Following in the footsteps of Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell, the latest in the so-right-wing-they-must-be-joking Tea Party figureheads is Michele Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican nomination to face Barack Obama next year.
Required for endorsement by a fundamentalist Christian group, the Minnesota lawmaker put her signature to a document called “The Marriage Vow”, describing homosexuality as a choice and calling for the abolition of pornography. So far, so Fox News.
In a frenzied effort to hoover up nominations from her core of nutjobs, however, Bachmann may have fatally alienated herself from swing voters by suggesting there are some benefits to, erm, slavery:
“a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”
The violent abduction and forced labour of millions of Black Africans — it wasn’t all bad y’know!
