A few weeks we wrote a post noting that, at her core, Michele Bachmann was just a Religious Right activist who got elected to Congress and now hopes to become president.
In that post, we compared Bachmann to fringe right-wing activist Janet Porter but it would probably have been more accurate to compare her to Phyllis Schlafly, as that is what Bachmann herself did on a recent “Tea Party Cyber-Town Hall and Webcast” where she lauded Schlafly as her heroine, mentor and everything that Bachmann hopes to be while also calling her the most important woman in the US in the last century:
If I could just say a couple of words about Phyllis Schafly, she is my heroine and my example as a forerunner. As a young bride and a young mother, I read faithfully “The Phyllis Schlafly Report;” she was my lifeline to what was happening in the world.
She truly is the mother of the modern conservative movement … I think she is the most important woman in the United States in the last one hundred years.
Whatever Phyllis Schlafly says, it’s important that we listen because she’s there on every issue, on every front. She is our hero, our heroine, our stalwart and I absolutely adore her. So God bless you, my dear mentor and the person that I hope to be some day. So thank you very much, Phyllis.
Really? We should listen to whatever it is that Schlafly has to say? You mean like how feminists are “bitter, unhappy and not successful women” and how men should not marry “career women” and how the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech was the fault of the English Department and how, by getting married, women have consented to sex and therefore cannot be raped by their husbands?
