Posted on 01/04/2012 8:46:43 AM PST by Free Vulcan
An adviser to Michele Bachmann says the Minnesota congresswoman is ending her bid to win the Republican presidential nomination after coming in last in the Iowa caucuses.
Bachmann finished sixth out of six candidates in the first of many contests to pick a Republican presidential candidate.
She canceled appearances planned for Wednesday in South Carolina and scheduled a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, instead.
The adviser requested anonymity to speak before Bachmann makes the announcement.
Regrettable but necessary. Hopefully this helps the conservative vote coalesce around Santorum.
She was probably the most conservative candidate in the field with a demonstrated voting record to that effect but she wasn’t ready for prime time.
I wish she’d run against Amy Klobuchar and get into the Senate, or wait and run against Stuart Smalley. She could beat either one.
An unusually mature, thoughtful, post for a political thread. Thanks for the breath of fresh air.
Exactly, Maryhere, if Bachmann was just someone trying to get Romney elected - a continual meme for her, and Perry, and others -
she’d have stayed in!! At least through Florida!!
Obviously she was simply running for Pres. All these conspiracy theories make me tired.
But I agree with you on Perry's cheap shots. I heard him attacking Rick Santorum on Hannity yesterday.
Ford and Gingrich were both leaders of the Republican Party in the House, Ford as minority leader and Gingrich as speaker. Kemp made his mark in the academic defense of “supply side economics” and spent 18 years in the House before running for president. If we wanted a prime minister in a parliamentary system of government rather than president in an executive role, Ford and Gingrich both had the requisite background to lead legislatively, and Kemp probably could have followed the same path if he'd not decided to run for president in 1988.
With no disrespect meant to Michelle Bachmann, all of those three had tremendously more experience than Bachmann in the House of Representatives.
Bachmann’s campaign was based on being an outsider and not a Washington insider, and that's part of the core of her appeal. I have always believed experience counts. Bachmann simply doesn't have it, at least not yet. Tea Party people seem to think experience is a bad thing, and I'm afraid that's already hurt us in the current election cycle and will continue to hurt us as we move toward a nominee.
We need the best conservative candidate we can get, not only to defeat President Obama but also to effectively govern the country and fix the horrible mess we face. Unfortunately, everybody in the current field has serious problems, too many of them have thin resumes, and the only one with major executive experience, Rick Perry, is not exactly doing well due to problems that are mostly of his own making.
I’m glad she ran. It’s important to develop a deep roster on the Conservative’s team, and Michelle got some valuable experience.
Good riddance. She lost me when she and her hack chief Ed Rollins started going after Sarah Palin.
Does Gingrich actually get a pass at this because he hasn’t actually won ANY election for over a decade? Is that actually better than just having resigned from Congress and running for President?
I think she did a great job! Too bad for us.
I think she had to decide whether to keep running for President or try to hold on to her house seat, so that’s probably why she is dropping out so early.
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Never said they had to rely on them...simply said it would be nice if she gave it to them...particularly Santorum so the conservative vote can begin to coalese behind something less than three or four candidates.
She actually won my heart when I found out her husband is Liberace. You have to admit it would be delightful to have him serenading from the Rose room. We'll never know now.
I listened to her comment the night before wherein she was talking about "another Michelle in the White House."
Just how else does she plan to get there?
As to the rest of your projected garbage as to what I understand or don't, I think you know what you can do with it.
At this point, who is left amogn Republicans that has a REAL chance of getting them the White House back in 2012 ? Name a Republican candidate the American people can get behind as a whole.
It’s over, the drive, turn ‘er!
I think you are correct on that point, but he was on the ballot and got about 1% of the vote.
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