Michelle Bachmann Interview at Right Wing News

John Hawkins has an interview with Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann:

The Republican Party is obviously in pretty lousy shape right now. Why do you think that's the case and what do we need to do to turn it around?

I think we absolutely can turn it around. You might say that the Democrats are at their apex now and the Republicans are at their nadir -- and that's happened before. We've switched positions where the Democrats have been at the nadir and the Republicans have been at the top.

But, I think the one key to remember is that conservatism is not dead. No matter how much the mainstream media, the liberal elites or anyone else wants to say it is -- it just has to be reignited ... We squandered our opportunity to lead the country because the policies and the principles that we all saw work so well in the 1980s weren't followed during the early part of the Bush years and on as we went.

You cannot grab the hearts and minds of the American people when, for instance, Republicans are putting into place a government takeover of the local public school classroom. At that point people look askance at Republicans and say, "Why in the world should we back you when you're governing like liberals?" -- and so you can understand why people would reject what it is that Republicans were selling.

Read the whole thing at the link.