Guess which prominent woman in the GOP said the following:

"God then called me to run for the United States Congress, and I thought 'What in the world will that be for?' and my husband said 'You need to do this,' and I wasn't so sure, and we took 3 days and we fasted and we prayed and ...he made that calling sure And its been now 22 months that I've been running for United States Congress. Who in their right mind would spend 2 years to run for a job that lasts 2 years? You'd have to be absolutely a fool to do that. You are now looking at a fool for Christ. This is a fool for Christ. ... you may have seen how God has in his own will, and his own plan, has focused like a laser beam after this scandal [involving Mark Foley] that came up about a week or so ago. He has focused like a laser beam in his reasoning on this race. We could talk more about what that means for this nation, what this means for defeating radical Islam..."

If you guessed Sarah Palin, you're wrong but close. It was the first version of Palin. The above quote is from the self-described "fool," Michele Bachmann, Minnesota's 6th congressional district Republican representative. Ms. Bachmann caught my attention when she began popping up on various news shows offering often daft and puerile"reasoning" for the McCain/Palin ticket.

On Friday's edition of "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, Ms. Bachmann challenged Chris and the media, whom she and her cronies have decried as biased elitist, to investigate and root out Anti-American congress members, like Barack Obama.


The last time that kind of charge was made was in Wheeling, West Virginia, when a little known Republican senator from Wisconsin held up a sheet of paper to a woman's group and claimed it contained a list of known Communists working for the State Department. The assertion led to the House Committee on Un-American Activities and a long dark period in American history that succeeded in doing what no communist leader or radical Islamist could do; turn neighbor against neighbor and make every American suspect of being not American enough.

Over fifty years ago, Senator McCarthy's assertions were investigated by the Tydings Committee, a subcommittee of the Senate foreign relations committee, who concluded his charges were a "fraud and a hoax," which motive was to "confuse and divide the American people...to a degree far beyond the hopes of the Communists themselves." Sound familiar?

As the presidential race draws to a conclusion, it is becoming increasingly clear that the McCain campaign is going old school and leafing through Joseph McCarthy's play book, "confuse and divide the American people." The McCain campaign chieftains have issued their marching orders; paint your opponent and his supporters as the enemy. "He/They are not like us," "He/They don't love America like us," "He/They pal around with terrorists," "He/They are not from pro-American parts of the nation." Code name, "Mein Kampf," this divide and conquer strategy is McCain's most potent final hail Mary, and has proven successful in the past; thus, he/they should not take it lightly.

Before he/they can conquer their opponents they should know them better. After Ms. Bachmann's disturbing performance on "Hardball," I had to find out more about this wild eyed neocon. After a little research I discovered that these "small towns" that Sarah Palin often commends for growing "good people," also grow xenophobic coco for coa coa puffs, hate filled Jesus freaks.

Let me share a few things I learned about Ms. Bachmann:

In October 2003, Ms. Bachmann was a featured speaker at a "Ten Commandments Rally" at the State Capitol [Minnesota]. During the rally, about a dozen speakers call for a return to biblical and Christian principles and for posting the commandments in public schools and buildings. The event was broadcast live on evangelical radio station KKKMS.

Who knew there was an evangelical radio station with the call letters KKK, followed by the initials for Mississippi, a Jim Crow stronghold? But wait there's more.

The first time Bachmann's political activism gained media notice was at an abortion protest in 1991. Bachmann attended the meeting to protest public tax dollars going to the hospital; speaking to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, she said that "in effect, since 1973, I have been a landlord of an abortion clinic, and I don't like that distinction."

In 1993, Bachmann joined with other parents to open New Heights Charter School, the first K-12 charter school in the nation. The oversight of New Heights soon encountered problems. Conflicts arose when many parents and the school district questioned if money from public tax dollars was going towards injecting Christianity into the curriculum.

Parents charged Bachmann with trying to set up classes on Creationism and advocating "something called '12 Christian principles' be taught, very much like the 10 Commandments." Bachmann and the board of directors also refused to allow the in-school screening of the Disney film Aladdin, feeling that it endorsed magic/witchcraft and promoted paganism. It gets better.

