Michele Bachmann

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Every candidate no matter what party spends a great deal of time in rehearsal with every part of their response from the verbal responses to the hand gestures being carefully choreographed and rehearsed. No matter what takes place I see the most viable GOP candidate as Romney and the others in the basic state of being "also rans". What was proven in the debate was to me no surprise.

The problem with the GOP is very simple. They never from the beginning give a clear pathway as to what they can in fact do. Many do not understand the limitations of the job they are seeking and the GOP has over the past several decades slipped away from running on issues and making an entire campaign out of slamming the previous office holder. In the GOP many conservatives have come to accept non answers as answers and the Dems are not much better.

I will give Ms. Bachmann the nod as being the best actor on that stage. She did make an academy award winning performance and empty promises look very good. Not that her opposition is going to do much better. Remember that one of Ronald Reagans greatest abilities did not come from his political abilities because like all others his administration had many failures as well as successes. Reagan had decades of experience as an actor. It is an actors job to take fantasy and make it seem to be an acceptable alternative reality. I cannot see the background of being a Tax Attorney as a qualifying stint for possibly one of the most difficult jobs in the world. I don't think that Obama was really seasoned enough but was stuck with him because of Palin. A Bachmann in the Whitehouse will continue the trend of most Americans into the "poorhouse". The GOP was for some years a rubber stamp for corporate greed. Unfortunately the spineless wimp in the driver's seat right now still thinks that saying yes to the other guys is a win of something. He is a loser but so are what is being offered by the GOP. I would rather go with the idiot we have than a new idiot who in the process of shifting gears makes things even worse. We also need to clean house in this Government and eliminate "conflict of interest" which is where the worst part of the whole mess has come from.
 
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Yeah. Just like Palin, the media will destroy her. However, they are going to prop her up over the next 12 months as if she is the greatest thing ever in hopes that she will get the nod and then destroy her because they know she, other than Ron Paul, is Obama's easiest opponent in a General Election.

The "media" will not "prop her up as the greatest thing ever". The Republican Party/Tea Party might. If she is destroyed, it will be because she has presented herself foolishly and poorly in the intense scrutiny and immediacy of the news media.

As to Palin, she certainly has not been destroyed. She is undoubtedly the greatest media whore of this century.
 

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The "media" will not "prop her up as the greatest thing ever". The Republican Party/Tea Party might. If she is destroyed, it will be because she has presented herself foolishly and poorly in the intense scrutiny and immediacy of the news media.

As to Palin, she certainly has not been destroyed. She is undoubtedly the greatest media whore of this century.

Agreed. She may not be popular outside her circle of fans, but she definitely knows how to turn lemons into lemonade.
 

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You are confused because you have the liberal media feeding you lies in one ear, and you saw something different when you looked at it through your own....

The liberal media did not invent Bachmann's advocating the teaching of creationism in public school. Nor did they invent Bachmann's opinion that CO2 is not a poisonous gas, so it should not be an environmental problem. Nor did they invent her statements that Obama and half of Congress should be investigated for being anti-American. Nor did they invent Bachmann's opinion that the founding fathers worked tirelessly against slavery, and so on.

These are either the comments of a very ignorant woman, or the comments of a smart woman pandering to the ignorant sector of her constituency. Or she is smart and batshit crazy at the same time.

So my observation was that her debate performance seemed to be a product of her operating without benefit of her usual crazy juice.
 

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Can we trust Congresswoman Bachmann with the Nuclear Codes when she harbors an irrational fear of being abducted by Lesbian Nuns(I'm not making this up):

At the time of the alleged attempted kidnapping, Bachmann was a state senator from Minnesota and had already started to campaign against LGBT rights. She had previously been caught hiding in the bushes of a gay rights event.
When she refused to speak about gay rights at a constituent forum, the two women encountered Bachmann in the bathroom and questioned her on the subject.
Pamela Arnold, a 5-foot-tall lesbian now in her 50s, began a conversation with the then-senator, when Bachmann screamed out, “Help! I’m being held against my will!”
Arnold stepped aside and opened the door. Bachmann rushed to an SUV waiting outside and shortly after, filed a police report stating that she was “absolutely terrified and has never been terrorized before as she had no idea what the two women were going to do to her.”


