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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 07:38 PM
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Michele Bachmann calls judges 'black-robed masters' in Iowa
DES MOINES – Ripping judges as “black-robed masters,” Michele Bachmann praised conservative Iowans on Wednesday for sacking three members of the state Supreme after they legalized gay marriage.

Bachmann, speaking to a group of home school advocates, credited conservatives with sending a “shot across the bow” to judges throughout the country.

“You said enough is enough and sent them packing, and I’m very proud of what you’ve done,” she said, repeatedly calling judges “black-robed masters.” “It’s very rare that a judge does not go back to office.”

Iowans ousted the judges last fall – in what in other years would have been a routine retention election – after the April 2009 Iowa Supreme Court ruling that made Iowa the first state in the Midwest to sanction same-sex marriage. About 54 percent voted "No," booting Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and Justices David Baker and Michael Streit after a massive campaign against them led by Bob Vander Plaats and the Iowa For Freedom group.

Meanwhile, Bachman had the gathering of a few hundred in a ballroom near the state capital amused with her personal anecdotes as a mother of 28 and only daughter in a family of four children.

“You’re looking at the old woman in the shoe here in raising 28 kids,” she said after highlighting her own history of helping home school some of her adopted children.



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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51847.html#ixzz1HTNMjXLz

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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 07:46 PM
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1. she obviously listens to Mark Levin's ramblings
I think he wrote a whole book with that kind of overheated rhetoric about "activist judges." And she's stupid enough to pay for podcasts of that moron's radio show, laughing every time be calls Speaker Pelosi "stretch" or the Secretary of State "Her Royal Thighness."
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 07:48 PM
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2. As opposed to Michele who supports white-robed wizards.
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3waygeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 07:50 PM
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3. Oh, snap!
That will leave a mark. :evilgrin:
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 07:55 PM
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4. I see michele is lying again
She grew up with a step-sister.

http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=18287

Her step-sister is a lesbian ......
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nemo137 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 08:06 PM
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5. "speaking to a group of home school advocates"
Edited on Wed Mar-23-11 08:08 PM by nemo137
Color me shocked,
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