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Subscribe to RSSStu Rothenberg, writing in Roll Call, maps out the early states for the GOP nominating contests.
He looks at the Iowa Bachmann-Pawlenty dynamic and says, “anything worse than a very competitive second-place showing to Bachmann in the caucuses — would cripple his effort financially and have observers writing his political obituary.” On Bachmann, “If she can’t win Iowa, she can’t win anywhere.” And: “New Hampshire will be a Romney-Huntsman primary, with the winner continuing and the loser trying to explain why he is still relevant.”
BACHMANN: On TODAY, NBC’s Michael Isikoff reports that undercover video taken from Michele Bachmann’s husband’s Christian counseling center “reveals that her therapists are using prayer and Bible scriptures to help cure people of homosexual tendencies.”
Bachmann also said yesterday that she did not read language in a pledge, promoted by Iowa social conservative group The Family Leader, which seemed to suggest that black children were better off when born during slavery, the Des Moines Register writes. The language was included in an introductory passage of the pledge but not the vow itself. ““I did not see that language. That was not a part of the vow,” Bachmann told reporters in Iowa.
GOP12 notes that Bachmann and FOX host Bill O’Reilly sparred over the debt ceiling and why Speaker Boehner is pushing for an increase if she’s right. She “opened the door to voting to raise the debt ceiling on Monday — in the extraordinarily unlikely instance that it's tied to a repeal of President Obama's healthcare law.”
GINGRICH: Newt Gingrich will not sign the Family Leader’s pledge “The Marriage Vow,” Politico writes.
GIULIANI: “Rudy Giuliani will head back to New Hampshire on Thursday as he mulls another White House bid -- but prominent state Republicans don't believe he'll run,” the New York Post writes.
HUNTSMAN: Speaking on a conference call with reporters ahead of Jon Huntsman’s appearance at a South Carolina county GOP fundraiser, state Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian pushed back on a suggestion that he scheduled the call because Huntsman is an especially formidable opponent for President Obama, Politico writes. "Here's a guy who had his lips firmly planted on the president's butt three months ago, and now is speaking ill out of 'em out of those same lips. Can you trust a guy who turns this quickly?” Harpootlian asked.
Motocross star Travis Pastrana tweeted his endorsement of Huntsman yesterday, ABC reports. “Not one 4 politics, but John Huntsman, fellow MX rider, good friend of nitro & the smartest man I know, is running 4 President. Look him up,” Pastrana tweeted.
PAWLENTY: Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has an op-ed in the Des Moines Register, in which he ties together the debt talks in Washington to the government shutdown in Minnesota -- which borders Iowa. “With America facing 9.2 percent unemployment and anemic economic growth, the last thing we need is more government,” he writes. “We need to balance government budgets by cutting spending and rejecting tax increases. This can be done in both Minnesota and Washington, but only if Republicans draw a line in the sand and stand firm against more spending and taxes.”
Left unsaid in the op-ed: Why, less than a year after Pawlenty left office, is Minnesota facing a deficit and a government shutdown?
PERRY: Texas Gov. Rick Perry is calling Republican leaders in Iowa and New Hampshire.
ROMNEY: “Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will pick up endorsements on Thursday from three New Hampshire county attorneys,” the Boston Globe reports. “During a day-long swing through New Hampshire, Romney, is expected to get the endorsements of Cheshire County Attorney Peter Heed, Rockingham County Attorney Jim Reams, and Merrimack County Attorney Scott Murray.”
SANTORUM: Rick Santorum said, according to Politico, that he was shocked by the clause in the Family Leader’s “Marriage Vow” that asked him to be faithful to his wife.
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Bachmann's husband is a doctor who doesn't know or understand that being gay isn't a choice....you're born with this sexual preference. I'd check the list of doctors covered by my insurance plan and find a new one. This guy was absent the day they taught medicine in medical school.
