Romney Backer Norm Coleman Likes Michele Bachmann As VP

US News and World Report's Washington Whispers ^ | November 30, 2011 | Paul Bedard

[TexasCajun]

Romney/Bachmann vs Perry/Palin

I gotta go with my girl Sarah.

[G Larry]

Marco Rubio
He attracts Florida, Hispanics, Tea Party conservatives, and is a great mind and speaker, across the board.

(He could also win in the first chair)

[varon]

Elections have become like pro wrestling matches ...fixed before the match even starts .

BINGO BING BINGO

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

It may have worked in 2008. Not in 2012. Bachmann has clearly been angling for this by hanging around at 5% and attacking any and all conservatives who pose a threat to Mittens. She has NEVER gone after Mitt on national television or in any debate.

She has NOT acted in the best interests of the Tea Party nor Conservatives in general. She has behaved very selfishly. Mitt needs her to hang in there because her 5% in each state could tip a plirality to him.

Only a Gardasil Retard would fail to have seen this coming from a mile away.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I think Chris Christie will be the VP on the Republican ticket. After carrying a blue state, his ability to sell to moderates would be irresistible.

[Perdogg]

Who doesn’t? :)

[Cboldt]

-- How did it work? Have I been in a coma and John McCain is in the White House? It just made his defeat less than it would've been with Liebermann or Romney as his running mate. --

The proposition I was replying to was "That picking Rep. Bachmann will buy off the Tea Party?" Not that putting Bachmann on the ticket would result in the GOP winning the presidential race.

-- And Michele is no Sarah! Just because they're both female doesn't mean there are any other similarities. Rep. Bachmann doesn't have a day of executive experience! She's a backbencher in the House, at best. --

In addition to both being female, both appear to be generally conservative at heart, at least compared with most of the Democrats, and even compared with many of those in the GOP, for example, John McCain and Mitt Romney.

I've posted here before that I think Bachmann is an airhead and a lightweight, so I don't disagree with your bottom line. My point was just that some TEA partiers are apt to increase their inclination to vote a presidential ticket with Romney at the top, if Bachmann is the named VP candidate.

[Cboldt]

-- ...and we were also told in 2008 by some Freepers that if we stayed home and let 0bummer win we would get the Next Reagan because the population would be so disgusted. How is that prop working out? --

At least the DEM party is being held more at fault for the current situation, than it would have been if McCain had been elected.

I think the country is "lost," (the idea that the federal government should be one of limited and enumerated powers) in part due to a belief in universal suffrage as a worthy ideal, and about half of the voting population's preference being bought off with public money.

I'm also fascinated that the public seems to accept that the president is responsible to set domestic policy. Congress deserves 95% of the blame, and the courts too, for supporting decades of Congressional overreach.