Posted on 07/10/2011 6:09:52 AM PDT by curth
There's a lot of truth in that statement.
No doubt. I'm with you all the way.
I use a NASCAR example. Palin, Bachman, and Cain need to be drafting partners to stay in the front. We can worry about who crosses the finish line first in the final lap.
Bear in mind that I don't dislike Bachman. You have nailed down the situation perfectly.
This is like a World War I artillery barrage that precedes an assault. Just more leftist scheming. Subliminally picking our candidates for us.
The ignorance here is from the individual who states that Palin supporters are loons simply because the obvious is pointed out about Bachman, even if you are NOT a Bachman supporter. Would you care to mention who you prefer as a candidate or are you scared it will REALLY highlight the ignorant one among us?
Bachmann has already tried to run Sarah off the track, and so that won't be happening anytime soon.
This type of infighting is bad.
She does it on Mark Levin's Show as well.
I’m still in my “coffee and Captain Crunch” mode.
Aristotle’s followers are said to have discussed philosophy while walking about with him—hence their name: “peripatetics.” I suppose they could have been said to “walk the talk.”
For the rest of us, the saying is “if you’re going to talk the talk, you’ve got to walk the walk”—a modern version of old sayings like “actions speak louder than words” and “practice what you preach.” Another early form of the expression was “walk it like you talk it.”
Many people now condense this to “walk the talk,” which makes a sort of sense (act on your speech), but strikes those who are more familiar with the original form as confused.
I think you’re not seeing the point.
If we choose to ignore any issues a candidate may or may not have with their past (and all candidates have issues with their past) in order to promote harmony amongst all the Republican candidates, we will end up with a non vetted candidate whom the Democrats and their media will have a field day with come 2012.
Additionally, if there are no contrasts or criticisms between the candidates this season (as some seem to believe is the appropriate path), then we might as well hold our coronation for Gov. Romney right now.
As a Palin supporter, (please run!) I must say it does no good to try to make MB appear smaller. The GOP WILL not nominate a sitting Rep; they SHOULD not nominate any present or former Senator. Does Bachman give the taxpayer his money’s worth? If not, there’s a scandal. It’s possible Todd and Sarah have taken a gubmint dime at some point, it doesn’t make them bad people.
As a Palin supporter, (please run!) I must say it does no good to try to make MB appear smaller. The GOP WILL not nominate a sitting Rep; they SHOULD not nominate any present or former Senator. Does Bachman give the taxpayer his money’s worth? If not, there’s a scandal. It’s possible Todd and Sarah have taken a gubmint dime at some point, it doesn’t make them bad people.
As a Palin supporter, (please run!) I must say it does no good to try to make MB appear smaller. The GOP WILL not nominate a sitting Rep; they SHOULD not nominate any present or former Senator. Does Bachman give the taxpayer his money’s worth? If not, there’s a scandal. It’s possible Todd and Sarah have taken a gubmint dime at some point, it doesn’t make them bad people.
“I don’t know if it’s just my imagination, but Perry and Bachmann give off the same type of ‘me-me-me’ scent”
Its just your imagination.
Yep, and it's all Bachmann's fault. She cut some sort of a deal with the GOP-E back in December to help take down Sarah. In January, members of her staff suddenly showed up in Iowa and South Carolina and started bad mouthing Sarah to the state and local GOP leaders. Next thing you know she hired Ed Rollins, who promptly plunged a dagger in Sarah's back only 24 hours after taking the job as MB's campaign manager.
MB could have taken the high-road and tag-teamed with Sarah to defeat the corrupt GOP good ol' boys club in DC and Obama, but instead she has proven herself to be a graceless opportunist who made a deal with some devils who will yank the rug from out under her as soon as her job of stopping Sarah is done.
Not the Tea Party I remember. Starting to act like politicians.
IMO when people have careers and 5 kids of their own, they are short-changing theirs by bringing in a bunch of other kids.
Comparing the two, I think Sarah is sharper.
I’m not taking sides yet but I like to use a score card to learn if the speaker has any ulterior motives: Who is Steve Bannon?
http://www.breitbart.tv/interview-steve-bannon-the-man-who-brought-sarah-palins-story-to-the-screen/
The Tea Party you "remember" really never was the idealized construct any of us desire it to be. Those who lead and seek to speak as "The Voice of the Tea Party" are cut from the same cloth as those doing the same in any other political party/movement in history. They are the same flawed human beings each of us encounter in our daily activities.
Where was your self righteousness when Palin had Soros people on her campaign? Where was it when she was siding with Romneyites to back RINOs all around the country?
If you don’t know about these things, maybe its because adults looked at them and decided that they were basic politics and let them slide. She backed a RINO with a campaign full of Romney staffers in my district. I didn’t throw a tantrum about it, I disagreed and voted for the conservative.
Instead you act like a 5 year old and cling to a pretty minor comment from Ed Rollins some two months ago and behave as if he had said Trig was Bristol’s child. All he said was that she wasn’t a serious candidate when the reality is that she isn’t a candidate at all. That’s not an attack, its a simple fact until she decides to get in the race.
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