Can an Evangelical Woman Serve as President ... Biblically?

[drakonyx]

In Thursday night's presidential debate, Republican candidate Michele Bachmann faced the question of whether she would be "submissive to her husband" if elected president. This is a legitimate question. Will a candidate blindly follow some outside authority rather than making up his or her own mind?

http://www.theprovocation.net/2011/08/can-evangelical-woman-serve-as.html

[LiberalFighter]

1. If she truly believes that then she should not be serving in Congress.

[struggle4progress]

2. It really might be a relevant question if Bachmann stood a ghost of a chance.

But she doesn't stand a chance. So there's no need to inquire into the occult contradictions of her belief system. It's more important to point out that the whole Republican gang, her included, share crazy views on policy matters of importance to the American voter

[Merlot]

4. Asking this question does point out the crazy views held by these people

I think inquiring into her belief system is valid.

[darkstar3]

5. Tangential matters have become important to Americans, voters or otherwise,

but you already knew that.

[Silent3]

6. I'd like to think President Bachmann simply can't happen...

...and maybe it can't, but let's put it this way:

Someone, no matter how terrible, must end up with the Republican nomination. The Republicans aren't ever going to say, "Sorry. All of our candidates suck too much this time around. We're going to pass on 2012. See you in 2016." The eventual winner of the primaries is likely a member of the currently known crop of candidates. Every last one of those people seems unelectable to me, in varying degrees from hugely to enormously, in the context of a general election. Even if some as-yet unknown candidate comes along to somehow win the Republican nomination, it's unlikely to be anyone other than a somewhat Bachmann-like nutcase who can whip up the Tea Party.

Obama is far from invulnerable, especially in this economy. There is likely to be a significant anyone-but-Obama vote that pays little attention to who the not-Obama alternative is. Disaffection on the left may also drain Obama's support.

I no longer put it past the American people to collectively make a wildly irrational Presidential choice, for no better reason than petulance or a poorly thought-out desire for "change". I cannot rule out, as much as I wish I should be able to, a realistic possibility of a President Bachmann or someone else just as bad.

It's a very sad thing that we even have to consider such possibilities. In a slightly more educated and enlightened society, none of the current Republican crop would be considered worthy for any public office.

[struggle4progress]

10. I can't disagree with anything you just said

[immoderate]

12. Nixon, Reagan, Bush -- every one of them was unelectable.

My whole view of democracy changed when Reagan got elected.


--imm

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Let me think about it... no.

While she's a candidate, I'll keep on talking about her. And probably after that, too.

[struggle4progress]

11. Oh, that's not what I said. What I said was: it's important to point out the craziness of the whole

line-up

Look. Political messaging is an art: you have to throw the punch and not muddy it

"Crazy Bachmann thinks women should be submissive to their husbands" would probably reach a lot of women voters -- and helps point out something about the Republican line-up. "I'm worried that Bachmann will take orders from her husband if elected" is much weaker, partly because there's no chance in hell she'll be elected

[ZombieHorde]

9. I think the question is excellent. Perhaps all of the candidates should be asked about women

in politics.

[Warpy]

3. No, and her face closes in every time someone asks her

if she will submit to her husband in all her presidential decisions.

It's not an unfair question. When she says she believes a woman should always do what her husband tells her to do, it's a very fair question.

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. I hope we never "know"

Biblically.