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Blitzer asked Bachmann 5 times if Romney was disqualified re: RomneyCare and she refused to answer.
Friday June 17, 2011

Posted on 06/17/2011 3:52:03 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Just happened, very strange! Wolf Blitzer Interview with Michele Bachmann. Blitzer asked Bachmann 5 times do you agree with Tim Pawlenty that Mitt romney is disqualified from being the Republican nominee for president because he supports mandated healthcare.?

She kept responding that she's against obamacare/mandates. Blitzer tried again to pin down some kind of answer. She evaded the question at every turn, didn't want to touch it and finally a frustrated Blitzer then says, "You obviously don't want to answer the question?"

I know people say that nominees shouldn't attack other nominees yet but if not now, when? because Romney is trying to create the "inevitability" card so that momentum carries him eventually to a plurality of the votes on the primaries.


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To: Brandonmark

But, Bush was selected for VP! (eliminated duplicate “for”)


81 posted on 06/17/2011 4:34:52 PM PDT by Brandonmark (News Coverage)
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To: jospehm20; bgill

You don’t think she is shooting for the top slot?
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Romney is by all accounts, the front runner.
AND probably the MOST liberal of ANY GOP candidate.

if she was truly going for the top slot,
(and, as truly conservative as we believed)
he would be her PRIME A#1 target !

...and, if, if she was simply obeying Reagan’s 11th
(even if it allows Romney to win),
they why did she hire someone who showed no hesitation
in attacking Palin, repeatedly, both before AND after,
without comment by Bachmann.
...she can’t have it both ways.

if she is truly what she says she is, then she needs to WIPE THE FLOOR with Romney. THEN, i’d support her.
- - -
and bgill is very correct here. does this sound like the straight talking hard-nosed conservative we NEED ???:

“Doesn’t surprise me a bit. She tends to avoid questions and doesn’t give straight answers to unexpected questions. She also will sidestep the topic to relate it to a talking point.”


82 posted on 06/17/2011 4:35:34 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: dirtboy
Isn't that the entire idea of a primary? To knock off the other candidates?

The primary ELECTIONS aren't until next year.

I think it's wise at this point for ALL the GOP candidates to differentiate Republicans from Democrats in order to improve the generic favorability of the Republican "brand." The in-fighting can wait until much later.

The MSM (like Blitzer) would rather see the GOP candidates use their camera time to belittle each other rather than to get the GOP strategic message out in a way that might sway voters instead of turn them off.

All the GOP candidates are wise at this point to present their own ideas for the future, and leave the attacks on the others for when the voting gets closer.

-PJ

83 posted on 06/17/2011 4:35:53 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
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To: Bigtigermike

The word disqualified is the keyword. It isn’t up to her to declare Romney disqualified. It is up to the voters.

Give it a rest, I don’t see any other candidates saying Romney is disqualified. Of course if you aren’t a candidate, you can say whatever tickles your fancy and look real popular.

The left play people like you because you and other Palin fans play right into their hands, you do all the work for them and carry their water. Y’all have been doing that all day around here. Obama doesn’t have to do a thing. Don’t think this won’t happen to anyone else either.


84 posted on 06/17/2011 4:36:18 PM PDT by dforest
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To: allmendream

I agree! That’s my point! I don’t need Michele to say “why, yes Mitt is disqualified to run because of RomneyCare” all I want is that many are highly concerned about what he did and the effects that will have considering everyone is against ObamaCare is an issue


85 posted on 06/17/2011 4:37:04 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Lakeshark
Something's fishy here.

I agree. Michelle needs to answer this question right away. It's just too weird for her to dodge it repeatedly as she has.

86 posted on 06/17/2011 4:37:28 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: ejdrapes

It would have to be on FOX because she has yet to go anywhere else. LOL


87 posted on 06/17/2011 4:37:32 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Bigtigermike
Too bad, Ms. Bachmann exposed herself as Mitt Romney's wench.

No judgment in her brain.


