Just don't call her that to her face. She hates the f-word. Still, it's become the go-to description for a certain type of professional or political woman who is staunchly conservative and Christian.
She's also the kind of gal who believes you're only really a woman once you're a mom. On the stump, her maternal qualifications were always as important to her as her political positions. Yup that was her. Or what about the counselors trying to convert homosexuals to heterosexuality at a clinic she owned with her therapist husband?
For good measure, here are some other memorable Bachmann quotes on homosexuality:. It's anything but gay. This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian. But she won't be remembered for her unflinching support of the war there.
Instead, it's this comment about Saddam Hussein's palace that still echoes, six years after she made it:.
It's absolutely huge. I turned to my colleagues and said: 'There's a commonality with the Mall of America, in that it's on that proportion. The Republican National Committee launched the campaign against then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi following passage of the bill to overhaul health care. Michele Bachmann's career in politics — Bachmann joins fellow House Republicans at a December news conference outside the U.
Holder later announced the five would face a military trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Paul, Minnesota. Michele Bachmann's career in politics — Bachmann, with her husband Marcus, left, at her side, declares victory in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District race in November in Bloomington, Minnesota.
The congresswoman is now serving her fourth term. Michele Bachmann's career in politics — Bachmann plays with daughters, from left, Caroline, Elisa and Sophia at their home in Stillwater, Minnesota, in December Paul in April Birth date: April 6, Birth place: Waterloo, Iowa.
Birth name: Michele Marie Amble. Read More. Father: David Amble, an engineer. Mother: Arlene Jean Johnson Amble. Marriage: Marcus Bachmann September 10, present. Education: Winona State University, B.
Religion: Lutheran. Other Facts. Bachmann, a conservative Republican, worked for Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. This plot device roughly approximates the political and cultural mechanism that is sending Michele Bachmann hurtling in the direction of the Oval Office.
Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution.
I said lunch, not launch! Michele Bachmann, when she turns her head toward the cameras and brandishes her pearls and her ageless, unblemished neckline and her perfect suburban orthodontics in an attempt to reassure the unbeliever of her non-threateningness, is one of the scariest sights in the entire American cultural tableau.
And Bachmann is exactly the right kind of completely batshit crazy. Or maybe both are true — in which case this hard-charging challenger for the GOP nomination is a rare breed of political psychopath, equal parts crazed Divine Wind kamikaze-for-Jesus and calculating, six-faced Machiavellian prevaricator.
By her teen years, her parents had divorced; her mother remarried and brought step-siblings into the home, creating a Brady Bunchian group of nine kids. Young Michele found Jesus at age 16, not long before she went away to Winona State University and met a doltish, like-minded believer named Marcus Bachmann.
After finishing college, the two committed young Christians moved to Oklahoma, where Michele entered one of the most ridiculous learning institutions in the Western Hemisphere, a sort of highway rest area with legal accreditation called the O. Coburn School of Law; Michele was a member of its inaugural class in Those familiar with the darker chapters in George W. Yes, this was the tiny educational outhouse that, despite being the th-ranked law school in the country, where 60 percent of graduates flunked the bar, produced a flood of entrants into the Bush Justice Department.
To that end, Bachmann was mentored by a crackpot Christian extremist professor named John Eidsmoe, a frequent contributor to John Birch Society publications who once opined that he could imagine Jesus carrying an M16 and who spent considerable space in one of his books musing about the feasibility of criminalizing blasphemy.
Bachmann says she believes in a limited state, but she was educated in an extremist Christian tradition that rejects the entire notion of a separate, secular legal authority and views earthly law as an instrument for interpreting biblical values. When Bachmann finished her studies in Oklahoma, Marcus instructed her to do her postgraduate work in tax law — a command Michele took as divinely ordained. Moving back to Minnesota, she and Marcus settled in Stillwater, a town of 18, near St.
Paul, where they raised their five children and took in 23 foster kids. Michele took a job as a tax attorney collecting for the IRS and spent the next four years sucking on the tit of the Internal Revenue Service, which makes her Tea Party-leader hypocrisy quotient about average.
Anyone wanting to understand how President Bachmann might behave should pay close attention to what happened at New Heights. Under pressure from parents, Bachmann resigned from New Heights. But the experience left her with a hang-up about the role of the state in public education.
She was soon mobilizing against an educational-standards program called Profile of Learning, an early precursor to No Child Left Behind. Under the program, state educators and local businesses teamed up to craft a curriculum that would help young people prepare for the work force — but Bachmann saw through their devious scheme. To combat this dark outcome, Bachmann joined up with a Junior Anti-Sex League-type outfit called the Maple River Education Coalition, which was largely composed of Christian conservatives rallying against educational standards.
The group met in a church, and its sessions resembled old-time religious revivals, complete with whooping and hollering. Maple River eventually morphed into an organization called EdWatch, which railed against various dystopian indoctrination plans, including the U. In , she joined four other Republicans in Stillwater in an attempt to seize control of the school board.
Bachmann learned her lesson. The slate of five had been put together by a local Republican kingpin named Bill Pulkrabek, who this spring was jailed for domestic assault after he allegedly pulled his mistress down a set of stairs by her hair.
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