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Michele Bachmann's leadership IQ

Bachmann will face increasing pressure to modify her views and evangelical language if she wants a chance at the Republican nomination. To get the massive financial and organizational support it takes to win a national election, she will likely have to bend to a Republican general election plan. That plan, dictated by an arcane Electoral College, pressures candidates to make three, poll-tested points and repeat them ad nauseum to cater to the narrow slice of Independents up for grabs in the dozen or so states whose electoral votes might break for either party.  Bachmann will be “harmonized to the middle” and her ideas and idiosyncrasies may be snuffed out if they don’t poll broadly or well with fence-sitting, so-called Independents, who generally vote only for two-party candidates.

If not, soon enough media commentators will start saying that the field should be narrowed, that the debates should have only “serious” candidates (as defined by the media and its polls). Remember how some in the media determined who was “viable” in the past, calling for Ron Paul, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun to be cut out of the primary debates of 2004 and 2008?           

Yes, there will be stories about Bachmann’s radical views, but so what? In the first GOP debate, she destroyed the effort to pigeonhole her as “nuts,” rather than as a real person with principles and viewpoints shared by a portion of the public.  Every time the media paints caricatures of the candidates or the Tea Party, the American people should now be able to say, “Hey, I heard Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul for myself and I refuse to have them interpreted for me.”

D. Michael Lindsay wrote about her unique position as a female evangelical candidate :

There is one significant difference between Bachmann and many other evangelical political contenders that have come before her—her gender. Evangelicals tend to follow traditional gender roles at home, so it is unusual that Bachmann, a woman of conservative Christian faith, is not only running for the White House but also receiving considerable evangelical support for it. Observers unfamiliar with evangelicalism may wonder then how Bachmann, who couldn’t even serve in formal leadership roles in many evangelical churches, can receive evangelicals’ blessing for something much grander: the nation’s highest office.

Boy Suspended for High Heels and Dress Worn to Washington School ...

Sam Saurs told his mom that wearing high heels wouldn't be so difficult. Saurs' mother challenged him to a try out high heels, so the boy decided to up the ante and wear a dress in addition to the womens' shoes. But apparently neither the Washington state school or South Kitsap School District officials were amused -- or saw any right to freedom of speech. The boy's suspension was later reduced by the junior high school -- to three days. But the junior high additionally barred the boy from his ninth grade dance and banned him from the class party at a local "Wild Waves" theme park. Apparently the South Kitsap School District of Washington believes the "issue" has been resolved -- or that's what it says anyway. The school district refuses any further comment.

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