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Umm, that's not a strawman. You're trying to establish the reason they are stabbing Bachmann in the back as being her position on social issues -- but her positions on those issues are no different than from any of the other GOP candidates. So asking you which policies are causing her to get singled out it hardly a strawman but is a valid question.Sheik Yerbuti said:Feel free to show which policies Bachmann holds that other GOPers don't which is causing the Tea Party to throw her under the bus.
Why am I going to try and show you what you want in your strawman.
Where did I say that it'd cause issues with the GOP? Last I checked, the national election includes all American's, the majority of which aren't across the board conservative (Or across the board liberal). During a year when Fiscal issues are on the publics mind more than anything else, huge wedge issue things like abortion and gay marriage which Bachmann pushes a ton and almost a much as fiscal things are nothing but dead weight when pushed to the forefront. This can hurt her with independents, democrats, AND some Republican voters.
If you want to see what a strawman actually is, look no further than your own post. I never stated any of the things you tried to explain as being the reason you think I "misunderstand of the movement." What I did say was that no candidate running has championed the Tea Party more than Bachmann. I never said that made her "their candidate,"I implied that should have made her their candidate. Typically, when a politician panders to a group as Bachmann did, they are repaid with support from that group -- they are not repaid by being thrown under a bus.Sheik Yerbuti said:You're the one trying to establish an analogy by pointing out there are groups who support Obama even though it may be against their agenda (like the anti-war movement), but that is an absurd comparison as you're comparing a group supporting Obama when there is no other candidate running they support -- with a group in the Tea Party not supporting the Tea Party candidate who is running.
First, you show your misunderstanding of the movement. There is no individual leader of the Tea Party Movement, nor individual candidate. Michelle Bachmann championed the Tea Party by her own choice, and many of the Tea Party like her. But the Tea Party has no official "tea party candidate" at this moment.
WTF?? Your post that I responded to was you responding to the OP. No one asked you anything. And even that didn't involve third party candidates. You're seriously confused.Secondly, you responded to a post where someone was asking me why the Tea Party doesn't vote third party, and suggested my answer for that shows they don't have conviction...thus, due to the post you were replying to, seemingly implying that they don't have conviction for not voting for a 3rd party. I pointed out that there are third party possibilities that fall more in line with liberal movements and groups views than Obama does, but they don't vote for them, so that complaint lobbied just at the tea party is dishonest.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/2012-...nn-quit-presidential-race.html#post1059913349
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