Posted on 06/29/2011 12:37:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin was in Iowa Tuesday. Michele Bachmann announced her candidacy there on Monday. For reporters, that's a coincidence impossible to resist; scads of stories are being produced comparing the two women.
Comparisons between Palin and Bachmann are, at one level, apt. Both are women who align most closely with social conservatives. Both are outspoken defenders of their chosen causes whose rhetoric occasionally gets them into hot water.
But over the past few months, Bachmann has proven she is different in important ways from Palin - differences that make her the more viable of the two when it comes to the 2012 presidential race:
Looking outside: After the 2008 election, Palin was the hottest commodity in Republican politics. She briefly sought to expand her narrow inner circle but those relationships frayed, leaving her on a bit of a strategic island. (Her closest adviser, according to everyone familiar with her, is her husband, Todd.) By contrast, Bachmann brought in longtime GOP operative Ed Rollins to manage her presidential campaign.
Debates: Palin has never squared off with other top Republicans in a debate format. Bachmann has - and she shined in the New Hampshire debate earlier this month. The ability to stand on a stage and look like you belong matters in a presidential race.
Iowa counts: Every candidate needs a state early in the campaign where she (or he) can score a win. That's Iowa for Bachmann, who is in a statistical dead heat with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a new Des Moines Register poll, and she was born in the state. Palin doesn't sit on top in any early state.....
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I’m pretty inclined to believe or do the opposite of whatever the puppet propagandists say.
You can't go a day without suffering from BDS, can you?
What is it like being so Righteous?
What's it like sinning online?
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