I like Bachman and would support her.
I also like Palin, Trump, Gingrich, Rubio and few other real conservatives.
My biggest nightmare is that a lot of conservatives will run in the primaries, split the conservative GOP vote, and we will wind up with a RINO supported, cross-over Democrat supported loser like John McCain again. I’m talking a Romney, Pawlenty, Giuliani, Christie, Huckabee type - all LOOSERS.
I’m with you on this one.
Someone will be along shortly to spout the “conventional wisdom” about representatives as presidential candidates but that house has burned to the ground and our elections are going to be different from here on out.
So why did she vote against the last military pay bill that would have guaranteed their pay in the event of a shutdown?
Well now I’m confused, curiosity. You said Bachmann was a “blithering idiot”. So how can she possibly be the potential next president?
My question, and your quote:
‘How about the TEA party, curiosity?’
“It’s a mixed bag. Some of TEA party members are great and I wholeheartedly endorse. Nikki Haley and Marco Rubio are my favorites. Others, such as Michelle Bachmann and Christine O’Donnell, are blithering idiots who have done considerable damage to the conservative cause.”
Electability is determined during the campaigns - the primary seasons. Pre-electability before people compete is like giving your opinion on who is the favorite to win a professional sport championship.
I would rather see Michelle Bachmann knuckle down in the House of Representatives and start building some fires under committee chairmen and members, to begin the reforms that only Congress can enact, and which largely have to be initiated in the House.
Michelle does not yet have the experience or tempering that I consider necessary for a successful Presidential candidate. Besides, the real battles need to be fought and won in the Congress first.
Michele Bachmann will never become the candidate. Unfortunately she has a lot going for her, but if the tea party really knew “her record” then she would not be so welcome. She has too poor of a voting record on Homeland Security, and just recently voted to extend the Patriot Act. First off they are misnomers and evil. Homeland Security is now tearing down websites and using the TSA on little girls, not profiling and not protecting the border. The Patriot Act, is far from Patriotic. The patriot act has allowed average americans to be harassed by big brother. Unfortunately Michele is a wasted candidate.
I like both Palin and Bachmann, but I figure they would both garner close to the same number of votes in a head to head against Obama.
Both of them would have to fight through the establishment Republicans and the msm.
Both of them could run a better campaign than McCain did in ‘08 and as weak as he was/is, even he was leading Obama in many polls late in the campaign until the economic mess that brought on the TARP fiasco.
I don’t buy the “Palin is unelectable” mantra for a minute (which, iirc, Reagan was supposed to be a joke candidate by many repeating the same “conventional wisdom” in ‘80).
Almost ANYONE who is a tough fiscal conservative will give Obama a real run for the money, imo. There are a lot of people who voted for Obama in ‘08 who will NOT make the same mistake twice in light of everything that has happened in the past two years.
If Bachmann beats Palin and all other candidates in the primaries, then I’ll back her all the way to the voting booth. I just hope the primaries don’t give us another McCain type candidate this go around!
She’s lovely, intelligent and a good Conservative (as is Sarah)- but both are unelectable.
Another article that allows me to bring up this question.
What are the traits, abilities, accomplishments that we want for a potential candidate?
If we had a list, it would be easier to decide on candidates.
Palin. If anyone thinks different, they deserve to lose their country.
Pfffft
I wonder what Lazmataz would do....
At first glance, I though you typed "delectable." I need more coffee.
Wasted vote...congresscritters never win the presidency...
Sorry, but no way.
We have only elected ONE House member to the presidency with no other government experience (and that was in a freak 4-way election with the Democrats split three ways). We elect governors, vice presidents, generals and senators.
No integrity in my book - not when you hire a hack like Ed Rollins and send him out there to bash Palin. And after all the campaigning Palin did for Bachman - that was like spitting in Palin’s face.
Sorry .. I’ll stick with Palin.
Were you aware that the first time Ed Rollins attacked Sarah Palin (which was shortly after Bachman hired him), Bachman made him apologize to Palin privately - but Bachman never apologized publicly .. now that Rollins continues his attacks against Palin .. we can guess why Bachman never made the apology public.
“Integrity” .. you lost me on that one.