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Rep. Bachmann In Iowa: ‘We Will Never Be Ashamed Of Being Social Conservatives’

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Rep. Michele Bachmann is very, very proud to be Iowan. Her roots in the state made up the skeleton of her speech to the crowd at the Ames Straw Poll today, telling the story of her family, praising Iowans for the great agriculture of the state, and being unrepentant abotu social issues and the role of God in the creation of America.

“It is in Iowa that we see greatness start again,” she told an appreciative crowd, citing her family’s history in the state and telling them that, growing up, she was taught to appreciate the state. “Everything I needed to know in life, I learned in Iowa,” she declared. She also said she had seen “a marvelous appreciation for marriage, between one man and one woman,” supporting social issues strongly and making them the core of her policy talk. “It’s absolutely essential that we maintain the family– we are social conservatives and we will never be ashamed of being social conservatives.” It also gave her an opportunity to fit in a policy point on the judiciary: “I will never appoint judges who legislate from the bench.”

She also talked about God and his role in creating America, stating, “religious liberty is the essence and the foothold of this nation” and that America “cannot think we did this ourselves.”

The full speech via C-SPAN below:

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  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile, you could hear Marcus Bachmann start a chant in the background: “We’re here.  We”re quee.. I mean.. we’re conservative.  Get used to it!”

  • Anonymous

    “….and being unrepentant abotu social issues and the role of God in the creation of America.”Are all the employees of FloydAbramsFail so illiterate?

    Frances Martel should propose a four-way with Michele and Marcus Bachmann and Tommy Christopher, and they can break up into groups before the fun begins.

  • Darladoon

    thanks, michelle, for admitting what the tea party *really* is:  what they always have been:  the christian wing
    of the republican party.  

  • Darladoon

    boy, he is so well-dressed, well-manicured, and well-spoken, for a
    straight man, ain’t he?  

  • Anonymous

    Progressives want to kill babies while they worship their (anti-humanity) pagan earth god. Man-Bear-Pig. Despicable.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Tea Party = Social Conservatives.

    They will talk jobs, and deficits, but their real goal is implementing their social agenda.

  • Anonymous

    Now that’s a convincing argument.

  • Anonymous

    Much better than the corndog article….

  • ImNotBlue

    Your homophobia and bigotry surprise no one.

  • ImNotBlue

    How do you figure?

  • Darladoon

    yeah, i’m a lesbian living in the the gayest city on earth 

    AND i’m amazingly………a homophobe

  • Darladoon

    always has been

  • Anonymous

    where did she “admit” that Darla?  

  • Anonymous

    stereotype much?

  • ImNotBlue

    Really, which city is that?  Because you appear to move around a lot.

    Either way, your attempt to attack Mr. Bachmann by saying he’s gay, is a homophobic and anti-gay attack.  Do you really not see that?  If you had no problem with gay men, why would you attack him that way.

    What it boils down to, either you’re a liar… or you simply don’t understand what you’re saying.

  • Anonymous

    You seem to have a fixation with gay people.  You figure everyone should be one?  

  • Anonymous

    well small wonder Palin and Bachmann are not your “cup o tea”! 

  • Darladoon

    marcus bachmann is gay, and i love him for it

  • Darladoon

    marcus bachmann is gay, and i love him for it

  • Darladoon

    all the time

  • Darladoon

    i’m totally fixated on gay people

  • Darladoon

    gee, i have no idea

  • ImNotBlue

    Really?  So by deciding he’s gay based solely on stereotypes, and then presenting it as an insult is the way you “show love?”

    So which is it.  Are you a liar, or do you just not get it?

  • Darladoon

    she exudes it every single day

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps he’s just a “gentleman” and you haven’t come across a lot of those.  The need to “out” him is laughable.  

    I think that’s the worst type of smear – you tolerant group.  You claim you love gays and yet you want to ridicule this man because you think he’s gay.  How does one defend themselves against slander of that nature?  

    In your efforts to hate – you lose all your sensibilities (if you ever had any).  Think about it – how exactly does one who’s been branded as gay counter that smear?  Oh, there is no answer – cause you lot have decided that you must slander to feel superior.  

