Michele Bachmann, speaking in Iowa earlier this month, said, “We serve a mighty God,” as she “testified” about her Evangelical Christian faith to a small crowd on that rainy West Des Moines weekend. Bachmann also said, “Jesus is powerful,” and urged young people to “give your life over to him.”
Bachmann appeared on stage at a Christian music rally, the Spirit Midwest Music Festival, saying, “God is not partial,” and added that “what he will do for one he will do for all.” Just, not, you know, for gays, in Bachmann’s worldview.
Bachmann spoke for about eight minutes, and the entire speech was about how she came to Jesus. Most of those on the Right find this perfectly acceptable campaign talk, while most of those on the Left are offended with such blatant disregard of the Constitution. In other parts of the civilized world, like the U.K., this speech would be reviled.
Almost two weeks ago, Warren Throckmorton exposed a comment on Facebook from Bachmann’s new campaign staffer, Peter Waldron, that “compared Rick Perry to King Saul and Bachmann to King David.”
Now we know who gave him that idea.
Michele Bachmann. King Saul.
Bachmann’s Evangelical roots may serve her well, but Bachmann is incapable of serving the American people, as her first priority is not our well-being our growth, our families, rather, Bachmann’s entire priority is to do the bidding of the voice of God she hears in her head.
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A conservative blog noted this speech Bachmann made.
People who weren’t raised in the evangelical culture are necessarily unfamiliar with the phenomenon of testimony, wherein the speaker recounts how it was that he or she came to faith in Jesus Christ, a narrative usually accompanied by declarations of what awesome — indeed, miraculous — signs and wonders have attested the power and love of the Savior.
What’s strange is that liberals find this type of narrative perfectly acceptable when what is being testified to is some appropriately secular conversion: “Why I became a lesbian feminist†or “When I learned the undenjiable scientific truth of global warming†or “How I discovered that my Republican parents are closet Nazis.†It is only the conversion narrative of Bible-believing Christians that liberals find obnoxiously repellant. And the idea that a Bible-believing Christian might think themselves called to high public office . . .
Well, liberals just can’t handle that — at least when the self-identified Christian is a pro-life conservative Republican. It was OK for John F. Kennedy to be Catholic, it was OK for Jimmy Carter to be a Baptist, and it was OK for Barack Obama to be whatever it is you want to call devotees of what Rev. Jeremiah Wright preaches. But let a conservative Republican speak in public about his or her Christian faith, and liberals immediately start screaming about “theocracy.â€
(Emphasis mine.)
That conservatives don’t get the difference between the Bachmann speech below, and this, or, this, is mind-boggling.
There’s a story making its way around the Internet that Bachmann’s opening statement was, “Who likes white people?” Realistically, it sounds more like she said, “Who likes West people?,” as in, West Des Moines, where she was, especially given her comments immediately after.
Update: Some folks on Twitter told me they think the comment was, “Who likes wet people?” That makes sense too. It was raining that day, as we noted.