Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
Dear Republicans: Please stop trying to be cool
Once again, the GOP's efforts to seem hip and in touch end up just being embarrassing.
Newsflash: Sometimes, when you make really, really obvious and very ham-handed attempts to be cool, they backfire. No, seriously. Now, if someone could tell the GOP?
Two quotes, both taken from one session at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, illustrate this point perfectly. First, from Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele:
“Tonight, we tell America: we know the past, we know we did wrong. My bad. But we go forward in appreciation of the values that brought us to this point.”
Maybe it’s just me, but I think dismissing the GOP’s recent faults with a simple “my bad” isn’t exactly the way to win voters back.
Still, at least what Steele said was less cringe-worthy than what someone else at the panel said about him. Here’s Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann:
“Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!”
Alex Koppelman is a staff writer for Salon. More Alex Koppelman.
Bachmann snatches victory back from jaws of defeat
She almost torpedoed her campaign during an appearance on "Hardball," but the Minnesota Republican was able to salvage a narrow win.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., should have cruised to reelection, and at one point she was on her way to doing so. Then she went on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” where she said that Barack Obama “may have anti-American views” and called on the media to investigate her fellow members of Congress, and gave her Democratic challenger new life.
But still, Bachmann was able to salvage a win on Tuesday, beating Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg 47-43. Third-party candidate Bob Anderson managed to pull 10 percent of the vote.
Alex Koppelman is a staff writer for Salon. More Alex Koppelman.
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