  • ImNotBlue

    At least you’re proud of your bigotry.

    I’d hate to think that your self esteem has suffered.

  • ImNotBlue

    At least you’re proud of your bigotry.

    I’d hate to think that your self esteem has suffered.

  • Anonymous

    in other words – you made up the “admitting” part.  Is it that difficult for you to be honest?  Mom and Dad never taught you that you’re judged by your words and deeds.  

    You can’t seem to grasp a pretty basic concept.  Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians can all be part of the tea party – because the only thing they advocate is fiscal responsibility.  Nothing to do with religion, the color of your skin, hair, the # of tattoos you sport or your religion or lack thereof; nothing to do with your sexual orientation.  You really have a problem grasping such a simple platform.  

    No wonder you are finding it difficult to get a job.  

  • Nature Freak
  • Anonymous

    Is it now?  How did you come to that “brilliant” deduction Sherlock?
    You do understand that the “tea party” is not really a party right?
    You do understand that they have no leader, no social position is advocated by any of them.
    I guess you don’t because Obama et al have told you exactly what they are and you believe everything that the left tells you.  

  • ImNotBlue

    Your sarcasm is simply an attempt to distract from the rather obvious fact that you DON’T actually know.

    This is becoming a pattern with you.  You say things you simply don’t understand.  At least your bigotry and foolishness is consistent.

  • Darladoon

    he’s definitely a closeted homosexual

    and i love him for it

  • Darladoon

    yeah, i love everyone, and i’m a total bigot

    how could i be gay myself, and hate gays, imnotblue?

  • Anonymous

    at least that answer of yours was honest.  

  • Darladoon

    how could the benign description of a well-dressed articulate man be a “smear”?

  • ImNotBlue

    From the HuffPo article:
    “Bachmann may come to regret her superfandom for Dean. One news outlet has already suggested that Dean might be her Jeremiah Wright.”

    I guess that means the media will almost completely ignore Dean, defend Bachmann when Dean is mentioned, and call anyone who mentions him a sexist.

    But I’m not sure if that’s what HuffPo really means… only what the reality would have to be.

  • ImNotBlue

    “he’s definitely a closeted homosexual”

    A conclusion you’ve built based on stereotypes.

    Come on, Darla.  Explain how you’re not a bigot.  Give it a whirl.

  • Darladoon

    “no social position is advocated by any of them”

    that has to be the ‘liar pants on fire’ comment of the day

  • ImNotBlue

    Well, perhaps you just have a funny way of showing “love.”  Perhaps to you, “love” means attacking someone, calling them a liar, deciding their sexual preference for them, and using stereotyped behavior to draw conclusions about someone you’ve never actually met.

    Now, to all the people who aren’t “Darladoon,” that’s bigotry.  But I guess to you, that’s “love.”

    Maybe it’s not kindness or common sense you need to find… maybe it’s a dictionary.

  • ImNotBlue

    When you use that observation to determine his sexuality, call him a liar (because he says he’s straight, and you say he’s not), and insist that he’s not what he claims to be without any actual evidence… it’s a smear.

    As for “articulate.”  Well, look up all the people who said Obama was “articulate,” and you’ll find out how people think that’s a smear.

  • Darladoon

    not based on stereotypes, but based on observable phenomena

    and having an amazing ability to detect gays (it’s called a ‘gay-dar’)

    marcus bachmann is a closeted homosexual

    there are millions of them

  • Anonymous

    at least you are honest stereotyping is ok….got it

  • Darladoon

    if the tea party was/is soooooooo concerned about the debt, rather
    than preserving a white christian nation, then where the hell were
    they during the bush administration, when bush was cutting taxes
    and starting wars?

    (nowhere to be found)

  • Anonymous

    I’ll say this, I can’t imagine any Conservative choosing Palin over Bachmann, it would be like eating the cardboard box instead of the real food inside.

  • Anonymous

    Double thumbs up, that about sums her up in a nutshell.

  • Darladoon

    “the only thing they advocate is fiscal responsibility”

    (except when they advocate something else)

  • Darladoon

    i’m perfectly capable of stereotyping homosexuals

    and i can fairly do that….

