"In my day, if you'd said you'd got depression they'd've thought you were a nutcase and no good for cricket.
The causes of Bachmann's close call last November with her Democratic challenger can easily be traced to ambivalent Republican voters, who had to choose between the Democrat they didn't know or the nutcase they did.
You know, they think 'There goes that nutcase' or whatever and you're not quite sure what people's perceptions are because anybody would want to go on an Ashes tour and play in an Ashes and he's just walked away from that and it was tough.
But this time the scene shifts between New York and Los Angeles, and instead of any serial killer or garden variety nutcase there is, well, something else: a spooky, quasi-supernatural presence that may or may not be entirely of this world.A fading rock star is receiving letters from a former lover.
But for many Pound remains a freak and an embarrassment, a clinical nutcase and vicious anti-Semite who churned out a lot of impenetrable tosh before losing the plot completely.During the second world war he broadcast pro-Fascist radio programmes from Italy and later avoided trial for treason at home only because he was declared insane.
Curveball was a low-level drone and borderline nutcase with a gift for telling people what they wanted to hear.
Is this the idea that puts the Bush presidency beyond the ideological pale, stamping the president not just as an ordinary not-liberal conservative but as a far-right nutcase, as some frothing pundits seem to believe?
He seemed to have been born Labour, believing unswervingly in compassion, community and the equal worth of all men, and born too "a nutcase" about politics, planning campaigns at the age of six.
Protesters lined the streets on Inauguration Day waving banners proclaiming "Hail to the thief"; Democratic interest groups denounced John Ashcroft as a racist, homophobic, Confederate-sympathising nutcase.
Reconvened in 1926, it hailed the British version as "perfection itself .In this section How to steal an election Spreading the m-word Appservers Hue and cry Squirrel nutcase ReprintsBritain's constancy in colour was unusual.
Volunteers in Mr Obama's re-election campaign will use social-media tools so that they can work conveniently from home rather than in a dingy field office.In this section How to steal an election Spreading the m-word Appservers Hue and cry Squirrel nutcase ReprintsMobile technology also makes getting the message out easier.
