Now, a question I've been pondering; why exactly would Bachmann try to illicit connection to and with John Wayne the actor??? I mean the guy was a draft-dodging, womanizing, alcoholic, who's wife would beat the shit out of him when he was falling down drunk.
You answered that question by your very own illustrations in your post just above that one.
Seriously? Or does she just admire that although John Wayne was an utter fraud he was a "tough guy" on screen just like she is.... all bark, no bite.
1950's America - (minus) the 90% taxation on the richest 1%, and making those who don't agree with her message the legalized "second class" citizens that many of us already are, especially if you're a teacher, a member of a union, support public funding of the arts, universal health care, the middle-class, or Gay.
She's appealing to a time that many
*cough* "conservatives" hold dear.
An America that they helped to destroy, while eschewing Capitalism, and Free Markets, which they also helped to destroy by allowing monopolies, the elimination of government regulations, while busting up unions, and the rights of the American worker to barter for a piece of the profits, and to remain just as competitive in the "free market" as their employers.
My Grandpa use to say, "
If you don't stand for something, then you'll fall for anything."
Michele Bachmann attempted to compare herself to John Wayne. An Iconic Hollywood Actor who came to represent all that was good and strong about the American Character.
But like all Hollywood Actors, and the "right-wings" ability to wave the American Flag and to invoke another Hollywood Actor's Name; Ronald Reagan, they're just side stepping what all of our elected representatives should be standing for;
The United States Constitution.
A document where the preamble states within the FIRST THREE WORDS:
Not the corporate interests, or capitalism, or the slogans on the side of a bus, but WE THE PEOPLE!
And not some fairy tale version of it, or some rewritten history of it, but all of us.
But she wants to compare herself to either a dead Hollywood Actor, or a Serial Killer dressed as a clown (depending upon who you talk to), just goes to show how fucked up this country truly is, and what's happened to our Republic, and the fact that she's even being given any credence.
