I repeat: God does not like me this much. But voters sure may dislike Michelle Bachmann that much.

She was a shoo-in in this race until she opened her big fat right-wing yap a few weeks ago.  And she may yet win; but she will nonetheless remain in the crosshairs even if she does; and next time she’s up for re-election, the attempt to unseat her begins earlier, and with even more money.

Prior to this, I’d heard of Bachmann - primarily for the fact that she apparenly revered President Bush, grabbing ahold of him after his 2007 State of the Union speech and not letting go until she got a pic/kiss with him. But over at Kos, we learn lots of other things about her. How - when she was in the Minnesota State Senate - she led the push for a ban on gay marriage in the state.

She thinks this about global warming: “It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax. “

And we are, apparently, fighting for God in Iraq.

She represents the culmination of the modern, far-right Republican Party, on virtually every count.

Nurtured by the movement. A product of the movement, entirely.

And now she’s come undone; and her movement leanings are doing her in. Specifically, as Greenwald noted a few days ago, what she said - about liberals being un-American; about the need to investigate Congress to see if they’re anti-American - is something movement conservatives have long been saying.

But this year, she’s punished for it.

And that’s the sea change. This would not have happened before, and did not happen before. But Michelle Bachmann cannot back away from her beliefs in this toxic ideology; it’s who she is.

That was always a good thing to be. But not any longer.