From CNN comes this video:

Somehow she fails to mention that only about 6% of the Republican voters in Iowa took to her message. Well, she is true to her Bush heritage, never, ever admit you made a mistake.

This result would be comforting were it not for the fact that there are a slew of Republican contenders remaining that are almost as far off their rocker as she is.

In this video Bachmann says:

Our country is in very serious trouble and that this might be the last election to turn the nation around before we go down the road to socialism… President Obama and his socialist policies must be stopped … and I sought the nomination of the party of Reagan the party of Lincoln

I wonder how aware Bachmann is of Abraham Lincoln’s First State Of The Union Address in which he said:

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits.

Sounds almost Socialist to me. I wonder if Reagan knew about Lincoln’s feelings when he fired the air traffic controllers. Of course, back in those days, the Republican Party and its Southern Strategy rarely if ever mentioned Lincoln. Maybe that is Bachmann’s problem in Iowa. Maybe they are now convincing themselves that Lincoln believed in States’ Rights and was on the side of the Confederacy. Maybe that great historian, Newt Gingrich, can explain how Lincoln was Robert E. Lee’s commander in chief. Does this mean that true patriots secede from the Union and then fire their guns on a Union fort? The Occupy movement is pretty mild compared to that.