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Michele Bachmann’s record: Earmarks, farm subsidies and pardons?
dailycaller ^ | May 15, 2011 | Matt Lewis

Posted on 06/16/2011 7:51:23 PM PDT by RED SOUTH

Bachmann may also be plagued by her involvement in a controversial pardon. In 2007, Bachmann wrote a letter requesting a presidential pardon for a convicted drug-smuggler and money-launderer named Frank Vennes. Vennes was convicted of money laundering in 1988 and pleaded no contest to a cocaine and weapons charge. Making matters worse, he and his wife donated a total of $27,600 to Bachmann’s 2006 and 2008 election.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bachmann; bachmann4romney; cultofpalin; dailycaller; elections; frankvennes; hitjob; nobodyexceptsarah; obama; palin; romneywhore; trashingmichele; vennes
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

This is me redsouth. To answer your questions about who? If not Palin then Cain but never Bachmann or Romney or Pawlenty or Gingrich. You guys just wait , there is a mountain of dirt on Bachmann , the media will hold back for later use. She IS NOT what people think.


61 posted on 06/17/2011 10:44:58 AM PDT by RED SOUTH (Follow me on twitter @redsouth72)
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To: 9YearLurker
If it’s down to Romney or Bachmann, it’s Romney in a walk.

Actually, if it's down to Romney, it's Obama in a walk!! The two are negatives of each other.

As for Ms. Bachmann, I'm not so sure. She's smart and has been a leading mouthpiece of the Tea Party over the past year or two. IMO, the jury's still out on her but, FWIW, if the DBM has already begun their smear campaign against her, she has a real shot among conservatives. A really interesting ticket would be Palin/Bachmann. The left will explode and conservatives could likely be in heaven!

We have a long way to go to the election and lots of things will happen. We don't even know who will end up surviving the primaries, but I'm not putting my money on Romney. He already has some negatives and they aren't going to get any better.

62 posted on 06/17/2011 1:15:11 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Go green - recycle Congress in 2012!!)
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To: DustyMoment

Bachmann adds nothing to a Palin ticket and with zero executive experience in or out of government and an incredibly meager record for getting legislation passed as a 3-term congresscritter and never having been vetted at the national level before (do you want to bet that none of her 23 ex-foster children could be bought off by the Dems?), she really isn’t a legitimate presidential candidate on her own.

She does have the RINO Establishment propping her up as a stalking horse to try to take out Palin, however.


63 posted on 06/17/2011 1:30:51 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker
Bachmann adds nothing to a Palin ticket and with zero executive experience in or out of government and an incredibly meager record for getting legislation passed as a 3-term congresscritter and never having been vetted at the national level before (do you want to bet that none of her 23 ex-foster children could be bought off by the Dems?), she really isn’t a legitimate presidential candidate on her own.

As opposed to the vast experience that Bammy had when he was elected POTUS!!???

Perhaps that would explain why I put her second on the ticket under Palin. She can learn from the best.

64 posted on 06/17/2011 8:20:50 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Go green - recycle Congress in 2012!!)
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To: DustyMoment

Ha—Bammy at least was a senator and he’d had less time in office not to get any legislation passed!


65 posted on 06/17/2011 8:27:11 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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