Posted on 04/05/2011 10:08:32 AM PDT by FreeManDC
The vacuum created by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) absence from the 2012 campaign trail presents a major opportunity for the woman she once hinted might share a presidential ticket with her: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).
With strategists and conservative activists increasingly convinced that Palin won’t make a run for the White House next year, she is losing some clout among her contingent of grassroots devotees who are eager to hit the 2012 campaign trail and rally behind an alternative to President Obama.
Bachmann, who is mulling a 2012 run, is the most obvious choice to supplant Palin in next year’s presidential contest.
Thanks. This bill was the original bill that was generated in the House. It was then HB 2751. Not all that bad.
It did not become heinous until the Senate decided to go in and amend the original bill. It then became S 510. A bad one.
This is when the bad stuff was added and voted on in late 2010.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510
The jackasses in the Senate just used the original innocuous bill to attach all their overreach onto. Dick Durbin was the sponsor.
True. But there can never be too many threads posted on behalf of Saint Sarah.
I vote for Julianna Marguiles to play Michele when HBO does the hack-job mini series about her run for the WH.
I never said she was less experienced than Governor Palin or anybody else. All I said was that if she has good leadership credentials she needs to start putting those forward. Incidentally, though my comment was made this afternoon, Karl Rove said basically the same thing on FOX tonight. The Congresswoman needs to show that she is something more than a conservative-talk-show-media darling.
Umm, this is not ‘for’ Sarah. Have you read it or has your PDS blinded you?
Great analogy, and the absolute truth. If Sarah Palin steps into the ring, it's all over, except for the ceremony.
Bachmann has a great heart, and she's a first rate patriot, but she doesn't have near the depth, command presence, vision, nor the executive experience of Sarah Palin.
If anything, that ticket would be the other way to, but a two woman ticket isn't going to happen.
Yes, they are both very supportive of one another. Why, it was Sarah Palin who gave Bachmann the idea of praising New Hampshire for being the home of Concord and Lexington. [Walts Ice Pick]
The MSM is just trying to instigate a divide-and-conquer meme amongst fans of each of these women, to split the Tea Party.
It's not a sweat, it's just what they do. The MSM has it's rails, and they run on them. It's not like any of those geniuses has any new ideas.
If it starts to catch on, Palin and Bachmann will just make a mutually supportive statement, and pop the stupid balloon. In the mean time, it's worth letting the Rats waste their energy.
With any luck, Hillary will think its a good idea and maximize the wasted effort, energy and money as only she can. ::snicker ::
Thank you for reminding folks of that, Jack.
The presidency of the US is not a position for anyone who's never run a large organization before, which eliminates nearly every congress critter (conservative patriot, or not). It's the most important Chief Executive position on the planet, and anyone who occupies that office should have extensive experience in being at the pinnacle of a large hierarchy, preferably as a state governor.
You'd think that with the current resident of the White House nearly pushing this country over the precipice into the abyss, the American people would DEMAND someone with proven executive leadership skills for their next president.
America has one last chance to get it right, and as I look out to the horizon, there is only ONE person with the right combination of executive experience, organizational skills, daring, grit, vision, charisma, smarts, patriotism, determination, courage, and the level of support required to unseat the Usurper.
That person is Sarah Palin.
When Abe Lincoln ran for president, he hadn't been a House member for some time. He was also president during a day and age when our government was about a thousand times smaller than it is today.
Today's federal government is a highly complex, and gargantuan beast of an organization, that takes real executive experience to command effectively.
In Lincoln's time, all it required was that a man have good character, some capacity for leadership, and an ability to preside (hence, president) over the government. Not so today.
indylindy,
“Not all that bad.”
The bill was, and is “all that bad”. The bill grants the use of carte blanche authority to the federal government in overseeing, regulating, as well as penalizing and collecting funds in ALL forms and areas of food production and distribution in the United States. I read both HR 2751 (not HB) 2751 as well as H.R. 2749 and S510. Without exception, these legislative measures allow the federal government to overstep their authority in regulating food production at all levels in the United States.
Regardless how you slice it, indylindy, Michele Bachmann voted in favor of H.R. 2749, which passed in the House, thus paving the way for further legislation and implementation of said policy. Bachmann is no dummy. She knew what she was voting on.
You accused me of using “smear” tactics. As you can see, I was not motivated by a desire to attack Bachmann on a personal level. According to my Conservative principles, Michele Bachmann supported a bill that is so anti-Conservative that for me to dismiss it or undermine the seriousness of her decision would not only be a contradiction, but irresponsible of me as a Conservative American.
The candidates in the race now are there for a show, pretenders, getting attention, riding shotgun for Romney the annointed etc.
Bachmann has a target painted or her already for being alive, she should go out and run, raise money etc. if for no other reason than self-defense of her congressional seat.
I agree. I cringe every time I see some House rep take a stab at running for president, especially when it's one of our side's best and brightest.
I really don't know where some people get the idea that they can buck history and go directly from the House, to the presidency. It's rarely been accomplished in our history, and such candidacies are almost certain to fail.
A House rep might have all the 'right stuff', but the fact is, Americans are much more likely to choose an ex-Governor, or a Senator for president.
I think most House reps who try this, are talked into it by well-meaning, but historically clueless supporters.
No sitting member in the House of Representatives has been elected directly to the presidency in well over a hundred years.
There is no comparison. This tells you that SB 510 is the one that messes with gardens and food growers.
The one Bachmann voted on was the bill in response to all the contamination that was hitting the food supply at the time. It required labels on origin of food and inspections.
Michele did not vote for SB 510. That is what she was being accused of.
I have a hard time squaring her vote on that too with my principals. I mean, I like her n all, but wth?! I don't get that vote and it really bothers me. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Is there anyplace where she explains her position and why she voted as she did?
Thank you Lady.
SB 510 is a US Senate bill, Michelle Bachmann is in the US House of Representatives.
Sarah will be running (and will win). I have real problems with someone in Bachmann’s position that doesn’t know what state Concord and Lexington are in. There’s no way to spin out of those remarks.
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