  • Darladoon

    it’s not a smear to detect a closeted homosexual

  • Darladoon

    if this were true, then why are all the tea party caucus members….. republicans?

  • ImNotBlue

    What is the difference between stereotypes and “observable phenomena?”

    and having an amazing ability to detect gays (it’s called a ‘gay-dar’)

    Wow.  Apparently you think you know people you’ve never met, better than they know themselves.  Amazing.  Can you fit your ego through doorways, or has it become so massive that you can only lay on the floor and type?

    But interesting enough, I have a very similar ability to tell liars and bigots… even from across the internet.  I call it “reading.”

    Guess what?  You’re one.  It’s an “observable phenomena.”

  • Anonymous

    Then you find out the real food is crazy and rancid but you eat it anyway because conservatives love crazy and rancid.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry I hit the like button by mistake.  One would think that since he opened a “I don’t want to be gay” clinic he probably believes HE is cured.  Sorry Im Not Blue there is no cure!

  • ImNotBlue

    The same place the “anti-war” left is now that a Democrat is in the White House.

    (nowhere to be found)

    Actually, the TeaParty folks were starting to get upset under the Bush Administration.  But things didn’t begin to boil over until near the end of his term, and the beginning of Obama’s.  See, not that hard to understand.

  • Anonymous

    If you look into it there is not one brand of social liberal any more than there is one brand of social conservative. Many religions have social conservatives, not just Christian. Also, many Christians are socially liberal.
    There is a pretty broad spectrum of people in the Tea Party and that includes socially liberal Democrats.

  • ImNotBlue

    One would think that since he opened a “I don’t want to be gay” clinic he probably believes HE is cured.

    Oh.  I didn’t realize that if you worked on behalf of a particular cause, you had to be involved in it some way.  I guess everyone who works on behalf of gay rights, is actually gay (even if they say otherwise).  Yup… that’s some mighty fine logic you’re pushing there.

  • Anonymous

    like what princess?

  • ImNotBlue

    It’s a smear to say because he’s XYZ, he must be gay.

    Imagine some kid in school taking your logic to heart.  They see a young boy dressed well, who keeps himself clean, and speaks well.  I guess you’d be okay with everyone else calling him gay, simply because he conforms to your stereotypes.

    The idea that a homosexual (allegedly you) person would think this is appalling.  I don’t for one second believe you’re a lesbian.  Just another faceless left-wing blogger bigot, hiding behind a false personality to make excuses for their own slandering behavior.

  • News Of The World

    I know you like to pretty things up Bachmann by saying things like: ”We will never be ashamed of being social conservatives”.  But, let me fix it up for you. What you’re really saying is: “We will never be ashamed of being backwards hillbillies”.  You and the rest of the toothless tebagging crowd should be proud!

  • Anonymous

    because the democrats would not let anyone who didn’t tow the party line run.

    Find out why 95 democrats voted against the bill along with the 65 republicans, and maybe you might find your answer.  

  • Richie

    I call it the greatest hypocrisy of our lifetime. The recession began in 2007. It was at its worst in 2008. During the 2000′s Bush gave us 5 trillion in debt giving us the greatest increase in the size of government since FDR!! Yet, the cries of socialism from Eric Cantor, Rush Bimbo, Dick Armey, and Fox News could not be found. Hmmmmm. Might they have pulled punches of criticism because Bush was a Republican?  

  • Anonymous

    f you look into it there is not one brand of social liberal any more
    than there is one brand of social conservative. Many religions have
    social conservatives, not just Christians. Also, many Christians are
    socially liberal.
    There is a pretty broad spectrum of people in the Tea Party and that includes socially liberal Democrats.

  • Anonymous

    darla , stereotyping is also fair now, got it……….its ok and fair

  • Hugo Daun

    You could keep Kleenex in business all by yourself.

  • Anonymous

    “yeah, i love everyone, and i’m a total bigot”

    You don’t love jobless, ie poor people.
    You even said they need to be miserable for a generation.
    Sounds like bigotry to me.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Please name one… If they are then they are clueless to what they believe in for Tea Baggers = homophobic, racists, illiterates..

