Bachmann releases Iowa religious endorsements

I take some comfort in knowing her fan base so far is restricted to the like minded. When she draws support from the broader society then it will be a discomfort. For now she only attracts the fearful few.

Her thinking and rhetoric is too narrow to carry her beyond church walls, at least I trust that is the case.

How many years is a passport good for?

Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN

What the hell is wrong with Iowans? Really Iowa? Don’t you have a cow to carve out of butter?

Why are these religious organizations that are obviously participating in the political process, not losing their tax exempt status?

What could be more relevant and important than having the endorsement of ministers?

In this world of increasing complexity, with its ever-increasing demands for higher cognitive function, more creativity, and more multidisciplinary knowledge, what could be more vital for the country than having the endorsement of people who spend their time fixating on the texts of Bronze Age writers?

Historians? Scientists? Ecologists? Philosophers? Sociologists, psychologists or novelists and poets? Screw them, what do they know?

What we need are politicians who just know Truths–good, Biblically proven, eternal and absolute Truths that can withstand all evidence to the contrary and the attacks of those pesky rationalists with all their questions and book learnin’.

@mark Well, the thing is, she’s preaching to the old retarded choir of the elderly in Iowa, the only people that really go to church anymore. If I had known she was doing this within driving distance I would’ve gone and brought up some questions.

@ Eric “Biblically proven” truths… are you fuc-… oh, i see what you did there.

I agree, those that lobby the government should pay taxes. And that includes ADL, AIPAC, SPLC, ACLU, NAACP, LA RAZA, and all the other tax exempt organizations that have the politicians attention.

Michele Bachmann’s Testimony
Bachmann tells group how she accepted Christ

by Jason Clayworth/caucuses.desmoinesregister.com

Michele Bachmann at a Des Moines church today told the story of how she and several of her teen friends were drawn by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus Christ.
It was Nov. 1, 1972 and the group of four went into an open church one night where there was no pastor or others present and were drawn by the Holy Spirit and wept while accepting the Lord as their savior, she said.
“The Holy Spirit drew us up to the altar and we went onto our knees and we began confessing our sins,” Bachmann, a U.S. Rep. from Minnesota and a 2012 Republican presidential candidate said. “I hadn’t been wild. I hadn’t been drinking, or on drugs or carousing or chasing around but it didn’t matter. I knew that I was a sinner and I knew that I needed a Savior and I knew that I didn’t have Him.”

Bachmann spoke to the Church for about 20 minutes and listened to a sermon before meeting dozens in the congregation.

Dear Freedom Loving Americans:

I am totally convinced that whoever gets the majority of the “Faith Based Vote” wins the White House! I also am convinced as a Christian and an American that this country cannot with stand 4 more years of president Obama and his radical anti-God agenda! That is why I am getting behind the honorable Michele Bachmann. Her record and her faith speak for its self. She dearly loves her husband of over 30 years. She loves her family, and she loves this country!

So this is what you can personally do as Americans. First and foremost pray for her. Pray for her physical and emotional protection. Pray for her family and the ones that work on her staff. Then support her in her run for the republican nomination and ultimately the president of the United States! We can win this country back. With God’s help and the support of people like you America can and will be great again!

Yours For A Better America,
Ron Leonard
Michele Bachmann’s Faith Based Volunteer
US Army Retired
Served Durning The Iraq and Afghan Conflicts
Michele Bachmann 2012
http://www.michelebachmann.com/
615-319-4595-Office

Meet Michele Bachmann:
Michele Bachmann is running for president to bring a new voice to the White House -­ a voice of constitutional conservatism, limited government, and a safe and secure America.

Elected in 2006, Michele is the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. From the beginning, she has demonstrated bold reform, pushing to fix Washington’s broken ways.

Michele is a leading advocate for tax reform, a staunch opponent of wasteful government spending, and a strong proponent of adherence to the Constitution, as intended by the Founding Fathers. She believes government has grown exponentially, with Obamacare being the most recent example of its uninhibited growth. Michele wants government to make the kind of serious spending decisions that many families and small businesses have been forced to make. She is a champion of free markets and she believes in the vitality of the family as the first unit of government. She is also a defender of the unborn and staunchly stands for religious liberties.

Prior to serving in the U.S. Congress, Michele was elected to the Minnesota State Senate in 2000 where she championed the Taxpayers Bill of Rights. Before that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney, working on hundreds of civil and criminal cases. That experience solidified her strong support for efforts to simplify the Tax Code and reduce tax burdens on family and small business budgets. Michele also led the charge on education issues in Minnesota calling for the abolishment of Goals 2000 and the Profiles of Learning in its school. She recognized the need for quality schools and subsequently started a charter school for at-­‐risk kids in Minnesota.
Michele sits on the Financial Services Committee (FSC) and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. This experience has given her keen insight into the housing crisis and credit crunch, leading Michele to be a staunch opponent of the taxpayer-­‐funded bailout of Wall Street and the Dodd-­‐Frank legislation. Serving on the Intelligence Committee, she has consistently advocated peace through strength to ensure America’s national security. She has proudly taken a vow to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

In July 2010, Michele hosted the first Tea Party Caucus meeting. She is seen as a champion of Tea Party values including the call for lower taxes, renewed focus on the Constitution and the need to shrink the size of government.

Michele is a graduate of Anoka High School and Winona State University. She received her J.D. at the O.W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University and an L.L.M. in Tax Law at the College of William and Mary. She has been married to Marcus for more than thirty years and they live in Stillwater where they own a small business mental health care practice that employs nearly 50 people. Michele and Marcus have five children, Lucas, Harrison, Elisa, Caroline, and Sophia. In addition, the Bachmann family has opened their home to 23 foster children, which has inspired Michele to become one of Congress’ leading advocates for foster and adopted children, earning her bipartisan praise for her efforts.

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville

Sorry,
I cannot vote for someone that has been living off of the government their entire life then turns around telling everyone else just the opposite.

I am not supersticious so the god thing has no draw for me. The founding fathers new how important it was to have seperation between church and state. They recognised the largest dealers of death has always stemmed from religion. In reality they were just greedy and used religion to justify their acts of hate and greed. I believe the Michelle Bachman is just another one of thos greedy people using religion to justify their actions.

Anyone that views her voting record would know, she really does nothing at all. She does not have the fortitude nor the saneness required to be POTUS.

“It must be acknowledged that amongst few of the civilized nations of our time have the higher sciences made less progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare.”

“The religion professed by the first emigrants, and bequeathed by them to their descendants, simple in its form of worship, austere and almost harsh in its principles, and hostile to external symbols and to ceremonial pomp, is naturally unfavorable to the fine arts, and only yields a reluctant sufferance to the pleasures of literature.”
Alexis de Tocueville

“I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other. If this be not done, there can be no end put to the controversies that will be always arising between those that have, or at least pretend to have, on the one side, a concernment for the interest of men’s souls, and, on the other side, a care of the commonwealth.”
John Locke

http://zerablog.wordpress.com/a-nation-founded-on-faith-in-the-people/

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