2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel

[Tundra]

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Michele Bachmann wins Iowa Republican test

Maybe it's time for a woman president... follows American history. After Bush II and Obama (so far) how can anyone do worse.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html

It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens;
but we, the whole people, who formed this Union.

Susan B. Anthony, 1873, “Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?” speech delivered following her arrest for voting in the election of 1872

Susan B. Anthony devoted some fifty years of her life to the cause of woman suffrage.

At her two-day trial in June 1873, which she described as "the greatest judicial outrage history has ever recorded," she was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and court costs.

Women gained the vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, fourteen years after Anthony's death.

 

[Kepler]

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I don't want anyone with Bachmann's worldview to ever come anywhere near the White House, but that certainly would make for a fascinating election campaign.

Poor Mittens. Always the bridesmaid.

 

[bronconick]

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Maybe it's time for a woman president... follows American history. After Bush II and Obama (so far) how can anyone do worse.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html

A woman who studies tax law that she hates because her husband told her to and she's submissive to him according to her faith is probably not really the first woman president.

We need to know his opinions on stuff too, since we'll apparently be handing him the passcodes to the football.

 

[Old Pio]

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Stop whining. It's most unbecoming.

Objection, your honor. Disagreeing with or making fun of smug, bigoted, a*sholes is not whining, it's just a little balance. "Tingles" has already contributed to this high level libtard tugfest by suggesting Perry dresses funny. In depth, informative and infantile. Now THERE's an Emmy waiting to happen. Funny, I can remember when Texas schtick was considered cute. You know, dropping your pants to show an abdominal surgical scar and all the rest.

 

[Handyman]

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A woman who studies tax law that she hates because her husband told her to and she's submissive to him according to her faith is probably not really the first woman president.

We need to know his opinions on stuff too, since we'll apparently be handing him the passcodes to the football.

His opinions are FABULOUS!! I mean the guy is like a right wing version of Harvey Firestein

I still cant believe conservatives support Bachmann...the woman takes more handouts than a bum in downtown Minneapolis. Ya know how Righties like to tell us about the people in limos who still collect welfare...that is Crazy Eyes Bachmann. She is all about the handouts from the Fed, unless others who actually need them ask for them cause then it is Socialism. But when her husband needs more cash to pray away the gay (even though no amount of prayer will rid him of his gayness) or her farm needs subsidies she is all about taking what is offered.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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TPAW is done. Heard this morning on Fix News Sunday.

 

[bronconick]

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TPAW is done. Heard this morning on Fix News Sunday.

Ouch. Dude screwed you guys for 8 years and he doesn't have staying power past the Iowa Straw Poll?

 

[Slap Shot]

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Objection, your honor.

Methinks the lady...

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Ouch. Dude screwed you guys for 8 years and he doesn't have staying power past the Iowa Straw Poll?

He doesn't have enough "pray away the gay" cred like Bachmann.

 

[5mn_Major]

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I don't want anyone with Bachmann's worldview to ever come anywhere near the White House, but that certainly would make for a fascinating election campaign.

Poor Mittens. Always the bridesmaid.

Perfect set up for a Perry run, Bush III in the making.

 

[Kepler]

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He doesn't have enough "pray away the gay" cred like Bachmann.

Last gasps are always the most violent. A generation from now these people will be done, it's just a question of whether we can stop them from burning the whole world as part of their fantasy.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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JFC... How the hell did Bachmann get this far? HOW?!?! Serious question.

 

[Foxton]

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JFC... How the hell did Bachmann get this far? HOW?!?! Serious question.

Simple answer, because there are actually segments of the American population who are just that stupid. Same reason Palin gets any attention.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Simple answer, because there are actually segments of the American population who are just that stupid. Same reason Palin gets any attention.

Yeah but Palin isn't dangerous. She knows she's just playing to the masses and trying to make a buck. I honestly think she's too smart to run for president. She knows she'd get obliterated and quite possibly lose the position she's in with the Republicans. Basically she's a figurehead that gives speeches. Afterwards she relaxes by taking a swim in her moneybin.

Bachmann, on the other hand, IS dangerous. She thinks she's smart enough to be president. And she has more charisma than the rest of the field. I've never really been worried about a political candidate before. I am definitely worried when it comes to Bachmann.

 

[Tundra]

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Bachmann, on the other hand, IS dangerous. She thinks she's smart enough to be president. And she has more charisma than the rest of the field. I've never really been worried about a political candidate before. I am definitely worried when it comes to Bachmann.

I think same things were said of Obama in 2008 presidential run. Now if she can get the mainstream on her side... using similar ideas as Obama did with struggle for equality and unity after she gets done attacking the incumbent.

Opposed by a well-organized and well-funded anti-suffrage movement which argued that most women really didn't want the vote, and they were probably not qualified to exercise it anyway, women also used humor as a tactic. In 1915, writer Alice Duer Miller wrote,

Why We Don't Want Men to Vote

* Because man's place is in the army.
* Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.

ERA (Equal rights amendment) - I didn't realize it passed congress but couldn't ratified.

Like the 19th Amendment before it, the ERA barreled out of Congress, getting 22 of the necessary 38 state ratifications in the first year. But the pace slowed as opposition began to organize – only eight ratifications in 1973, three in 1974, one in 1975, and none in 1976.

Arguments by ERA opponents such as Phyllis Schlafly, right-wing leader of the Eagle Forum/STOP ERA, played on the same fears that had generated female opposition to woman suffrage. Anti-ERA organizers claimed that the ERA would deny woman’s right to be supported by her husband, privacy rights would be overturned, women would be sent into combat, and abortion rights and homosexual marriages would be upheld. Opponents surfaced from other traditional sectors as well. States’-rights advocates said the ERA was a federal power grab, and business interests such as the insurance industry opposed a measure they believed would cost them money. Opposition to the ERA was also organized by fundamentalist religious groups.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I think same things were said of Obama in 2008 presidential run. Now if she can get the mainstream on her side... using similar ideas as Obama did with struggle for equality and unity after she gets done attacking the incumbent.

Yeah, except Obama actually has a brain inside his skull. Bachmann has one of these:

 

[Foxton]

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I think same things were said of Obama in 2008 presidential run. Now if she can get the mainstream on her side... using similar ideas as Obama did with struggle for equality and unity after she gets done attacking the incumbent.

Difference being, they were scared of him being some secret muslim fascist homosexual pedophile, to the point where McCain had to defend him. The Bach however is being directly quoted. There is no need to exaggerate anything she has said.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Bachmann is pure, charismatic, and knows how to stay on message. You should be afraid. She could get elected President.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Bachmann is pure, charismatic, and knows how to stay on message. You should be afraid. She could get elected President.

How bad is it that a center/center-right* voter from her home state is scared to death of her?

*Center-right fiscally and socially liberal.

 

[brookyone]

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Ouch. Dude screwed you guys for 8 years and he doesn't have staying power past the Iowa Straw Poll?

One down...a couple more ridiculously bad GOP candidates to go. One in particular. God told me this.