That's right: we've done a complete 180. After thinking about things overnight (and reading this cogent analysis of the race),we've realized that Frances is actually pretty great and will stick it to the toolish establishmentarians of student government, questionable theological assertions and all.

Some reasons that Frances is awesome:

• Despite being a member of the Harvard College Republicans, Frances unanimously lost their endorsement.
• Her batshit crazy dad's blog reads like that of a right-wing Christiananarchisti.
• She wants to "destroy" The Crimson.
• She wants HBO in every dorm so that everyone can watch boxing.
• She writes for Ringtalk, some sort of boxing site.
• This excerpt from an email sent to Chris Lacaria, the current head of the Harvard Republicans and apparently Frances' sworn enemy.

The only thing I'm "reeling in disappointment" about is that humanity has to deal with your existence, and that because you go to this school there's a chance your tripe will be propagated to the masses. Oh, and I've never "casually lobbed" an insult at you that didn't come from the bottom of my heart, Mr. Lacaria."

• And then of course there's the whole fascist thing.

Note: this is not a joke. It's an actual endorsement. Please join her Facebook group here.

After the jump: the email exchange between Frances and Chris Lacaria, the jefe of the Harvard Republicans who declined to endorse her. It gives new meaning to the word "arch-nemesis."
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Frances Martel, our favorite Ivy League Republican sorta anti-Semite who is not Ann Coulter, is running for Harvard UC President. On Harvard Time interviewed her, and it turns out that she's endearingly weird in person.

But what's not so endearing is her fascistic, single-issue platform. If elected, the first thing Frances promises to do is "abolish parliamentary procedures." This way she can rule Harvard by fiat and make the Jews accept her Lord.

No, really. Some choice excerpts from the interview: "People in power are quivering"; "we'll blacklist them"; "I think I have the average perspective on the Jewish faith, which is 'It's nice.' I don't consider myself Jewish...I think it's wrong that they're doing what they're doing, and when you write persuasive pieces -- when you write opinion editorials -- you use all the weapons in your arsenal you can to convince people that you're right."

Believe it or not, Martel's running mate - who has not made a single campaign appearance - is Jewish.

Watch the video. Watch Frances' awkward campaign manager nod and pretend to answer questions as Leo Zimmerman. Watch Frances in her pantsuit answer an entire question in Spanish.

After the jump: some other candidates field questions from On Harvard Time. They're more normal, though, and therefore more boring.

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Harvard easily outdoes all the other Ivies in the depth  and variety of her political blogs. There's really no contest -- these kids went to Harvard for a reason: to blog politics like there's no party tomorrow (and there's not). Let's take a look at a few.

Bikini Politics, which boasts "the body-politic will never be the same," is run by Harvard grad student Paloma Zepeda. It's not so much a women's issues blog as a news blog in the inflection of women's issues. We all know what that means.

The Harvard International Review covers such topics as the "history of suffering in Poland," while Immigration Orange covers such topics as recently embattled migrant Pedro Zapeta. I have no clue what's going on at Team Zebra ("We spent nine days last October trying to bring two zebras to Harvard Yard. This somehow justifies our existence."), but it seems to be unfortunately defunct at this point anyway.

We've written on the inimitable Gadfly before (sample post:"Semi-circle? It's those damned Muslims"). Cambridge Commons also seems to be kind of important (sample post: "Let's Give Ben AffleckMore Credit").

Dem Apples, the official blog of the Harvard College Democrats, is informative and well-updated (sample post: "Andy Card: the Man, the Myth, the Legend"). Maybe even too well-updated -- the last post on the front page dates from October 29!

But let's hope for the sake of the Harvard College Republicans that RedIvy is not their official blog (sample post: "Why I F-ing Hate Communists (and why you should, too)"). Other posts sing the praises of Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. But this one ("Israel to World: 'We Support Genocide') by Frances Martel is my favorite. Criticizing Israel for refusing to take in Darfugees (so far, so good), Martel channels the cliff-notes to the The Merchant of Venice and writes:

No one should deny another the help they begged on their knees for not even a century ago. No one should deny life and safety to anyone else when they themselves live only through the magnanimity of another. But I guess the result is to be expected when one lives through "eye for an eye" rather than "turn the other cheek".

What a "magnanimous" post. Way to show those Pharisees the light of the Lord. You're a real Mensch, Frances.