washingtonpost.com — A Muslim member of President Obama's faith council says she was misled about the nature of a... British TV talk show on which she was recently interviewed. It was hosted by a representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which the State Department has condemned for ... (more) White House volunteer 'misled' about talk show

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washingtonindependent.com - 10/22/2009

NY-23: Bachmann Endorses Hoffman « The Washington Independent

— washingtonindependent.com — Rep. Michele Bachmann, the iconoclastic Minnesota congresswoman becomes , as far as I can tell, the first... incumbent Republican to back the Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava in the roiling NY-23 special election. ... (more) NY-23: Bachmann Endorses Hoffman « The Washington ...

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The Reaction: George Will goes gaga for Bachmann

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Gore Vidal turned Michele Bachmann crazy. http://bit.ly/3F737C 10/26/2009

Bachmann being 'an authentic representative of the Republican base' is the only thing George Will got right in screed: http://bit.ly/3dUkao 10/25/2009

George Will admits his love affair with Michele Bachmann. http://tr.im/CRb4 10/24/2009

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George Will goes gaga for Bachmann
The Reaction — ... F. Will, even if he does come across as a humorless New England boarding school English teacher in need of a high colonic. I've even agreed with him on some occasions, even though he spends most of his time defending the old-guard country club ideals of elite Republicanism, and I've thought that he viewed the rantings of the new right wing -- the birthers, the deathers, and the oathers -- with a bit of sneer even as he defends some of their ideas if not their tactics. But today he rises to the defense of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the highly entertaining whirling dervish ...

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — "A bit of dithering might have been in order before we went into Iraq in pursuit of non-existent weapons of mass destruction. For a representative of the Bush administration to accuse someone of taking too much time is missing the point. We have much more to fear in this town from hasty than from slow government action," - George Will, whose sanity on this must be balanced by his positioning on the insanity of Michelle Bachmann. Still, he did describe Bachmann as "an authentic representative of the Republican base." Which us true enough. And ...