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Bachmann retires — GOP loses one of its biggest financial black holes
Conservative Intel ^ | 5/29/13 | David Freddoso

Posted on 05/29/2013 2:33:51 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier

...If anything, Bachmann’s exit means that the conservative movement is about to be better-funded, because conservative small-donors won’t be spending over $10 million to re-elect her to a completely safe House seat every two years...

(Excerpt) Read more at conservativeintel.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: michelebachmann; mn06
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1 posted on 05/29/2013 2:33:51 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier
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To: The Old Hoosier

*completely safe House seat*

She won by less than 1% last year.


2 posted on 05/29/2013 2:35:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (DONATE!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I know. And Romney won by 15. That’s sort of the point.


3 posted on 05/29/2013 2:36:45 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: The Old Hoosier

I guess I’m misinformed. I’ve always thought highly of Bachmann.


4 posted on 05/29/2013 2:39:34 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: The Old Hoosier
"...Black Hole..."

That's racist....

5 posted on 05/29/2013 2:40:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: The Old Hoosier

I’m gonna have to agree. Bachmann is a weird combination of Mourdock and Akin in a skirt. I don’t understand her inability to think before she speaks. Accountants ought to have that down to an art. She talks like a used car salesman, except used car salesmen are charismatic. And the weird thing is this - like the author, I agree with most of her bedrock positions. She’s like the anti-Reagan - Reagan’s whole appeal was he explained things in such a way that people who were previously doubtful agreed with him, whereas Bachmann talks about the issues in such a way that even her allies want to back away from her.


6 posted on 05/29/2013 2:42:47 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

the writer had some bad ‘intel’ .

will Wetterling contest Graves for the ‘Rat race ?


7 posted on 05/29/2013 2:45:13 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: The Old Hoosier
This is a vile hit piece. The truth is that Michele Bachmann represents what's best about America. She's a Conservative Christian and God has surely planned much bigger things for her.

As a self-proclaimed “Constitutional Conservative,” Bachmann is committed to fixing Washington’s broken ways by advocating for America’s adherence to the Constitution. Bachmann has become known on Capitol Hill as a member who champions tax reform, works to cut wasteful government spending and supports limiting the size of our government. She also is devoted to the repeal of Obamacare, a legislation she believes is an example of government’s recent uninhibited growth. In Bachmann’s view, the government needs to make the kind of serious spending decisions that many families and small businesses across America have been forced to make. As a believer in the traditional values upon which this country was founded, she consistently defends America’s religious liberties and the importance of the family as the first unit of government. She also has continuously worked to defend the right to life for all Americans, including the unborn.

8 posted on 05/29/2013 2:45:48 PM PDT by re_nortex
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To: The Old Hoosier

She didn’t say she was retiring. Her “farewell” speech actualy looks like a campaign video:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q-nV4AGV50I&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQ-nV4AGV50I%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded

Bachmann is not going away.


9 posted on 05/29/2013 2:47:20 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: The Old Hoosier

And watch the GOPe groin leeches come running to attack her in this thread.


10 posted on 05/29/2013 2:48:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Yeah she said 8 years representing 1 specific district is plenty.


11 posted on 05/29/2013 2:49:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Zhang Fei

LOL - Your description of her fits to a “T”. I’ve always noted that although I ultimately agree with MB on most issues and actually admire her tenacity on certain issues, but every time I see her I am generally turned off by either something she says or the way she says it. I’ve never been able to quite pin down what was but it was definitely there.


12 posted on 05/29/2013 2:50:18 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: Zhang Fei

“Bachmann is a weird combination of Mourdock and Akin in a skirt”

Nonsense. The obvious difference between them is that she won and they didn’t. She got redistricted by the libs and still beat them. Mourdock and Akin lost states that even Romney was able to carry.


13 posted on 05/29/2013 2:52:13 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: The Old Hoosier

Sour Grapes Alert!

Sheesh.


14 posted on 05/29/2013 2:56:11 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("The White House can't be trusted." - Ron Fournier, National Journal)
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To: The Old Hoosier

I don’t agree with everything that Rep Bachmann says but I do on probably 95% of it.

If she were a man she would be getting Ted Cruz praise for having one HUGE set of huevos.


15 posted on 05/29/2013 2:58:45 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: circlecity
I’ve always noted that although I ultimately agree with MB on most issues and actually admire her tenacity on certain issues, but every time I see her I am generally turned off by either something she says or the way she says it. I’ve never been able to quite pin down what was but it was definitely there.

Reagan was a workaholic* and a master politician. He spent a lot of time thinking through ways to make conservative political messages easier to swallow. I don't have the impression that Bachmann does much more than regurgitate talking points from conservative websites. The problem with that is that conservative websites are preaching to true believers. If Reagan had simply parroted National Review talking points, there is no way he would have won two presidential elections in landslides.

* His children are pretty screwed up because neither he nor his wives paid much attention to them while they were growing up. You could say he was a great father to the electorate, and a lousy father to his children.

16 posted on 05/29/2013 2:59:41 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: re_nortex

I like Michele Bachmann and contributed to her last campaign and would happily do it again. Michele is a great American!


17 posted on 05/29/2013 3:01:08 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Cyman
If she were a man she would be getting Ted Cruz praise for having one HUGE set of huevos.

Ted Cruz won by 16 pts in TX, same as Romney. In her district, Bachmann won by 2 points, compared to Romney's 15. It's not that complicated - she turns gold into dross.

18 posted on 05/29/2013 3:03:15 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: The Old Hoosier

What makes these morons think that this money will automatically be handed over to the GOP-E?


19 posted on 05/29/2013 3:03:46 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
“Bachmann is not going away.”
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Yeah...kind of like the way Palin didn't go away. Maybe she can Tweet full-time! Yeah, that’ll put the Dems in their place.

I'm close to beyond caring anymore.

20 posted on 05/29/2013 3:05:53 PM PDT by Artcore
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