Looking Towards the Future: GOP Candidate on the Rise

With GOP candidates on the stumping grounds, vying for support, and those in the balance of decision, determining if and when to join the race, the presidential map is unfolding. Americans will have an important decision to make in 2012 as to who will lead our country. This requires an informed decision on who will uphold the traditional and fiscal values that have made this nation great as well as help her survive.

Therefore, continuing from former posts that have highlighted some of the candidates, this post provides guest blogger, Heather Edwards', perspective on candidate Michele Bachmann. Mrs. Edwards has provided former articles for the blog and you will find this one equally interesting. Enjoy!

Mrs. Edwards Bio

Heather Edwards is a recent graduate from Regent University's Robertson School of Government with an MA in International Politics. She has also written former articles for YMinoritiesC titled "In Defense of Honor" and "The Midterm Elections & Foreign Strategy."

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By: Heather Edwards

July 16, 2011

Conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts were happy to learn of Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann’s bid for the upcoming 2012 Presidential election, which she made official on June 27^th in her childhood home of Waterloo, Iowa. For many, the prospect of a conservative filling that office represents a signal opportunity to return to the nation’s first principles. To be sure, Representative Bachmann states that her highest calling in service to her nation is to “ensure that the liberties enshrined in our founding documents are handed down from this generation to the next.” As a Constitutional conservative, she believes that the Founders’ purpose in establishing the U.S. government was to preserve the nation’s principles, while simultaneously nurturing an environment where individual dreams could flourish.

Conservatism looks to be a position of strength this election season, as many Americans are alarmed at the current path of progressivism that the country is traveling. But for those who perhaps do not place a high premium on conservative values, Representative Bachmann’s common-sense principles still offers hope of a better future through a return to economic and fiscal viability and representative government in lieu of the progressive, fiscally unviable policies and social political agenda currently promoted.

And Bachmann is well equipped for the job, having accumulated a wealth of experience over eleven+ years of service and a strong track record of fighting for free markets and big government-rollback. Her educational and professional experience is in tax law, receiving a JD from ORU and an LLM in Tax Law from the William and Mary School of Law. She practiced law privately and at the U.S. Treasury Department, but became interested in politics while working for both Jimmy Carter’s and Ronald Reagan’s Presidential campaigns. She began advocating politically in the early 1990’s, speaking out against the use of tax dollars to fund abortions, as well as against Minnesota’s School to Work policies, a state-mandated educational program. She was elected to serve as a Minnesota state Senator from 2001-2007; and has served as a US Representative for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district since 2007. She presently sits on the U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade, as well as the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. She is also a member of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Bachmann is currently the top choice of Iowa voters. She is certainly more highly qualified to be President, based upon working knowledge and experience as a Senator and Representative, than President Obama was coming into Office; she also has a track record of solid commitment to her articulated principles that gives one confidence that her word is reliable and that follow-through on promises made can be counted on. Bachmann told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, “I seek the presidency not for vanity, but because America is at a critical moment. I believe that we must make a bold choice if we are to secure the promise of our future.”