Bachmann's $1.4 million mistake.

I was thinking about writing a post about the biggest casualty of this election cycle, and the undisputed candidate for that honor is Michelle Bachmann. Well, no sooner do I get an idea than Josh Marshall climbs inside my head and steals it, and makes a video post about it (yes, I'm joking about Josh climbing inside my head).



Josh hits all the points I wanted to hit, but I'll repeat the most salient one of all - Bachmann's tirade on that obscure Hardball show (snerk) wound up costing her at least a million and a half dollars. If she had kept her mouth shut and stayed home instead of trying to satiate her need for media attention, El Tinklenberg's campaign would be a million and a half bucks lighter at this point, and she'd still probably have her money from the RSCC, which was withdrawn in the wake of the controversy.

But, no. Bachmann is a media hound, and I'm sure she was all too happy to sit with Matthews and fill just about the entire segment with the sound of her own voice at the time. The peril in doing that was - and this will hopefully give every Republican in government pause from now on - Matthews just sat back and let her ramble like a wild-eyed poster over at Free Republic or LGF. And the manic look on her face, the glee with which she flung charges of Democrats from Obama on down of being anti-American, must have scared the living crap out of whatever relatively sane constituents she may have.

I'm sure Michelle Bachmann had an idea in her head about being a big-time player in DC and a media star to boot. It's funny how people can get so carried away on the mission of burnishing their own image that they wind up just ruining it instead.