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Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) Stands by Her Fanatical Right Wing 'Pledge'

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Dark_Falcon7/09/2011 5:17:14 pm PDT

I would call every item of the pledge insane. Some are sensible, but they clash with the nutty ones. An example:

“Official fidelity to the U.S. Constitution, supporting the elevation of none but faithful constitutionalists as judges or justices.” This is entirely sane and well within normal political bounds. You can disagree with it, but you can’t call it crazy.

“Humane protection of women and the innocent fruit of conjugal intimacy – our next generation of American children – from human trafficking, sexual slavery, seduction into promiscuity, and all forms of pornography and prostitution, infanticide, abortion and other types of coercion or stolen innocence.” This one is far more problematic. You can’t as a practical matter criminalize “seduction into promiscuity” or for that matter pornography production. To do either would be a 1st Amendment violation, which would contradict the point above. Thus the pledge is internally inconsistent.

“Support for the enactment of safeguards for all married and unmarried U.S. Military and National Guard personnel, especially our combat troops, from inappropriate same-gender or opposite-gender sexual harassment, adultery or intrusively intimate commingling among attracteds (restrooms, showers, barracks, tents, etc.); plus prompt termination of military policymakers who would expose American wives and daughters to rape or sexual harassment, torture, enslavement or sexual leveraging by the enemy in forward combat roles.” Rules for the first part already exist, and the latter part would remove woman from roles they are already performing. To weaken our transport or aviation units while fighting a war as a matter of social policy is indeed insane.