I admit to not following Bachman's career all that closely, since she's not been representing my corner of the state, but I don't get the impression even from her critics that she's been claiming to be some kind of prophet or oracle. The main accusation most of her critics seem to have is that she's a fervent member of one of the more socially conservative Lutheran denominations...like several thousand other Minnesotans, but there are a lot of people who think female politicians who don't act like Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi are traitors to their gender. So she prays over some of her decisions. BFD. I think the whole thing is symptomatic of the false dichotomy between religious faith and (presumedly secular) intellect that came out of the Enlightenment.