BACHMANN WAS KRAZY BEFORE SHE WAS ELECTED TO THE HOUSE

She was on board the Fundies disgraceful Terri Schiavo campaign. Excerpt from LexisNexis:

St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota)
October 27, 2006 Friday
In the 6th District, Wetterling
SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. 8B
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Bachmann is a Stillwater lawyer whose political rise began among public school critics who see soft-headed education policies like the Profile of Learning as central-planning conspiracies. Once in the state Senate, she became a leader of the movement to cement the state's gay marriage ban in the constitution. "This is the line in the sand for our culture right now,'' she told a cheering group in Blaine this year.

The YouTube generation has seen her proclaiming widespread scientific support for the intelligent design concept of life's origins, equally widespread doubts about whether global warming is a reality and saying that Terri Schiavo, the comatose Florida woman whose end-of-life treatment triggered federal intervention in 2005, was "healthy" and "not terminally ill.''

But Bachmann pushes her faith-based politics well past that. In testimony to a Brooklyn Park church congregation this month — also available on YouTube — she spoke of how the Almighty called her to run for the state Senate and the U.S. Congress, and how she followed her husband's career advice because "the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives — you are to be submissive to your husbands.' "