Posted on 11/16/2009 8:57:08 PM PST by llevrok
She is a striking brunette with a decidedly outspoken attitude. She lambasts President Barack Obama as a socialist and has become the darling of America's right-wing activists who flock to her appearances. She is hated by liberals and loved by conservatives.
Sarah Palin? Not quite. Meet Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota who is being hailed as a new and increasingly powerful voice in American politics.
Bachmann, at 53, is a darling of the so-called Tea Party movement, which has campaigned vociferously against healthcare reform, the economic stimulus package and legislation to combat climate change. Her followers have been behind mass rallies in Washington and smaller ones all over the country. She has emerged as one of the most visible politicians in America, frequently appearing on the conservative Fox News channel, whose hosts often champion her causes.
She is part of an increasingly visible "female brand" of conservatism that is rising in America in the wake of the election of Obama. They include notable syndicated commentators such as Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter, whose dislike for liberals has grown ever more shrill in recent months. And, of course, Palin herself. She is still a giant of the political and media landscape and next week embarks on a book tour to sell her autobiography. It has already sparked a media frenzy, with a heavily hyped appearance on Oprah Winfrey's show, and become a huge bestseller on pre-orders alone.
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If the men won’t fight, the women will!
The men have been neutered by the Political Correctness police....women will HAVE to take up the fight FOR NOW.....
These women have more balls than the whole of the leadership of the GOP combined. We need more leaders like them.
Please, please don’t make me read the Guadian. It’s a blood stained rag that should be left in the toilet.
I’m kinda partial to Melanie Morgan.
LOL! Well said pnh102!
I too was just thinking: Our Gals Got Nads.
Something our male gendered republican politician need to emulate.
Your kind of gals ping
What a twisted world we now live in Normal types like Palin and Bachmann are extremists. Meanwhile Obama, who likes hanging out with "cool Marxist professors", bombers and America hating whitey haters, while attempting to radically remake this country and undermine it on the world stage, is mainstream.
What is extreme about calling Obama socialist? That is putting it mildly, Obama is much further left than that!
The party is becoming more white and southern at the same time as national demographic changes give power to other regions and minorities. Many Americans are also suffering in the recession. That is a grim picture but one that also makes many voters vulnerable to a talented rabble-rouser. “They are tapping into grassroots frustration... they are charging up an already highly charged group of people,” said Shaun Bowler, a political scientist at the University of California at Riverside.
Many voters vulnerable to a talented rabble-rouser due to a recession. Unfortunately, The Guardian is more right than they realize. That’s exactly what happened.
Funny how they quote an expert about the party becoming more Southern in the same article warning about two women from Minnesota and Alaska. Maybe they don’t take US Geography across the pond.
Obama was palling around with terrorists. His own staff and supporters admit it. Ayers and Dohrn are terrorists by any definition. Obama was friends with them. Pretty cut and dried. Think Tony Blair would have gotten away in 1997 with being friends with Gerry Adams and Martin MacGuinness?
From Chicago Mayor Daley:
“People keep trying to align himself[Ayers] with Barack Obama. It’s really unfortunate. They’re friends. So what?”
Right on. And Keith Olbermann, correction Olbergirl, has to change his diaper every time one of them speaks out!
amen
The language of the article was very slanted, castigating Palin and Bachmann as “extremist conservatives” and conservatives in general as a bunch of southern idiots, easily whipped into a frenzy.
Hey that aint hard to do especially the little girly boys like chrissy and oberl wanker.
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