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Jewish World Review Feb 18, 2014 / 18 Adar I, 5774 Michele Bachmann: Undeterred and undiminished By Cal Thomas
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With less than a year left in her fourth and final term in Bachmann remains confident and resolute despite many political setbacks. We met in her office while much of Bachmann is made of sterner stuff and has time and time again stood up for her social and economic principles, refusing to compromise on them despite sometimes strong opposition from within her own party's leadership. She retains her Christian and conservative worldview, calling it a "grid" through which she sees everything. I note that a majority of her colleagues and much of the rest of the country seem to have a different "grid" and cite as examples the growth and cost of government and the failure of conservatives to slow what they regard as the cultural slide. "That's the reality we work in, but so what?" she says. "That doesn't deviate from my responsibility ... but you continue to have to go forward, even if you don't see the results." Why does she think little has stopped the cultural slide, even when Republicans control all three branches of government, as they did for a time during the George W. Bush administration? "It's because of their worldview," she responds, implying it isn't enough to be a Republican, or even conservative. For a truly conservative agenda to advance, she believes, voters will have to send to
If Republicans nominate a male presidential candidate in 2016, how should he run against Bachmann was the only female
Bachmann says Clinton testified before In addition, she says, Clinton is "the godmother of Obamacare," trying "behind closed doors" to push through something similar when Maybe such an approach will work, but would the lure of the "first female president" overcome these concerns in voters' minds? Bachmann says: "Effectively she would be Obama's third and fourth term in office." That might scare enough people to vote for the Republican nominee. Bachmann says a lot of people "aren't ready" for a female president. "I think there was a cachet about having an African-American president because of guilt." (Presumably she means because of slavery and the lengthy denial of civil rights to blacks.) "People don't hold guilt for a woman," she says, adding that while people vote for women for virtually every other office "I don't think there is a pent-up desire" for a woman president. She says while Obama was "new and different," It may be time to test that theory.
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JWR contributor Cal Thomas is co-author with Bob Beckel, a liberal Democratic Party strategist, of "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America". Comment by clicking here.
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