Posted on 06/19/2011 1:04:04 PM PDT by EveningStar
What's with the hatred of Michele Bachmann at Free Republic lately?
I've seen some psychotic paranoid drivel about her secretly working for Mitt Romney, but apparently there's more to it than that.
Please help me out here, folks.
Why feign ignorance, in between trolling against Palin, haven’t you read about Bachmann hiring Ed Rollins and revealing a campaign strategy of attacking Governor Palin, and staying away from Mitt criticism?
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you nailed it.
i would ask the original poster,
After Jim Robinson made his recent big post about Romney,
who did all the Romney supporters here switch to?
(surely they wouldn’t switch to someone so opposite of moderate Romney?)
...and, if you search old posts, you will find almost universal praise for Bachmann here on FR, until she hired Rollins.
She hired him, knowing he had already attacked Palin repeatedly. He continued to do so after being hired.
Yet Bachmann didn’t fire him or even rebuke him.
(and, Rollins did NOT attack the Rhino front-runner, who was a declared candidate, and who would be the logical target of ANY true Tea Party leader like Bachmann.)
Many people here, had even donated money to Bachmann before.
and they were calling her campaign, to tell them they never would again. Those people certainly didn’t “hate” Bachmann.
Bachmann was my FIRST choice among declared candidates before.
None of us were attacking Bachmann. we were reacting to what we considered to be poor decisions by a true conservative “Tea Party” candidate.
...the executive decisions that a candidate makes, DO matter, in selecting a nominee...
I used to want to blame sunspots.. but now, I am suspect of genetically modified foods.
It could be subliminal suggestion too, spread thru social networking.
or it could be we have a plethora of PR folks for many sides passing thru the gut of FR and making it a bit upsetting occasionally. the comforting thought, in the end, they too shall all pass.
I definitely do not support Mitt Romney.
Well, I’m sickened by a “conservative” throwing half her supporters in the tea party under the bus over the birther issue, then turning around and hiring a RINO to run her campaign.
This thread is a classic class of Irony. :)
Sorry. Palin can enter this race right now. She can compete and if she is meant to be she will win.
Conspiracies by the delusional are just that. There may be a stop Bachmann camp. I think it is centered right here.
“Call it whatever you like. I’m sickened by what I see on some of these threads.”
Reality’s a bitch.
Many Palinistas would trash Reagan these days if he were running now.
Many Palinistas would trash Reagan these days if he were running now.
If you put a dot on a piece of copy paper, that’s what Michelle Bachmann knows about running a national campaign.The rest of the paper is what Ed Rollins knows about it.That’s why she hired Rollins.First job of an executive is to identify your limitations and hire a qualified person to rectify them.Rollins is a hired gun.He will adapt to his employer’s positions,not the other way around.
If you put a dot on a piece of copy paper, that’s what Michelle Bachmann knows about running a national campaign.The rest of the paper is what Ed Rollins knows about it.That’s why she hired Rollins.First job of an executive is to identify your limitations and hire a qualified person to rectify them.Rollins is a hired gun.He will adapt to his employer’s positions,not the other way around.
Is Palin’s Bob Dole RINO running her campaign? Or does she even have one. Dole folks are RINOs. So is McCain. And she helped him.
How DARE you make sense!!!!
This is a trolling topic.
And based on your ‘criticism’ of Palin, you’d trash Reagan too.
2. She's not supposed to be running for president, Sarah Palin is.
Simple enough.
Thats pretty much it. Anyone who dares commit the cardinal sin of running for president in the primary this year, is automatically a evil sinister communist enemy of America who probably hates Governor Palin and plots evil against her......LOL
I want Governor Palin to run, it doesn't mean I think anyone or everyone in the election is a enemy of the people, unlike many other freepers here.
Hell, I think one freeper was planning on living in a cave as a hermit if Governor Palin chose not to run.....LOL
Now that the “DNC/Soros Media-complex” has gotten their marching orders, reactions to MB by Freepers are pretty mild compared to the what we are starting to see in the “communist press”.
Pot meet kettle.
Now that the “DNC/Soros Media-complex” has gotten their marching orders, reactions to MB by Freepers are pretty mild compared to the what we are starting to see in the “communist press”.
I wasn’t aware that SP had officially announced her candidacy. You just scooped America!
Because Sarah Palin is the Real Deal, the one who will restore the Republican Party to its rightful conservative greatness, the one who will bring us back to the Reagan Legacy, the one who will beat back the barbarian hordes of the Democrat Party, the one who will restore the economy and Christianity in America.
Oh wait. Replace Sarah Palin with Baraq Obama, Republican wiht Democrat and vice-versa, conservative with liberal, Reagan with FDR, Christianity with Progressiveness....and you are a liberal talking about Obama in 2008.
Sarah Palin is a great conservative and has a place of prominence in the 2012 race, but the messiahlike qualities being given to her by a lot of folks at FR is a bit disturbing. Even if she wins the primaries and the Presidency, she will disappoint them by not returning America to a time that no longer exists. The nature of American politics has degraded to a point where ideological purity is mandatory on both sides, where compromise with the other side merely gives them a weapon to use against you in a future election.