  • Anonymous

    And bat shit crazy wins the straw poll!!!

  • Anonymous

    And bat shit crazy wins the straw poll!!!

  • Anonymous

    Name one Democrat that’s in the TP?

  • Anonymous

    Name one Democrat that’s in the TP?

  • Anonymous

    They take over states and federal Houses and flood them all with anti-abortion bills.

  • Anonymous

    do do do do

    do do do do

    There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man it is a
    dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity it is the middle
    ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it
    lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge this
    is the dimension of imagination it is an area which we call- the
    Twilight Zone.

  • Anonymous

    If they were so concerned about the debt why would they be fighting tooth and nail to protect corporations and the wealthy from paying their fair share of taxes?

  • Anonymous

    Oh.  I didn’t realize that if you worked on behalf of a particular
    cause, you had to be involved in it some way.  I guess everyone who
    works on behalf of gay rights, is actually gay (even if they say
    otherwise).  Yup… that’s some mighty fine logic you’re pushing there

    Offering therapy that tells people they need to be “cured” from the way God created them is not a cause, it is a sickness.   It is certainly NOT on behalf of gay rights.  It is anti-gay rights.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    How did you jump to that conclusion?

    No, wait, I don’t want to know.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    Since you’re going to support the wife of a man who runs an anti-gay therapy clinic and then call someone else a homophobe, I’d LOVE to hear what you think of the gay community. What action did you take when their rights to marry came up to a vote? What is your stance on the rights of gays? Do you support Marcus Bachmann’s clinic and the “reparative” (read: archaic brainwashing) services they provide?

    I mean, since you’re such a champion of gay rights all of a sudden, and all.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    Your backhanded “support” of the gay rights movement to suit your own agenda is disgustingly dishonest. If you support gay rights and everything the group stands for, fine, but it’s obvious you don’t and you’re just weaseling it into your incredibly blithe “libbrulz is biguts” argument.

    You make me utterly sick. Marcus Bachmann isn’t pro gay rights if he’s trying to brainwash gay people into becoming straight, and you know it. You are a liar.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    Your backhanded “support” of the gay rights movement to suit your own agenda is disgustingly dishonest. If you support gay rights and everything the group stands for, fine, but it’s obvious you don’t and you’re just weaseling it into your incredibly blithe “libbrulz is biguts” argument.

    You make me utterly sick. Marcus Bachmann isn’t pro gay rights if he’s trying to brainwash gay people into becoming straight, and you know it. You are a liar.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    Just that one? I thought ImNotBlue’s “I support gay rights you bigot” line of replies was taking first place in that respect.

    Bunch of grinning liars.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    In reply to Seek123

    Patronizing fuck.

  • Fudge441

    Apparently she is not ashamed of being a total moron either.

  • ImNotBlue

    It is certainly NOT on behalf of gay rights.  It is anti-gay rights.

    And where did I say that it was?  I didn’t, and if that’s how you read it, you’re wrong.

  • ImNotBlue

    Really, Matt?  Why don’t you go through you extensive documentation, and tell everyone what my views on gay rights are… since apparently you know.  And then, once you complete showing everyone how you came to that conclusion, you can tell me why I’m a liar.

    Or conversely, you can apologize to me, admit you don’t know me or my view on this stuff, and remember this for next time.

  • ImNotBlue

    “… I’d LOVE to hear what you think of the gay community.

    I think the gay community is fine.  A bunch of good people, living their life in a way that makes them happy.  Beyond that, I don’t care any more about them or their community, than I do about any other groups and their communities.

    What action did you take when their rights to marry came up to a vote?  What is your stance on the rights of gays?

    I wasn’t aware that I had any action to take… but I support their right to marry, and think the government should get out of the wedding game completely!  Furthermore, I was/am supportive of Gov. Cuomo pushing the gay marriage amendment here in NY, and happy that my vote for him, in this respect, contributed to that result.

    Do you support Marcus
    Bachmann’s clinic and the “reparative” (read: archaic brainwashing)
    services they provide?

