I am supporting Bachmann regardless of her faults because all candidates have them and what are Bachmann flaws compared to:
Mitt Romney....flip flopper
Rick Perry.....sellout to cheap labor illegals employers
Ron Paul....naive on foreign policy
Newt Gingrich...more baggage than Kim Kardashian
Jon Huntsman....Mr. Country Club Establishment
Hermain Cain....I liked him but it’s over
Bachmann will probably get a boost in Iowa then she will be a contender again. Rick Perry stole her thunder when he showed up but I think Perry is a cardboard cut out of a strait talking Texan. I don’t think that Bachmann will call Americans *heartless* just because they want to protect their country. Bachmann has not shown any signs of doing the “let’s dump conservatives under the bus” syndrome which many pseudo conservatives like Perry have done. She is Heartland not Inside the Beltway.
Speaking of cardboard cutouts.
I did nothing but DEFEND Bachmann from attacks made on her here, until she went completely looney tunes over gardasil, in her zeal to damage Perry over something he never implemented, always included an opt out for, and that he stood there and repudiated in front of the nation.
Oh no, that wasn’t good enough for her...she said why, that’s terrible, a President doesn’t ever get a do-over...he must be right the first time...blah blah blah.
After which she said the vaccine is a risk for causing mental retardation, because a mother came up to her after the debate and said her daughter became mentally retarded after receiving gardasil. Not in Texas, mind you, in Michigan, but never mind the details...
Talk about needing do-overs.
She impulsively says things she should just think about a few seconds, and some of them have been blockbusters.
Quite a few FReepers who had been supportive of her before that, just shook our heads and said, no mas, no mas.
A ten year, successful and effective governor of Texas isn’t a cardboard cutout in reality, but I suppose in your mind he could be most anything.