Yeah, that is absolutely the least horrible thing about the guy. Hell, all the kids might have been there at the time and saying goodbye is something they might have wanted to do. IDK, because the funny stuff about him is more interesting to google for!
I can too. But the memorial Santorum set up for his living kids to participate on was kissing, cuddling, and singing. Plenty of pro-life voters would surely be squicked by that if they knew about it.
RepoMan
1563
“squicked.” God, that word takes me back. Is this USENET? Is it 1993? What’s haaaaappening???
The Republican party of Rockefeller/Ford would have run away from the Tea Party crazies and the fundamentalists. But since the GOP started down this path in the 80’s and doubled down on the bet in the 90’s, now they’re going to alienate half their voters whichever guy they go with. Good job, guys!
The only thing that saves them is that Democrats alienate all those voters too. It’s like liberals being disgusted with Obama – if they want their vote to matter instead of being a protest vote, they still have to vote for him.
RepoMan
1566
Actually, the NY Times had a good point: Iowa’s primary highlighted a three-way GOP split. You have Romney, the businessman; Santorum, the evangelical; and Paul, the libertarian. Each of them appeals to a different subset of the GOP, and those subsets are in many ways disjoint.
shift6
1567
Another one “God called to run for President”. What were God’s reasons, Shelly? You agree He is omniscient, do you not? You must agree, then, that he knew you would perform poorly in the polls and drop, do you not? So why then.
Call up ol’ Herman and see what he’s come up with for the same question.
God called Bachman and said, “Git yo ass back in the kitchen!”
No?
Wish I lived in Minnesota’s “most conservative” district so I could vote for this guy.
This is a congressional race with national implications because a defeat for Bachmann would send a clear message to members of Congress that there is such a thing as too extreme in American politics. It would advance the cause of civility and constructive problem solving because it would show Washington that voters will punish those politicos who pander to the fringes while trying to divide and conquer.
We can only hope. Go get 'er, Jim!
There aren’t many Republicans that I am actively rooting to lose but Michele tops the list. Good luck Mr Graves.
jpinard
1571
Who’s giving Michelle Bachman all this money? She raises more money the more extreme she is. That is pathetic.
She’s a national brand now. She can send mailers all over the country asking for cash. There’s a very small subset of politicians that manage to get this following: Franken and Warren do so similarly on the left.
When you expand your fundraising base to be all the crazies in the whole country, the well is a lot deeper.
Not many people are fans of Michele any more, not even ironically, but as you may have heard, she won’t be running for re-election next time around for her U.S. Rep seat. Some people say it’s so she can focus on her next presidential run, some say it’s because it’s too tough dealing with those alleged campaign finance violations from her last presidential run. The Onion probably called it, though: “Michele Bachmann: ‘God Wants Me To Earn 7 Figures For A Lobbying Firm’”
I might not have agreed with her policies, her planks, her stated beliefs, her outrageous gaffes and misstatements, or her inconsequential legislative record, but at least she didn’t quit in the middle of her term.
Oooh! It’s been a little while for this thread, hasn’t it?
Bachmann believes we’re in the End Times. Her proof? Obama sells weapons to terrorists.
“President Obama waived a ban on arming terrorists in order to allow weapons to go to the Syrian opposition,” Bachmann said. “Your listeners, U.S. taxpayers, are now paying to give arms to terrorists including al Qaeda.”
“This happened, and as of today, the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end time history.”
I hate to agree with noted humanist, Michelle Bachmann, but her point on arms sales is completely valid. Less than 10% of the rebel movement is pro-US and there’s no reason to believe that those guns will stay in ostensibly friendly hands. They haven’t in the past.
Miramon
1576
I suppose when the English paid the Iroquois to attack French settlements and vice versa, that was end times history too? And when the Romans paid the Vandals and the Goths and the Huns to go off and fight one another serially and simultaneously over the better part of a thousand years, that too was an imminent sign of the second coming?
The funny thing of course is that the only reason the rebels have those arms is because the establishment GOP was all over the case insisting on it.
Um, yeah, but that’s really not her point. Her point is the wacky theological mumbo jumbo, not some rationale policy talking point. At least, that’s how I see it. If you see the weirdness as smokescreen for the rest of it, I guess it could pass as rationale discourse. But, really, no. Anyone who talks like that is…odd.
I was thinking more of Reagan arming the Contras, or our government arming the Afanis against the Russians…
I can’t tell if she’s serious, or if it’s just red meat for the evangelicals.
Miramon
1580
I’ve tried to expunge those episodes from memory, but nooo…
