Posted on 05/29/2013 7:09:01 AM PDT by VictoryGal
Bachmann has served four terms representing Minnesota’s 6th District and is the chair of the Tea Party caucus, which she launched on July 16, 2010.
Governor Palin welds power as the leader of the conservative movement in America, and a giant maker, Palin doesn’t serve as a congresswoman, in her 80 or so election campaigns and endorsements, she has shaped the Senate, the Congress, and the nation’s Governorships in her image, like no one has ever done.
Even in the rino disaster of 2012 led by Romney, and with Michelle Bachmann endorsing Todd Akin, Palin was giving us our only Senate seat pick-up in Nebraska as the unknown Deb Fischer defeated Senator Bob Kerry to take a democrat Senate seat.
And I guess we all have heard of what she did in Texas.
“””I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Palin,””” Cruz said.
Sounds like she could definitely be exploring a run for Franken's Senate seat in 2014. Announcing she's not running for re-election to the House is a logical first step.
Thanks for the ping!
They seem to always leave us.
Trey Gowdy and Paul Gosar are awesome.
She drew a paycheck from the IRS for years and her husband appears to be more homo than the faggot in the WH
Small potatoes.
I can’t see her winning statewide, she’s barley held on the most Republican seat in the state.
Barely held on? Sounds like a pro-'Rat MSM talking point used yesterday as an "explanation" for her announcement. It wasn't as if there was a recount necessary, was there? Think she got about 53%, but you can check it out.
You can't compare her win last year to her previous congressional races because (1) she, like all other incumbents, was redistricted and (2) she was heavily targeted by the 'Rats and her opponent had much more money to spend than previous foes.
Remember that the general climate next year might be more favorable to Republicans than it was in 2012 and the Tea Party, now that the scandal has broken, may be better able to help Michele if she decides on challenging Franken.
Romney got 56.5% in her district, she got only 50.6 (we were afraid she had lost on election night), that’s a fact. Redistricting made the seat a little MORE Republican so that is not an excuse. She also far outspent the rat.
Compare to Katherine Harris, she won her safe Republican seat by less than expected margins and was crushed when she ran for the Senate.
Palin is following in the footsteps of Nixon and Reagan: slowly building a support base in the Republican grassroots. She has enough sympathies to libertarian positions to draw in voters in the only growing segment of the non-leftist public. Her public, evangelical Christian beliefs will win support of that voter group, which has lost much of its former clout but still remains numerous. More emphatic support from evangelicals could well make a difference in the critical states of Ohio, Virginia, and Florida, all of which went to Obama last year by narrow margins.
However, will Palin have the courage to challenge Democrat electoral fraud? George Bush the younger and Karl Rove did so successfully in 2000. Famously, Kennedy defeated Nixon in 1960 with the collusion of corrupt Democrat machines in Illinois and Texas. Less well known is the fact that Carter won the 1976 election after he won New York when, after the votes from the rest of the state were counted, three of New York City's five boroughs came in at the last moment with large Democrat majorities, sufficient to push the state, and therefore the national election, to Carter. It is probable that last year's vote count in Florida, Ohio, or Pennsylvania was not skewed by Democrat machines in South Florida, Cuyahoga County, and Philadelphia.
If the GOP, facing a hostile mass media (a problem for at least a half century) and unfriendly demographics, refuses to assault Democrat voter fraud and sits back and lets Limbaugh, Levin, etc., to whine about it, they will lose, irrespective of who the candidate is.
However, I don’t think it matters because she isn’t running.
No one announces they are leaving the House and then later declares for the Senate. They simply, declare for the Senate.
Given that the liberal controlled “Office of Congressional Ethics” is harassing her right now I’d surmise she’s just sick of it.
I bet she is going the way of the Momma-bear, cashing in and being another cult star, maybe a gig on FNC or her own talk radio show.. She was probably planning this when she announced running in 2011 which was just to get that status/visibility.
She can still repeal Obama-care a few times before she leaves office.
I was wondering who should run for Bachmann’s seat, and it occurred to me that maybe Mark Kennedy would consider a comeback. He did a fairly good job as Bachmann’s predecessor and he made a valiant attempt in a horrid year for the GOP (2006) to try to gain the other Senate seat for us. He’d bring in expertise and seniority to boot. Would he consider it ?
The Republican Party actually has a fairly deep bench in CD-6. Matt Dean, former majority leader of the Minnesota House, has already said he’s interested in running. Kennedy would also be a good option should he choose to run and has been elected, as you mention, in that district before.
No one announces they are leaving the House and then later declares for the Senate. They simply, declare for the Senate.
She may want more time to evaluate her chances vs. Franken. Her statement yesterday didn't close any doors for her future.
Wonder if she can use her background as an IRS attorney positively in addressing the current IRS scandal and working for repeal of Obamacare.
I hope she does.
Maybe leaving Congress will allow her to do more important things with the time she has left. Stuff you can only do in Congress when you aren’t worried about having to get re-elected. You know, the “flexibility” that Obama now has. Maybe Bachmann will now be able to do what everybody knows must be done but only the crazy or REALLY COMMITTED PATRIOTS will have the guts to do. Allen West would not do what needed to be done on Obama’s BC forgery because he still wanted a political future. Maybe the old paradox is really true - that we have to die in order to be able to really live.
Libertarianism is anti-Evangelical and anti-conservative, it is defining her relationship with libertarianism which will be her most difficult task.
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