Bachmann started out the race using her religion as a platform to gain support from Evangelicals and most conservatives in general, but has recently had to backtrack on many of her very polarized beliefs in order to smooth over her public image. Regardless of her many attempts to appear increasingly credible, she continues to make logical fallacies in interviews and debates. On Meet the Press, she listened to herself claim that gays were of Satan, then attempted to explain her respect for the gay community. The following clip from the New Hampshire debate shows yet another logical fallacy that can be proven by using Jefferson's ideology as portrayed by Edwin Gaustad in Sworn on the Altar of God.
In this clip, Representative Bachmann explains that in her opinion, abortion shold be illegal because of the sanctity of life "from birth to natural death". She supports her argument by quoting the Declaration of Independence and our "unalienable rights" (the right to life) but seems to disregard the fact that freedom of choice and the ability to reason are unalienable rights given to us by God according to Jefferson, the author of the Declaration.
Her attention-grabbing public appearances are convincing supporters and non-supporters of her intense religious fervor, and are possibly pushing moderates into the realm of believing that she is "crazy".
