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The wrong John Wayne (Rollins appears to be Bachman's Idiot)
washington times ^ | 6/27 | Dinan

Posted on 06/27/2011 11:54:18 AM PDT by RummyChick

Rep. Michele Bachmann kicked off her presidential campaign on Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, and in one interview surrounding the official event she promised to mimic the spirit of Waterloo's own John Wayne.

The only problem, as one eagle-eyed reader notes: Waterloo's John Wayne was not the beloved movie star, but rather John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer.

Mrs. Bachmann grew up in Waterloo, and used the town as the backdrop for her campaign announcement, where she told Fox News: "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too."

(Someone has already posted the clip to YouTube under the name BachmannLovesGacy) John Wayne, the movie legend, is in fact from Iowa and the John Wayne birthplace is a celebrated landmark — only it's in Winterset, which is a nearly three hour drive away from Waterloo. Gacy, though, had his first taste of the criminal life in Waterloo, where he lived for a short time, and where he had his first criminal conviction for an attempted homosexual assault, which landed him in prison for 18 months. He would move back to Illinois, where his killing spree started, and lasted about six years. In 1980 he was convicted on 33 counts of murder, and was executed in 1994.

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To: andy58-in-nh

Just as nobody remembers the “Midnight Ride of Israel Bissell”.
(Paul Revere only rode 19 miles before capture.Bissell rode from Boston to Philly over 4 days, 6 hours)


61 posted on 06/27/2011 12:24:43 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: rintense
Maureen O'Hara was quite a dish.
62 posted on 06/27/2011 12:24:48 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: RummyChick

Possibly. It was a bad, stupid mistake. Where did it come from?
Did a staffer give this to her? If so, throw that staffer under the train now.


63 posted on 06/27/2011 12:25:03 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: rintense

Yes, and I think it could have blown her chance. Now everyone is going to be talking about her huge Gaffe and making fun of her.

Like:

Andy Daglas - “Michele Bachmann compares herself to great patriots of old, like Sam Adams and his celebrated offspring, Son of Sam.”


64 posted on 06/27/2011 12:25:12 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: andy58-in-nh

One of my all-time favs!


65 posted on 06/27/2011 12:25:34 PM PDT by rintense (The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Bachmanns main problem and mistake will always be hiring Ed Rollins and until she gets rid of him, it will be like an anvil tied around her neck, he is like a unlucky charm


66 posted on 06/27/2011 12:25:44 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: rintense

Viewing the video, looks like her mistake alone.


67 posted on 06/27/2011 12:25:59 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly like and support Sarah Palin and want on her BUSY Ping List, let me know!)
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To: rintense
Organizational discipline and attention to detail. Two things that concerned me about Rep. Bachmann when I started looking into her. I was roundly criticized as a Bachmann Basher.
68 posted on 06/27/2011 12:27:42 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (JMO but I reserve the right to be wrong...)
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To: RummyChick

This and the Lexington & Concord gaffe combined are terrible. Not unrecoverable, but terrible. As another person mentioned this is the fault of some idiot campaign staffer. She needs to add additional layer of proofreaders to fact-check her speeches starting this afternoon.


69 posted on 06/27/2011 12:27:45 PM PDT by ilgipper ( political rhetoric is no substitute for competence (Thomas Sowell)))
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To: onyx

Some kind words for Michelle’s blunder

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57862.html

“Downes sounded forgiving of Bachmann’s blunder, acknowledging that “every last one of us misspeaks” and recalling: “John Wayne himself would mangle names like crazy — longtime friends and co-stars.”

“The more you talk, the more mistakes you make,” Downes said. “If you talk to Michele, tell her where we are and tell her to come see us.”


70 posted on 06/27/2011 12:27:49 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

I really don’t see how getting John Wayne’s hometown wrong is that big a deal, esp if he was born in Iowa. Again, I don’t necessarily believe the gaffe was anyone mistaking JWG’s name for JW.


71 posted on 06/27/2011 12:27:52 PM PDT by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: RummyChick

It really is on par with calling North Korea “our North Korean allies”.

Seems someone else has some fact checking to do.


72 posted on 06/27/2011 12:28:30 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Darkwolf377; dirtboy; rockinqsranch

#49
exactly!!!
libs don’t have standards (=Obama).
we do.


73 posted on 06/27/2011 12:28:54 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: RummyChick

Hopefully this isn’t Bachman’s waterloo.


74 posted on 06/27/2011 12:29:15 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: RummyChick
Palin & Bachmann can't speak to reporters.

They are both too dumb.

Is it honestly too freaking much to ask for a person with half a brain??
75 posted on 06/27/2011 12:29:29 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: RummyChick

OMG, what a stupid mistake.

My sister dated the last boy that man killed.


76 posted on 06/27/2011 12:29:57 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (To paraphrase Sarah Palin: "I love when the liberals get all wee-wee'd up.")
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To: RummyChick
John Wayne Gacy with Mrs. Jimmy Carter.

This goes down the memory hole for Democrats.

77 posted on 06/27/2011 12:30:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask Barack Obama this election if he believes Jesus Christ rose from the dead and walked among men.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Slanderer!


78 posted on 06/27/2011 12:31:38 PM PDT by rintense (The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
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To: Williams

It’s a huge gaffe.

She was using John Wayne as a theme. It looked like it would be a central theme.She blew it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/27/michele-bachmann-john-wayne_n_885368.html

Now, how does one recover from such a disaster?

I think she has to find a clever way to joke about it. Perhaps she should visit the town where he was born.


79 posted on 06/27/2011 12:31:50 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Mariner
"I can't imagine a scenario where I would vote for her. "

I can: if the election is her vs. Obama. You saying you would vote for Obama?

Staying home=voting for Obama.

80 posted on 06/27/2011 12:32:42 PM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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