On the left, gay clown serial killer. On the right, American hero.

I think it’s not hard to make the occasional mental error, but some mistakes are just too massive to make.  For example, John Wayne is a beloved American actor and cowboy icon whose very image invokes everything great about America.  John Wayne Gacy is a reviled American serial killer and pedophile whose very image invokes everything creepy and wrong about clowns.  Republican Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann confused John Wayne Gacy with John Wayne while at a campaign stop in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa.

During an interview with CNN, Bachmann said, “Well what I want them to know is just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.”  Whoops; as it turns out, John Wayne Gacy is from Waterloo, Iowa (like Bachmann) and John Wayne is from Winterset, Iowa (though his parents met in Waterloo).

I mean, it’s an honest mistake… kind of… and I’d hate to think that people would turn on someone as a Presidential candidate just because they make a few mistakes on the campaign trail, but we’ve seen it happen.  Just ask Howard Dean about the forgiving nature of Americans; the Dean Scream turned him into a national joke, and it looks as though this might be Michele Bachman’s version of that time Barack Obama broke the Presidential Seal.

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