Like it or not, FRiend, she's the real deal.
There's precious little evidence for her being articulate, none for the competance, and I'm struck by how quickly the "I'm a lawyer" enters her pronouncements. (She's almost as bad on that score as John "did I mention I served in Vietnam" Kerry.) And why you want someone who "knows DC" when DC is the source of almost all of our problems today is unfathonable.
Michelle Bachmann is a nice lady, a fine mother, and appears to have mostly decent values. She also is a back-bencher with virtually no legislative accomplishments at either the state or federal level. But I'm concerned by her lack of character, evidenced by her failure to speak up for Palin during the post-Tucson pile-on and her unleashing of the sleazeball Rollins to trash her. Palin helped Bachmann in the 2010 campaign; in return, MB appears ready to throw her under the bus to advance her own candidacy. If she becomes the GOP candidate, I'll vote for her - anyone is better than Obama - but without enthusiasm.
“She’s articulate”
Have you been in some sort of blackout for the last week? Hiding in John Wayne Gacy’s basement perhaps?
“Competent”
At what? Be specific. What has Bachmann ever done? What has she ever run?
“Knows tax law”
How did you esbtablish that? Her only real job (if you can call it that) was as a lawyer for the IRS! The IRS legal corps has more bozos than Barnum and Bailey. And assuming she does know tax law, which you have not established by virtue of her 5 years with the IRS, how does this endear her to the TEA party. (TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY. Get it?) Most in the TEA party would like to see her former employer disappear.
“Knows DC”
You seriously think that is a qualification? What does it mean. She has never chaired a committee, or had a leadership role in congress. She has only been there for 4 years as a backbencher. By this standard, 300 Congress critters are BETTER qualified than she.
Knowing DC, as you put it, gets you nowhere in this cycle.