I didn't watch the speech live, I only got news from a thread. I was so pissed that I went to the teamster website that a FReeper posted, first you had to give them your personal info then answer the question 2 + 0 = ?
We had a a lot of fun with that. I said it was the combined IQ of the crowd at the Obama campaign event. Other FReepers were far more wittier than me.
The only candidate that said anything was Bachmann. She sent out an email hours after. Now I know some "advisers" are leaving her campaign but I worked for my Congresswoman and trust me there are many bad or plants as advisers.
Quite a few advisers bailed only to become a lobbyist. I ran her 2006 campaign which we won by a large margin even though it was a huge democrat landslide nationwide. I worked the campaign not to become a lobbyist I did it out of my respect and loyalty to her as my Congresswoman. And you know what the whole "pay it forward" occurred. After the 2006 election I left my position to pursue my MBA in Finance and my mom died in 2008 of a heart attack. My Congresswoman called me on her way to a vote just to make sure I was doing ok, she sent flowers, and flew a flag over the Capitol in honor of my mother (who claimed no one would attend her funeral and the church was packed, heck even our democrat Mayor came to the wake!!!).
The thing I learned working for Congress is many people are looking only to further their careers and get as much money out of it as possible. I was there out of my belief in being a true civil servant and not a leech. Sadly, the rats are gerrymandering me into the district of a rat. The only up side is this guy voted against Obamacare and is more conservative than many RINOs. He is a pro-life Democrat so since no Repub has a chance I'll vote for him simply because he's pro-life and the liberal psycho groups like MoveOn hate him. So I can then call myself a bipartisan independent :)
Hey if the rats work the system why can't we?