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The nation is all atwitter over Michele Bachmann. Not only did she thoroughly corn-poll Iowa this past Saturday — winning the state’s straw poll over Smucker’s jam spokesman Ron Paul — but also the congresswoman claimed the scalp of fellow Minnesotan conservative Tim Pawlenty.
Bachmann’s surge is particularly significant in Florida, the nation’s largest swing state, which might very well host the nation’s first Republican primary next year.
But despite the recent Bachmania, there is just no way in hell Michele will flash those steely gray eyes and sweet victory smile in the Sunshine State. Here’s why.
5. South Florida is just too gay.
Michele Bachmann thinks gay people lead “sad,” “Satanic” lives. In 2004, she infamously said:
If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair, and personal enslavement. And that’s why this is so dangerous. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders.
Well, South Florida is home to one of the nation’s largest LGBT communities. Bachmann’s habit of likening their sexual orientation to slavery or sickness won’t win her many votes.
If that wasn’t enough to write off the gay vote, Bachmann’s husband is George Rekers all over again: an über-Christian who claims to know more about gays than they do. His “clinic,” Bachmann & Associates, engages in controversial and possibly psychologically damaging pray-the-gay-away therapy. Marcus Bachmann is on tape calling gays “barbarians” who “need to be educated.”
