I agree with C. Edmund. A Christian is required to forgive an offense, but not to accept an insincere apology. “I forgive you for being what you are,” would have been a nice sentiment, if she felt it was necessary. Personally, I’m not “offended” by people who can’t help being a-holes, any more than I’m offended by my teenagers’ being ... teenage. (”Why won’t you drop everything and wash the clothes I wore yesterday so I can wear them again today? I hate you!”)
And a good answer to “Are you a flake?” would have been, “Shoot, honey, not compared to you! Compared to you, I’m Abraham Lincoln!” (translate into Yank-speak for Rep. Bachmann’s use ;-).
Conservatives need to go on the attack with the media, by which I mean, naming them as tools of the Democrat party and not allowing them to play as if they’re anything else.
Sometimes it is difficult to forgive. I have forgiven many that I know in a million years would never be sorry.
Wallace apologized publicly for ASKING if Bachmann is a flake.
MY GOODNESS if you can’t forgive a person for THAT what can you forgive?!