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Nice profile in the Weekly Standard. Of course it will be difficult for Bachmann to nab the nomination with little executive experience but I think she resonates with the grass roots in a way Jon Huntsman or Mitt Romney never will. They may have the big donors behind them buy they don't have the grass roots of the party and in 2012 I think it will be very tough to win the nomination without support from the base.


1 posted on 06/25/2011 4:47:33 AM PDT by ejdrapes
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To: ejdrapes
"Palin, who campaigned for Bachmann in 2010, remains a friend."

One doubts the writer knows anything of truth.

The RINO Bachmann hypocritically dispatched
her GOP-killer Rollins to SMEAR Gov. Palin.
And in almost a month since then, RINO Bachmann
has NOT given a public apology or dismissed Rollins.


2 posted on 06/25/2011 4:57:01 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. - Leto II: Dar-es-Balat)
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To: ejdrapes

michele bachmann is NOT “queen of the TEA Party” except by self-proclamation. It is position she coveted and tried to capture, but she never cut it. This is rino, mccain-loving kristol’s mag. Don’t get too happy just yet.


3 posted on 06/25/2011 5:02:15 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Sarah Palin is the mirror by which evil reflects back upon itself until consumed out of existence)
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To: ejdrapes
Michele is great gal BUT she ain't the Queen of the Tea Party.

The media is so obvious, so pathetic in its attempt to write all things but Sarah. Sad!

4 posted on 06/25/2011 5:05:03 AM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: ejdrapes

Little experience compared to who?


6 posted on 06/25/2011 5:06:45 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ejdrapes

Oh and Palin is the undisputed leader (don’t like “queen” because of the monarchy stuff) of the tea party.


8 posted on 06/25/2011 5:08:29 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ejdrapes

Too bad that she only has you as her face.

She is doomed because of you.


11 posted on 06/25/2011 5:14:42 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: ejdrapes
It appears Michele Bachmann has become queen of the neocons.
14 posted on 06/25/2011 5:29:43 AM PDT by bwc2221
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To: ejdrapes

Various RINOs and their Fellow Travelers make cracks, obvious or veiled, about the Tea Party. Try to win without them!


19 posted on 06/25/2011 5:36:45 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: ejdrapes
A good, positive article, but "Queen of the Tea Party"?

I think you (and other Bachmann supporters) have been on record as saying no one (meaning Palin) is head of the Tea party.

I'm certain you'll all being correcting that on this thread....../s

26 posted on 06/25/2011 5:57:34 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: ejdrapes
Whenever she is asked if she is the head of the Tea Party, Sarah Palin emphatically denies it saying there is no leader of the Tea Party; that it is a grass roots movement, which is what makes it so great,

Michele Bachmann, on the other hand, attempts to portray herself as the leader of the Tea Party.

28 posted on 06/25/2011 6:01:59 AM PDT by bwc2221
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To: ejdrapes

Queen of the Tea Party - The presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann


36 posted on 06/25/2011 6:28:58 AM PDT by McGruff (Why do they fear her so?)
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To: ejdrapes
Anybody know if the queen was here?


39 posted on 06/25/2011 6:37:38 AM PDT by McGruff (Why do they fear her so?)
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To: ejdrapes; HarleyD; Dr. Eckleburg; topcat54; Lee N. Field; Alex Murphy
All of the Bible is about Israel.

Just a quick comment. Not to pick nits, but all of the Bible is about Jesus. He says so himself, more than once.

59 posted on 06/25/2011 7:19:57 AM PDT by Gamecock (It's not eat drink and be merry because tommow we die, but rather because yesterday we were dead.)
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To: ejdrapes

Good for u....bump


74 posted on 06/25/2011 8:18:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (ok...so far I am Palin/Rubio 2012....i can explain easy..just ask)
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To: DoughtyOne

fyi


113 posted on 06/25/2011 11:40:26 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: ejdrapes

Weekly Standard = Rep Establishment, no surprise they are pushing MB along with Charles Krauthammer,Chris Matthews,NY Times etc etc etc

Love the fact that Gov Palin is in Iowa the day after MB announces AGAIN, that she is running.... from Waterloo of all places.


117 posted on 06/25/2011 1:22:05 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN OR BUST....Bachmann no thanks)
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To: ejdrapes

Another opinion:

There were hopeful indications, suggestions, soupçons, that Michele Bachmann was an at least incipient dissenter from the Bush / Obama / neocon paradigm on nation-building and “democratizing” Muslim nations.
Alas, it was not to be. She tells a delighted Matthew Continetti at The Weekly Standard:

On Afghanistan, I firmly believe that we are at a point where we’ve got to stay the course, and we’ve got to finish the job. Reports coming out of Helmand right now are positive.... David Petraeus, who wrote the book on counterinsurgency and on the surge strategy, is successfully prosecuting the surge.
Now, President Obama has not told the story the way President Bush did. President Bush did let the country know where we were at, and I give him a lot of credit because when he was getting all sorts of invective pointed against him, he stood against the world for what he knew to be right in dealing with terrorism. And perhaps no other would have stood the way that he did. I give him great credit for that.

Now in Afghanistan, we are making great progress. We have to win southern Afghanistan, then we have to go on and win eastern Afghanistan. I believe that we will be victorious, and we’ll end it. I understand why people are frustrated. I completely understand. But I do trust General Petraeus in that effort and in what he is doing over there. And I think that they are doing what we need to do.

Bachmann apparently has no grasp, not even a tiny hint, of the essential hopelessness and insanity of what we have been doing there—sacrificing our men to build “trust” with our mortal enemies. Apparently the repeated mass murders of U.S. soldiers by their Afghan “allies” has not caused the slightest tremor of cognitive dissonance in the congresswoman’s comely head. And apparently she has never even thought about the fundamental questions asked the other day by Diana West:
Is Western-style nation-building in the Islamic Umma in any way a practical policy?
Are basic American concepts of governance compatible in any way with a culture based in religious and sexual supremacism?

Should Americans be dying for people who, for example, practice child marriage? Pederasty? To whom women are chattel? To whom corruption is as much a part of their lives as air? Whose allegiances, whose belief system, whose natural reflexes default, in the end, in ways subtle and not subtle, to the ways of jihad against infidels?

Could someone maybe arrange a meeting between Rep. Bachmann and Miss West?
—end of initial entry—
Diana West writes:

Such a disappointment—but what else is new?!!
Jim C. writes:
Is Afghanistan worth American lives and taxpayer dollars? Of course not.
JC in Houston writes:
One thing I’ve never understood is how do we “win” portions of these tribal hellholes? It’s been 10 years already. I think the tide of popular opinion IS turning against this misadventure. If only the politicians would get it as well.
Paul K. writes:
It’s unfortunate that in America today you have to spout a great deal of nonsense in order to be taken seriously.
It may be that Bachmann believes what she says about Afghanistan, or it may be that she knows what she has to say in order to maintain political viability. The other night I saw the panel of establishment conservatives on Fox News scoffing at Ron Paul’s view that we have no business in Libya—that alone was enough to make him politically irrelevant in their judgment.


118 posted on 06/25/2011 8:52:39 PM PDT by ventanax5
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