Posted on 12/16/2011 7:51:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In a perfect instantiation of green conservatism, the Gingrich campaign has been fuelling a bandwagon entirely on Newt's hot air. It is nearly midnight, however, and therefore almost time for that bandwagon to turn back into a pumpkin (or rather, lemon), which will leave those conservatives who are a little too focused on the manufactured issue of "electability," and who had almost been persuaded to hold their noses and vote for Gingrich, to return to the drawing board in search of someone who can defeat President Obama. They will (and should) ultimately decide that the answer to their quest was standing before them all along, and that it requires no theoretical compromise after all. The answer is to support a genuine and unequivocal conservative, Michele Bachmann.
For while many of the Republican candidates might be able to defeat the disaster that is Obama, Bachmann would be able to do it in a manner most satisfying for conservatives, namely one which draws attention specifically to the nexus between constitutionalism and the moral tradition of American-style individualism.
Think back to the fall of 2008. Once the shock value of choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate had begun to wear off, John McCain's presidential campaign sputtered through one missed opportunity after another.
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Bachmann’s finished.
The only one Bachmann can and should beat are whoever her makeup and hair style person is, and whoever gave her the advice to constantly attack everything making everyone hate her guts
For all her conservative accolades, Bachmann bothers me. Maybe it’s the lawyer in her.
Voting for her or Santorum anyway. The Cain lynching has handed my state to Romney so I’ll vote for one of them in the primary and write in in the general if need be.
Not after last night. She’s done.
Michele Bachmann is a mama grizzly - I would rather be supporting Sarah Palin, but Michelle embodies the same pit-bull underdog spirit.
I liked Bachmann alright when she was actually doing her job in the House (gee, what happened to that?). Now, because of the way she’s carried herself as a candidate in the primaries, she’s dead to me.
Four things come to mind:
1. She is conservative.
2. She is Palin Lite.
3. She cannot win the Primary and could never beat Zero in the General.
4. She is annoying.
Just my two cents.
Would you really want that shrew as President? IMO, she’s just barking at the wind at this point.
I agree. I was a Bachmann supporter early on until she began bashing Palin and then just about everyone else.
Her performance last night was horrible. I'm surprised she didn't yell at the audience applauding the other candidates as "Paulbots." "Nooters," "Mythens," "Insantorum," Perrybots," etc. the way we see here on FR childishly calling them idiots and morons who's not their favorite candidate.
She’s in single digits in Iowa. Not a good position from which to sweep into the White House.
MB=toast w/fake eyelashes
Me too.
She has strong conservative positions, but I’ve come to dislike her on a personal level. She’s trying to come across as tough, but she’s overplaying it. You can be tough without sounding shrill and hysterical, but she hasn’t figured out how to do that yet.
Conservative as a congresswoman, yes. She annoys the hell out of me with her “I am the only one” crap. Se did not write the book on conservatism. That person was Barry Goldwater. She may not even win re-election to congress and much less the presidency. She should drop out out shut the hell up. She is no Sarah Palin - just a screeching magpie. No Ideas - just an wild eyed attacker. Obama would defeat her in a landslide. Mark my words.
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