Michele Bachman may surpass Dan Quayle

So it's America where anyone can aspire to be President. But it looks like Michele Bachman needs some serious coaching or tutoring on thinking before speaking. We haven't seen as many gaffes by a national politician since Vice President Dan Quayle. He was the nation's VP 1989–1993 under George H.W. Bush.  Here's a refresher on some Dan Quayle-isms:

"The holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history." How about World War II history?

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future." Is that right?

Addressing the United Negro College Fund, whose slogan is "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," he said, "You take the UNCF model that what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." No comment.

Then you have this year's Presidential hopefuls on the campaign trail - and Michele Bachman blames her "busy schedule" for the gaffes. But they're right up there with Dan Quayle's gaffes. Here are a few from this past week:

"There’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline,” Bachmann said. “They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward."

Um, the Soviet Union disbanded in 1991, so she must have meant Russia?

"You can’t do better than Elvis Presley,” Bachmann said, “and we thought we’d celebrate his birthday as we get started celebrating the ‘Take Our Country Back’ tour.”

Actually it was the anniversary of Presley's death this month.

Earlier this year, she was addressing students in New Hampshire, when she said, "You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord."

Probably referring  to the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War which occurred in Massachusetts. Oops.

Bachmann also attributed interest in her misstatements to the news media.

Or look at it this way, "the truth is out there" (to borrow a phrase from the X-Files), but apparently it misses Michele Bachman more than most..

So it goes.