What I question about Bachmann:
1. The answer about Lexington/Concord being in New Hampshire, and repeated, was bad, but not awful. She could have said, “I misspoke, don’t know what I was thinking.” Instead, she appeared to blame it on her teleprompter. Her reaction has always bothered me. I think she lied.
2. She said in the debate something about little 12 year-old girls, and she said something like “I have little 12 year-old girls” Her biological children are grown and gone. Her foster kids are no longer there. Did she just stretch the truth again?
3. She said some woman complained that gardasil caused retardation. Did she make that up?
4. She said she served as a lawyer in a capacity involving the Federal Reserve and that she was expert in it. She had a few year stint as a tax lawyer for the IRS prosecuting failure-to-pay cases. Did she stretch it again? On the one hand she’s prosecuting a native american because he didn’t report some 30,000 income earned on the reservation, but on the other hand she’s at the lofty heights of the Federal Reserve?
5. I also think she vulnerable if her husband treated their own troubled foster kids and also received large medicaid payments. Were any of those foster children treated by her husband, and if they were did they charge the government for the foster-father treating the foster kids? No one has asked this stuff, but it could get sticky if it looks like the foster kids were part of their income. And how do you stand against these kind of entitlements and use them, too?
6. Bachman has received tens of thousands of dollars of contributions from home school organizations and supporters. Is it “cronyism” when she supports legislation favoring home schooling, since she’s a legislator and not an executive?
>> She said some woman complained that gardasil caused retardation. Did she make that up? <<
You can bet that David Brock and his minionsm, and/or other arms of the MSM, are now scouring the hills and dales of America from sea to shining sea, in a quest to find that very woman!
Possible outcomes:
(a) She won’t be found because she never existed.
(b) She will be found, and she will turn out to be a total nut case — and a dedicated anti-vaccine devotée of Deidre Imus and Jenny McCarthy.
(c) She will be found, and she will be a Ph.D. in immunology and microbiology, who will totally vindicate Mrs. Bachmann.
Gee! I wish I knew how to set up an Internet poll on these outcomes!
I want to go a different route. What I liked about Bachmann, before she marginalized herself, was her out front criticism of obama and her never ending objection to obamacare. If obamacare is not repealed this country stands no chance of returning to it's status as a vibrant empire made up of people who the govt is subject to, rather than an empire in decline in which it's people are subjects of the govt.
Bachmann was my first choice for quite a while. Clearly losing poll position to Perry has caused her to grab at straws to try and get back into the top tier. I think your criticisms are legitimate. However, I believe the one that will do her in is:
3. She said some woman complained that gardasil caused retardation. Did she make that up?
We expect our leaders to be smart enough to get the facts before they comment.