I just found this out a couple years ago, but its true. God made us in Mind (Soul), Body (our Flesh) and Spirit. You are not just the person you see in the mirror everyday. God gave you a Spirit and Soul too. According to the Bible, your flesh is corruptible by sin (Sin comes from demons or devils or evil spirits which really do exist!). They tempt each person to do things which go against God's commandments. Homosexuality is a sin just like any other sin. God created us in his image (our Character), but the devil seeks to alter that image. Over time these sins become bondages or strongholds in our lives. Sin passes from generation to generation, so we may think we are born a certain way, but we inherited those sins from our ancestors whom sinned against God. In the spiritual kingdom, you are the slave of the spirits you listen to...if a devil tempts you to steal, lie or kill, and you repeated do those things; you become a slave to that sin and thus that devil. God is jealous for his own. He created us, but he gave each of us a choice.. The blood of Jesus Christ is the only thing that can purify us of our sins. I used to have many bad addictions which I thought would never go away but when you put your faith in God through Jesus...he removes your DESIRE to those bad things. You wake up one day and you don't even want that stuff you were so addicted to before. Don't fear or be stubborn!! Just ask the Lord to help you, if you have the slightest belief that what I am saying is true. He knows everything, so just say it where you are... Do it in humility and faith that what I am saying is true because it comes from the Bible and I know it through my person experiences and many others. He loves us. He knows we sin and he forgives those who truely desire forgiveness...God bless whomever reads this...
Vote Jesus:
I'm sure you're sincere in your beliefs. But you're off topic.
Oh. And I won't be voting for Jesus. He's not running for office. And those who are running and claim to be his faithful servants are generally corrupt to the core.
And he got a bunch of Medicare/Medicaid funds to "treat" the gay patients. HYPOCRITES.
Oh..and she's a TAX COLLECTOR. She used to sue tax evaders for the IRS.
The Dem campaign ads, as usual, can be written by robots. The GOP candidates are all flawed and vulnerable.
What self-respecting voter would cast a ballot for a Party that seriously considers any of these dim bulb, opportunist, sanctimonious, filthy rich and crazy candidates? If I were a Republican...I would consider voting for Ron Paul. At least he is educated, principled and serious.
Am I the oly one whose Gaydar goes off when I listen to Marcus Bachmann?
Guess Michele didnt pray enough.
Q: What do Eric Stonestreet "Cam" from ABCs Modern Family have in common with Marcus Bachman ?
A: Eric is a straight man pretending to be gay and Marcus is a gay man pretending to be straight
I think i may have discovered why Bachmann has such " rage" for gay people....i saw her... "HUSBEAR" on TV ..looks a real screamer !...oops i men't husband ..
iknow 2 fixed gays.. One,a fter 2 dozen dinner meetings over 2 years finally lost his veneer of civility
He said gays support the westboro baptist church, the nut cases who celebrate happily at the funerals of our soldiers and the funerals of murdered gays like Matthew Shepard.
And re matthew shepard when i mentioned his grisly murder to this "ultra-catholic", he said "matthew shepards parents should have fixed him"
Blaming Matthews parents for their sons grisly murder
And when I horrified repeated his words back to him, he denied he said them
the guy has been turned into a psychopatha and patholocigal liar. Covered with that veneer of civility that some churches teach people how to be a sophisticated hater.
The other guy was involved in gay porn. He was my seatmate on a plane trip from S. Florida to Atlanta in march of 1995. totally drunk.
One time last year I found his website - full of ranting against gays and babbling about the bible etc etc. It turns out I know someone up there who is a UU minister's wife. (in central PA). she knows this guy and says he is almost violent when he comes to gay pride parades to spout his venom.
You can turn ordinary people into haters. Hitler proved it - he got most of germany to support his hate of gays, Jews and the others he sent to the ovens
thats what "fixing gays" is all about . Sorry - no simple way to describe it - its all psychology.
aand thats what bachmanns hubby is all about. Oh note the name - spelled with 2 "n"s. Wonder what their parents were like re Jewss, gays etc. Quite a few German prisoners were brought to the USA to work on farms during WWII
And allowed to stay after the war. But deep down lots of them still obviously had their hatreds. the lessons of one 's early life stay forever.
Got to go digging re bachmann and her family.
BTW the Koch brothers of repub fame - who own energy business outright worth 100Billion $$
We have a lead that her grand aunt Ilse Koch was sent to prison after wwii for making lampshades out of Jews skin in the death camps. She hanged herself in 1967
And the Kochs father was a member of the John Birch society - I remember a jewish friend of mine tlling me how they were so hard right wing his parents were terrified of that group.
One of the latest repub tricks we need to understand is to run doctors as candidates for office.
Most people have a high regard for doctors. they find it very hard to accept that doctors can be bigots, nutcases and greedy people
But every group has its bad ones.
Anoother example re gays
the American Academy of pediatrics is one of almost every mainstream med / psych group that says being gay is an inborn trait, just like being str8 is an inborn trait for most of us.
But there is the american college of pediatrics who say otherwise. Turns out that that "college" has about 200 members.
the american academy of pediatrics has about 60,000 A 300 to 1 ratio is fine by me in terms of who I would believe.