Is Michele Bachmann smarter than a tenth-grader?

Thousands of people on the facebook page "Ask Michele Bachmann to debate Amy Myers" apparently would like to find out.

The Cherry Hills, New Jersey high school student supposedly wrote the following open letter to Bachmann, although some Republicans are questioning her authorship, saying it was a little too polished.) This may or not be true, but none of these doubters seemed to have a problem with the suspicious written eloquence of Sarah Palin's otherwise rather dull teenage daughter.

Aksarbent thinks Amy Myers could have written it, though it does seem a couple notches better than most of the prose on her blog. We noticed two sentences which should have been edited: the one  containing the redundancy "factually incorrect" and the one which began "Hopefully," which is not music to the ears of grammar traditionalists.

And now the eviscerating letter, which Bachmann, the cynically fast, loose and self-serving progenitor of airhead agitprop, richly deserved:
 

Dear Representative Bachmann,

My name is Amy Myers. I am a Cherry Hill, New Jersey sophomore attending Cherry Hill High School East. As a typical high school student, I have found quite a few of your statements regarding The Constitution of the United States, the quality of public school education and general U.S. civics matters to be factually incorrect, inaccurately applied or grossly distorted. The frequency and scope of these comments prompted me to write this letter.

Though I am not in your home district, or even your home state, you are a United States Representative of some prominence who is subject to national media coverage. News outlets and websites across this country profile your causes and viewpoints on a regular basis. As one of a handful of women in Congress, you hold a distinct privilege and responsibility to better represent your gender nationally. The statements you make help to serve an injustice to not only the position of Congresswoman, but women everywhere. Though politically expedient, incorrect comments cast a shadow on your person and by unfortunate proxy, both your supporters and detractors alike often generalize this shadow to women as a whole.

Rep. Bachmann, the frequent inability you have shown to accurately and factually present even the most basic information about the United States led me to submit the follow challenge, pitting my public education against your advanced legal education:

I, Amy Myers, do hereby challenge Representative Michele Bachmann to a Public Forum Debate and/or Fact Test on The Constitution of the United States, United States History and United States Civics.

Hopefully, we will be able to meet for such an event, as it would prove to be enlightening.

Sincerely yours,
Amy Myers