Oh, Firedoglake, how I love you – good work:

Michele Bachmann held a town hall forum at Lake Elmo that went pretty much the way you would expect it to have gone.

At the opening the attendees were told to recite the Pledge of Allegiance (with the “under God” part, natch, that was added during the McCarthy years), followed by a singer brought in to perform the national anthem. All that was missing was a jet flyover, though the FOX News cameras were indeed there.

Well, pretty typical GOP at this point, eh?

But what was probably the highlight of the evening was when LeRoy Schaffer, a member of the city council of St. Francis, a white-flight exurb in Anoka County thirty miles north of Minneapolis, got up to speak. Mr. Schaffer had obviously not received the “don’t act like a crazy teabagger” memo. Not only did he weave back and forth with a swagger that reminded me forcibly of a really drunk and/or nervous Captain Jack Sparrow, he — like Sparrow — was wearing a costume, though to be sure his was relatively restrained: Top hat, black tie, and tails. […]

“I’ll be danged if I am going to give up my Social Security because of socialism, and I’ll be danged if I am going to give up my Medicare because of socialism!”

Bachmann didn’t correct him – and neither did the crowd – that the GOP wants to do away with both Social Security AND Medicare – because they consider them socialist programs. It’s like someone left the door to the “special section” of Arkahm Asylum open.

(h/t – Sidetrack)