Opinion: Michele Bachmann in the Process of Driving Her Campaign “Off the Cliff”

Michael Walsh has written an opinion piece on what he believes is GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann’s serious overreach in going off the rails in her attacks on Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Walsh believes she has taken a very serious campaign and is in the process of driving it “off the cliff”:

NEW YORK POST (Michael Walsh): Michele Bachmann was always a longshot, but now she’s dooming her own bid to be the GOP 2012 nominee.

Since the last debate, she’s been going after Texas Gov. Rick Perry over his never-implemented executive order in 2007 to require that young girls be vaccinated with a drug called Gardasil against the human papilloma virus, a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to cervical cancer.

Nothing wrong with robust disagreement: Debates after all are a proving ground, where we see how the candidates handle themselves under pressure — and also what kind of people they are, both through their own answers and the questions they pose to their competitors.

Even when Perry conceded that the order was an overreach and that his Legislature was correct in overturning it, Bachmann continued to pound him — arguing that the decision should be left to the parents, not the state, and that by vaccinating girls against an STD, the government was somehow encouraging promiscuity.

The way Bachmann chose to go after Perry — berating him for “government injections” of “innocent little 12-year-old girls” — made it sound like the Texan was ordering up fiendish medical experiments instead of responding to legitimate public-health concerns. . . . Read More