I know it's a harsh word, and perhaps a little too charged, but what is treason anyway?
Today, when the disappointing unemployment numbers came out, an interviewer asked of Michele Bachmann: “Does it strike you that as unemployment goes up, your chances of winning office also go up?” Bachmann responded by saying: “Well that could be. Again, I hope so.”
Perhaps treason is not the most accurate term for her acknowledgement that a bad economy will help her defeat Obama is 2012. Disloyal? Unpatriotic? What do you think this means?