    Meh.  If Bachmann thinks he can “help” people this way, and there are some folks who have gone through this and think he’s helped, who am I to say it’s wrong?  Just like I don’t want to judge gay folks for doing what makes them happy, I don’t want to judge “cured” gay folks who are happy with their decision.

    What is your stance on the rights of gays?

    It pleases me to no end to know that you think you know my views, but are so incredibly wrong.  I’ll wait for you apology now.

  • Anonymous

    I want my freedom from her brand of religion. Fair ’nuff?

    PS There is no shame in losing when you tried your best, so go for it.

  • ImNotBlue

    Might they have pulled punches of criticism because Bush was a Republican?

    Kinda like the anti-war groups then and now?
    Kinda like the left who said the wars were “lost,” but changed their minds?
    Kinda like the left who said the Patriot Act, Gitmo, and so on were terrible, but okay with it now?

    Are you upset about those things too?

    If they were so concerned about the debt why would they be fighting
    tooth and nail to protect corporations and the wealthy from paying their
    fair share of taxes?

    Because their definition of “fair share of taxes” is differs from yours.  Their view wants the levels to stay where they are, your view wants them to rise (unless they’re GE, and helping Obama, in which case you don’t really care how much they pay or don’t pay).

  • ImNotBlue

    You can address your apologies to me here on this thread.

    I’ll be waiting.

  • ImNotBlue

    Are you saying you don’t believe other religions have socially conservative sects?

    Seriously?

  • ImNotBlue
  • ImNotBlue

    It pains me to no end that this has become the far-left mode of attack.  Anyone on the right who gets any kind of publicity, is a “moron” or “crazy” or both.

    At one point, you guys could debate on the merits of someone’s accomplishments.  Now… it’s just this goofy name calling over and over again.  How sad.

  • Ralph

    Her anti-Obama unity message is solid. 

    Iowa has a greater percentage of acreage under cultivation than any other state. 

  • ImNotBlue

    “Freedom from” does not mean she’s not allowed to express her point of view, or talk about her religion.  It only means she can’t force you to believe the same thing.

  • Anonymous

    who the tea party?  Are you truly that uninformed?

  • insideguy

     Its cool no surprise here. Now watch what happens the republicans are gonna try and crush this women,no way they want her nominated. But they will be clever they will leak stories about her ad then blame it on the left.

  • Anonymous

    True, but she is running for office by promising that she would impose her version of religion on me and you.

  • Anonymous

    They weren’t people of any notoriety but I’ve seen the interviews.

  • Anonymous

    If you want to keep on calling juvenile names and refuse to discover for yourself who the Tea Party people really are, I can’t help you. Nowhere in the tenets of the Tea Parties are there found social issues. That is a fabrication of the deceitful detractors and you have apparently been duped by them. Perhaps you are one of them.

  • CrazyLikeAFoxViewer

    “She also talked about God and his role in creating America”

    This is all any rational person needs to hear and know that she’s a zealot and a fool.

  • Anonymous

    Michele Bachmann is Pat Robertson in a dress.  Her candidacy has no chance of getting off the ground, especially now that Rick Parry is in the race.  He’s about to suck [the air out of Michele's balloon].

  • Irish189

    Bachmann misses the problem peole have with her “social conservatisim”

    They don’t care if Bachmann is social conservative or prays to Jesus or God or a thing of Jello, they take issue with the fact that she trys to add things like a consitutional amendment defining marrage, her attempts to discredit equal legal rights marrage,etc

    No one cares about Bachmann’s personal opinions, they care when she tries to make other people who may not see that point of view, live like that, and thats where the issue comes from

    Personally I like what one of my undergrad professors said

    “I respect your constitutional rights as long as they don’t trample mine or other peoples”

  • Anonymous

    please – she’s trying to add things like a constitutional amendment?  Seriously?

    You had no issue with the sitting President’s religious leaders views on America and his call to rise in anger – and yet – Bachmann is entitled to her religious views but…..

    If Bachmann were to be President, her religious views would stay as her religious views, not yours, nor mine, but hers, and not the Countries.  Let’s put all things in perspective and not make ridiculous statements.

    I’m sure your prof warned you about using hyperbole to embellish your position.   

