Posted on 09/19/2011 8:04:51 PM PDT by freespirited
Ed Rollins is at it again.
Mr. Rollins, the former campaign manager for Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, has questioned her ability to extend her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination beyond Iowa, the first state in the nation to hold a nominating contest.
In an interview on MSNBC, Mr. Rollins told Andrea Mitchell that Mrs. Bachmann does not have the money or resources to compete with her better-financed rivals, like Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
“Right now, she’s competing hard in Iowa,” Mr. Rollins said. But, he added, “she doesn’t have the ability or resources to go beyond that, Iowa, at this point in time, where Perry and Romney can go into South Carolina, Arizona and other places.”
The criticism of Mrs. Bachmann is hardly the first for Mr. Rollins since he abruptly departed her campaign earlier this month, citing his own health issues. Last week, Mr. Rollins criticized Mrs. Bachmann for repeating a woman’s claim that her daughter had become “retarded” after receiving a vaccine for the human papillomavirus.
Aides to Mrs. Bachmann’s campaign have said there was no ill will when Mr. Rollins left. And they say he remains an “important” strategic adviser for the presidential campaign.
But in citing Mrs. Bachmann’s resource problem, Mr. Rollins was acting more like a television analyst than a campaign spinmeister. By doing so, he put his finger on what may be Mrs. Bachmann’s biggest roadblock to actually winning the Republican nomination and the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Well she did say it. Here’s a reply.
West rebuffs Bachmann on Everglades drilling
By William Gibson September 13, 2011 04:46 PM
“Drilling in the Everglades should be absolutely off limits,” South Florida Congressman Allen West told Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Tuesday.
West politely rebuffed Bachmann, a Republican colleague in the House and the leader of the Tea Party Caucus, who said last month that drilling for oil and gas should be allowed in the Everglades and the eastern Gulf of Mexico
Here’s a bit of backtracking.
September 04, 2011
Bachmann reiterates $2 gas pledge
Michele Bachmann on Sunday doubled down on her widely questioned guarantee that she would bring the price of gasoline back under $2 per gallon if she were elected president but also tried to distance herself somewhat from support for potential drilling in Florida’s environmentally sensitive Everglades wetlands.
“Michele Bachmann on Sunday doubled down on her widely questioned guarantee that she would bring the price of gasoline back under $2 per gallon if she were elected president but also tried to distance herself somewhat from support for potential drilling in Florida’s environmentally sensitive Everglades wetlands.”
I don’t think $2 a gallon gas is unrealistic-gas was $1.79 when Obama took office. But drilling in the Everglades is absolutely absurd.
I’m afraid this, the mental retard thing, and the other gaffes are gonna make her Congressional re-election campaign a nail-biter. About the only thing that might save her is a strong anti-Obama national wave in 2012.
Most districts are safe and she should be OK. Especially since it looks like she’ll be back home with plenty of time to run for congress.
This primary is going to be effectively over very fast. It cost a massive amount of money to run a national campaign these days, expect more people to start dropping out soon.
I agree, I think gas less than $2 is very achievable, I have no comment with this particular statement of hers at all.
Rollins reputation is damaged and this time it will stick. What bothers me about this story is Rollins being dishonest/a backstabber to his own candidate; the person who paid him; for his confidential advice. She should have known better/vs. trusting him. Rollins has been at this for a long time. Didn’t she know his history? Maybe, it was trust? Sometimes, I wonder if Rove didn’t get him there to stop the Tea Party/slow it down for Mitt. Please, no more conservatives hire Ed Rollins. Let him be done. Let him stay over at MSNBC where he belongs now-I think he is a hack, sellout, sleaze (as in characterless) regardless that she has made gaffs and mistakes. I still think she should save herself for the congressional seat. The old house guard does not like her anyhow because she’s too vocal and can access the Tea Party support. I think they would love to get rid of her-She is compassionate on some issues. Can’t take that away from her so today, I am not prepared to throw her under the bus even though, she hired him and allowed Ed to criticize Palin and made these gaffs. They all need to stay in as long as they can make it-to keep pressure on the others and to exchange views so we can see more of each person. It is still early. I do agree with Bachmann when she said Perry went around the legislature. She is right. Big (Rick’s) government should not be taking away our liberty by telling any citizen or forcing us in a situation to have a vaccination. Why help them to give away our freedom.
