Would Michele Bachmann be a submissive president? (Here it comes!)

Would Michele Bachmann be a submissive president? (Here it comes!): "I didn’t want to write a column about Michele Bachmann, but my husband told me to.

Naturally, I listened.

Not! Poor man, he can hardly get me to pick up the dry cleaning.

Apparently, things are different Chez Bachmann. Running for Congress in 2006, the Minnesota Republican explained her decision to specialize in tax law.

She’d never taken a tax course in law school, Bachmann told the Living Word Christian Center, but her husband decided she should pursue an advanced degree in the subject.

“Tax law! I hate taxes! Why should I go and do something like that?” Bachmann recalled thinking. “But the Lord said, ‘Be submissive. Wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.’ ”

Welcome to the ever-evolving world of gender politics, evangelical edition. Someday, perhaps, after the first few female presidents have served their second terms, the country will have worked its way through the thickly seeded minefield of gender and politics: Will she be strong enough? What to call the first husband? Is it safe to talk about her clothes? Until then, every succeeding election, I suspect, will present its own set of gender-related wrinkles.....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ..."