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(46,356 posts)
Sun Mar 9, 2014, 01:27 PM Mar 2014

Michelle Bachmann at CPAC, says the Tea party is an "intellectual movement."

More like a bowel movement.

Bachmann: 'Our Movement At Its Core Is An Intellectual Movement'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Saturday, 3/8/2014 1:40 pm

Warning that the government is trying to appropriate the roles of the family and the church, Michele Bachmann told CPAC attendees today that the conservative movement must fight back because it is "at its core is an intellectual movement" based "on the greatest ideas that have ever been conceived in the mind of man."​

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-our-movement-its-core-intellectual-movement#sthash.UJAnBYpw.dpuf

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Michelle Bachmann at CPAC, says the Tea party is an "intellectual movement." (Original Post) Archae Mar 2014 OP
If they can spell intellectual jsr Mar 2014 #1
Well I think the bar is pretty low pennylane100 Mar 2014 #2
Well, perhaps in her special universe Siwsan Mar 2014 #3
bowel movements of the intellect perhaps Johonny Mar 2014 #4
for bachmann, it's an intellectual challenge, i'm sure spanone Mar 2014 #5
it's clearly an anti-intellectual movement. She's got some nerve. n/t librechik Mar 2014 #6
I'm pretty sure she doesn't know what "intellectual" means rock Mar 2014 #7
Bachmann won't know intellectual if it stares her in the face question everything Mar 2014 #8
Thanks....now i had to clean my monitor.... VanillaRhapsody Mar 2014 #9
Yeah, an intellectual bowel movement...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #10
I thought they Jamaal510 Mar 2014 #11
Bachman is an idiot Gothmog Mar 2014 #12
crazy fool fascisthunter Mar 2014 #13
In the same sense that Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, and Alan West are intellectuals. BlueStreak Mar 2014 #14
Right up there with MENSA Blue Owl Mar 2014 #15
More like a bowel movement. n/t Aerows Mar 2014 #16

pennylane100

(3,425 posts)
2. Well I think the bar is pretty low
Sun Mar 9, 2014, 01:33 PM
Mar 2014

for her idea of intellectualism so it would make sense that she would would dare to say that out loud.

question everything

(47,544 posts)
8. Bachmann won't know intellectual if it stares her in the face
Sun Mar 9, 2014, 01:48 PM
Mar 2014

Since she is not running for re-election, she probably is auditioning to Faux for her own platform.


 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
9. Thanks....now i had to clean my monitor....
Sun Mar 9, 2014, 02:01 PM
Mar 2014

any movement Bachmann is having....is definitely not of the intellectual type...

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
11. I thought they
Sun Mar 9, 2014, 02:05 PM
Mar 2014

hated intellectualism. Just a couple of years ago during the primaries, Santorum called Obama a "snob" for wanting people to go to college.

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