  • Sharpo

    counterpoint to the point i wanted to make. by and large, most republicans voted for the patriot act reauthorizations and the leftist liberals by and large voted against the patriot act reauthorizations

    so no imnotblue. the left is not happy about it. and you’re a two bit troll.

  • Anonymous

    Ja.  ICH BIN EIN Republican!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_J6K37DAH5SHYQQ5Y77FKNJYFBM Rodolfo V.

    Conservatives? She should have said “Radical TEA party extremist” and been more correct! The TEA’s main theme is anti Obama, anti gays, anti Hispanic, anti Islamic, anti government, anti other-than-christian, anti black and on and on and on! Bachmann the poison on the tip of the spear and every effort must be taken to shut her down! Every TEA/GOP-er running for the presidency shows how far right they are in comparison to the middle America they espouse to represent! TEA party Yahoos are closely associating themselves with GOD in an effort to bring the evangelicals to vote for their narrow-minded religious based beliefs they want to shove onto the American public! Do not get swayed America, The constitution does say “separation of church and state” and the Yahoos are not doing this. TEA party skewed thought processes are the culmination of the bigoted extremist of the TEA party which has subverted the GOP! The sad result is the defunct GOP as the TEA party has subverted any sanity and taken the once proud GOP to the fringe of lunacy! The GOP is not relevant anymore!

  • ImNotBlue

    Oy vey.

    *rolls eyes*

  • ImNotBlue

    Oy vey.

    *rolls eyes*

  • ImNotBlue

    Really?  Then why aren’t they out protesting?  Where are the people demanding impeachment?  Where are the hosts shouting that the government is spying on them?  Where are the people screaming “war crimes” and “un-Constitutional” and on and on.

    They may not be happy about it, but they’re certainly not as vocal about it as they used to be.  Why is that?

  • ImNotBlue

    Where?

  • AliveStillKickin

    Now….THAT thought just make me sick.
    I thought there was something “fishy” about you.

  • JMcCarthy

    At least Michele Bachmann talks about her AMERICAN heritage.  What I hear from obama and, especially, his wife talk about is their KENYAN African and their Communist “Community Organizing” Heritage.  Could it be obama and his wife don’t consider themselves to be American?  That’s obvious!

  • AliveStillKickin

    Michelle Bachmann is the libtards new Sarah Palin. They are scared to death of her.
    When elected….She will set their agenda (scheme) to socialize America back 50 years or more.
    After she defeats the “Chosen One”….A Christian woman will have reversed the Koran’s  initiative and will have kicked a Muslim man’s ass.
    Payback in “spades”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    “If Bachmann thinks he can “help” people this way, and there are some folks who have gone through this and think he’s helped, who am I to say it’s wrong?”
    So, you support people who prey on the misinformed? You realize he’s wasting tax payer money offering a treatment that doesn’t actually work, right? 

    You are so disingenuous, and I don’t believe a word of your response.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    For what? I don’t apologize to liars.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    The only thing that scares us is the thin prospect of her election and the week it will take her to blow up half the world out of stress.

    Oh, and don’t bad-mouth the glorious liberal agenda. I have connections. I can have you and your pretty little family thrown in a gulag in Switzerland run by gays and minorities in a heartbeat. We liberals are not to be questioned. This is your only warning. You will conform.

    Set the bait, sit back and wait. Lulz.

  • Hagen619dj

    Where did you get the idea that ALL Tea Party members were republicans?  What stupid remark.  Do you watch TV/News, read newspapers?  The Tea party was made up of different polical parties who (for your information) are sick of Obama’s tactic’s of running this country.  No, they were NOT all Christian republicans, as you so stupidly portray.   Man, you are way off base.  You don’t have a clue what you are talking about or for that matter complaining about.

  • Hagen619dj

    Where did you get the idea that ALL Tea Party members were republicans?  What stupid remark.  Do you watch TV/News, read newspapers?  The Tea party was made up of different polical parties who (for your information) are sick of Obama’s tactic’s of running this country.  No, they were NOT all Christian republicans, as you so stupidly portray.   Man, you are way off base.  You don’t have a clue what you are talking about or for that matter complaining about.

