America loves underdogs

Which should work out well for Michele Bachman.

Michele Bachman is an educated professional woman and mother. I don't believe she is ranting about destroying the Department of Education. She gives me less concern than Santorum whose wife Karen is 'home schooling' seven kids and we don't even think she has a college degree. Who is Karen Santorum? Don't you want to know what a First Lady is going to do? She reminds me of a typical quiet, spoke when spoken to only backdrop little woman who has nothing to offer but a neanderthal view of barefoot and pregnant womankind.
Romney's wife speaks. Calista speaks. You know who those women are. Who is Karen Santorum?
At his town hall meeting yesterday Santorum railed against modern culture for insisting everyone go to college- why should everyone have to go to college? You can have a perfectly full life without it he ranted. I don't know who this plays to because even people who were too poor to send themselves to college want to be able to send their kids to college. This Republican glorification of ignorance is frankly, disgusting. It's not something my Republican father would ever embrace. He made sure his two girls got the best education that they could get into and worked to afford it. There is nothing noble about ignorance or uneducated idiocy or aspiring to uneducation. Any President should insist that we have the most
maximally intelligent educated work force to compete in a global market that we can to advance even the business objectives that republicans hold dear. Most immigrant families scrimped and saved and tried to afford college and the government stepped in with subsidies in state colleges to make sure it was affordable for those who wanted to go. There are student loan programs to make sure people can go. You can disagree with the way grants and loans are structured, you can argue they are too costly to pay back given time value of money features, you can try to craft other ways to make it workable or affordable. Santorum thinks of none of this. We can't have a President who glorifies ignorance. On that front Newt, the college professor and Bachman, who holds a JD ranks better than Santorum.

Michele Bachman got a bad rap and spin because of something her husband does in a religiously oriented clinic reorienting gays. The popular culture has no problem with people who want to reorient their gender like Chas Bono for example. We prefer people realign whatever gender they think they are than be mentally despondent or worse suicidal feeling trapped in another gender. There is a great French movie called Ma Vie En Rose that explores this theme with a young boy. But if a Gay person voluntarily wishes to reorient their sexual attraction the gay community seems to think that something of an insult. This, I don't get. What Michele Bachman's husband does has a market because he has clients who wish his services. He meets a need of some. There are in fact some gay people who wish that they could reorient their sexual attractions. They have free will also. Gays who wish to remain so or think that they have no choice in the matter should not condemn them or anyone helping them. So this rap for something a candidate's spouse does is unfair.

And we don't look at hobbies, habits and the ways spouces of other candidates make a living do we? We don't seem to blame Santorum because his wife does no job outside the house except maybe bake sales at church.

Cultural attitudes about people who think gayness is not immutable are as discriminatory as people who discriminate against gays. Just because some gay people believe God made them immutably that way does not mean all gays do. There are in fact many gays who have oriented themselves to opposite sex attraction, married, have natural children. Many many of them. Should we discriminate against those Americans because they didn't want to stay gay?
None of the Republican Presidential candidates are for married gays (neither was Bill Clinton by the way) so I can't say she is worse than any of them on that front.

Michele Bachman is a very strong candidate who embraces what the Republicans stand for. I don't like a lot of what they stand for but I would like them better if they liked Bachman more. She is a strong educated woman, a tax attorney who practiced law, a Congresswoman and a mother who raised children. She can bake cookies, stand by her man like Tammy Wynette, run a law practice, help run a clinic, be a Congresswoman and run for President. YOU GO GIRL.