Bachmann Teas off against Mitt (Bachmann attacks Romney as "flip flopper")

The Boston Herald ^ | 2011-06-26 | Jessica Fargen

[rabscuttle385]

Tea Party queen U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is touting her airtight conservative credentials in a veiled dig at GOP presidential nomination opponent Mitt Romney.

Bachmann, speaking via Skype.com to the National Right to Life Convention in Florida last week, didn’t mention Romney by name, but it was obvious she was taking aim at him for his previous wavering on the abortion issue, the Huffington Post reports. The 2012 race is “not the time for Republicans to put up a candidate who is weak on this issue and has a history of flip-flopping on this issue,” she said.

[samtheman]

I agree. Rollins has not much of a track record and what he does have is from long, long ago. Talk about hiring a tired old race-horse based on his glory. It shows very poor leadership abilities on Bachmann’s part that she a) hired him, b) kept him on after his “Palin is stupid” remark.

But then, where is somebody with House experience going to get a chance to learn leadership? That’s why House members never (in modern times) become President.

[wolfman23601]

Why would Rollins apologize? Palin is not a serious candidate... or an unserious candidate. She is not a candidate at all at this point. She has until 9/11 before my money gets committed to a candidate.

[Agamemnon]

Ah, yes. Followed, in turn, by the Kemp Inauguration, and two four-year terms for the fabulously successful Kemp administration. ;)

I didn't imply that Rollins was successful with Kemp's primary. In fact I started out by saying he is possibly also not the best adviser for Bachmann -- if in fact she's taken him on as an adviser in the real sense at all.

My point was this: should Kemp's judgment be called into question for his choice even as the self-ordained potentates of what is supposed to pass for "good judgment" around here dive at Bachmann for her strategy of choosing Rollins at this moment?

Kemp had his reasons, Bachmann has hers. Will you deny that he was selected as Dole's running mate, and if Dole was a credible opposition force and not another McCain-like personality, Kemp (like Palin) could have actually served as Vice-President?

Some here on FR have knives out for Bachmann for some reason, and are trying to assert that her pick of Rollins is a lapse in judgment. I happen to think her plan is alot better formed than alot of posters here who claim to be so "informed."

I submit that they don't think strategically and know squat; they fall for media invented stories about alleged personal friction between Bachmann and Palin, and the media just laughs as they play the conservatives for fools chasing their tails.

This is one pretty smart and gutsy lady. Strategically thinking in the context of moving ahead the Tea Party agenda, I think she's head and shoulders above any of the couch potato snipers who show up around here, intent on slinging their barbs.

FReegards!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[...] dive at Bachmann [...] knives out for Bachmann [...], etc., etc.

I "deny" nothing, thanks for asking. Whatever it is you're arguing, however, is (plainly) only tangentially connected, at best, to anything I've asserted thus far. Breathe, f'chrissakes. ;)

[ScottinVA]

He didn't call her stupid. He said she wasn't a serious candidate. Bachmann did tell him to apologize.

And frankly, is Palin a serious candidate for POTUS if she hasn't even declared yet?

[Agamemnon]

Not much of a track record if you ask me.

So say you. What are you, like 20 years old with the command of history comparable to something you might find under a Snapple bottle cap?

Get real. Diminish an accomplishment like that and Rollins' strategy in 1984 all you want. Lest you forget, it was not necessarily going to be a cake walk for Reagan after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in Fall 1983, resulting in the subsequent withdrawal of US forces without any significant retribution. It took the shine off the previous Grenada rescue where Reagan's welcome aggressive foreign policy was concerned.

The economy picked up in late 1983 following the last tax cut installment in August, and the economy was humming a year later. Rollins steered the course of the message in that direction, successful guided the wrapping of Reagan's persona around that message and that brought the unmatched success in 1984.

Rollins may not be being brought on board by Bachmann as an adviser so much at this point, as it might be a strategy to put the old time Washington strategist in a "box."

Where the Tea Party's message is fresh -- and she wants to keep it that way -- she doesn't necessarily want a Rollins out there working his remaining talents through some other candidate. This could result in diluting the message with strategies which were more appropriate for campaigns 25 years ago. Those messages are not necessarily relevant to the current political climate, where the Tea Party message is in its ascendancy, and Bachamnn in a big way is leading the charge.

Bachmann's got her reasons. I for one will choose trust her judgment and her instincts. With 5 kids of her own and 23 foster kids in her care at one time or other, I think she knows a thing or two about handling perosonalities on all ends of the spectrum -- from curmudgeonly malcontents to babies. And she knows how to bring them to heel.

FReegards!

[jla]

I thought she was Mitt's stalking horse. Now, are those the floated that lie, including Tammy Bruce, going to apologize for that smear?

Of course they won't. The irony though is Bachamnn taking a swipe at Romney's position on abortion whilst Palin cheerleader Tammy Bruce has been celebrating the recent passage of the 'gay marriage' bill in the New York legislature.
I wonder if Bruce touts her support for gay marriage, as well as abortion, in her appearance in The Undefeated?

[Caipirabob]

I thought she was Mitt's stalking horse. Now, are those the floated that lie, including Tammy Bruce, going to apologize for that smear?

Is Rollins still with her? If so, I am not.

[org.whodat]

Then he did not call her stupid and someone is telling a big one. That little statement is nothing more than a little zinger. I see you with a little tiny shovel desperately trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

[org.whodat]

ROFLOL, now that was a good zinger.

[org.whodat]

In a trillion dollar budget calling 250 thousand dollars pork, is truly picking gnat shit off of your pepper. What did the Alaskan bridge to nowhere cost anyway?????

[org.whodat]

I think someone is being childish to think that someone saying so and so is not a serious candidate is a firing offense, that is really beyond thin skinned. And if a candidate cannot take that one, they damn sure cannot handle the adult world of politics.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Good excuses are hard to come by for their cult lunacy. Give them a break.

[Nextrush]

No other candidate has my support or will at this point because they have no record of fighting the RINO business as usual politicians and their politics like Sarah Palin.

My money is for Sarah Palin only and will go to no other candidate for president.

If Sarah doesn’t run, I can give it to Congresssional candidates.

[RINOs suck]

Did he apologize publicly?

Why on earth would he do that? It's ridiculous expectation in a Presidential race.

Has Palin told Tammy Bruce to stop claiming Bachmann is a staking horse for Romney and apologize publicly for that?

[RINOs suck]

You got a link to that order?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2737374/posts

[P-Marlowe]

The headline:Bachmann ordered Ed Rollins to apologize to Palin’s team (privately)

It was a public insult. Bachmann needed to have Rollins make a public apology.

Bachmann has personally remained silent on the issue. Bachmann did not release this information, it was leaked to the press through one of her so-called advisors.

She's not ready to lead.

[RINOs suck]

It was a public insult.

So, is the filth pro-gay marriage Tammy Bruce is spewing about Bachmann being a stalking horse for Willard.

As far as I know, Bachmann hasn't even gotten a private apology from her.

[P-Marlowe]

Tammy Bruce is irrelevant to this discussion.

Tammy Bruce is not running Palin’s campaign, nor is she running for public office.

Tammy Bruce is not the only person who thinks Bachmann is a stalking horse for Romney. A lot of well respected freepers were saying that before Tammy Bruce made the suggestion.

BTW do you have any references to show that Tammy Bruce is “pro-gay marriage”?

[RINOs suck]

Tammy Bruce is irrelevant to this discussion.

Only because you want her to be. She is attending the premiere of Undefeated. Palin could certainly tell her to shut up and stopping spread lies about Bachmann.

The stalking horse charge is absolutely a lie given the recent polls. No one with a shred of morality or ethics spreads those sorts of lies.