Joan of Bachmann Watch: Migraine Edition

FrumForum's coverage of the conservative movement's infatuation with the Saint of Waterloo continues. In this edition, we cover how conservatives are reacting to the news that Michele Bachmannn suffers from migraines.

Erick Erickson argues that news about the migraines will help Bachmann:

The one thing that had damaged her [Bachmann] and put her in a bit of damage control was the staff leaks against her campaign. But as I predicted, a lot of the attacks have been so over the top or silly that they are actually helping Bachmann with the grassroots. I’ve long maintained that if the media tries to do to Bachmann what they did to Palin, Bachmann gets helped. So far, it is panning out.

Kathryn Jean Lopez thinks that getting scrutinized in the media will make Bachmann successful, just like Sarah Palin:

At least the alleged pain-and-pill problem was an improvement over the previous accusation: that Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, must be a closeted gay man. Marcus Bachmann runs a counseling clinic that appears to reject the just-about-any-desire-is-good-and-right-to-pursue mindset. The evidence of his gayness was that his clinic supposedly helps people with homosexual desires to resist acting on them. “Pray the gay away,” was how media outlets put it. Marcus Bachmann’s denial that his clinic does this kind of reparative therapy inspired little but yawns from some who were already too far along in their story line. Instead they chorused: He must be gay. Haven’t you heard the way he talks?Haven’t you seen the way he dances?

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Those who want to take Bachmann out as a candidate by throwing all these things at the campaign wall might want to consider what out-of-control, below-the-belt frenzied attacks have done to make a phenomenon of Sarah Palin, now the subject of a major documentary that might just be in your local theater.

That which doesn’t kill a candidate may make her stronger, however deep in mud she finds herself.

As a side note, the new Sarah Palin documentary is struggling at the box office.

Tim Slagle of Big Journalism thinks migraines are no big deal:

It’s almost funny, that something so minor might be used to disqualify Representative Bachmann. The medications Michele takes, work in about a half hour, which is roughly the time it took a previous President to hold an informal meeting with an intern.

The big fear, is that is eating at the minds of many journalists has nothing to do with the actual headaches, it is a fear that we might get a candidate who has actually read the United States Constitution. We would also get a President with a good excuse for throwing like a girl.  And ultimately, an occasional headache in the White House is far less a problem, than the 330 million headaches the nation has been experiencing since 2008.

Michele Bachmann isn’t the illness — she’s a cure.