I’m a big Palin supporter, but resigning in the middle of her first term as Governor would be the end of just about any politican’s career, but her charisma and the devotion of her followers is keeping her in the game. Because of the resignation, she does not automatically get my vote or support in this election. She needs to earn it just as Bachmann or Cain needs to earn it.
Two of the three are in the race, working for my vote. One is not. That is what’s important. Tearing down Bachmann and Cain while waiting for Palin to lead us out of the wilderness is counter-productive when Palin hasn’t yet committed to lead us.
"Please help me out here, folks."
I call that stressful.
The MSM failed to destroy Palin during her bus tour. That is a success considering we were told by these types that Palin would be destroyed by the press.
Were you expecting her to cure cancer or something?
I posted against the Rollins hiring and his nasty attack. But now, thanks to the division among the real conservatives, an opening has been created for a real phony political hack, Rick Perry, who supported ultimate RINO from NYC (the capital of liberalism), Rudy Giuliani, then joined with Rudy to back McCain. Is that what you want? I would support Palin, Bachmann, Cain, or any other real conservative.
Really? Maybe I've missed them, but where are the posts attacking Michelle Bachmann's...
- Children...?
- Motherhood...?
- Background...?
- Education...?
- Accomplishments...?
Really? Maybe I've missed them, but where are the posts attacking Michelle Bachmann's...
- Children...?
- Motherhood...?
- Background...?
- Education...?
- Accomplishments...?
“Oh wait. Replace Sarah Palin with Baraq Obama, Republican wiht Democrat and vice-versa, conservative with liberal, Reagan with FDR, Christianity with Progressiveness....and you are a liberal talking about Obama in 2008.”
Nope. She just has the best platform and the best shot at improving the mess we are in. She’s no more divine than you or I. Can she do a good job? I’m willing to vote to find that out.
The hatred is even worse for Perry. What’s going on with this site? It is getting dreadful with the gang attacks by the same 10 to 12 people who have been registered for a bit of time, but have rarely posted until recently, part of obami’s minions? I’m beginning to think so.
There’s nothing dishonest about what I said.
You definitely despise Palin and her social conservatism, she is also the only real threat to Romney, you being a pro-gay, social liberal, I find it suspicious that you join so many other anti-Palin/pro Romney supporters that have suddenly embraced advancing the aggressively anti homosexual agenda person, Michelle Bachmann.
Don’t know. I haven’t done any of those things and even if I did it wouldn’t justify cowardly attacks on Bachnann either.
- Voice
- Boobs
- Style of clothing
Before any of this came up - I posted on another thread that I think she is gunning to be Romney's VP!!
I have no proof - it's just a gut feeling I've had.
>> Can she do a good job? I’m willing to vote to find that out.
I’m willing to let her, Bachmann, and Cain prove to me which one will do a good job. No one gets the automatic vote from me and I won’t strike any of them from my list—yet.
So I guess ‘I would not get in the way of progress’ doesn’t equal support. LOL But apparently she changed her mind so good for her.
What’s with you obvious hatred of Sarah Palin? You’ve posted more anti-Palin garbage then other freepers combined, and more than anyone has posted against Bachmann.
_take _a _pill.
LoL!
The Daily Beast and CBS for starters. I’m sure more will come out if Bachmann continues to perform well. The MSM is just getting warmed up. :-)
She might be (hope not) but it wont matter because Romney will never make it outa the primaries.
Not even Bachmann on a Romney ticket gets my vote. Oh, and before anyone cries, Palin as VP to Romney is a big hell no too.
Can you post links to them?
They're all over the place. Many FReepers are pissed because Bachmann isn't harpooning her Republican opponents (as Rollins did to Palin last week).
Quite frankly, it's bad strategy at this point since we should be focused on defeating Obama instead of candidates bickering among themselves.
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Can you post links to them?
They're all over the place. Many FReepers are pissed because Bachmann isn't harpooning her Republican opponents (as Rollins did to Palin last week).
Quite frankly, it's bad strategy at this point since we should be focused on defeating Obama instead of candidates bickering among themselves.
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More power to you. Palin proved everything she needed to get mine in any number of ways. MB I’d vote for, as well as Cain, but with a lot more caution. MB has the RINO/Birther problem and Cain I need to see more of. But I WOULD vote for either if It came down to it. Hope it doesn’t.
Anyone who might be a threat to Palin or keep her from running (like Perry) is getting it on FR right now. Palin could solve it all by announcing. If she was an announced candidate I’m 99% certain Bachmann would not have run. And Perry wouldn’t be thinking about it. But as long as Palin stays on the sidelines, others will jump in.
I’ve been noticing the plethora of negative posts about various candidates and some non-candidates, as well.
The fact is that ALL these candidates have something positive to add to the Republican primary (except maybe, Mitt Romney, who just isn’t reliably conservative). During the primary, it is more important to sell people (independents) on the Republican brand as opposed to Obama, than to sell them on the individual candidate that the Republicans will choose, because eventually, we will make that decision and this time around, I would like to see US make the decision not the press.
The point is, we shouldn’t be making it easier for the press by attacking our own. They all have something to offer and by focusing on what we LIKE about the candidate, instead of what we don’t like, we have an opportunity to push the whole group in that direction. Force Romney to the right, force Cain to the right on abortion, force all of the candidates on free trade and against Obamacare.
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