My candidates are (in order):
(1) Anybody but Romney
(2) Anybody but Obama
I am not a Palin-bot (in case you missed my tagline).
If Bachmann gained the nomination, I would certainly vote for her as she would be head and shoulders over the current occupant, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have serious reservations about her at the moment.
She is, as I said, charisma deficient. The choir loves her, but she doesn’t have the ability to pull non-choir members into the fold.
I have concerns about her attendence at Oral Roberts University. Bluntly (imho) Oral Roberts was a heretic. The prosperity gospel he taught is not the same gospel your local baptist church preaches.
I have concerns about Bachmann’s relationship with John Eidsmoe. He was one of her law professors at ORU. She helped with one of his books. She has said he is one of her biggest influences (literally a mentor to her). He has also been disinvited from speaking at several tea party rallys recently, becuase it has come to light that he is linked to several racists organizations.
Eidsmoe is, imho, the potential ticking time bomb. When a tea party group disinvites someone because of racist ties, you can’t just chalk it up to the left calling everyone racist. If there’s a problem here and we better get a handle on it now rather than later.
RE: John Eidsmoe
He will be to Bachmann what Jeremiah Wright was to Obama. The difference will be this -— THE MEDIA WILL NOT LET UP ON THIS RELATIONSHIP UNLIKE WRIGHT, WHERE THE MSM PRACTICALLY IGNORED IT ( someone from DU might even be reading this thread even now ).
For those who don’t kow Eidsmoe... here’s a brief background:
John Eidsmoe is an attorney and a professor of constitutional law and related subjects at the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Faulkner University, Montgomery, Alabama, and previously taught at the O. W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University.
He served in the US Air Force as a Lt. Colonel and is an Alabama State Defense Force Colonel, Headquarters Judge Advocate, Deputy Chaplain and Training Officer.
“When Biblical law conflicted with American law, Eidsmoe said [in a 2011 interview], O.R.U. students were generally taught that ‘the first thing you should try to do is work through legal means and political means to get it changed.’” In his 1987 book Christianity and the Constitution, Eidsmoe wrote that America “was and to a large extent still is a Christian nation,” and that “our culture should be permeated with a distinctively Christian flavoring.”
Eidsmoe has stirred some controversy in his outside lecturing. In 2005, he spoke to the national convention of the Council of Conservative Citizens and in 2010 he addressed an event commemorating Alabama’s Secession Day where he told an interviewer that it was Alabama’s “constitutional right to secede,” and that “Jefferson Davis and John C. Calhoun understood the Constitution better than did Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster.”
In April, 2010, he was disinvited from a Tea Party rally in Wausau, Wisconsin, because of these statements and appearances.[2][4] Eidsmoe said in 2011 that he deeply despises racism, but that he will speak “to anyone.”
Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has described Eidsmoe as “one of the professors who had a great influence on me”, “a wonderful man”, and “absolutely brilliant.” She worked for him while a law student at Oral Roberts as a research assistant on Christianity and the Constitution. In 2011, he said he felt Bachmann’s views were in agreement with those taught at ORU and expressed in his book that she worked on.
Which racist organizations is he linked to?