88 posted on 06/17/2011 4:38:46 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. - Leto II: Dar-es-Balat)
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To: jospehm20

not to mention, even the libs, like at the Brookings Institute, are praising her like sliced bread.
WHY???
on paper, she is one of the MOST conservative.
so, WHY are liberals praising her so much ?

...again, if she fires Rollins, OR, comes out swinging after Romney’s rhino hide, then i’ll believe it.
she needs to explain WHY libs would suddenly praise her so highly...


89 posted on 06/17/2011 4:38:58 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: SharpRightTurn

I don’t agree. There will be plenty of time to expose the Punk. To me, the debates should be about comparing and contrasting each other, as well as taking shots at the Imposter. We can’t let the multi-millionaire socialist RINO build up a head of steam. Bob


90 posted on 06/17/2011 4:39:30 PM PDT by alstewartfan (When you're fresh out of lawyers, you don't know how good it's gonna feel! Al Stewart)
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To: Lakeshark
The theory that she is a stalking horse for Rove and Romney has its first smoking gun.

The first 'smoking gun' was when Rollins showed up on her payroll.

91 posted on 06/17/2011 4:40:27 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Lakeshark

For a conservative it an instinctive response to be against a healthcare mandate no matter if it’s at the State or Federal level.

Sarah said so much in so few word with this quote.

“However, even on a state level and even a local level, mandates coming from a governing body, it’s tough for a lot of us independent Americans to accept, because we have great faith in the private sectors and our own families … and our own businessmen and women making decisions for ourselves. Not any level of government telling us what to do.”


92 posted on 06/17/2011 4:40:38 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: "You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

She does not need to answer every question from the media.


93 posted on 06/17/2011 4:40:53 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( The Palin Party: The Party of Patriots.)
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To: indylindy

The voters must be PERSUADED to reject Romney. The average voter is a dupe. Bob


94 posted on 06/17/2011 4:41:30 PM PDT by alstewartfan (When you're fresh out of lawyers, you don't know how good it's gonna feel! Al Stewart)
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To: Bigtigermike
Five times the question was asked, and I - armchair quarterback - come up with five perfectly reasonable answers.

It didn't even have to be the one you like - that many are highly concerned and that the effects that will have considering everyone (on our side) is against 0bamaCare - and that it is an issue. That is a nice noncommittal answer that brings up that it is up for the American people to decide, and that obviously (thus the five time question) it is going to be MADE into an issue.

95 posted on 06/17/2011 4:41:55 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: indylindy
I'm with you. If I decide to vote for Bachmann, I won't change my vote over this.
96 posted on 06/17/2011 4:43:01 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Compassionate Conservatism? Promoting self reliance is compassionate. Promoting dependency is not.)
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To: Bigtigermike
Shes a pinhead

Her refusal to criticize that phony son of a bitch tells you everything you want to know.

Her 2 terms in the House have been all about ginning up for the next opportunity, and she is nothing but another megalomaniac.

97 posted on 06/17/2011 4:44:26 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You do not recall correctly. Reagan made the best speech ever on health care. Go listen to it, I think levin still has it.


98 posted on 06/17/2011 4:44:49 PM PDT by itsahoot (I Stand with Sarah Palin)
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To: abb
You're right, I saw that last week, and when he said the anti-Palin leftist crap, she never apologized or took him to the woodshed.

I hate to say this because I have appreciated her conservative stances, but something is fishy with her and this presidential run.

I hope what I am suspecting is not true. I've always liked her.

99 posted on 06/17/2011 4:45:05 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: MNJohnnie

Another question, having crawled way out on this trash everyone who isn’t Palin limb, what are you going to do if Palin does NOT run and goes out and supports someone you all have spent all your time around her trashing?
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HERMAN CAIN.
BRILLIANT man. Math and Computer Science Degrees.
(how about THAT in a President, as a change from lawyers?)

great speaker. proven leader with executive experience.
understands the REAL National Security dangers from Islam.
has great ideas for fixing the economy. (and again, REAL world business experience).

even BEFORE Bachmann went soft on Romney, and started getting praise from libs, i was learning more about Cain,
and finding more and more to like and admire.


100 posted on 06/17/2011 4:45:09 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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