Leap of Faith - Ryan Lizza

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all

Michele Bachmann is scary. Not her personally, but the fact that someone so unhinged is connecting with so many people. I've said a number of times that she is not the "real" leader in the race for the GOP nomination. A vote for her is a vote for protest, a way to strike back at those that her fans perceive as looking down on them from urban America, Mitt Romney included. The current voices tabulated for her once roared for The Donald and Herman Cain, before they imploded or washed away, and after she does the same they will return to their natural home by Sarah's side.

This article closely examines her worldview, the prism that she looks at the world through. In short, the government is wholly focused on brainwashing and collectivizing everything, and those like her can frustrate their efforts at every turn. Paranoia is something more like vigilance in her world, liberty an Orwellian term for nationalism.

According to Intrade she has a 6% chance of gaining the GOP nomination. Even that small number is very, very firghtening.