just because...
Posted on 10/01/2010 1:48:37 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
Michele Bachmann famously couldn’t let go of George W. Bush during an encounter with the president following his 2007 State of the Union address. Now, however, she can’t seem to get far enough away.
In a new ad out Wednesday, Bachmann distances herself from Bush and lumps him in with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Barack Obama.
“That’s why fought and I voted against the Bush Wall Street bailout, the failed Pelosi trillion-dollar stimulus and Obama’s government takeover of healthcare,” she says in the ad.
It’s a far cry from Bachmann’s warm embrace of Bush after his annual SOTU address three years ago. After that speech, in a moment memorialized on YouTube, Bachmann took Bush’s arm and held on even as he shook another congresswoman’s hand—and continued to hang on for at least 30 seconds until she received a hug and kiss from the president as well.
The Wall Street bailouts — formally the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP — passed with some Republican support in 2008 at the end of Bush’s second term. The vote helped galvanize the tea party and has helped spell doom for several Republican House and Senate incumbents who have lost primaries, including South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis.
Bachmann is running against state Sen. Tarryl Clark in Minnesota’s 6th District. She’s raised more than $4.7 million this cycle, in a contest that ranks as one of the most expensive House races this year.
Outing Republicans who want to play Diamond Jim Brady with taxpayer money.
She and DeMint should be proud of their anti-TARP credentials.
3 years ago when that embrace occurred W had just become a lame duck President who rolled over for every spending need...
Bush (Dubya) now admits the bailout was a mistake. So is Bush throwing Bush under the bus?
She’s my Congresscritter and I’m glad.
Michele Bachman, one of my hero’s.
She didn’t throw Bush-o-socialist under the bus, he shoved conservatives over the cliff of socialism.
And her ad is right on!
I heart Michele Bachmann
In my district we renominated our former congressman who voted against TARP. The geniuses in the NRCC tossed him overboard in 08 after he voted against the bailout and he lost by 2%. Now he leads by around 10%.
Funny thing is, the democrat incumbant is trying to claim the vote against TARP was his even though he wasn’t elected for another month after the vote.
I’m not one of those folks who blame Bush for everything, but he did make some doozies and TARP was the worst.
Good for you—and him! It would be a nice story to have him back in.
LLS
As far as I know, he’s the only former congressman to be nominated in the “anti incumbant” atmosphere these days.
Tim Walberg MI-07 BTW
How could the state that gave us Ventura, Wellstone, Ellison, Klobuchar and Franken have a district smart enough to elect Michele?
I'm just glad to be on the Isle d'Intelligence here in the DumbAsso Sea.
Unlike liberal Dems who turn blinded eyes to their foibles the real conservatives call it like it is. GWB was conservative in some ways but liberal in others. He tried to appease the Left side of the aisle way too often. MB calls it like it is.
This is pure Politico misleading headline trying to drive a wedge among Republicans.
She voted against the bill in 2008, was she “throwing Bush under the bus” then?
No, she was simply against the bill, she was then and she is now.
“Bush (Dubya) now admits the bailout was a mistake.”
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He knew that at the time, but he caved to the pressure being exerted on him as he was about to exit office.
Bush was a mediocrity as president who got elected because the alternative in both cases was far worse. He is no conservative and many of his actions went far to discredit his party and give Hussein the White House and the leftists control of the congress. That said - compared to the buffoon we have now Bush looks like a statesman of the first order. I was right to vote for him twice because Gore is a proven lunatic and Lurch a seditious, pompous fool.
But it sure would be nice to be able to vote for someone because I thought he/she was really the best one for the job.
just because...
Politico is turning harder left by the day — and even they must know this story is fully contrived. If you read Politico carefully (with safety pin on nose firmly attached), you see they have two primary goals: (1) Puff Barack Obama, and (2) Savage Sarah Palin (or anyone, like Michele, who happens to align himself or herself with Sarah).
In short, Politico has become a predictable leftwing rag.
She didn’t flip flop. She likes Bush on some things, and faults him on others.
Bush was excellent on the right to life. He was excellent in the early days of the war on terror, although he later got bogged down. Although that may have been the constant undermining of the war effort by the Dems and the press.
Bush was also a decent and likeable guy.
But he had some major flaws. Among them: Amnesty, big spending, big government, and failure to stand up and speak the truth to Dem lies.
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