Michele Bachmann: 'I Would Reinstate The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy'

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) reiterated that she would reinstate the "don't ask, don't tell" policy if she were elected president on a conference call with Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition, reports the Minnesota Independent.

Bachmann took calls from supporters, including one who said that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would "destroy the armed forces," before being cut off.

"I think of all the candidates that are running in the race, I have been very vocal about this," said Bachmann according to the Independent. "I would reinstate the don't ask, don't tell policy. It worked before and what it says is the issue of sexuality is one that doesn't come up and people aren't allowed to be open about it because the United States military, it's not a social experiment."

Bachmann has said multiple times that she would reinstate the policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.

Bachmann praised the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Minnesota that will go to voters in 2012: "We also believe that God has a design for marriage between one man and one woman. I was the chief author of the marriage amendment in Minnesota and we persisted, and after seven years, in a very hostile liberal state, we finally passed that marriage amendment and it will be on the ballot and I believe it will pass in 2012." (Minnesota already bans gay marriage by statute, but opponents wanted to add a constitutional amendment to keep a court from ruling in favor of it.)

"Don't settle. Don't settle for anyone less than a candidate that will stand up for pro-life, pro-family, pro-marriage issues," she said. Bachmann is running in single digits in recent polls after winning the Iowa Straw Poll in August. That victory coincided with the entrance of Texas Gov. Rick Perry into the race, and she's been sliding downhill ever since. She is reportedly running out of money to fund her campaign.

"I have a titanium spine. I will put my spine up against any man who is running in this race," she said.

 

 

Comments

[Chris Rubel]

02:44 PM on 10/21/2011

A titanium spine. Nothing sinister about that.

[Jim NLN]

04:12 PM on 10/14/2011

Nothing new on HP about MP today. Whoopie. I did want to get in this oldie but goody. Michele Bachmann is against CFL bulbs because her Easy Bake oven requires an incandescent bulb to bake her cookies.

[Hannalee]

01:36 AM on 10/11/2011

Michelle Bachmann may be uniquely qualified to judge the effectiveness of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, since that's probably the agreement she has with her husband. And that may explain why she's willing to put her spine against the spine of any man running in this race.

[dino139]

09:44 PM on 10/10/2011

"if she were elected president"...no worries about THAT happening...

[johndaviddm]

09:20 PM on 10/08/2011

Maybe you should run on down to Hellards and get your self a nice new hat at the fire sale

[nychaseter]

08:33 PM on 10/08/2011

Obviously she wholeheartedly believes in the DADT policy...listen to the "dude" she's married to.

[outloud]

04:51 PM on 10/08/2011

So she says....."I have a titanium spine. I will put my spine up against any man who is running in this race," she said.

Well, first of all that just sounds nasty.
It's not hard to kinda stand out in that crowd when the bar has been set so low.

She may have a 'titanium spine' but she has gummy bears for brains.

[nychaseter]

08:34 PM on 10/08/2011

LMAO!!!!

[Cratewasher]

12:50 PM on 10/08/2011

She must be a Clinton fan!

[LeftFoLyfe]

02:45 PM on 10/08/2011

*has awarded you a Snarky badge!*

[WheelsOnFire]

11:08 AM on 10/08/2011

Hey Michele,

Two points of order here.

1. You cannot reinstate DADT, even if you were somehow able to become President (I'm stifling severe nausea right now). Moreover, a federal court has found DADT to be unconstitutional. Haven't you been keeping up with your reading?

2. You Republicans claim you will "do the will of he people" -- well, an Opinion Research Poll last year found that 78% of Americans said gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military. Does the word "hypocrite" mean anything to you? Perhaps "liar" does?

[nomadrdw]

05:16 PM on 10/08/2011

when she said the will of the people, she only meant the evangelical, fanatical right wing christian people.

[WheelsOnFire]

05:45 PM on 10/08/2011

Oh, yeah, I forgot to check the fine print footnote.

Well, then, the Republican party remains firmly affixed to the 19th century.

[David Silvey]

05:55 PM on 10/08/2011

You can't put toothpaste back in the tube and she knows it. She is just playing to the rubes. I suspect that the voice inside her head is another one of her personalities. "This is Sarah. Can you hear me now?"

[Atwill]

09:39 AM on 10/08/2011

if she has such a strong spine, lets' see her pick up a gun and to to Iraq, even for one day, and fight in a combat unit.

[WheelsOnFire]

11:04 AM on 10/08/2011

No no no!

She's so inept she'd probably kill a few of ours!

[Atwill]

03:12 PM on 10/08/2011

maybe she'll think the gun is a microphone and shot herself in the mouth.

[dreamsoup27]

07:57 AM on 10/08/2011

Maybe she should just take her gay bashing back home to her closet case husband. Do I hear an Amen!

[nomadrdw]

05:17 PM on 10/08/2011

and a hallelujah.

[Ferdinand Berkhof]

07:08 AM on 10/08/2011

"I would". But you won't. Cause you won't be in the position to.
Titanium spine, connected to a jellyfish brain.

[nomadrdw]

05:20 PM on 10/08/2011

why insult jellyfish? they don't have brains at all, just slight nerve clusters, and yet they still navigate a little better than Bachmann. in theory, she at least has a fully developed nervous system that apparently keeps her from accessing her reality.

[Ferdinand Berkhof]

02:04 AM on 10/10/2011

You are right. My sincere apologies to the jellyfish.

[hirst shark]

08:25 PM on 10/07/2011

Titanium spine, yet brain made of pyrite.

[floresfamily9]

06:30 PM on 10/07/2011

How do you unring a bell? Stop wasting time on this and work on the Jobs Bill!! What is done is done! I want to unring Clarence Thomas, but I can't. MOVE ON!

[JRCNSSWV]

05:59 PM on 10/07/2011

Michele Bachmann would reinstate DADT.
Michele Bachmann says she has a titanium spine.

Michele Bachman along with her cohorts stood silent as the Tea Party crowd in attendance at the debate, booed and denigrated an American soldier, asking a question, not from his living room, but from a tent in Iraq where he is honorably serving his Nation. Bachmann not only does not have a titanium spine, she apparently has no spine at all.

She will never get the opportunity to reinstate DADT, because she as an Anti American, Anti Troops Tea Partier will never sit at the desk in the Oval Office.

The exact same thing applies to all the spineless creatures who did not have the courage to suggest to their supporters, that booing an American Trooper, who is presently serving in Iraq, is quite inappropriate......as we have said all along, wearing flag lapel pins, is useless and empty and hollow, when in actuality you do not support the American Forces serving throughout the world.

[kathy smelser]

09:33 AM on 10/08/2011

how many souls did she sell to get her spine