Think Iowans get it? ROFL
Posted on 06/28/2011 1:52:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
She’s been a State Senator and a Congress member for three terms. She’s started and run a business. She’s worked in bowels of government, seeing it in all its inglorious bureaucracy.
That’s not chopped liver if the person otherwise is capable, which Bachmann is.
7.5 years? tax-free income? ...trying to talk honest facts about her accomplishments?
next you’ll mention about her saying $50,000 is “not a penny”. or something about Lexington and Concord. or John Wayne is her star. or...
Give it up, its a hopeless argument against these people. They are a breed of Bachmannistas that believe ANY criticism of their candidates increasing gaffes from her own mouth, is a threat to Bachmann’s inevitable candidacy and is unneccesarily standing in the way of her coronation.
BACHMANN IS AWESOME!!!
(seriously, it doesn’t matter. soon either Perry or Palin will enter, and blow the others away. todays polls show that. ...so there is NO point even trying to do honest vettng here now.)
A disaster?
A disaster for the right? Explain, please. With specific examples.
You know, this “executive experience” mantra got started when the LSM claimed Palin had no experience and, when that didn’t work, that Palin didn’t have the right kind of experience.
So supporters rightly pointed out that Palin not only was an experienced leader and politician, but that, unlike Obama, she had such experience in an executive position (Governor).
Now “no executive experience” seems to be the quick retort against a candidate not of one’s own liking. I guess only Governors and similar are acceptable now?
In short, I agree with you. There is no one path to the presidency. It is a question of whether the person is the right person for the job at that moment in history.
If what you say is true, the election is Obama’s no matter who the Republican candidate is.
So those piping up with what a “disaster” Bachmann (or whatever candidate who is not “their” candidate) need not be worried.
I wish Sarah would announce and put all these ridiculous unqualified candidates to rest for once and for all.
Michele Bachmann gives me the creeps, in the same way that Pat Robertson and Jimmy Swaggart always did.
Bump.
More courage and intelligence, and more conservative, than any recent Republican nominee.
Go, Michele.
They must all have been very temporary placements. I doubt she even raised ONE foster child from birth to adulthood.
She’ll win. Otherwise you better hope Mittens is not a mess and he is. So it is Bachmann or broke. Unless Cain does something or Palin goes in.
The thing is, she never did anything there except vote. Her suddenly vaunted leadership and campaigning skills never served her, never showed, although we know that she tried to lead in those "bowels of government".
Yes and have you noticed how many of them swarm to any thread, any thread at all, where Palin’s name is mentioned, and attack her, even using Tina Fey’s words, as though Palin had said them, and worse? They call Palin Supporters “cultists” and all kinds of other crazy things, when it is they who suffer from that malady re their chosen candidate.
No, it isn’t “chopped liver”; it’s cardboard!
Think Iowans get it? ROFL
Yes, that’s been sticking in my craw for a while now. Something is weird there and her claiming that she “RAISED THEM” is bizarre.
One thing a tax lawyer does rather skillfully is learn how to play and beat the system. It’s their job. She seems to have learned well.
No, I didn’t say that Obama can’t be beat; I said that it would be a tough slog. There is a difference! And I was replying to those who claimed that even their dog or a dishrag could beat Obama, which simply is not true.
Well, if you don’t agree with her politics, don’t think her experience is sufficient, or just don’t like her, that’s all that needs to be said. But saying she has “no” experience, as some here are claiming, is just not accurate.
Having experience, not having experience . . . NEITHER is the be-all or end-all of the question of whether a particular person is right for the presidency at a particular moment in history.
It’s a factor, of course. But throwing out platitudes about “experience” (not directed at you, but in general) is, well, just lame.
But she told Ralph Reed that Sarah Palin should not have entered politics until her children were all grown up. Can you say hypocrite?
I agree and overlooked that distinction, she clearly has experience at something, (voting), but nothing which should lead to premature Presidential leadership aspirations.
As I type this I am listening to Romneybot Hugh Hewitt defending her with a passion that is very hard to explain for a long time listener like me, Hewitt isn’t very fond Of Palin.
Name them please.
An executive is someone who through business, government or some other endeavor has actually run something and done so successfully that proves they can be a leader of this country. She has done nothing. Nothing.
If she was a good legislator, she would have proposed and passed (or at least gotten a vote on) some legislation that would have furthered the goals of the conservative movement. She's done nothing. She hasn't even chaired a committee.
Life achievements....like Hermann Cain for example. Rick Perry for example. Sarah Palin for example.
Oh yeah, she can talk, but so can the jerk in the White House. I'm sorry, she's got nothing to show she should be president.
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