Crazy is as crazy does: Bachmann courts 'America's Bully Sheriff'

[Bryan Buchan]

Bachmann courts 'America's toughest sheriff'

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has become the latest Republican presidential candidate to hope for the support of Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44530547/ns/politics

[mwb970]

1. The republican party contains the dregs of American society.

Bigots, misfits, weirdoes, and cranks. Religious nuts, greedy grifters, buffoons, and dopes.

I've never seen anything like it.

[pampango]

2. Michele Bachmann Puckers Up For Joe Arpaio; Plans to Target Arizona in 2012 GOP Primary

For all of about three minutes, presidential candidate/Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann met with reporters and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio this afternoon, during which she gave the sheriff a metaphorical smooch right on his rear as she attempts to win his political tip of the cap.

Other than puckering up for America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff," Bachmann didn't say much more than firing off the same border-hawk talking points we heard during the Tea Party debate on CNN earlier this week. "We need to make sure we don't have magnets that induce more people to come up into crossing our border and into the interior," she crowed, "and of course that would be everything from tuition tax credits for illegal aliens to other inducements."

In the brief, three-minute appearance, we didn't get a chance to ask the congresswoman any of the questions we had prepared -- for example, we wanted a little clarification on what she means when she says the country needs to "go back to the 50s" in terms of our immigration policy.

It may come as a shock to Bachmann, but the federal government carried out "Operation Wetback" in 1954 -- a massive roundup of Mexicans that resulted in tens of thousands of Hispanic people getting put on two cargo ships and taken to Mexico. The operation sparked several civil rights lawsuits against the federal government. It remains unclear whether Bachmann's 1950s-esque immigration policy includes "Operation Wetback Part Deux."

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/09/michele_bachmann_puckers_up_fo.php

[Javaman]

3. cement head perry is doing the same...

they want this racist pricks "endorsement" as if this fool has any say in anything.

I wonder which of the two candidates will go down on joe to "secure" the endorsement.