Enough hate to go around?

State Sen. Michele Bachmann (R), who is running for MN’s open house seat and authored an anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment, was caught scoping out a gay rights rally. Some say she was hiding in the bushes, and there are pictures of her hidden by shrubbery. The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Sven Lindquist, however said Bachman was merely sitting on a curb. Bachmann said "I had high heels on and I just couldn't stand anymore. I was not in the bushes." She was there to check a tip that "I was going to be a focus of the rally." She found "it was fairly personal," including a sign reading "Go to hell, Michele."

After running away after two woman confronted her in a restroom (even though those feet were killing her), Bachmann called the Sheriff’s office and some have claimed that she hired a bodyguard, which she neither admitted nor denied. Michele claims critics are tracking her public appearances and even putting the description of her car on the internet. So she has removed her home phone number and address from the phone book, even though she is running for high office.

I don’t know who looks worse here, the lady who is afraid of gays and snooping around gay rallies (here’s a hint, send a staffer to check it out) OR the gay rights activists who are threatening her (if that is even true). That’s not the way to win the argument that gay marriage shouldn’t be banned.

Oh and according to the Star Tribune, "The state Senate on Thursday rejected an effort to force a floor vote on a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage as thousands of ban opponents rallied outside the Capitol. Sen. Michele Bachmann, the Stillwater Republican who's led the push for the ban, said Senate Democrats have denied her repeated efforts to get the bill heard. Senate leaders countered that Bachmann, a candidate for the U.S. House, is flouting Senate rules to advance her own political career. At the same time, about 2,500 gays, lesbians and their supporters attended a rally on the Capitol grounds just a few hundred yards away, organized by OutFront Minnesota."