>>Now you're just talking to yourself. She should at least honor the Tom Petty cease and desist letter.
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>You're confusing Bachmann and Palin (it's okay, they're of the same mold... all rhetoric no substance). Bachmann is the one that was issued the cease and desist from Tom Petty.

Cease and desist what?

UPDATE: It was Bachmann. Details here --

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/tom-petty-reportedly-issuing-cease-and-desist-letter-to-bachmann/

So I guess she really is in the Reagan tradition, appropriating the music of an artist who wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole. Reagan was using Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" and Bruce told them to quit it. (One of the most misunderstood songs in rock history. The imagery was muscular and flag waving but the lyrics were anything but).

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up

[chorus:]
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to Vietnam
To go and kill the yellow man

[chorus]

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
I go down to see the V.A. man
He said "Son don't you understand"

[chorus]

I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.