In the early weeks of her presidential run, Michele Bachmann has avoided getting bogged down in the divisive, distracting terrain of social policy.
Gay rights groups say they plan to change that.
Even as Bachmann’s tightly-disciplined campaign pivots sharply away from her roots as a social conservative warrior to embrace her newer image as a Tea Party fiscal crusader, gay leaders are looking to drag her back into the fray.
Energized by victory in New York last month, they say Bachmann’s campaign will be both the focus of their attention and a useful rallying cry as the presidential campaign hits its stride during the crucial summer of 2011.
The reason: The third-term Minnesota congresswoman and her husband, therapist Marcus Bachmann, have a history of battling gay rights groups in Minnesota long before she stepped onto the national stage.
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RON PAUL IN 2012- RON PAUL IN 2012- RON PAUL IN 2012. RAH- RAH- RAH
Not NO, but HELL NO to Ron Paul!!
He wants to do away with Social Security and Medicare…These are NOT entitlements, as we paid into them our whole lives long!! Now Congress…They get full pay retirement after 1 term, free healthcare for life, free postage and many other freebies…they do NOT pay into this…tyhis IS an entitlement!!!
They ALL got a $3,000 raise a few months ago!! They have feathered their nest well at taxpayer expense
Ron Paul wants the US to be like India, with the elderly on the streets, instead of in nursing homes
Do away with SS and they will be kicked out of the nursing homes!! We will be like other 3rd world countries, but it may be coming anyway…it depends on Sept.!!!
time to put the queers in their place,along with hollywood,liberals and communists-SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN OR GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS COUNTRY,WEV'E GOT A DAMN MESS TO CLEAN UP,AFTER WE THROW THE ILLEGAL AND CONSPIRASTS OUT OF D.C.
Tina i agree & we have a few on this site as well.
Like you?
Cute–but I obviously didn''t post the comment above or you'd be able to see the IntenseDebate score. Just another cowardly anonymous jackass trying to stir up trouble by using my name and photo, I assume.
James why should any one believe you with your track record on this site?
Anyone who told you to just be yourself couldn't have given you worse advice.
I care not at all what you believe, Cougar–I was just pointing out what should be obvious, even to you.
James you have no credibility with me ! You know why also!
Do you still love nature despite what it did to you?
You are so dumb, you couldn't find your big fat rear with both hands and a mirror on a bright sunny day….
1oldcoyote i do agree James is really dumb & from his photo I would say that you are right about him having a big fat rear. Odd that you find James so us say sexually appealing considering that he is not family to you.
I bet you married your childhood sweetheart even though there was a law against it.
Alexia , you are so ignorant that you even try to hide from what was replied to you. As usual your post was so weird it made no sense whatever.
It's doubtful that you ever married but are still the city whore from what I hear down town from your brothers that are so proud of it.
Sorry 1oldcoyote2 you are so incoherent how can anyone interpret in fact what you are actually trying to say.
You Red Neck Son Of A Bitch White Trash I was married to a real man not some Filth like you!
No I am not "The City Whore"!
You misunderstood what my brothers were saying!
They were saying that your Mother & Wife & most of your female relatives were nothing more than White Red Neck Trailer Trash Whores!!!!!
Temper- Temper there.
"You was married to"? Why not still? Did the smell drive him away? did you kill him?
Your brothers screwing you when he wanted to? Or did he finally wise up and leave? Lucky him even if he died!
You White Trash S.O.B.! You have done it now! James McPherson you will live to regret ever for the Filth you have written here! My
husband unlike the coward that you are gave his life for his country. I have played along with you so far with this little charade of yours! But you White Trash S.O.B. when you inject my deceased husband into your Filth talk you have gone too far!
I will ruin you for this & you will never know how or when! You can not conceive the hell that will befall you for this!
I am truly sorry about to hear about your husband. You have NEVER mentioned anything about him to me.
I have never in my life heard a woman with such vile vocabulary as yours. Mine may be bad at times but you are so constant you certainly take first place by a country mile!
Sorry to disappoint you James but unlike you i am straight.
Not all men are annoying but you sure are.
It wasn't my comment, Cougar–read the one that is mine (with the IntenseDebate info) directly below that one.
James i find it hard to believe you after all you have done on this site. But if it is in fact so then you should complain to the site manager.
Thanks, but I've done so half a dozen times or so recently and the site manager here happens to be worthless.
James you need to telephone The Western Center For Journalism.
general tel. # 212-573-5000
Journalism desk tel.# 253-238-8840
Thanks. It would be nice if the site manager actually did his/her job. Though considering that they do no journalism, simply recycling opinion pieces from elsewhere, I find it funny that they have a "journalism" desk.
James i find you comical as well!
No James, not Alexia, you, you you.
Alexia, that's cute the way you jumped right up, waved both arms and made yourself noticed when queers were mentioned.
What can you expect from individuals whose brain with all their thoughts and life activity is proudly concentrated in and around their scrota and perinea?
True! That is exactly why they support Democrats.
They will keep attacking because we are afraid to call things as they are, to call a spade a spade, and they perfectly feel that we are afraid.
First of all, we have to start from minor things: re-educate ourselves and drop their idiotic self-appointed nickname "gay" and start calling them what they are: sanme-sex-lovers, homosexuals. Don't give them a luxury to mask what they are.
As soon as they understand we are serious, they won't be so impudent.
By the way, English language will only benefit from our purification.
Why not just be honest and call them all QUEERS??? That's what they are!!
1oldcoyote why would you call your family such? Gosh try to be a little discreet! I am sure that a lot of people on this site do not care to hear about your families history.
Somebody hollers "Hoe Down" & your wife hits the floor.
Sorry, a hoe is a long wooden handled utensil used to weed the garden where we live. You are using your dirty filthy mind and southern language AGAIN.
Gay Rights Are Barking Up The Wrong Tree, Yikeess, Michele Bachmann Has More Class Than All These Gay Groups Put Together, Now The Ball Is In The Gay Blades Court And The Game Is Almost Over, Yippee, Maybe Canada Will Treat The Gay Blades Better. God Bless America And Sarah Palin.
I agree with Tina 100% I am sick of these damn Minority groups always getting their way, & the rest of us having no say in what happens.
As I read these comments, I find myself disgusted by the ignorance and hate of Michele Bachmann's supporters. I'm embarrased for and ashamed of her for accepting and promoting this type of hate. "After we throw out the illegals..", " sick of all these minority groups", "time to put the queers in their place, along with hollywood…". Shame on everyone who made those comments. Comments cause actions, which many of you would like. I'm assuming you would like a gay man to be beaten to near death for being gay. I'm sure you would love minorities to be burned alive for being who they are. I'm sure you would like immigrants to be dragged behind a truck for being different than you. Shame on you Michele Bachmann for promoting this hate. God judges, not you, and not these idiots with their hate.