Maybe if you are/were a Bachmann supporter, this is hard to take. I understand. The truth is she had a niche being the Congresswoman from wherever, MN. She represented the views of her constituemts in that niche, but she is not a one size fits all candidate. She would not have even won her last election had it not been for Sarah Palin, and that’s a fact. She proclaimed HERSELF the TEA Party queen and her ego was unbound. She tried to take over and be the sole TEA Party rep. The msm played into that huge. They stroked her ego and she believed the hype because THAT is how she WANTED to think of herself. It shows a terrible weakness on her part that she could be so easily manipulated. I said it from day one. Go all the way back to the beginning. She messed up before she even announced. This could not have ended any other way.
I feel sorry for her. This is probably one of the very few times in her life when she thought she had achieved something on her own. She is far more fragile than the fascade she tries to keep up. This lady has been under someone’s control all of her life...and this is going to be a real trauma for her
It’s worse than being an attack dog; she’s a political suicide bomber without any consideration for the collateral damage she’s inflicting. BTW, I gave about $175.00 to her 2010 House campaign.
It was, and that is a legitimate gripe. Perry even literally called it a mistake during the debate.
Where Bachmann went of the rails is after the debate, where she kept talking about the dangers of Gardasil, and the "retard shot" that Perry was "forcing" on little girls. It was reckless, it wasn't based in fact, and it was attempt to make Perry look like someone who advocated making your little girl a "retard". It was one of the dumbest accusations I've ever heard from a national politician. She made Ron Paul look sane during that appearance.
Oh.. SO sorry Sara! LOL
I had not heard about that and went on about my business today, but I just happened upon this article and HAD to come back here and let you know!
From: http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/08/30/drill-the-everglades-but-responsibly-bachmann/
Drill the Everglades but ‘responsibly,’ Bachmann says
(Excerpt)
Rep. Michele Bachmann, who calls for abolition of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is proposing energy exploration in one of America’s premier national parks.
“The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent on American resourcefulness,” Bachmann said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“Whether that is in the Everglades or whether that is in the eastern Gulf region or whether that is in North Dakota, we need to go where the energy is. But, of course, it needs to be done responsibly. If we can’t responsibly access energy in the Everglades, then we shouldn’t do it.”
But the Republican presidential candidate hastened to add that “experts in the field” have expressed “a great deal of certitude that we can do this.”
(End of Excerpt)
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The article did not indicate that Michele Bachmann had named any credible source or sources for who her referenced “experts in the field” were.
l hate wasting time reading all these corrections.Apparently, you hate it so much that you take the time to compose a reply to them? LOL!
The way it looks, 2012 will be another 2008 with no conservative to choose from nor anyone to choose from who seems trustworthy. The Presidential election will mean little. The real important elections will be in Congress where I will be focusing my campaigning. It would be interesting if a truly conservative majority was elected in the House and Senate and a mushman like Perry or Romney were elected as President. Would they veto the conservative bills as being too partisan or radical? I wonder.
That is a goal we should all be remembering! Let's get Obama out - ANY of our Republican nominees are leaps and bounds better than Obama, and at least we can feel confident our GOP candidates will have America's interest at heart, unlike Obama who seems to pander to terrorists.
The best place we could get to in 2012, I think, is to get our best, most conservative but most electable candidate in office, get that mess we have there now OUT, and then work towards a solid, conservative House AND Senate.
It would be interesting if a truly conservative majority was elected in the House and Senate and a mushman like Perry or Romney were elected as President. Would they veto the conservative bills as being too partisan or radical? I wonder.
I live in Texas, and while Texas tends to be a very conservative state to begin with, we voted in a Conservative Republican supermajority a couple years back. Rick Perry has worked really well with this group. He doesn't veto or overturn conservative bills at all here, even before the supermajority. He had governed with conservative policies and principles (with the noted exception of the fact that he is more of a moderate on immigration reform - a pathway to citizenship, and even many Texas politicians, even those in most ways would be considered conservative, tend to side somewhere in that area, more or less).