  • Hagen619dj

    What magazine did you copy that out of.  And then you seem to think that Christians support abortions…are you nuts. Goes to show you don’t have any idea what people stand for.  A Christian (Yes, a God loving person) does not believe in Abortion. The Tea party was made up of many, many different political parties, races and religion. They were people protesting against what Obama is doing. Why you people feel so beligerant against the Tea Party is beyond me. You have tabed them as your enemy…only because Obama has talked against them.  Have you ever stopped to think that they were helping others….maybe even you?  YOu people want to be anti- this and anti- that as long as it  doesn’t step on your toes. If you have no religion, that isn’t the fault of those of us who do. We don’t push it on you…but you sure feel threatened by it.  So sad.

  • AliveStillKickin

    That’s really sexist….especially for liberal scum
    The liberals have no agenda…They have a scheme.
    What they need is a leader….instead of that joke in our White House.

  • ImNotBlue

    @facebook-100000841936241:disqus

    So, you support people who prey on the misinformed?

    Because people who disagree with you are “misinformed.” You are always right, and anyone who disagrees is dumb. Do I have your view on yourself down?

    This brainwashing therapy is the equivalent of trying to sell a “cure” for naturally dark skin, and most of the time it doesn’t even work, so how the FUCK does that gel with your supposed support of gay rights?

    “…and most of the time it doesn’t even work…” But you think that sometimes it does? Interesting.

    Oh, and it “gels” with my support for gay rights because it allows THEM to make decisions for themselves, instead of handing that responsibility over to other people. If this is what they want to do, terrific. It’s they’re choice.

    Who are you to say what is right and what isn’t?

    Isn’t supporting the sale of a cure for homosexuality contradictory to supporting it?

    No. It’s called free will and choice.

    You pat gay people on the back with a knife firmly clasped in the same hand. You are so disingenuous, and I don’t believe a word you’ve posted. In fact, I bet you think this is the funniest thing in the world.

    I’m not surprised by that. You “knew” what I thought before, without any evidence. So you “know” what I think now, even though I’ve told you differently. No surprises for me.

    But I have been truthful, and you have no evidence to prove the contrary. It’s your uniformed opinion, against my word… about myself! Again, you lose.

    I have nothing to apologize for. You are exactly the kind of person I thought you were.

    Matt Matt Matt. You are wrong, and continue to be wrong. But like so many others, you take no responsibility for your words, and feel no responsibility to support your argument.

    I’m who you “thought” I was, and that’s all I’ll ever be. Not because that’s who I am… but because you’re simply unable to admit you don’t know what you’re talking about.

  • ImNotBlue

    When you find where I’ve lied, point it out.  Similarly, when you find evidence that I don’t actually support gay rights as I have claimed, point that out too.

    If you can’t… YOU have shown yourself to be the liar, and an apology is in order.

  • expatpatriot

    If Bachmann thinks Ames, Iowa “is America,” and that audience of rightwing activists (who, to be frank, weren’t nearly fawning enough) ”is America,” she’s got a rude shock ahead when she ventures into other parts of the country — also America — who think that city and those people are wildly unrepresentative of the country.

    Not to mention that her stump speech is still pretty lame and — as recent history has shown time and time again — the camera doesn’t love her.

    The Bachmann straw poll win just puts Romney a little bit closer to the nomination by helping to finally kill off Pawlenty while not giving Perry much oxygen for his first days of formally running. I’m not sure why Perry announced just before the straw poll rather than a few days after.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    Oh, no. We do have an agenda. A secret order. It’s totally secret, you can’t even get in, so don’t even try.

    Oh, and lulz crying sexism where there is none.

  • Anonymous

    Oops! Maybe you are right. Maybe she didn’t say she would find a way to ban all abortions, no matter what the circumstances. Maybe she didn’t say she would repeal the right of gays to join the military.

  • ImNotBlue

    Abortion is not inherently a religious issue.  There are agnostics and atheists who are against abortion for non-religious reasons.

    And bringing back DADT (something that shouldn’t be done, IMO) does not mean gays cannot join the military… only that there’s no need to flaunt it.

