Oh Michelle Bachmann, you so crazy.

Chagen

http://minnesotaindependent.com/83979/bachmann-signs-pledge-to-ban-all-pornography-as-president Michele Bachmann became the first presidential candidate to sign a pledge by The Family Leader, an Iowa-based religious right group. The 14-point pledge (PDF) asks candidates to ban same-sex marriage, protect women and children from pornography and reject Islamic law. Signers also must promise to affirm that same-sex marriage is akin to polygamy and that having many children is good for America. The vow also insinuates that homosexuality is a choice, and that being gay or lesbian is a public health risk. Funny how all the anti-fascism people tend to be the most facist.

Hatter

On behalf of Minnesotans and Republicans everywhere, I apologize for Michele Bachmann.

Tnu1138

What the fuck? well adctions spe3ek louder I only saw her in a college lecture with Ron Paul so I figured she was alright but this.

Crimson

Aaaaand there goes any chance of her getting elected.

IanExMachina

Ahahahaha she is crazy.

Forzare

CommandoDude

Why is this woman in our government?

God, America really is full of idiots.

Hatter

To be fair, she's in one of the lower levels of our government, and will hopefully stay there.

I knew she was bad news back in like 2007, when she grabbed President Bush's arm AND WOULD NOT LET GO.

Chagen

My dad supports this crazy bitch.

CommandoDude

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Forzare

^^

Tnu1138

her being o9n a lower level of government is not reassuring since we are supposed to be a federal system.

Wicked223

Footnote eight says that no scientific evidence exists to show that homosexuality is not changeable.

Sheesh, talk about sticking your head in the sand.

Malkavian

The virulent opposition to Sharia law replacing American law is fascinating. It's really brave to be opposed to something that no one in American government has even mentioned doing.

Ponicalica

It's also fascinating in that, aside from eating ham, it seems to pretty much be what religious Republicans want.

«I only saw her in a college lecture with Ron Paul so I figured she was alright but this.»

Nope.  Michele Bachmann is crazy, and Ron Paul is crazy too.  It's just that Ron Paul opposes the Iraq War so liberals and libertarians slobbered all over him.

Tnu1138

and he's big on civil rights and small government in both social and economic spheres.

Chagen

"It's also fascinating in that, aside from eating ham, it seems to pretty much be what religious Republicans want."

But dem ebul brown people have it!

And eye hate them ebul brown people.

/notserious

Chagen

.....Did I kill the thread

Tnu1138

Yes Chagen you should feel horrible for this. The OP put alot of work in to this thread and you need to apologize.

glennmagusharvey

> It's also fascinating in that, aside from eating ham, it seems to pretty much be what religious Republicans want.

I think that Richter Belmont can help us understand this phenomenon.  From the script of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night:

Alucard: Answer me!! Why is a Belmont planning the resurrection of Count Dracula?!

Richter: Count Dracula rises but once every century, and my role is
over. If I can resurrect him, then the battle will last for eternity!!

LouieW

Michele Bachmann became the first presidential candidate to sign a
pledge by The Family Leader, an Iowa-based religious right group. The
14-point pledge (PDF) asks candidates to ban same-sex marriage, protect
women and children from pornography and reject Islamic law. Signers also
must promise to affirm that same-sex marriage is akin to polygamy and
that having many children is good for America. The vow also insinuates
that homosexuality is a choice, and that being gay or lesbian is a
public health risk.

I hope this is not a dumb question, but do politicians take pledges like this seriously or are they mostly just symbolic? I ask partially because I remember a bunch of candidates saying they would support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in the second Republican presidential debate this year, but I am pretty sure that is beyond feasible at this point given current trends. If this pledge is anything like that, then I think that it is bit precarious when it comes to actual policy after being elected.

Gelzo

"do politicians take pledges like this seriously"

Think of it this way. How many times have campaign promises been broken?

I find it more disturbing that a politician would bother to curry the favor of these kinds of people.

glennmagusharvey

Supporting something doesn't mean that that will actually happen.  Supporting something only means making a lot of noise about how great you think it is or how stupid/insane/evil you think its opposite is.

In fact, sometimes, you can get someone to do an about-face when it's actually about to happen.  This happened when Republicans in the U.S. House tried to get a vote on an even crazier budget than the now-infamous Ryan Budget--it was called the "Republican Study Committee budget" since it came from that subgroup of very conservative Republicans.  They fully expected it to fail because they would have Democrats and moderate Republicans voting it down, but the ones who upvoted it could score political points with anti-government and anti-tax activists.

Then the Democrats, at the last minute, decided to vote "present" instead of "aye".  Cue mass chaos among Republicans, with a large number of them suddenly changing their vote from "aye" to "nay" just to prevent the insanity they'd been toying with from actually becoming law.

...and all I could do was laugh at the spectacle.  I'm sorry.