Also, my husband and I are friends with a couple of the conservative state representatives here, and they couldn't be happier with what this conservative supermajority has accomplished with Rick Perry. Perry has given them much support and help in getting conservative legislature through, and he has done so with plenty of cooperation with them. They are downright tickled to have a conservative supermajority, and they are tickled to have Rick Perry to work with.
Just the opposite of what some Texans have posted right here at FR. It's amazing how people deemed "conservative" can have such radically different opinions of the same person.
No need to announce, but I can assure you that under my administration we would drill wherever the oil is. When I was a kid, there was a working oil well in the front of the capital building in Oklahoma. Alfalfa bill even planted turnips in the lawn during the depression.
People matter to me more than some so called endangered plant or animal. It is the natural order on this planet for species to become extinct, fossil records prove that, our puny efforts to stop or delay the inevitable is laughable.
Of course many Liberals I know really would not mind if the human species became extinct, they actually consider humankind an infestation.
Also, just so you are aware, we have some here on FR who are Michele Bachmann fans and have been very vocal on FR in her behalf, a few who still would like to see Sarah Palin get into the race and while they are easy to get along with here in Texas, others are ruthless on Perry on FR, and some that untruthfully post on FR that are most likely Bob White supporters (the liberal Dem who ran against Rick Perry in his last Governor's race and who still has ambitions here in Texas, getting ready if Perry were to stay here in Texas) who are keeping up the fight under-the-radar here.
Plus some here in TX (and on FR) love Perry's pro-life accomplishments (hard to beat by anyone's measure), but really dis like his moderate immigration stand (pathway to citizenship). That immigration issue is probably the one issue Texans are most divided on and which Rick Perry will be pounded on by Texans and non-Texan alike, and you will see that influence how some Texans feel about Perry regardless of how conservative he is otherwise. That is simply a deal breaker for some people.
And one person here just insists he acts like a bully, but then again, that FR poster acts like a bully to everyone regardless of what they think of ANY candidate or ANY issue, so take that one complaint or leave it.
I can see where it can get confusing here on FR, but remember, it's a big state with lots of people, and Rick Perry has been voted in again and again, so while he has done some things that have not been 100% popular, he's been voted in again and again by an extremely conservative state.
And remember, I wasn't talking about Texas citizens here I was talking about the Texas legislature who work with him. That is what YOUR question would have more referenced when you asked if he would veto conservative policies at which time I gave you what Perry's conservative Texas co-workers say about him.
Here again is what I said, and it DOES pertain to our conservative supermajority legislature, the ones Perry works with in Austin, our state capital, and not the ones posting here on FR.
My previous comment:
Also, my husband and I are friends with a couple of the conservative state representatives here, and they couldn't be happier with what this conservative supermajority has accomplished with Rick Perry. Perry has given them much support and help in getting conservative legislature through, and he has done so with plenty of cooperation with them. They are downright tickled to have a conservative supermajority, and they are tickled to have Rick Perry to work with.
Bachmann merely repeated what a woman told her, but everyone acts as if Bachmann originated it.
The woman’s charge was certainly plausible:
“Dear Dr. Caplan:
On behalf of the parents of a group of neurologically injured teenage girls after HPV vaccination, we feel obligated to question your ‘bio’-ethics as you challenge Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann with a $10,000 bet to prove a claim that a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer caused mental retardation. We represent many parents of teenage girls who have suffered a variety of central nervous system (CNS) dysfunctions, including various degrees of mental ‘retardation’ (impairment) as a sequelae of Gardasil® vaccination injuries”
excerpt http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/834/103/
Lots of hearsay is plausible. I don't want my President to rush to a camera and spread hearsay, though. I was a Bachmann supporter until last Monday. My posting history will prove it. She had a great point about the EO, and got Perry to admit it was a mistake, but she ruined the entire gain she may have had by then trashing the medicine and smearing Perry as wanting to harm young girls. It was stupid, which is fine, but more importantly, it wasn't presidential.
Bachmann made a minor mistake, but she, and a few others are true conservatives, far better than the Romney/Perry twins, who make MAJOR mistakes, or maybe I should say they have major weaknesses with their ideology.
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