Bachmann Feared Abduction by Lesbian, Ex-Nun | News | The Advocate
 

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Hey... I went to a Catholic school in grade 2 Indy and I can totally relate to her fear of nuns. I'm still terrorized.
 

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i am proud of her work with 23 foster kids. i have had 2 foster sons and it is one of the most rewarding acts of confirming the value of EXISTING LIFE that you can do. i urge all readers of the lpsg.org forums to give it strong consideration. she is personable and attractive.
on the other hand, her knowledge of U.S. history and government is so child-like it is embarrassing, and so is she. Her views are so antigay, antiuniion, antiObama and anti progressive that she is relic of the failed Bush past.
But she has a right to run for president and her pariticpation will at least provide SOME variety to woefully white male wimpy group.
 

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I agree. Anyone who could open up their home to 23 foster children, has to be someone special. Among those 23 children she must have dealt with with many issues, so I think there must be an amazing amount of experience dealing with tough issues. I generally don't believe people should be demonized. I wish people were more respectful to candidates whatever party they may belong.
 
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.... she is relic of the failed Bush past.

Unfortunately there is nothing about the Bush presidency the modern day Republican Party would call a failure and would not repeat to do so would require a thorough flushing of the ideology which they are flatly unprepared to do. Play it again Sam!!
 

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There is something "compelling" about a woman who has a law degree, belongs to a conservative Lutheran sect, has sponsored 23 foster children, believes abortion is always wrong, feels the US government collects too much information on citizens with the census, sits on the committee that receives reports from the CIA and FBI, and makes a lot of political hay with the gay marriage issue.
 

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i am proud of her work with 23 foster kids. i have had 2 foster sons and it is one of the most rewarding acts of confirming the value of EXISTING LIFE that you can do. i urge all readers of the lpsg.org forums to give it strong consideration. she is personable and attractive.
on the other hand, her knowledge of U.S. history and government is so child-like it is embarrassing, and so is she. Her views are so antigay, antiuniion, antiObama and anti progressive that she is relic of the failed Bush past.
But she has a right to run for president and her pariticpation will at least provide SOME variety to woefully white male wimpy group.

All things considered, perhaps she should pursue a career in Social Work. :wink:
 
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She certainly embodies "family values" more aptly than, say, Larry Craig.
 

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Woops She Did it Again(Can this woman get ANYTHING right?)

Bachmann's campaign tweeted earlier on Monday:
Lesson in economic recovery: Consider Canada. No stimulus & unemployment is 20% lower than US. Censored For Spam/jxebtd #tcot #teaparty #canada

GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is now boasting the value of conservative economics, with a tweet noting that Canada's economy has performed much better than the United States in the global recession, and that it had no stimulus spending.
Just think -- a Republican who wants the U.S. to be more like Canada!
One problem: Canada did undertake a major stimulus program.


Bachmann: Canada Did 'No Stimulus' (Oh Really?) | TPMDC


 

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I'm concerned that anyone with this combination of dangerous ignorance and charisma can advance as a serious candidate. I thought she did well last week and she will obviously appeal to many idiotic, scared, regressive bible-punching morons. There are, unfortunately, a huge number of stupid people looking for someone to blame for the current economic climate and willing to nod along with the bigotry and faux-libertarian crap she is spewing.

That she is a leader in the war on women and actively involved in limiting equality and choice make her particularly distasteful. On the upside, the possibility that she could advance as a candidate has the potential to wake up and involve young voters. I don't think many young people even in the fly-over states want to be represented this way.
 

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Woops She Did it Again(Can this woman get ANYTHING right?)

Bachmann's campaign tweeted earlier on Monday:
Lesson in economic recovery: Consider Canada. No stimulus & unemployment is 20% lower than US. Censored For Spam/jxebtd #tcot #teaparty #canada

GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is now boasting the value of conservative economics, with a tweet noting that Canada's economy has performed much better than the United States in the global recession, and that it had no stimulus spending.
Just think -- a Republican who wants the U.S. to be more like Canada!
One problem: Canada did undertake a major stimulus program.


Bachmann: Canada Did 'No Stimulus' (Oh Really?) | TPMDC


I expect her next to be boasting about the superior effects of Canada's free-enterprise system of health care. :rolleyes: