Posted on 06/25/2011 9:23:12 PM PDT by Babu
She hasn't even officially announced her presidential campaign yet, but already Rep. Michele Bachmann is virtually tied with Mitt Romney in the 2012 Iowa caucus polling season.
In the first summer poll, published just minutes ago, the Minnesota congresswoman who was born in Iowa has 22% to Romney's 23% lead in the still developing field of Republican presidential prospects, according to the closely-watched Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.
Business executive and tea party favorite Herman Cain finished well behind with 10% in the poll. No other Republican attracted double-digit support.
The former governor from next door Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, lags at 6%.
Bachmann will appear on two of the Sunday morning talk shows. And then formally launch her run for the Republican nomination Monday in Iowa. After, she'll do the same in New Hampshire and South Carolina, three early states that have historically played major roles in deciding the nominees of both parties.
On Tuesday, no doubt by coincidence, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be in Iowa to campaign for -- wait for it -- the new documentary movie about her life, "The Undefeated." The premiere that day is already sold out. Palin has not indicated her decision about a 2012 race, but too much delay this summer could make her decision irrelevant. The poll reported no numbers for Palin.
Republican ex-Sen. Rick Santorum (4%) will also be wandering around Iowa this coming week, along with Rep. Ron Paul (7%) and Newt Gingrich (7%). Even President Obama will visit Iowa on Tuesday to talk more about creating jobs.
Ex-Gov. Jon Huntsman (2%) has indicated he will not be making a major effort in the Hawkeye state. Presumed GOP front-runner Romney, who finished second there to Mike Huckabee in the 2008 caucuses, can't appear to be writing off Iowa.
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oh noes, this means if bachmann is the nominee she’ll pick mitt as her running mate! /chickenlittle
Poll after poll now shows we have a conservative that can take down Romney. I’d expect Bachmann’s numbers in Iowa to soar if the field remains as it is.
This is like polling for the Dem nomination and leaving out Mr. Obama. What a crock of shiite.
First poll I’ve seen where Bachmann is just one point away from Romney’s runaway {snicker} lead.
BACHMANN A DISAPPOINTMENT ON AFGHANISTAN
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?
It’s being reported as a tie because the media can’t bring themselves to admit that Bachman is eating the designated front-runner’s lunch on Day 1 of her campaign.
They should at least have a poll that includes a “What if Palin ran?” scenario.
MB 2012 ping
iowa is a caucus state, which is a stupid way to pick a candidate. you may as well have a riot.
the better organized candidate will win.
Bachmann, bless her well intended soul, needs to bone up on some history. Once a Muslim group has gone from nominal to radical in its Mo Madness, virtually nothing short of annihilation or severe ignominy will stop it. Now, if she really is willing to be that ruthless in Afghanistan, if this Lutheran lady can call up the spirit of the Lutheran warriors of the old Nordic countries, there might be a chance of some progress. But she’ll have to be more devastating to radical Islamic groups than even Russia was able to be.
I assume you are joking.
I saw that. Excellent news. I’d sure like to see the early primary states present us with a good jump on a great nominee for a change.
It has been at least 20 years, and if you get right down to it, more like 27 since we’ve had a solid in the general election. George the Elder was too much owned by the NWO crowd, and was on a par with McCain when it came to campaigning.
Bad news for T-Paw. Romney is skipping the Iowa straw polls and putting everything on NH as is Huntsman.
phase 1: anybody but obama
phase 2: anybody but romeny
Tim is toast.
Mitt who ?
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