A Question Regarding Ms Bachmann
I didn’t really follow the career and recent campaign of Ms Bachmann closely, it was not local and didn’t run across my radar. What I did garner was that the left, lumps her with Ms Palin, as a female unequipped and/or completely unsuited for public office. For a mild example, see this post. The left will claim that their outrage is not based on the fact that both are female, in the public eye, and do not (!) support abortion on demand.
Both of these women had somewhat similar trajectories into politics. Both were mothers who got involved in their school board to right things they found wrong. In Ms Palin’s case, she found corruption and chasing the same (often against her own party) led to a seat in the governors mansion. Ms Bachmann, saw one of her children doing “coloring circles” in high school algebra and was outraged. More on her trajectory here, please read this and this … we’ll wait here. OK. You’re back? For both of these women, if they happened to be not against abortion, and were firmly on the left, then their narrative that brought them to the political stage would be championed as prime examples of how the best of mixing motherhood and public service. But … instead they are targets of outrage and venom from that same source. So ….
Here’s my question to the left, what’s your beef in particular with Ms Bachmann? Why is she seen by you as “completely unsuited” for office?
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As heartwarming as the stories may be they don’t have anything to do with their qualifications to be president.
Stan,
What constitutes “qualifications to be President” in your view?
A knowledge of American history would be a start. She looks to the scurrilous David Barton for her history as does Glenn Beck. A certain level of integrity might be another. She touts her credentials as a lawyer when her law degree was from ORU and she worked for the IRS going after delinquent tax payers. An ability to forge compromises with the other side would help. She is so strident that none of the issues she focuses on could be resolved by fiat as she suggests. ‘I will repeal Obamacare on my first day in office!’ Really? I’m a conservative evangelical, who became a fierce independent in 1968. I’ll vote for a good conservative Republican in a heartbeat but she’s not it.