Michele Bachmann gets a note from her doctor saying she can TOO run for President!

There has been a lot of talk recently about Michele Bachmann's debilitating migraines, and the fact that such a medical condition, which is significantly exacerbated due to stress, might make her unfit for a job as President of the United States.

Gee, ya think?

Oddly enough this has inspired a number of journalists and political pundits to leap to her defense inferring that reporting on her migraines is sexist.

Which is interesting, since Michele Bachmann herself has blamed the migraines on her high heel shoes. Which, I am sure you will all agree, is in NO way sexist.

Anyhow in order to put the issue to rest Shelly got a note from her doctor, which essentially says she is excused from gym class but CAN run for student body president.

So there you go.  Michele Bachmann's blinding headaches are NO reason she should not be considered a viable GOP candidate for the most important political office in the land. No really, her doctor said so.

Now can we get back to focusing on the more important things, like the fact that she is batshit crazy and that she has virtually NO understanding of American history please?

Paul Revere to Sarah Palin: "Your poll numbers are dropping! Your poll numbers are dropping!"

From Politicususa:

Sarah Palin overall favorable rating is 24%. Her unfavorable rating is 54%. When the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll was last conducted in April, 9% of those surveyed had a very positive view of Palin. After Paul Revere that number is 7%. Her publicity blitz did cause people that have a very unfavorable view of her to drop from 41% to 38%, but this was offset by an increase in those who had a somewhat unfavorable view of her from 12% to 16%.

In a January 2011 CNN poll, Sarah Palin had a 38% approval rating. By March, a Bloomberg poll had her sinking to 28%. In an April Washington Post poll, Palin’s approval with tea partiers fell to 60%, and her disapproval rating overall shot up to 55%. Later that same month, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll measured her approval rating at 25%.

To summarize, Sarah Palin’s approval rating when we began 2011 was 38%. It is now 24%. If the point of the bus tour was to make Palin more popular, then it was a gigantic fail on wheels. She may have been able to get something positive out of the bus tour until she was asked that gotcha question what did you do today? As soon as Palin answered with her revised history of Paul Revere’s ride, any shot at positive publicity was down the drain.

For the twelve people in the country who may not yet have seen it, here is Palin's rendition of the "Ride of Paul Revere."



And here she is doubling down on the stupid.



Wow, a 24% approval rating seems awfully generous after watching that.

And this was AFTER she tried to bring her number back up with this "educational" bus tour.

One can only imagine how much lower her poll numbers will sink after THIS thing scalds their eyes, and sears their brains in the movie theaters.

You know the funny thing is that Palin's plan to increase her popularity is exactly MY plan to destroy her popularity, and that is to simply let people learn more about her.  In her opinion, the more people know they better they will like her, and my opinion is just the opposite.

Gee who do you think has been right so far?

Jon Stewart picks apart SarahPAC's verson of Palin's bus tour. "She's not running for President, she's running for Rushmore!"

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Lawrence O'Donnell asks "Did Palin violate laws on her bus tour?"

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In case anybody is asking for my opinion, here it is: "Yes, I think she did indeed violate the law. However she is ALWAYS violating the law so that should come as no surprise to anybody."

More historical edjumikashen from the Sarah Palin History Channel. As presented by Conan O'Brien.

Here is a direct link for those who have trouble getting the embed to play.

Just how much did Palin's pathetic publicity/political bus tour cost American taxpayers?

I don't even want to KNOW what she is trying to get that lobster to do!

From ABC News:

Sarah Palin is set to tour national monuments around the country this summer, and one congressman wants to know how that will affect everyone else.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) sent a letter to the National Park Service today asking how federal resources were used for the northeast leg of Palin’s “One Nation Tour,” which traveled from Washington, D.C. to New Hampshire last week. His concern: press accounts of the tour “which provided personal and political benefits to former Gov. Palin, suggest that National Park Service resources were made available to an extent beyond that which an average American family would receive.”

“I opened my paper this morning to hear about cutbacks in state parks around this country,” Blumenauer told ABC News. “We have a serious backlog of maintenance in the National Park Service. And it looks like Sarah Palin’s little political cavalcade gets this amazing VIP treatment – I’m scratching my head. If it’s a private family vacation, what in the world are we doing getting people in with preferential early admission and having an entourage of public employees? It looks like a political stunt, and Palin Inc. ought to pay for it.”

Palin was surrounded by park rangers and, at times, police officers during her tour stops. Last Wednesday, she and her family were accompanied by approximately 10 authorities as they toured the Statue of Liberty.

I think this is an obvious question for our Representatives to ask.

I mean let's face it, this woman hijacked the park service resources for herself, while stepping all over the other tourists who had the misfortune of planning their vacations at the very same time that Snowdrift Snooki was making her desperate grab for the media spotlight.

Considering that this is a woman who is ALWAYS talking about cutting "unnecessary" services in the public sector, SHE should have to pay for the extra manpower that was needed to protect her family, reroute traffic around her road rage inducing convoy, and provide VIP treatment for her and her  family while viewing various historical sites.

Anybody disagree?

Stephen Colbert does his best to make sense out of Sarah Palin's version of Paul Revere's ride. Absolutely Hilarious!

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I am not ashamed to admit that I laughed so hard at this that I was almost crying.

Palin: "I know my American history!" Okay this is just sad.

The woman can simply NEVER admit a mistake. Never!

(H/T to The Political Carnival.)