…and the politics of Minnesota:

Like Palin, she paints with broad strokes, which makes her opponents deeply concerned about the level of rhetoric in this troubled land. Rep. Alan Grayson can say Republicans want Americans to die, and Howard Dean can say the GOP doesn’t care whether kids go to bed hungry at night — these are regarded as piquant phrasings of an essential truth. Bachmann calls scooping up the health-care system into the arms of the government “socialism,” and she’s a shrieking know-nothing. For some, Bachmann is regarded as Palin’s Mini-Me, minus the high-powered weaponry. She’s one of those inauthentic women who has not realized that the possession of ovaries requires one to fight for social justice and greater regulation of everything except the Department of Regulations.

Go read the whole thing, from the best writer in Minnesota, if not the country.

Politico is targeting Iowahawk. But don’t hold your breath waiting for the usual suspects to whine about this incivility. And if some deranged maniac attacks his double wide, we’ll know who to blame.

Here’s the back side.