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Jumping the Shark
Comments from Left Field — I’ve watched patiently throughout this entire presidential campaign — the “silly season” as Barack Obama so accurately calls it — for the moment at which John McCain jumped the shark. I think I’ve just found it. Just now, on Hardball, the McCain surrogate selected to be interviewed by Chris Matthews was none other than Michele Bachmann.  Oddly reminiscent of Catherine Harris, both physically and in terms of general nuttiness, she is the loony tune who grabbed hold of President Bush after the 2007 State of the Union address and wouldn’t let him go. Against that backdrop, I just knew she ...

Rep. Michele Bachmann works to undo self-inflicted political damage
Top of the Ticket — Chances are, your weekend was better than Michele Bachmann's. As a first-term congresswoman, the Republican from Minnesota likely would have been campaigning anyway. The surprise -- for her and those who had been watching her race -- was that she found herself on the defensive, trying to explain away controversial comments she made Friday night in what became a notorious appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball" (video of which appeared earlier on The Ticket). Interviewed by host Chris Matthews -- which meant, as a conservative, she was operating without a net -- Bachmann said of Barack ...