Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and businessman Herman Cain addressed a rally of home-schooling activists today in Des Moines, Iowa, a key venue for potential Republican presidential candidates.
“I’m a seventh-generation Iowan,” Bachmann boasted, CNN reports. Bachmann was born in Iowa, and her family moved to Minnesota when she was a child. She also added: “What I love about Iowans is that we’re fighters.”
“It’s up to you to decide. It is not up to some bureaucrat to decide what is best for your children,” she also said, the Des Moines Register reports. “I am so tired of the establishment telling us that they know best.”
Paul and Cain also had a lot to say on the subject.
“Get government out of the way of our education so we can educate ourselves and our children,” said Cain, the Associated Press reports. “There are some people in our government who aren’t interested in the same things that you and I are interested in. They are trying to create some kind of world order.”
“The public school now is a propaganda machine,” said Paul, CNN reports. “They start with our kids even in kindergarten, teaching them about family values, sexual education, gun rights, environmentalism, and they condition them to believe in so much that is totally un-American.”
