Posted on 06/27/2011 9:05:43 AM PDT by bjorn14
Rep. Michele Bachmann, stressing her Iowa roots and appealing directly to Tea Party voters, came out swinging Monday as she formally launched her campaign for president.
Buoyed by a strong showing in several recent polls, the Minnesota congresswoman cast her campaign as the voice for "constitutional conservatives" looking for a government that lives within its means while giving the private sector the room to grow. She launched a broadside against President Obama for racking up too much debt while stimulating too little job growth and vowed to make him a "one-term president."
"We cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama," she declared, later adding: "We can win in 2012 and we will win."
In her announcement, Bachmann described a special bond with Iowa, the nation's leadoff caucus state. She held the kickoff in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, and called herself a "descendent of generations of Iowans," saying the state is where she learned "everything I needed to know." She also appealed to another vital primary constituency, calling herself part of the Tea Party movement and defending it as a cross-section of Republicans, independents and disaffected Democrats.
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WARNING TO MS. BACHMANN... Ahead in Iowa, pulling even in NH... major slime attack coming from the Lefties and GOP establishment.
To win Iowa would be a rocket start for Bachman because it makes voters blink, no matter who wins, and they give a listen to that winner. New Hampshire and South Carolina follow. She could split those two states with Romney’s best chance probably NH.
I fear this scenario. BAchman is beating Romney, then Palin or Perry step in splitting the conservative vote and Romney gets the nod.
There was apparently just over 200 people there, should have been more
And cultists on FR.
Dear FOX News;
Please keep your Romney cheerleading “journalists” away from Bachmann in future.
I fear this scenario. BAchman is beating Romney, then Palin or Perry step in splitting the conservative vote and Romney gets the nod.
True dat.
I am going to support Bachmann until Rick Perry decides to run. Perry/Bachman would be a very strong ticket in 2012
Nope! Only one of those 3 will get the majority of the conservative vote if they run at the same time and like Rush said, if Palin gets in then she will be the one to beat, she already has a built-in base that is itching to go and support her and within days her coffers will be overflowing, that’s a fact.
I don’t know how many were there.
But how do you get to the conclusion that there was something wrong.
If she’s tied with Romney in a Des Moines Register poll, something is going right.
To ignore that, and claim the number at her announcement was too low, as if something is wrong, lacks common sense.
Yes!!
Obama's stimulus plan failed to produce jobs to dent 8% unemployment before the 2010 election. She has to walk the talk. What is her unemployment goal before the 2014 elections?
PS I don't have a dog in this fight. I have the same question for all the contenders.
And some conservatives. Hope she's ready.
Then Bachmann getting in shouldn’t worry any Palin fans. Because once Palin jumps most of Bachmann’s support will shift to Palin, right?
I didn’t say things were neccessarily wrong but I assume that if she is surging in Iowa then there should have been more if the account of 200 people is correct
At RightOnline she said the corporate tax rate needs to be reduced dramatically. She also talked about eliminating capital gains taxes and the death tax.
I thought she launched at the debates in SC. Kind of anti-climatic.
You have never read anything I wrote about being fretful of a Bachmann candidacy....Sarah has a built-in base and finiancial money ready to go in a flash, like Rush said: She will be the one to beat if she gets in
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