Rep. Michele Bachmann, who within the latest Iowa poll is during a virtual tie with Mitt Romney, used her first TV ad the opposite day to promise that she is going to under no circumstances vote to lift the debt ceiling, so setting the ideological bar that much higher for the remainder of the presidential field.
Now she’s done it once more. Bachmann simply became the primary candidate to sign “The marriage Vow: A Declaration of Dependence Upon marriage and Family,” a four-page pledge put out by distinguished Iowa social conservative Bob Vander Plaats.
The pledge (which includes 2 pages of pledge, 2 pages of endnotes) covers a lot more than simply marriage.
There is, for example, this gratuitous reference to slavery within the preface to the pledge:
Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, however sadly a toddler born in to slavery in 1860 was more possible to be raised by his mother and father during a two-parent household than was an African- american baby born when the election of the USA’s first African-American President.
