These tea party candidates just amaze me. Â Sarah Palin still can't recall what magazines she reads nor can her husband Todd; but Michele Bachman is even worse. Â
She thought the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired at Concord, New Hampshire; then she labeled John Quincy Adams as one of the original founding fathers.
When George Stepanopoulas corrected her on GMA concerning John Quincy Adams, she still argued that he was a founding father who vigorously opposed slavery and helped abolish it. Â John Q. was only a boy; that would be his father, Michelle, who was one of the founding fathers.
John Q. did vehemently oppose slavery as a Congressman some thirty years later; Â but Congress actually threatened to censure him for arguing against it on the Floor, since that issue was still another fifty some years away from becoming a national point of contention. Â
And, GET THIS! According to at least one source, her followers actually went into Wikipedia yesterday and altered his website to reflect that he was one of the founding fathers.  (See https://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/quincy.png )
I just checked Wikipedia. Â If it was as the source shows it, it has since been deleted. Â I did, however, find this, which, I questioned.
"Adams is best known as a diplomat who shaped America's foreign policy in line with his deeply conservative[2] and ardently nationalist commitment to America's republican values.
Here's the caveat: Â the Democratic-Republican party, Â which John Q. favored and which eventually morphed into the Republican Party, Â was the party of the liberals--not the conservatives until fairly recently.
The South was strongly Democratic up to and including the election of JFK, who put LBJ on the ticket to carry the Southern Democratic states. Â
So to place "republican values" and "deeply conservative" in the same sentence is an oxymoron at the very least; and completely erroneous at best.
That is the reason the South was strongly Democratic for the first hundred and fifty years. Â Lincoln, who was a Republican, Â did not carry any Southern states in the election of 1860 because of the slavery issue.Â
And I believe we would all agree that the abolition of slavery would have to be regarded as a liberal issue, since it is the granddaddy of all Civil Rights points of contention.
Here's what upsets me! Â The two women we have making a run are both a couple of morons. Â That bothers me as a woman. At least KNOW your history and what magazines you read if you are going to go public as a candidate for ANY public office.
You are making the rest of us women look really stupid!