Last night, in Iowa, she did it again. Congresswoman Bachmann, in her wrap-up speech after the caucuses were over, said the most important thing is (shouting suddenly) defeating Barack Obama.

Wrong, and this is the one-note song that ultimately sank her campaign. Ms. Bachmann seems to think the goal of the presidency is defeating the Democrat in the next election. This is weird, because the person who defeats Obama in November isn’t even president until January, 2013.

The Congresswoman needed at least a second note in her song: what she would do with the rest of her presidency. And she never quite got around to that. Sure, she talked a lot about repealing Obamacare—except she cannot do that until Congress brings her a bill to sign. She talked a great deal about supporting Israel, but not a whole lot on how she would do it.

We can scoff at Romney’s 59-point plan in 136 subsections, but he made it quite clear that he has a clear goal for things. Bachmann never really hit on that, and seemed to be running on the bet that Americans simply liked her.

Well, they do like her. But that isn’t going to win elections. She could, of course, say she had great plans and great visions but the news media never gave her enough time to explain any of it.

Wrong. They gave her a lot of time; in fact, if Ms. Bachmann were to review all of the hours of media attention she was given, she would be quite disappointed in herself to see how much of it was filled with her:

1. Insisting that Barack Obama was a one-term president (shouted)
2. Reminding everyone how many children she has.
3. Reminding everyone that she was the first person to introduce legislation against Obamacare
4. Reminding everyone that she opposed the debt ceiling raise.
5. …and that’s about it.

She might just grit her teeth over how much opportunity she wasted to get her message out, rather than continuously warn everybody how much (a) she dislikes Obama and (b) she is not to be underestimated.

We got that already.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.