The
good news is another woman is going to run for president. The bad
news is it's Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
The
tea party loves her. Her evangelical followers love her. Conservative
republicans love her. The moderate GOP, meh, not so much. They also haven't asked the rest of us yet. Among her peoples-those who are
going to vote in Iowa, she has a big lead over Mitt Romney. So that
makes her the latest media darling of the MSM.
The
media is making a big deal of a FOX news question, Sunday, asking
Bachmann if she is a “flake.” She told them that was an insult
and not really worth her attention, and I agree. She is not flake.
Flakes
tend to be harmless...annoyingly
pranksterish...juvenile...immature....fun loving at other people's
expense....They may drink too much or party too much or cheat on
their wives....a nuisance, yes, but not much else. When I think of a
flake, the name Newt Gingrich comes to mind.
No,
Michele Bachmann is not a flake....She is, however, very, very
dangerous.
Bachmann
says god told her to run for president. She is a born again Christian
bordering on the fanatic. Even talks in bible code straight from
Deuteronomy, so those of us heathens outside the faith won't
understand what she is really saying during her speeches.
Guess
she thinks us heathens don't read the bible or any other book or
newspaper, for that matter, preferring to arrogantly talk “over our
heads” to her fanatical supporters.
She
has a better track record than the train wreck from Alaska. She is
academically qualified even though she got her degree from Oral
Roberts University, founded by another alleged god directed, now
departed soul.
Her
signature issue both statewide and national is an anti gay agenda.
She has a husband, a psychologist, who believes he can cure gay and
lesbians of their homosexuality. They run two clinics just for that
purpose back in Minnesota.
She
has said The Lion King is gay propaganda.
Her
self described mentor, a guy by the name of John Eidsmoe, makes a
living writing books claiming America is a theocracy and not a
democracy or Republic, and regularly speaks to White Supremacists
organizations, about the “goodness” of the confederacy. She was
his research assistant when he taught at Oral Roberts. His book,
Christianity and the Constitution is an interesting read. Paranoid,
racist and wrong as hell, but interesting none the less, if you like
knowing where the crazies get their talking points.
Bachmman
quotes Eidsmoe almost as much as she quotes god.
Eidsmoe
is the source for Bachmann's stated belief that the founding fathers
were the ones who freed the slaves instead of Abraham Lincoln.
According to Eidsmoe the slave-holding fathers believed that simply
setting free the slaves was cruel, inhumane and irresponsible and
that slaves fared better when kept shackled on the plantation safe,
with lots of work to do. That's why it took so long to free black
people. The good whites were merely protecting them.
Last
week, Bachmann told the Republican Leadership Conference that Barack
Obama was trying to bankrupt Medicare in order to force senior
citizens into his Affordable Health Care.
Huh?
The
only plan on the table killing Medicare is the one authored by
fellow congressman Paul Ryan, signed off on by every other House
Republican, including Michele Bachmann.
Bachmann
goes after Obama at every opportunity. She says because her sole
purpose is to make Obama a one term president. Yesterday on Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer asked her about her welfare queen tendencies by
getting rich off the farm subsidy program. She responded by
attempting to make an issue of Obama's use of limousines.
She
attacked government spending by saying too many government workers
were paid 170-thousand dollars a year..way too high for a government
employee. That would include all 435 members of the House who make
174 thousand dollars a year.....is she thinking of taking a pay cut
to help cut the deficit?
Doubt
it.
Schieffer
spent the whole half hour prefacing his questions with “I know
you're not gonna answer, but I'm gonna ask, anyway...” And she
didn't..sidestepped every one of em.
Unlike
the snowbilly from Wasilla, Bachmann likes the spotlight, relishing
her talks with the media. There will be no Katie Couric moments for
Bachmann during this campaign. She's not ducking anybody except gay
people. A few years back she made headlines by being found hiding in
the bushes during an LGBT rally. Bachmann told the press when
spotted, she was just studying lesbians.
Hell,
all she has to do is to ask her sister, if she wants to know about
lesbians. No need to hide in the bushes. In fact, her anti gay agenda
has totally alienated her own family, an alienation well documented
in Minnesota newspapers. You can read more here.
Bachmann
has become very good at deflecting questions. Rather than answer what
is asked she turns it around to attack Obama, regardless of the
veracity of her words.
Ask
her about her past statements such as, “cooperating with the US
Census will lead to internment camps,” or voting for a bipartisan
national service bill will lead to the formation of “re-education
camps,” and she dismisses them by saying, “Oh, I was misquoted, “
or I misspoke.”
She
lies, bats her big deer in headlights eyes, flutters her fake
eyelashes and smiles that joker like smile, then moves on to another
partial truth wrapped in innuendo and criticism.
Bachmann's
problem besides being fanatic, is that despite her years in
government, she has no leadership responsibilities except the Tea
Party Caucus, which she created, and actually knows very little about
public policy and foreign affairs. Until very recently, her fellow
congressmen wrote her name in the column marked stepford wife. Her
attempts to become Speaker of the House were rebuffed unceremoniously
by her congressional colleagues.
Bachmann
has been described as “batshit crazy,” delusional, stupid and out of
touch with reality. She is definitely not stupid.
But maybe
her husband, Marcus, should be studying his wife instead of the little
gay “barbarians” that he is trying to cure. Barbarian is his word
for gay teenagers. Marcus was caught using the description during a
radio interview, last year. He has since refused to talk on record
since the tape was leaked.
So,
the GOP has some hard choices ahead...They've got to choose between
two Mormons, a Black great white hope, T-Paw, a closeted bigot, a
wannabe rock-reality star, another failed and also delusional
spotlight seeker, a wannabe secessionist and maybe candidate, and
Bachmann, a total evangelical creation out to bring god into the
governance of America.
Can't
wait for the next debate.
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