A terrible miscalculation on her part.
Bachmann and Perry seem to be able to run and hold office.
The Libturds will rue the day when the resignation decision was even easier with all the frivolous lawsuits.
Unfortunately, I think they won because of this. I believe she would have been much more formidable if she had stayed and fought.
we’ll see who is right. She resigned to run for president. Running a campaign from AK is hard enough and being a sitting governor at the same time—with AK’s ethics law making essentially impossible? lol It will be interesting to see Rick Perry be gov and texas and run for president. There will be someone else down there doing the heavy lifting and effectively telling Perry what to do. Maybe it will work out for TX if the people who are doing that can do it right. Given Perry’s wobbles on conservatives issues (gardasil etc) it may even go better for TX that he is gone a lot. But he is better than Mitt.
Of course, they are not Governors in Hawaii or Alaska, they are here in the contiguous United States, Bachmann doesn't do anything outside of campaigning anyway, she merely votes occasionally.
>>Unfortunately, I think they won because of this. I believe she would have been much more formidable if she had stayed and fought.<<
Maybe, but I doubt it. We would have been reading article after article about each and every allegation, and her enemies, political and otherwise, would have poured the coals to the fire until the day she finally announced she was running. But by that time she wouldn’t have had a chance, because if enough dirt is thrown, some of it inevitably sticks.
Note that none of this has happened since she resigned, and that all of the bogus lawsuits have disappeared from view. Furthermor, if they try it again if she’s nominated, they’ll have already been outed as operatives who previously manufactured allegations for political purposes, so they’ll be taken far less seriously.
All in all, it quite possibly was an excellent political maneuver on her part.
By the way, I’m one of those who was always worrying about her screechy voice and was wishing she’d get some voice coaching. Anyone else notice how her voice has modulated lately?
No 63 seat gain in the house.
Far less Tea Party influence with our current Government.
Potentially former Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Potentially a Texas Governor named Hutchison and no Perry Presidential campaign.
What I see posted here on a regular basis, from a handful of Bachmann and Perry supporters, are attacks against anything Palin, using the Liberal talking points of calling her a “quitter”, “not going to run” or (my personal favorite) “she will guarantee an Obama reelection”.
What are you Perry and Bachmann supporters so afraid of? Shouldn't we have an inclusive primary system in order to have a competition, resulting in the strongest nominee possible? Or, should we exclude those we don't prefer and see how successful our nominee will be when running against both a Democrat and Third Party opponent?