The answer is contained in the insightful remark below, which appears on the TaxProf Blog, via Instapundit ("I didn’t know she had an L.L.M. in tax"):
It’s amusing that Bachman, whose religious convictions were shared by Galileo, Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Bill Clinton, and a few other similarly unimpressive people, is ridiculed as a closed-minded ignoramus because of those religious views, usually by strident young Democrats who cannot conceive of anyone of intelligence thinking things that they do not think.
Posted by: bobby b | Dec 29, 2010 5:18:03 PM