Marcus Bachmann Announces His Anti-Gay 'First Spouse' Agenda
Marcus Bachmann told the NYT what his agenda would be should his wife be elected President:
“I’ve decided my cause is not going to be happy meals,” he said during a stop at the Family Table Restaurant here, apparently a dig at Mrs. Obama.
“We are going to be the message-givers,” said Mr. Bachmann, who runs a Christian counseling service that has been accused of trying to “heal” gays by persuading them to become heterosexual.
“We are going to get this message across,” he said. “Marriage is between one man and one woman. We are going to promote families.”
Marcus Bachmann Outlines ‘First Spouse’ Agenda [the caucus]
OK, some of these comments may not be entirely PC...but that aside...we're the funniest 3% they could ever hope for. Sometimes I wish they would put us all on an island...someplace warm...and get exactly what they want. We could laugh ourselves silly while they make war all over the globe. When they're done, we'll have the place to ourselves...again...and restore it to it's natural beauty...of course.
Posted by: Paul B. | Dec 16, 2011 8:09:54 PM
OK, now that I am COMPLETELY sure that Michelle Bachmann will NEVER be POTUS, I can start to feel something other than horror. And the thing that I am feeling is not compassion, exactly -- because Marcus and his "pray the gay away" clinic have harmed so many people. But I am starting to feel that maybe the thing to do is to reach out to this sad, sad man. The closet is a terrible place to be. If we embraced him with love, could he not possibly see the error of his ways? Don't flame me, because I'm seriously asking -- could we save him? Could we turn him from the darkness of self-loathing into the light of the love and joy of being true to himself? Instead of calling him fat and ugly, could we somehow get him the message that it is OK to be who you are? That there are people who would love him for who he is? That he doesn't need to hide -- and hate -- to find a world that accepts him? Just wondering.
Posted by: kit | Dec 16, 2011 8:11:44 PM
Geez! Now I know where Michelle Bachman got those crazy eyes...the first time she saw Miss Piggy naked her face just froze that way. Well, I guess it's just karma those two are together--she'll never have sex and neither will he.
Posted by: woodroad34d | Dec 16, 2011 8:14:32 PM
Jennifer Coolidge has really let herself go!
Posted by: Grover Underwood | Dec 16, 2011 8:31:55 PM
God, he looks like such a queen. Too funny and what a fu***ng freak.
Posted by: Stephen Q | Dec 16, 2011 8:35:01 PM
Sick f*#k.
Posted by: David C. | Dec 16, 2011 9:11:12 PM
@KIT. I agree with you to a point. What you are saying should be reserved for the many sad closeted gay people who live in terror of coming out, or of being outed, or of their own feelings. They deserve so much compassion because it's not their fault. They've been brainwashed and conditioned since birth to hate themselves and fear the consequences of being true to themselves. The difference between those ppl and Marcus B is he is going out of his way to harm others. PPl like him think the more they hate on gay people the less likely they will be thought of as gay. They're only fooling themselves. To work out their own sick psychology by inflicting lasting harm on vulnerable ppl deserves no compassion like you suggest.
Posted by: ian | Dec 16, 2011 9:21:14 PM
@Kit: I have enough of a vengeful streak in me to get off on the nastier comments here, but I do appreciate your kindness and generosity of spirit. I just wish the lunatics who've taken over the Republican Party were half as decent as you.
Posted by: Bklynguy | Dec 16, 2011 9:24:27 PM
Luckily, this is as close as he'll ever get to being the First Lady.
Posted by: Tre | Dec 16, 2011 9:27:02 PM
C'mon, folks. We're talking about Marcus Bachmann here.
The organization will clearly be called First Thpouthe.
Posted by: Bill | Dec 16, 2011 9:46:20 PM
For all this talk of "promoting" families, all they really do is put down gays. Oh, well; pandering to the lowest denominator of the party is a sure sign of FAIL. These elections are bound to be a watershed for gay rights in America, and we can only go up from here, so we should thank His Royal Queenieness for doing all this work, showing people what people like him really care about, and they're supposed to be all saviors of the US.
Looks like they're here to save the 1800s.
Posted by: Matt | Dec 16, 2011 9:53:23 PM
Like that will ever happen. Gay people have families too you closet case SOB.
Posted by: LW | Dec 16, 2011 10:15:12 PM
Geez- I wonder if Michele could stay in the caucuses and primaries if they showed this to all the gun totin', Bible thumpers in the South- theyd be saying the same things we are- except a lot nastier.
Posted by: scott | Dec 16, 2011 10:26:52 PM
So long as they were asking what he'll do if Michele becomes President, why not ask what he'll do if he discovers that if he spins around in place he gains superpowers, a lasso that makes people tell the truth and an invisible plane?
That's just about as likely to happen. I suspect he already has the costume for the 2nd scenario.
http://thedabbler.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fat-wonder-woman.jpg
Posted by: Caliban | Dec 16, 2011 11:09:26 PM
Oy! I thought that was a really bad photo of Chaz Bono after having some highlights go bad. I was going to offer a commiserative "it happens to the best of us" comment until I saw the headline.
Posted by: TM in LBC | Dec 17, 2011 12:01:18 AM
He is not exactly a candidate for "Quien es mas macho."
Posted by: Lester | Dec 17, 2011 12:10:20 AM
Talk about putting the cart before the horse. Michelle Bachmann is so far down on the list of potential candidates, she's barely on the radar screen, and He's talking about what his agenda will be as First Lady?
Come on, Marcus, get serious!
Posted by: Taylor | Dec 17, 2011 12:16:55 AM
I honestly cannot look at Marcus Bachmann without thinking of John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray."
Posted by: finkles2000 | Dec 17, 2011 12:51:59 AM
....and the stupidity continues!!!!!!
Posted by: geo | Dec 17, 2011 1:09:46 AM
So "Mr" Bachmann is actually trying to appeal to the American public by looking like a middle aged Chaz Bono...correct??
I mean my late grandmother clapped her hands butcher than that and she was a very fine delicate woman!!!!
Posted by: Darrell | Dec 17, 2011 2:07:00 AM
that's not promoting families, that's promoting bigotry.
what he's promoting actually drives families apart. he doesn't see this, however, because his form of bigotry is the only thing that got Michelle married.
Posted by: Little Kiwi | Dec 17, 2011 2:30:31 AM
He evokes so many emotions in me - disgust, amusement, horror, pity, hate, incredulity... but ultimately irritation. You very well may be a lady, but you will never be First Lady. Go back into your fetid hole and bother us no more.
Posted by: Keithy | Dec 17, 2011 4:11:15 AM
How many closets does the White House have?
Posted by: Big Gay Jason in Topeka | Dec 17, 2011 5:34:20 AM
Marcus Bachmann is enough to make Barbara Walters say, "WHAT!?"
Posted by: Big Gay Jason in Topeka | Dec 17, 2011 5:36:15 AM
Oh, sister please!!!!
Posted by: Jeffrey Dunivant | Dec 17, 2011 6:28:39 AM