2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: “This could be a career ender for Michele Bachmann” [View all]BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)On the one hand, of course...she has to go. Stupid is distant in her rear view mirror as she reaches new and uncharted realms of the incomprehensible, she is evangelical to the point of evoking fear and loathing, and her constituents deserve far, far better, even if not all of them know it..
On the other...how often does comic genius like this - even unintended - come along? The comically moronic public figures of the future will, unfortunately, not be standing on her shoulders in order to reach still greater heights, but will instead be dwarfed by her magnificent shadow.
Observers looking back on these days will shake their heads and wonder if we knew how good and how bad we had it, all at the same time. We truly live in a time of unprecedented paradox.