This story, about the 10th grader from New Jersey who challenged Michelle Bachman to a debate/competitive quiz on the Constitution is highly amusing. Michelle has not accepted the challenge, and I don’t blame her, for it was literally impossible for her to win, as Newt Gingrich’s recent scrapes with the truth have proven.
Michelle would have been faced with the following choice, assuming she even knows anything about the Constitution or early American history. She could answer correctly, and like Newt permanently alienate her base, or she could have answered incorrectly, whether through ignorance or by design, and lose to a tenth grader, which might not have gone over well were she ever in a position to have to extend her appeal.
So, the proposition was lose-lose for Michelle. Credit her with being smarter than Newt, and avoiding trouble. Newt has never been able to keep his mouth under control, and he now finds himself in a strange situation: the culture of stupidity that he unleashed has turned against its creator.
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