This morning, in her address to Liberty University students at the mandatory convocation in the school's basketball arena, Michele Bachmann did something far more explictly than she has on the campaign trail before: weaving her own personal salvation story into the mythology of the Christian nation, freedom, and American exceptionalism.
The overarching theme of Bachmann's speech was "don't settle" -- on its face, a rather pabulum campaign slogan. But Bachmann's twist was this: don't settle, because God has a plan for you. Don't settle, because God has a plan for this country. Don't settle, because then you won't really know Jesus. Don't settle, because if you really don't know Jesus we might end up with Obamacare and socialism.
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