That’s right, we reprinted issue 3 again. That’s the issue that tells about how she ramped up the homophobia in Minnesota in order to get the GOP nomination to run for Congress. So that’s available to order, now.
The other news is that Issue 2 (“Right Wing Nuts Rule”) is now sold out. Well–technically it’s sold out, you can still get copies from Minnesota retailers like Big Brain Comics, Common Good Books, and the Source Comics and Games. And I still have a few copies of my own that I will keep, but I don’t have enough to fulfill online orders anymore.
Fear not, I will reprint Issue 2 this summer. (It’s the issue about how she got into the US Congress, despite her already-existing track record of nutty conspiracy theories.)
Anyway… all of this becomes even more important than it was before. Because the mainstream press reactions to the GOP debate in New Hampshire lend her serious credibility as a White House contender. The reaction to her performance at the debate were uniformly positive in “the big press.” The big papers and broadcast outlets are sweeping all the “nut, bigot, and liar” stuff under the rug, for the moment.
As I’ve written many times before on the Kos and other blogs: my personal opinion is that Bachmann is not “top of the ticket.” I’ve always thought of her more as “the eventual GOP vice-presidential nominee”–because she solves a lot of problems for Mitt Romney, if he ends up at the top of the ticket.
But I’ve been wrong before… For example, I thought that Bachmann had to actually *lead* something (as a senator, a governor, something like that) before the world press and the GOP would take her seriously as a White House contender. I was wrong about that, for sure: she’s running very well at the moment. Despite the fact that she’s never put together any serious legislation, never enacted any conservative reforms, never done anything, really–except demagogue.
As explained in the comics, it’s the forces behind Bachmann that make her politically formidable. But all the “nut, bigot and liar stuff” is in there, too.
And this week, I’m publishing an e-book called “Michele Bachmann’s America” with my co-author Minnesota journalist Chris Truscott. (This is a “book” book, not a comic book–we’ve spent months writing it, collecting the source materials, the original Bachmann quotes.) “Michele Bachmann’s America” has got a lot of stuff on Bachmann’s career that’s never been published before, as well as the ten years worth of “nut, liar and bigot” stuff that the big media are currently burying. “Michele Bachmann’s America” will be available for sale by Wednesday, God willing.
