I feel sorry for women in general. Y'all actually deserve a shot at being in charge, but end up with these nut job female candidates.
via ThinkProgress -- Just last summer, Dr. Bachmann explained his position on homosexuality while offering theoretical advice to parents concerned that one of their children was gay. BACHMANN: We have to understand: barbarians need to be educated. They need to be disciplined. Just because someone feels it or thinks it doesn’t mean that we are supposed to go down that road. That’s what is called the sinful nature. We have a responsibility as parents and as authority figures not to encourage such thoughts and feelings from moving into the action steps… And let’s face it: what is our culture, what is our public education system doing today? They are giving full, wide-open doors to children, not only giving encouragement to think it but to encourage action steps. That’s why when we understand what truly is the percentage of homosexuals in this country, it is small. But by these open doors, I can see and we are experiencing, that it is starting to increase. <iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/D8oyA5JV7kA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
And pardon if this has already been posted. I heard it on "As it Happens" yesterday (Canadian.) They played a long segment of a speech she gave in 2004 at an education conference. It's honestly chilling to consider her beliefs running for POTUS. It's not like she was going to get this particular 10% of the vote anyway, but my goodness, "sexual dysfunction" as a description for any non-purely-hetero human being, in 2011? "It's a very sad life." It gets worse (of course.) CBS News link: Bachmann in 2004 Here's the entire hour, if you need to slaughter some brain cells. (Yes, it is only available, as far as I'm aware, on an anti-Bachman site, but at least this gives the full context of her bizarre comments.) She's now achieved a sub-Perry rating from me, which is an astounding feat.
Bachman on air states, and then defends that our founding fathers worked tirelessly to end slavery. If someone is really that stupid, they can not be taken seriously by a rational person.
The fact that no rational person could take her seriously means that she actually has a chance of being voted into office. We ain't all rational.
If she get elected to be the next president by miracle. Then I guess the US deserves what ever is coming next, maybe the world does end in 2012.
Bachmann makes a thumbs-esque claim about the tea party being composed of "disaffected Democrats, independents, people who've never been political a day in their life, libertarians, Republicans. We're people who simply want America back on the right track again." Like thumbs she is, of course, not at all accurate.
If you consider LaRouchites and those guys who were put by the WI Republican party to run in the Democractic primaries as Democrats then Bachmann has a point. I am not at all surprised that the Tea Party has many people who have never participated in politics before.
i know this anecdotal evidence, but i will never forget watching this woman at one of the first tea party rallies expressing she didn't know what happened in the last ten years but she wanted to get involved, right after this election. i couldn't help was thinking that maybe she didn't realize the demographics of this country are changing that a black man can be elected. you can't deny that some people are afraid of "losing their country"
