Posted on 06/17/2011 3:52:03 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
>> “Bachmann is an amazing conservative candidate doing exceptionally well” <<
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Bachmann is anything but a conservative candidate, and she is doing very poorly if being a conservitive were her goal.
In her present incarnation she is a media creation that got a swelled head when they set her up to sabotage the real candidate.
ALL the other candidates are tiptoeing around Romney, even Pawlenty who famously referred to “ObamneyCare” just last weekend!
If your theory is correct, why did Rollins go after Palin personally and Bachmann never apologize? If she goes after Palin on something personal and then declines to go after Romney, her supposed #1 competitor for the nomination on a clear negative that's true about him, perhaps you're reading it all wrong.
You might want to think about it, if she's not just running for VP, or just trying to up her profile in the GOP for later I see no other explanation for what she did if she wants to actually win. She didn't have to go personal, it would have been easy to hit him over Romney care without offending his supporters.
Please try again, that's a pretty thin explanation considering what she already did.
It appears the rino’s can control the rest of the candidates.
They can’t Sarah - and she owes no one anything. She’s the real deal. Politics will not be the same with her in office - and that doesn’t sit good at all with the powers that be. What is bad for the spineless is good for America!
So what? I normally don't listen to Mark Levin, but heard him for two minutes yesterday. His main point was if no one takes on Romney for his stupidity as governor in the health care realm, or his flip flops in everything else, he'll waltz in to the election.
What she did was timid at best, at worst it shows the theory of her as stalking horse for the GOP moderates could be true.
Whatever it is, what she did (or didn't do) shows poorly on her.
So mitt supporters do not expect honesty but a strategy because saying the truth will offend them?
Do mitt supporters live in Massachusetts?
Um, Mark Levin isn’t running for president. He gets paid to run his mouth.
The question was: does Romneycare DISQUALIFY him as the GOP nominee for POTUS? For any GOP candidate to go on the record saying that another contestant for the nomination should be DISQUALIFIED is very different from stating objections to the health care law in MA that happened under Romney, or his flip-flops on abortion and gay marriage or his position on man-made global warning.
There are plenty of issues for them to go after each other on, and plenty of time to do it, but as a GOP candidate, it’s foolish to tell a CNN newsman that one of your rivals for the nomination is DISQUALIFIED.
Good thing you don’t pay my wages then I guess. Since you don’t affect my life one way or the other, I can safely say I could care less what you think of me personally. The sun will probably still come up in the morning.
How does giving an answer that does not address the question differ from a prepared speech? Well for on thing, Reagan actually made sense.
We should go back to the old style debates where the commentator would ask a specific question and the candidate would answer with a prepared statement that had absolutely nothing to do with the question asked. Those were the good old days.
That would have been easy, because it's true. It would have been easy for her to make a critique of a plan that was the blueprint for Obamacare.
Sorry, she was timid and wrong not to take that on.
As to Levin, I don't particularly like him (no sense of humor, too shrill for my taste) and I don't listen to him. However, on this point, for two minutes, he nailed it.
Obviously, there are easy, Tea Party oriented ways to answer that question. Here's one....
MB: Well Wolf, it's up to the voters to disqualify Mitt. However, I do think that Romneycare was a bad idea.
Voila.
Yes Levin is right. The Tea Party spirit amongst this group of announced candidates seems dead.
Why it was just two short years ago that the Tea Party was in all its glory, campaigning against RINOs in the primaries.
Fast forward to today, and we have MB and the other announced candidates throwing that strategy out the window saying not a word about the RINOs.
You were caught in a significant misspeak that wasn’t even topical or comparable (like might be a reference to a heart-on-his-sleeve spontaneous Q&A by the Gipper, if such a thing existed — I think it would have been out of character for the man who would have attended to such an occasion as much as he attended to the “die-ins” on Washington DC sidewalks) so instead of saying “my bad” and going on, you make a great deal to me about how you supposedly don’t care.
Knee-deep, knee-deep, knee-deep. Don’t compare your lily pad to a throne.
Now a campaign speech by Bachmann might be interesting to analyze. That would reveal far more about her policy intentions than any peppering by paparazzi. But she’s only declared a few days ago, no?
We can pretty well bet that whoever wins the GOP nomination will mercilessly Carterize Obama over and over... “there you go again” with some smallminded, wrongheaded Rat/Kenyan idea that has been proven only to fail. Even Mitt (cough) would be up to that, because he firmly opposes any Romney/Obama Care program of national scope and would probably voice a belief that Massachusetts has a right to change its health care system if it wants. Some speculate that Obama will yet withdraw from the race and let some other Rat step up to that plate.
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