[C. Edmund Wright]

What makes me think that Bachmann - and Santorum for that matter -are not very smart is how they are running this campaign.

Any dolt can stand back and see that the way to the top is to be the most effective at attacking big government and liberals in general and the media and Obama in specific.

And yet, like desperate little kids not getting love on the playground, Bachmann and Santorum keep attacking other candidates on the notion that they are not socially conservative enough.

Get a clue folks: our problem is Obama and liberal big government. And understanding that is the way to the top of the heap. No one has gained any traction in this whole race by attacking other people in the field.
No one.

[ez]

Here, here. Not to mention that when they point out moderations in Newt’s 30 years of commentary, they make him MORE palatable as a general election candidate. Newt got where he is by attacking Obama and the media, and refusing to attack his fellow Republicans. Bachmann’s long slide began the night she decided to go after Rick Perry and Mitt. If she can’t catch on to the dynamic at work, she is not smart enough to be President.

[Anita1]

They obviously did Not learn the Ronald Reagan Rule:

REAGAN’S “ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT”: ‘THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK ILL OF OTHER REPUBLICANS’

[MNJohnnie]

I think the Newt supporters might want to listen to their own candidate rather then going into peronal attack mode the second anything negative is said about Newt

"In the next three weeks, I predict to you we will have all sorts of questions about me. And it's fine. You can not ask the people of the United States to loan you the most powerful governmental job in the world, particularly in a campaign that's promising very dramatic change, and not have them vet you carefully and thoroughly," Gingrich said.

[ngat]

Get a clue, Folk:

Our problem in getting rid of Obama and liberal big government is trying to run old candidates with bad records that got this country in the fix we are now in.

[napscoordinator]

Bachmann and Santorum keep attacking other candidates on the notion that they are not socially conservative enough.

Well they both have the principles of truth. Sorry but the truth hurts and obviously you have your butt hurt because your candidate is a liberal.

[Jukeman]

Bachmann should have never entered the GOP campaign for president. She is not presidential material but well placed as a congresswoman.

[MNJohnnie]

Quit trying to divert off topic with you usual personal attack mode of response

ANSWER the question.

[MNJohnnie]

So standard Newt supporter SOP: Diversion, obfuscation and personal attack.

And then you wonder why people are suspicion about this PR cult of personality being manufactured around Newt?

[OKSooner]

Takes me back to the notion that really she's running for VP by running interference for The Mittster.

Has she ever criticized him about anything, like oh, say... Romneycare?

Maybe she has; I'm just axing.