Bachmann Spars with Iowa Heckler

Politico reports:

Michele Bachmann said again Monday that the American intervention in Libya was a mistake — but this time she had to talk over a heckler who shouted vulgarities at her.

Jenny Watkins, 22, shouted at Bachmann from the back of a large room at the University of Iowa here, while a male companion held a sign that read "Desensitized Homosexual" — a reference to an earlier part of Bachmann's speech, when she said she worried that children in elementary school would be desensitized to homosexuality. The two might have been escorted out with little fanfare, but Bachmann stopped to address them — "If you'd like to ask a question later, I'd be more than happy to have you do that," she said before continuing to talk about Libya.

"I think it was a mistake for the president to get us involved in a third war in Libya," Bachmann said. "There's no viable American national interest in Libya. We don't know what our American military goal is in Libya."

It was a markedly different scene from the fiery address she gave to social conservatives a two-hour drive away in Pella earlier in the day. While she hit on many of the same themes — opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion, the threat of the national debt, high taxes — she left out some of her more aggressive proposals, including abolishing the Department of Education.