{"id":25500,"date":"2012-01-17T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/there-are-a-million-reasons-im-glad-michelle-bachmann-wont-be-our-next.html"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:21:30","slug":"there-are-a-million-reasons-im-glad-michelle-bachmann-wont-be-our-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/there-are-a-million-reasons-im-glad-michelle-bachmann-wont-be-our-next.html","title":{"rendered":"There are a million reasons I&#39;m glad Michelle Bachmann won&#39;t be our next&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>There are a million reasons I&#39;m glad Michelle Bachmann won&#39;t be our next president, but this isn&#39;t one of them<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Rick Santorum and your looooovely Iowa &quot;coalitions director&quot; for adding theocratic misogyny into the poisonous brew of the GOP race this year &#8212; though apparently it was found quite tasty by some of the evangelicals to whom it was offered. Yeesh. <\/p>\n<p>It takes a lot to make me feel any sympathy for Bachmann&#39;s political fortunes, but you&#39;ve just done it. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2Fsantorumbachmann.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/01\/17\/402438\/santorum-staffer-says-women-shouldnt-be-president-because-its-against-gods-will\/'>Santorum Staffer Says Women Shouldn\u2019t Be President Because It\u2019s Against God\u2019s Will<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn an article about the reasons Rep. Michele Bachmann\u2019s campaign fizzled, the Des Moines Register points to \u201csexism among conservatives,\u201d singling out an offensive email written by a staffer to Rick S&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a million reasons I&#39;m glad Michelle Bachmann won&#39;t be our next president, but this isn&#39;t one of them Thank you, Rick Santorum and your looooovely Iowa &quot;coalitions director&quot; for adding theocratic misogyny into the poisonous brew of the GOP race this year &#8212; though apparently it was found quite tasty by some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/there-are-a-million-reasons-im-glad-michelle-bachmann-wont-be-our-next.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There are a million reasons I&#39;m glad Michelle Bachmann won&#39;t be our next&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,110],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-religious-zanies","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24334,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/i-am-trying-to-imagine-being-a-child-of-michelle-bachmann.html","url_meta":{"origin":25500,"position":0},"title":"I am trying to imagine being a child of Michelle Bachmann","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-11 10:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I would have felt sorry for them already, given what discussions around the dinner table must be like. #ddtb Embedded Link Bachmann: I Don\u2019t Let My Daughters Ask Out Boys, \u2018They Have To Wait For The Boys To Call\u2019 While promoting her new book on Sean Hannity\u2019s radio show this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24722,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":25500,"position":1},"title":"It&#8217;s the End of the World As We Know It!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Dec-11 2:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Plus, the Fall of Christianity! 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