Ms. Bachmann has five children and has also taken in 23 foster children, all teenage girls. Her husband runs a Christian counseling center, like Todd Palin he lives in the shadow of his wife. So while Ms. Bachmann is fulfilling "God's will," her wife/ Mr. Mom is home "counseling" teenage foster girls. Hmm....

The Bachmann's biological children were home schooled, while their foster girls attended public school. Ms. Bachmann attributed behavior problems in her foster children to the public school system. "I began to realize as I studied aspects of their assignments that these attitudes and behaviors could be traced to their curriculum," Bachmann stated. Perhaps, but there may be other reasons, like being shuttled from foster homes to state homes, feeling abandoned and often being victims of sexual and physical abuse from their foster families; particularly when left alone with emasculated foster fathers.

While their foster children were attending public schools, Ms. Bachmann spearheaded a movement to have intelligent design be given equal time with evolution in Science classes. However, in her quest to advance her political fortunes, Ms. Bachmann dropped this idea in the next stage of her political career, the run for a seat on the Stillwater School Board. She "denies that she spoke of creationism in the campaign."

Want to know more? Here's a tasty morsel, Bachmann is a member of a church that is part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, whose doctrine teaches that the Roman Catholic papacy is the Anti-Christ identified in Scripture. When she was asked about this in a debate, she flat out lied and said her, "church does not believe that the Pope is the Anti-Christ, that's absolutely false... I'm very grateful that my pastor has come out and been very clear on this matter, and I think it's patently absurd and it's a false statement." You betcha.

Bachmann, like Palin, doesn't have an ounce of compunction about flaunting rules, On March 14, 2007, Bachmann's press secretary, Heidi Frederickson, sent out an email from her government account urging supporters to "take just a moment of your time to write 50-100 words about why you support Michele," and that Bachmann "would appreciate seeing that in the paper." The e-mails ran afoul of House rules regarding the use of congressional resources for campaigning. The e-mails asked constituents to send letters to local newspapers that praised Bachmann's record. Like Palin, she's no shrinking violet.

On July 11, 2007, Bachmann voted against a bill that would raise the maximum Pell grant for college students. Supporters of the bill said "it would allow more students to attend college." Bachmann countered, "... it favors the costly, government-run direct lending program over nonprofit and commercial lenders." I wonder how many of those teen foster girls went on to higher education?

Ms. Bachmann, like Palin, is not allergic to lying even when it's publicly proven that she is. In February 2008, Bachmann voted against an extension of the Protect America Act. Later in March, she submitted an op-ed to the Star Tribune arguing that the PAA ought to have been passed and faulting House Democrats for its failure to do so. The extension had been proposed and overwhelmingly supported by Democrats.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, in fact, the titanic was grounded by an ice cube in comparison. It's incumbent upon all "pro-Americans" to delve into the backgrounds of the McCainiacs and Palinuts, no matter how unpleasant the task. We must be as assiduous in our investigation as they are virulent in their attacks. Let's face it, political assaults are not uncommon but when political opponents gin up crowds to the point of inciting violence and they make unsubstantiated charges of treason, it is time for all Americans to ask the question that was finally posed to Mr. McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency?"

Am I alone in wondering whether Mr. McCain, who loves to wave the banner of heroism because he experienced something that thousands of soldiers did, has any sense of decency? Mr. McCain is asking the American people to let him lead them through challenging times, yet, hasn't shown much leadership throughout his campaign. A strong leader is respected and obeyed.

McCain claims he doesn't approve of the hate directed toward Obama, so why can't he direct his running mate and campaign flacks to cease it? McCain's campaign is so random and unfocused, it makes one wonder who's steering his sinking ship? I suspect its either those "fools for Christ on a mission from God," as his running mate and her older clone, Ms. Bachmann asserts or just plain fools, and Christ has no idea about this mission their always talking about.

Bless their hearts.