Bachmann has a cute female face and she tells her base exactly what her base wants to hear.
However, Bachmann is almost brand new in Congress, has ZERO executive experience, Republicans make up only 29% of all voters and Michele Bachmann believes that God talks to her through her husband.
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Bachmann: "God called me to run for Congress"
In this speech at a mega-church in the Minneapolis area back in 2006, Michele Bachmann explained her decision to pursue tax law wasn't her choice. Her husband, Marcus told her "to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law." This was not what Michele wanted. ("Tax law? I hate taxes!"), but she was believed that God was speaking through her husband. "Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands.”
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Outside of her evangelical Protestant base (two out of every ten voters), that is pure Presidential Election poison.
When a politician implies that, "I am right because God talks to me and told me so", that scares the cr#p out of most voters ..... be they conservative or liberal or in between.
The vast majority of voters will NOT want Michele Bachmann's finger anywhere near the nuclear button.
Governor Perry brings almost 11 years of actual executive experience as Governor of the second most populous and the most economically prosperous State in the Union and active duty service as an Air Force C-130 pilot.
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What those who refuse to hear anything outside the Free Republic Echo Chamber need to realize is that the very large majority of American voters are to the Left of Free Republic. A "Politically Pure" rating on Free Republic is a huge negative in actually getting elected President.
A conservative that has ZERO executive experience and is viewed as a religious nut-job that believes that God talks to her through her husband has absolutely no chance to get elected President.
A conservative candidate that has a very strong record of executive experience with more than one term as Governor in one of the Big League States (Ronald Reagan / Rick Perry) is very attractive to the majority of voters that we need to actually WIN the 2012. ...... IN SPITE of a high conservative rating.
What about Sarah?
I predict she will not run and will support her friend Rick Perry.