Michele 'Dual Citizenship' Bachmann isn't nuts. She's just worried about national security.

You just have to love the Republican Party. Even when one of their own goes completely, certifiably, official-portrait-in-the-dictionary-under-insane nuts, there will always be some fellow Republicans willing to step up and defend the crazy.

Which is excellent news for Michele Bachmann, who's about two seconds away from being excommunicated for her latest chain-email-inspired conspiracy theory that the Muslim Brotherhood is secretly controlling the Obama administration because blah blah blah crazy voices in her head blah. Unlike other Bachmann conspiracies'vaccines cause instant retardation, for example, or President Obama is going to round up your children and inter them in FEMA "re-education" camps'this one is apparently too much even for some of the Republican Party's usual conspiracy theorists. Speaker of the House John Boehner even called her rhetoric "dangerous." And, as Hunter noted, the various government agencies that would normally investigate serious charges of infiltration of the government by scary foreign brown people have politely declined to waste a second of time and resources debunking that fevered fantasy.

Earlier this week, John Bolton'yes, the guy George Dubya thought would do a heckuva job representing the United States at the U.N., which says everything you ever need to know about John Bolton'defended Michele.

But now we also have House Majority Leader Eric Cantor giving his support to Batshit Bachmann too:

ROSE: Do you think Congresswoman Bachmann was out of line? I mean, it does not square with this?

CANTOR: Well, again, I think that if you read some of the reports that have covered the story, I think that her concern was about the security of the country. So that's about all I know.

Riiiiiiiiight. When Michele Bachmann made everyone take time out of their day job to assure America that no, the Muslim Brotherhood is not running the government and no, Rep. Keith Ellison is not a secret Muslim terrorist, she was just looking out for the security of the country she loves with all her heart'except for the part of her heart that belongs to Switzerland. Flash back all of two months to the day we learned Michele is actually a polyamorous patriot who voluntarily sought dual citizenship, jeopardizing her own American citizenship, not to mention jeopardizing American national security, given that she could, at any time, give away the state secrets to which she is privy as a member of the House Intelligence Committee. (Michele quickly renounced her Swiss citizenship after the sound of the entire country laughing at her triggered one of her headaches or something.)

So maybe she won't be excommunicated from the Republican Party just yet'at least, not while the speaker of the House and the House majority leader duke it out to decide whether her rhetoric is "dangerous" or evidence of her deep concern for the "security of the country."