“This is an era of extremism. These same people that want to shrink government so that you can drown it in a bathtub also want Mom to get back in the kitchen and take her shoes off and get pregnant. You understand? They are offended by strong, powerful women. And here’s the sad part: some of them are women themselves. Michele Bachmann would be an example.”
Michele Bachmann thinks so strongly that women only belong in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant, she is going to run for president to prove it. Only a liberal could use that logic and get away with it.
Oh, by the way Mr. Ellison - How many women were beaten in the name of Islam today? Just wondering.
Everyone on the right knew that Bachmann would get the PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) treatment once her polls numbers started to climb. Everyone on the right knew that her poll numbers would climb. Not because she is some sort of lock for the nomination, but because Bachmann isn't afraid to say what the base wants to hear. She stands up and says that Obama must be a one term president, she stands up and says that we, as a nation, are in real trouble if we don't get our spending under control. She stands up; and the Tea Party and the religious right love her for it. It was just a matter of time for her poll numbers to reflect that.
Well, she is now polling second in Iowa behind Romney. She is only 1 point behind him and they have quite a lead over the third place Herman Cain. Congresswoman Bachmann made her "official" announcement yesterday in her birthplace in Waterloo, Iowa. A place that John Wayne's family did live in briefly by the way. She personalized that town with stories of her time in the elementary school and the street she grew up on. Stories of her mom and her dad, and wove that into a narrative about middle America and the dreams that we still hold dear. Dreams that she hopes to get government out of the way so we can pursue again.
I was reading some of the coverage as I missed most of the speech yesterday. I came across this article on a CNN blog. The post was more about Bachmann's dedication to her faith than the announcement. The question they are asking is she the Evangelical Feminist. Bachmann, like myself, is a Evangelical Lutheran. She prays daily and believes that God is instrumental in how she lives her life and gives her guiding force for the direction her life takes. A concept that the far left and at least some in media find abhorrent. The article itself isn't overly anti-Bachmann nor is it overly anti-Christian.
But take a look at the photo they decided to use:
This photo is so unflattering. Regardless of where you may fall on the political spectrum and if you agree with her political stances, Bachmann is a very attractive 50-something woman. I have more wrinkles than she does and I am a decade younger. She obviously takes very good care of herself and this is the photo that they choose?
This photo is designed to make her look bad. Even though the coverage in the article seems fair minded, they have to get that dig in any way they can. I know because that is what I have done from time to time. I find the most unflattering photo I can find of say Nanny Pelosi to demonstrate my point. So you can't convince me that she isn't the intention of CNN.
Bachmann will made to look almost demonic because of her religious and political views. Women in general get treated this way by the media and it just gets that much worse when that woman is pro-life, religious, and a member of the GOP.
If you really want to see how we now have BDS (Bachmann Derangement Syndrome) go take a look at the comments under this article. People are sick, especially when it comes to a person being open about their faith in God.
As a side note, I love it when liberals tell the truth: One commenter said:
A feminist believes women have the right to choose... therefore, Bachmann is not a feminist. Story done.
So, it is true that feminism is now only about one issue; abortion. Thanks for the confirmation.
A belief in the written constitution. The belief that we are responsible for ourselves and for our families. The belief that we are allowed to fail. The belief in a strong national defense are a few of the things that make me just a conservative girl.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
"I say this not to the teachers, but to their unions: If education were a war, you would be losing it. If it were a business, you would be driving it into bankruptcy. If it were a patient, it would be dying." Bob Dole
Yes, House Republicans have been in power for 5 hours and they have not passed their entire agenda. The New York Times things they should be canned and Democrats put back in charge. Don Surber
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"So I say huzzah to the 112th congress for reading the Constitution, for acting like it matters. It does. The Constitution may not be sacred, but the sacred has no better friend than the Constitution." Pat Archibold
"53% of Democrats have a postive view of socialism. 100% of republicans think those 53% are morons." Mark Levin
"Corrupt the young. Get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness." First plank of the communist strategy for revolution - confiscated in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1919
"If you believe this isn't going to cost the government anything, you are likely to see leprechauns riding on unicorns with pots of gold circling the capitol" Rep. Devin Nunes, CA-21 on healthcare "reform".
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views". William F. Buckley, Jr.
"The Republicans were laughing and waving the American flag, and I thought that was ourtrageous behavior" Maxine Waters
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." Norman Thomas
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. Frederick Douglas
Don't go around saying that the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. Harriet Tubman
But I think the most important thing I have figured out was how not to lose hope even when things are bad and it feels like it won't get better. It will get better. You just have to keep working at it and moving forward. Homeless & Conservative
The way to crush the middle class is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimer Lenin
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. F.A. Hayek
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