Posted on 06/08/2011 4:46:53 AM PDT by Hawk720
I agree Trish. Extremely disappointing but this is where we separate the genuine from the chameleons right?
Better to learn now than later.
I don’t know about the bus tour heads-up, but the “movie” has been in the works. Bachmann has been a bit coy lately about her announcement schedule. I’m talking off the top of my head and from the peanut galley (there are a lot of candidates and I’m sure I’ve missed many of the “clues”). It just seems she’s letting Palin take the rail. Maybe with the GOP establishment trying to pick Palin off at the start of the race they thought Palin supporters would more easily transition to a Bachmann- ?, ?-Bachmann ticket.
It will be nothing, if not interesting.
You’re onto something here.
I rarely have been more disappointed in a politician.
Bachmann may have harmed her career, not just her chances of winning the GOP nomination, in ways she can't imagine yet.
yes ma’am
Well stated,sure would be nice to hear from Bachmann on this issue.
The fact that Palin herself isn’t responding shows who is the more mature candidate. She doesn’t want to lower herself to the level of a cat fight. She’s been so well tested this kind of stuff just rolls off her back. The politics of personal attack and destruction at this level are the stuff of smokey back rooms. Sarah has absolutely NO desire to go there. And that’s the problem. Bachmann is willing to play with elites. Palin wants to put them out to pasture. The contrast is very clear for me and all Sarah has to do (in the gracious way she does) is point this out and Michele’s chances will be crushed.
This election is about 0bama but it’s also about the elites. And the American people (and we are the majority regardless of what the media tries to say) are sick of elitism. Instinctively we know they’re the problem regardless of what side of the aisle they pretend to sit on. Before people got to know him 0bama SEEMED fresh and new. Now we know he just another elite, just more ineffective and not as smart (and who evidently is too passive-aggressive to grow a pair).
Cindie
Cindie
It might be a fine line but I think Michele Bachmann wants to win, while Sarah Palin doesn’t want to lose.
JMHO, if she really wanted to win anything, sending somebody like Rollins out to try to start a food fight would be the very last tactic in the book.
Trying to start that fight with Palin (especially after the entire elite has been throwing everything they can think up for a couple of years to no effect) doesn't sound like an attempt to win. It's just Sierra Squared Delta Squared with a generous dose of desperation.
Cripes, all the lady had to do was ride around in her bus for a couple of days, and now there's Big Time Political Experts committing self-immolation at every media cycle.
Only bright side is how easy it's becoming now that our enemies have decided to reveal themselves so plainly. From BOTH parties.
Sarah Palin does not have those golden chains. She does not want to lose. She is a fighter. And from watching her for awhile now, she's a damn good one - brave, tactical thinker and knows WHY she's in this war -- to save the country.
Good take on establishment elites on both sides
Your post caused me to consider that with the Tea Party fueled victories in 2010 and GOPuppies that rode their coat tails as though satan himself was chasing them, the old line pols aren’t the only potential big losers in the Restoration movement.
The two most visible classes are the political consultants and lobbyists, those fundamentally unchanged bottom feeders.
The bi-annual consultants have their shots at big bucks every two years along with lucrative media contracts or guest shots during election hiatus time. I’m guessing altogether too many act as lobbyists as well.
The second class, the lobbyists are always there. The shift from elected office to the lucrative lobbyist role has too damn many old line pols treating that role as a huge retirement bonus.
The general broad actions of the Tea Party folk are in direct opposition to the poli-consultants and lobbyists who realize their gravy train and business as usual is threatened in the next election. No one yet knows to what degree, but they are not going to risk it.
I think we are going to see a stacking of these hell spawn on the staffs of incumbents and ambition driven candidates. I suspect we will see something unleashed that no one has yet anticipated.
Look at Karl Rove, snakehead, and the rest that are unemployed in their primary rolls, they’ll all be sniping from the side lines at the high profile restoration candidates that they can’t shut out from coverage.
Hot times coming and the casualty lists will be full.
I’d say so.
why not Santorum, I don't know much about him, but he seemed "Tea-Partyesque."
Shocked to hear what? I’ve missed something here. What happened in S.C. that is shocking?
Probably should have been clearer. I was referring to the co-opting of Bachmann by the Establishment.
To be sure, the multiple reports (mentioned by VR) on the ground about the bad-mouthing of Palin by Bachmann people in SC and IA in that same thread were disturbing, but that was in the context of Bachmann allowing herself to be used like this.
As a fan of Bachmann at that point, I was stunned. Everything that has happened since then has been borne out by what was reported in that thread in January.
I might add that the report also stated with 100% certainty that Huckabee was not going to run. This has also been borne out.
Thanks Al I know I’m a day late, but I’ve been out of town a couple of days. Trying to catch up with what’s going on.
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