Wonkette, if you have the good fortune of not knowing, is a left-liberal site that manages to consider itself cheeky and iconoclastic while endorsing only the most exquisitely conventional, establishment-approved opinions.  If you’re not located somewhere along that fantastic spectrum of genius that ranges from Chuck Schumer to Arlen Specter, Wonkette will expose you to the world as the misanthropic imbecile you obviously are.

That’s Tom Woods in his latest article for Taki’s Magazine. Wonkettes are “establishment hangers-on.” People of the left who used to oppose conformity and question authority. No longer. The Wonkette website recently attacked Michele Bachmann for daring to question Timothy Geithner about the Treasury Department’s usurpation of authority. The Wonkette author referred to Tom and others as being “Ron Paul circle jerks” because they have spoken at Ron Paul lunches where congressional members attend and learn Austrian Economics. Now a final point about Wonkettes, or pro-establishment, lackey leftists.

The Wonkette kids are like the popular group in high school that wanted to belong to the fashionable causes, since that’s what the other popular kids did, but made sure they weren’t too ostentatious in their devotion to those causes.  We can’t be too different, you understand. Just cool. Just different enough to be able to sneer at the rest of mankind and its stupid, unenlightened opinions, but not so different that we won’t get invited to cocktail parties at the homes of people who matter.

Now imagine those people running a website, and you’ve got Wonkette.

See my articles/blogs on Michele Bachmann here, here, and here.

I happen to be in Michelle’s congressional district, so I’ve seen her antics over the years.

I do applaud many of her actions recently – but in my opinion, she is a chameleon that needs to be watched closely.

I ‘joined’ the republican party during the last election cycle simply to support Dr. Paul, and I had to sit thru a few speeches by Michelle. At our senate district convention last year, she spewed fear mongering to the max in order to justify and support unconstitutional spying and wire tapping. At our congressional district convention a few weeks later, she simply avoided the subject in order to ‘walk the line’ that all politicians do. On foreign policy, the woman is an imperialist war monger.

Recently, she voted ‘yes’ to the U.S. resolution in support of Israel’s oppression over Palestine.

Even more recently she voted ‘yes’ to the U.S. resolution to support ‘human rights’ in Iran.

She’s also a totalitarian with regard to the ‘war on drugs’. Her history also shows that she’s opposed to voluntary unions between same-sex individuals.

A libertarian she IS NOT.

I support her in much that she does, just like I applaud Glenn Beck for some of the views that he espouses. But neither one has a firm footing or understanding of pure libertarian principles – and both have proven to be more like chameleons than like principled individuals.

Indeed, Michele is not a libertarian and will never be, no matter how much education she accepts from Ron Paul. But she can help us occasionally, when her rebellious roots are rankled. Tom Woods has confirmed with me that she does attend Ron Paul’s educational lunches. So she’s learning from Woods, too. How bad can that be?

Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she’s so worried that information from next year’s national census will be abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household.

In an interview Wednesday morning with The Washington Times “America’s Morning News,” Mrs. Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said the questions have become “very intricate, very personal” and she also fears ACORN, the community organizing group that came under fire for its voter registration efforts last year, will be part of the Census Bureau’s door-to-door information collection efforts.

“I know for my family the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home,” she said. “We won’t be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn’t require any information beyond that.”

Shelly Lowe, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Census Bureau, said Mrs. Bachmann is “misreading” the law.

Now, before you write me and say, “Ms. DeCoster, those Republicans …. where were they when? ….. how can you? …don’t you know that?…”, forget it, don’t write me and say that stuff. Yes I know all that. Yes I know that the Republicrats didn’t give a tinker’s damn about reckless assaults on liberty while their guy was heading up the plunder party. But Michele Bachmann, like a few others in Congress, has received an education in liberty courtesy of the Ron Paul Revolution. And educating (and radicalizing) those who have the power to screw up our lives was a big part of the Revolution’s success. We should be happy for this and we should welcome these pivotal moments. We need to keep on pushing the education process forward. Understand that the election of an arrogant, power-hungry Marxist (who happens to be a Democrat, thereby pissing off the Republicans) is our chance to move in and educate, radicalize, and libertarianize the conservatives, especially those who are seated on the margin.

Look at Ron Paul’s HR 1207 – Audit the Federal Reserve. He started with a handful of sponsors, the list built slowly, and then it picked up steam until over half of the House of Representatives decided to co-sponsor it. Michele Bachmann was an early supporter who has been magnificent on many occasions, and I am hoping that she, and others like her, will continue to move forward on many issues critical to liberty. If we can capitalize on Republican resentment over the Obama regime and their war on freedom and free markets, we need to do it, and as often as we can. Along the way, we should welcome those Republicans who are having a change of heart and supporting Ron Paul’s ideas and his vision.

A last word on Bachmann: she is actually very intelligent, unlike Sarah Palin who is a trained monkey and moved up quickly (and came out of nowhere) thanks to her gender and McCain’s uninspiring, snooze-a-rama campaign. She’s very articulate and pretty, and seems steady and confident. I’d like to see Bachmann continue along her path, learning from Ron Paul and digging some rebel roots. She’s got the fortitude to fight and the desire to win. Let’s watch this lady carefully over the next couple of years. There’s hope. Thanks to Jed for the story tip.