Local news report. Video via the Fired Up! Missouri blog:
UPDATE: DB reader Anna comments and gives us an interesting link:
This was inevitable. Bachmann's polarizing and extremist tactics, and now her inconsistency, are dividing her own party.
Anna links to this post on the Pink Flamingo blog, which covers the growing rift between the GOP and the Tea Party movement and growing opposition among tea partiers to Bachmann as the Tea Party spokeswoman.
More analysis of Bachmann's weekend fiasco at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch political blog:
Why did Blunt, who knows he is not the Tea Party candidate of choice, invite Bachmann -- the Tea Party standard bearer in Washington -- to help him?
The answer, it seems, is to juice up his base in advance of Tuesday's vote, and run up the score on party rival Chuck Purgason, who, while under-funded, is the emotional favorite of many in the Tea Party movement.
By several measures, the event didn't turn out as planned. Purgason found yet another way to muscle himself into the conversation before Tuesday's vote. Democrats enjoyed the division from the sidelines, and the Carnahan campaign found a way to capitalize on Bachmann's visit, too.
All this for a Skype speech.
At least Bachmann appears to be feeling better.
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