The scary resume of the leading candidate

Michele Bachmann grabs Tea Party baton for Republican nomination | World news | The Guardian: "On another occasion, Bachmann said that teaching children the achievements of gay men was a means of promoting homosexuality. 'Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders is take The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: 'I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay',' she said.

Bachmann is also famed for getting her history wrong, truncating the fight to abolish slavery by a century. 'We also know that the very founders that wrote those documents [the constitution] worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the US,' she said. Her legislative initiatives include the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act in an attempt to overturn the phasing-out of incandescent bulbs, She has also dismissed global warming as a hoax.

She has even gone so far as to suggest that recent swine flu scare may have been the fault of the Obama administration by noting that a similar outbreak occurred 'under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter'. 'I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence,' she said."