  • Irish189

    you do realize she supports a consitutiional amendment definine marriage?

    second W actually tried to have the same thing passed so its not without precident

    Third, the current president doesn’t really seem to inject his religion into this decision making or at least doesn’t really tout it, and on top of that, people still think hes a muslim

    So when compared to Bachmann, yes I have more faith in the current president to seperate his emotions and personel beliefs from the situation

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    “Why don’t you go through you extensive documentation, and tell everyone what my views on gay rights are”

    I don’t really have to- you already told me. You told me you support them, and that you also support programs that do them harm. Sounds to me like you you don’t really care either way.

    “you can tell me why I’m a liar.”

    I already did, liar.

    “you can apologize to me,”

    Nope.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    [quote]>”Because people who disagree with you are “misinformed.”"”But you think that sometimes it does? Interesting.”"Oh, and it “gels” with my support for gay rights because it allows THEM to make decisions for themselves”"instead of handing that responsibility over to other people.”"Who are you to say what is right and what isn’t?”"No. It’s called free will and choice.”"You “knew” what I thought before, without any evidence.”"But I have been truthful”"and you have no evidence to prove the contrary.”“Matt Matt Matt. You are wrong, and continue to be wrong.”"But like so many others, you take no responsibility for your words”“I’m who you “thought” I was, and that’s all I’ll ever be.”" but because you’re simply unable to admit you don’t know what you’re talking about.”<
    Oh, but I do. You are a rare breed, indeed: a clever bigot. You make what looks like a compelling argument, but it's really just dressed up to look attractive. The problem is, no matter how much you lie and distort, nothing you've said is genuine.

    You're better at twisting my words than obfuscating your own, and you gave yourself away when you admitted that you support Marcus Bachmann's "therapy." If you were truly as engaged in fighting Darladoon’s supposed “homophobia” as you made it look, you would spit at the very idea of reparative therapy.

    While you are certainly welcome and able to try, the reality is that you cannot be a champion for gay rights and then support a destructive “treatment” for homosexuality. It just doesn’t work like that, and a true supporter of gay rights would understand that.

    Based on your admissions here and our exchanges, I say with full confidence that your beliefs, whatever they actually are, are not what you claim them to be, and that you are NOT a supporter of gay rights, whether that means you’re against them or simply apathetic towards them.

    Your deceitfulness doesn’t work on me. You are a liar, and your lies have not given me any reason to feel a need to apologize to you for anything.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000841936241 Matt Seegz

    [quote]>”Because people who disagree with you are “misinformed.”"”But you think that sometimes it does? Interesting.”"Oh, and it “gels” with my support for gay rights because it allows THEM to make decisions for themselves”"instead of handing that responsibility over to other people.”"Who are you to say what is right and what isn’t?”"No. It’s called free will and choice.”"You “knew” what I thought before, without any evidence.”"But I have been truthful”"and you have no evidence to prove the contrary.”“Matt Matt Matt. You are wrong, and continue to be wrong.”"But like so many others, you take no responsibility for your words”“I’m who you “thought” I was, and that’s all I’ll ever be.”" but because you’re simply unable to admit you don’t know what you’re talking about.”<
    Oh, but I do. You are a rare breed, indeed: a clever bigot. You make what looks like a compelling argument, but it's really just dressed up to look attractive. The problem is, no matter how much you lie and distort, nothing you've said is genuine.

    You're better at twisting my words than obfuscating your own, and you gave yourself away when you admitted that you support Marcus Bachmann's "therapy." If you were truly as engaged in fighting Darladoon’s supposed “homophobia” as you made it look, you would spit at the very idea of reparative therapy.

    While you are certainly welcome and able to try, the reality is that you cannot be a champion for gay rights and then support a destructive “treatment” for homosexuality. It just doesn’t work like that, and a true supporter of gay rights would understand that.

    Based on your admissions here and our exchanges, I say with full confidence that your beliefs, whatever they actually are, are not what you claim them to be, and that you are NOT a supporter of gay rights, whether that means you’re against them or simply apathetic towards them.

    Your deceitfulness doesn’t work on me. You are a liar, and your lies have not given me any reason to feel a need to apologize to you for anything.

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