I would happily vote for Bachmann, knowing that I’ll be entertained as we go to a crashing defeat. I vote based on how good a President I think they’d be and she’s still my 3rd choice on that basis. I’m taking a 2nd look at Santorum.
Downsides
Bachmann - has gay issues that would hurt
Santorum - has gay issues that could hurt. Picked Specter over Toomey.
Palin - picked McCain over Hayworth. picked Perry over his opponents
One bad pick dooms Santorum? Palin made 2 (at least). Who cares, doesn’t really matter.
Santorum does deserve a 2nd look. He has a MBA and a JD.
(A lot of em do, actually) Solid, state great, but not elite schools. If 100% Socon, in the case of Bachmann, can be tea party, so can Santorum.
If an awful globalist like Perry can pretend to be tea party, so can Santorum, Pawlenty, Johnson and a whole bunch of em. Maybe even Gingrich, but that might be too much.
Gingrich can say, though, very sincerely, and accurately, that the Contract with America was the 1994 version of the 2010 tea party.
Any politician who wants to go anywhere has to pretend to be “Tea Party” like 90 percent???? or more of elected Republicans are right now and anyone who wants to be elected anything as a Republican in the future.
August 2010: Newt Gingrich: Rick Perry's book "almost came too late" [Foreward to "Fed Up!"]
I wish this book had never needed to be written.
It almost came too late.
America is recklessly accelerating toward economic disaster. Fed Up! may be the last warning sign to the danger that lies ahead.
Rick Perry, Texas governor for the past decade, is uniquely qualified to offer a firsthand perspective on why the United States—the most successful civilization in human history—is being threatened with economic collapse. ........[snip]"