Posted on 08/15/2011 4:21:33 PM PDT by CA Conservative
The fight for the Republican Presidential nomination is finally getting underway in earnest, with Texas Governor Rick Perry bull-riding his way into the race and Michele Bachmann winning Saturday's straw poll in Iowa. Both events show how unsettled the GOP contest still is, as voters search for a candidate who can beat a vulnerable President Obama.
Mrs. Bachmann, the Minnesota Congresswoman, has emerged from cable-TV land in recent months to be a viable competitor. She is telegenic, a hard worker, and has planted herself at the front of the tea party parade in hostility to all things Washington. This posture matches the current public mood and helps to explain why she surpassed fellow Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty, who dropped out of the race yesterday despite a far better record of accomplishment as a fiscally conservative two-term Governor of a left-leaning state. Mrs. Bachmann is a canny politician.
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LOL. That is really ripe and Beckel is one of the few who could actually tell that lie with a somber straight face. Imagine that, Perry a right winger. Ooooops, make that a FAR right winger, sorry.
I like Bachmann, but she simply cannot win. She is Palin lite, and I mean VERY lite. Palin herself cannot win, they’ve successfully “Quayled” her. The only way Palin wins is if only Freepers are allowed to vote.
I think Perry destroys Romney in the primary and we see a Perry/McDonnell ticket crush Obama/Biden in a landslide.
You see? It was blindingly obvious.
Proud Michelle keep on burning....
McDonnell as in Bob McDonnell, first term governor of VA?
Oh, snap...
I watched something on PBS.... Frontline Road to the White House ... IIRC.
Obama met with Daschle and said that maybe he didn’t have enough of a record to run and toxic Tom told him that he should run BEFORE he had a record to defend.
The libs know he’s a libby libber. They don’t value “experience.”
To put MB’s Iowa Straw win in shocking perspective, the number 2 was ol “never win space cadet” ronpaul. So much for Saturday meaning anything special or boosting Bachmann to the nomination.
And that “void of accomplishments” worked out so well last time, let’s do it again just with a different face.
You could be right but at the same time as people start to see that Perry is more of a Bush-lite the more they will see just who he really is. So, there. Tit-4-tat.
Mr. Dream Act, open borders Perry is a no go from the start.
My point as well, what private sector job has Perry ever held since leaving home/school? Hmmmm? We want another professional politician who hasn't a clue as how the other side lives? Go ahead, you take him. I just want someone who has an inkling of what it takes to make this country actually work and I don't mean burger flipping down at the local McD's or cleaning someones elses home.
Wishful thinking Ron, hate to tell you but Perry has been in and won many more elections than has Bachmann. Other than maybe a slipup on one of his Eagle Scout Merit Badges, if he really had anything in the closet, it would have been outed long ago.
What happens when one of the MSM scummies get one of the Bachmann Foster Kids to spill some beans? You think out of 23, there were zero problems?
Don’t mis-understand, I like Bachmann’s conservativeness, she just needs more time in grade.
Wishful thinking Ron, hate to tell you but Perry has been in and won many more elections than has Bachmann. Other than maybe a slipup on one of his Eagle Scout Merit Badges, if he really had anything in the closet, it would have been outed long ago.
What happens when one of the MSM scummies get one of the Bachmann Foster Kids to spill some beans? You think out of 23, there were zero problems?
Don’t mis-understand, I like Bachmann’s conservativeness, she just needs more time in grade.
Wishful thinking Ron, hate to tell you but Perry has been in and won many more elections than has Bachmann. Other than maybe a slipup on one of his Eagle Scout Merit Badges, if he really had anything in the closet, it would have been outed long ago.
What happens when one of the MSM scummies get one of the Bachmann Foster Kids to spill some beans? You think out of 23, there were zero problems?
Don’t mis-understand, I like Bachmann’s conservativeness, she just needs more time in grade.
Double tappin is good to practice, but triple sucks. What’s with the hangin server???
Wishful thinking Ron, hate to tell you but Perry has been in and won many more elections than has Bachmann. Other than maybe a slipup on one of his Eagle Scout Merit Badges, if he really had anything in the closet, it would have been outed long ago.
Some of you around here are living in la-la land it would seem. The vetting process has only just begun and there are many many miles ahead yet. The digging has just started and who knows what the 'October Surprise' just might bring. Oh, and don't hold your breath I would caution. The elections are a long way off yet and anything can and so often does happen that people don't count on.
OBTW, while I support Bachmann it won't break my heart if she should not prevail in the primary as long as Perry doesn't either. I don't think America could handle another round of Bush-lite. I'd hate to think what a Perry Presidency would gives after what a Bush Presidency gave us last time around.
Heh. What a pair, eh?
Bachmann in the north, Perry in the south, and that’s about the way it’s shaping up.
Former Gore election chair? I’d say he’z definately not too far right.
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