Bachmann: Dem ‘elites’ have ‘declared war’ on marriage, families, fertility, faith

Nothing new,imaginary figures from an imaginary human being

How does one negotiate with someone that defines her opposition as evil? Michele doesn’t leave much room for the democratic process. I doubt, in fact, she supports true Democracy at all.

Praise Jebus, God hates an open mind, Amen.

Poor Michele Bachmann! Actually had to stay in Washington to WORK. How about working in the 6th CD when you’e not in Washington, Michele??? Had to cancel her speaking engagement.

Oh yeah! Bachmann knows nothiong about WORKING for the People other than herslelf and her wealthy donors

How offensive. I have a new found respect for Sarah Palin , who does not display and wallow in quite as much venom and hate, at least in public. My sympathies to Minnesota.

Forget about defining the evil thing, even lets not look at this one for the religious infringements of my constitutional rights.

The word elite.

the word elite is a bad word in the GOP. One must be dumb to run the country? We do not want the top of the top to rise to power. We do not want smart educated, and thought processed logical people in power.

I need to try and channel Carl here…

Praise Jebus, God hates smart people in power.

here’s a question: what extremist fundamentalist religious movement is interested in advancing their religious beliefs over government,rewriting history, restricting women’s rights and access to education, and is out of step with every other single modern democracy in every other western country in the world?

@sela lets just say I have other words to stand for the MFC for our local chapter to your answer.

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Bachman is just as dangerous as was MacArthy with his witch hunts. Her supporters need to get psychological counselling for voting for her. She is mentally unstable, her chances of becoming president of anything than “I like Bachman” fan club are zero.

She wants to see one of the best presidents we’ve ever seen impeached. WHY? On what grounds? Just because you disagree with a Chief Executive doesn’t give you a leg up to impeach or recall a president.

Bachman…you are unstable and a potential danger to my country; get lost.

Bachmann is so given to compulsive hyperbole one might be excused for thinking that she does indeed have a mental condition.

She said,

“They have declared war on marriage, on families, on fertility, and on faith.”

This is ludicrous, absurd, paranoid hyperventilating. Of course this is not true. Of course there’s no war against marriage, families, fertility or faith. Bachmann can’t seem to merely disagree with Obama and the Democrats. She apparently must invent a fantasy that they’re some evil cabal bent on social destruction. Perhaps she thinks the Antichrist is afoot–the theological pornography of semi-literate conspiracy-minded Christian fundies and evangelicals.

What a testament to how critically degraded our public discourse has become, and how far along the path of extremism the Republican party has gone, when a person such as Bachmann can get any hearing at all.

The conservative mind in America is in free-fall. Prepare for more bumps ahead.

THat’s right, Michele! The Democrats care nothing for values!

One does not have to look far for Sens. David Vitter, John Ensign, John McCain , or Newt Gingrich, to have violated their vows to their spouses and families for their infidelities in the past. And Vitter was re-eleced even!.

As for vertility and Faith, Democrats are fruitful and faithful. They don’t have to get on a soap box and impress their values as THE values in which to live by as many Republicans seem to do. (We know what Birth Control is for!)

The more Michele Bachmann opens her mouth, the more rediculoous she comes off.

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This irresponsible rabble-rousing reminds me of the wonderful letter on partisan rancor at http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/119635079.html.

I am going to break the rule against copy-pasting since we don’t know how long that webpage will continue to be available:

Who’s to blame? Well, average Americans, look in the mirror

Over the last few weeks, the media asked the same question over and over: If the government shuts down, will Democrats or Republicans be to blame?

Invariably, a party spokesperson would deride the other party and regurgitate their own party’s line on taxes or spending cuts.

The results were no better when the question was asked of “average Americans.” Sometimes the average American would blame both parties.

This was often followed by a selfish soliloquy about the personal hardships they would endure. Not once did anyone blame themselves.

Well, average Americans, we are responsible. Not President Obama, and not the 535 senators and representatives we have sent to Washington.

Every two years, we are given the privilege and the responsibility to select the people we want to make the decisions that determine the country’s direction. We have not been making very good choices.

Whatever your party, there are a few guidelines to use when selecting candidates. If they use scare tactics against their opponent, don’t vote for them.

If they insinuate that their opponent is not patriotic, don’t vote for them. Watch out for candidates who use wedge issues such as guns, abortion, taxes, stem cell research or immigration, whichever side they are on.

These tactics are used to divide voters and prevent them from voting in their economic best interest.

We, average Americans, are responsible for the rancor and partisanship. We need to elect politicians who bring our nation together by recognizing that our differences are our strengths.

ANDRE JOHNSON, ST. PAUL

Just keep talking Michele…keep talking -

The things that bother me the most about small-government conservatism, other than the open bigotry that it supports by assuming that it doesn’t exist, are the fact that it invariably evaporates when it comes to rights involving bodily autonomy (not JUST abortion, but the right to choose when and if to have sex, who you have sex with & how you have sex; the right to openly express your gender in any way that you see fit; the right to modify your body in any way that you choose, &c. &c. &c.). It even more invariably evaporates when choices have to be made about the size of the military (small government conservatives almost invariably favoring a much larger military than we have today even though what we need is a small, regional, defensive force, NOT a large, global, expeditionary one). It COMPLETELY blows off the fact that a small government cannot serve people as efficiently as a large one because you have a much smaller number of public servants serving the same population.

AND it is always, ENTIRELY based on gut feelings. There is no math involved ANYWHERE in the idea that the government has to be massively smaller, it’s simply based on a FEELING that the current structure of government social programs is replete with waste and fraud. While government has to be responsive to our selves as emotional human beings, basing government policy on your gut instincts is a BAD way to go.

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