"... Michele Bachmann ... represents the problem that the Republican party has in gaining affinity with most Americans that is she is a right-wing extremist."

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COMMENT: That this dumb, barely literate religious zealot rose as high as she did in American government is a sad comment on the intelligence of the American voter.
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The opposite of thinking: Michele Bachmann
By James George, October 2, 2014

Thinking about Michele Bachmann and why she remains in the news, consider the opposite of thinking. Foreign Policy Magazine published an article a couple of years ago titled “The Opposite of Thinking, The key ingredient missing in our policymaking these days? Creativity.” Checking for opposites, one might contrast “thinker” with a “doer”. Neither of these definitions fits when considering Michele Bachmann.

Politico has her in the news today and it is because she won’t go away. She departs office in January. She is the Congresswoman from Minnesota who had so many children she didn’t know what to do.

“Bachmann and her husband have also provided foster care for 23 other children,[30][31] all teenage girls.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann

How is that accomplished responsibly?

“In 1979, Bachmann was a member of the first class of the O. W. Coburn School of Law, then a part of Oral Roberts University (ORU).[15] While there, Bachmann studied with John Eidsmoe, whom she described in 2011 as "one of the professors who had a great influence on me".[17][18] Bachmann worked as a research assistant on Eidsmoe's 1987 book Christianity and the Constitution, which argues that the United States was founded as a Christian theocracy, and should become one again.[15][17][18] In 1986 Bachmann received a J.D. degree from Oral Roberts University.[1] She was a member of the final graduating class of the law school at ORU, and was part of a group of faculty, staff, and students who moved the ORU law school library to what is now Regent University.[19]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann

One thing that jumps out is her belief that the American government should become a Christian theocracy. That puts her in the same basket of Iran that has a Shiite Islamic theocracy and ISIS who are in pursuit of a Sunni theocracy. That is not an exaggeration, and it shows what a radical extremist she is.

Michele Bachmann is not mentally ignorant, however socially misguided she may be. Examining the motivation for her husband and her childcare aspirations, it was all about money from professional services. It was her business.

Her affinity with evangelical Christianity comes from having attended Oral Roberts University.

“Christian right
Main article: Christian right 

Evangelical political influence in America was first evident in the 1830s with movements such as abolition of slavery and the prohibition movement, which closed saloons and taverns in state after state until it succeeded nationally in 1919.[87] The Christian right is a coalition of numerous groups of traditionalist and observant church-goers of every kind: especially Catholics on issues such as birth control and abortion, Southern Baptists, Missouri Synod Lutherans and others.[88] 

Evangelical political activists are not all on the right. There is a small group of liberal white Evangelicals.[89] Most African Americans belong to Baptist, Methodist or other denominations that share Evangelical beliefs; they are firmly in the Democratic coalition and (except for gay and abortion issues) are generally liberal in politics.[90]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism

The fact that she doesn’t like Hillary Clinton is inconsequential because so many more Americans probably don’t like Michele Bachmann. She represents the problem that the Republican party has in gaining affinity with most Americans that is she is a right-wing extremist. America isn’t right-wing extremist.

“Michele Bachmann strives to be the ‘anti-Hillary’

By LAUREN FRENCH and JOHN BRESNAHAN | 10/2/14 5:06 AM EDT

Michele Bachmann will not go gently into the night.

The divisive four-term congresswoman is leaving Capitol Hill in January, but she has no intention of fading into post-congressional irrelevance.

Instead, the Minnesota Republican is fiercely courting media and speaking opportunities, likely in Washington, New York or Los Angeles, and looking to burnish her credentials as a foreign policy expert ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Her hope is to emerge as the “anti-Hillary,” a female conservative foil to likely Democratic presidential contender and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“I don’t know how you’ll see me, but I would like to be in a situation where I can offer an opposing viewpoint to Hillary Clinton,” Bachmann said during a recent interview in her Capitol Hill office.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/michele-bachmann-hillary-clinton-111535.html#ixzz3EztVa8k9

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