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Adviser: Bachmann likely to enter WH race

digsbe said:
I guess, but I think we could probably both agree that Hillary Clinton would be a better president then Obama and Bachmann. I would seriously consider voting for her.
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i have to agree..

IMO, bachmann(among others) is in danger of ruining a valid republican candidate's chances
 
haymarket said:
The radical rights reaction to Romney is akin to watching somebody with a serious disease rejecting the doctors medicine which can cure them simply because they do not like the taste of it. They would seemingly rather die that accept what is going to help them.

That is more than fine with me. The one person I believe could beat Obama is Mitt Romney if all factions of the party united behind him. But they will not or at least not until it is too late and means precious little after they through their very public fit of pique.
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Mitt Romeny will have to sell his soul to get their vote... ergo, the more he campaigns the worse he'll get.
 
the public saw the prescription and puked

tsunami tuesday---most house seats since 1938, most state reps and leg's in history, 10 gubs, 6 senators...

party on, practitioners
 
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I wonder what Palin is thinking about this... I think Bachmann has a lot on Palin in every way possible. Bachmann can hold her own in a debate, she doesn't get tripped up in tangled thoughts... no matter how crazy or wacky she sounds, she can still communicate in sentence form.

Nor was Bachmann made by John McCain or another politician. She got herself in office, and inserted herself in national politics and stays relevant by participating in the political process, not tweeting. She won't need half as much "handling" as Palin did.

Overall, she has a better chance to win over Palin.. It would be funny to see them debate each other though... :2razz:
 
If Bachmann runs, lets hope Palin runs.... lol :)
 
insiders would intimate that ms bachmann's serious consideration is very strong indication (among many others) that mrs alaska would be out

fyi
 
The primaries are going to be insane.
 
digsbe said:
I guess, but I think we could probably both agree that Hillary Clinton would be a better president then Obama and Bachmann. I would seriously consider voting for her.
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i would have as well.
 
Well, the woman has some heft in her background at least. Be nice to have a president with a little experience for a change. :cool:

Bachmann was born on April 6, 1956. She graduated from Anoka High School in 1974. She then attended Winona State College, from which she graduated in 1978 with a degree in political science and English.

She met her future husband, Marcus Bachmann, at Winona; they began dating in 1976 while working together on Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. The couple married in 1978 and moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bachmann's husband, Marcus Bachmann, operates a Christian counseling center in the St. Croix valley area. He has a master's degree in counseling from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Union Institute & University in Cincinnati.

After moving to Tulsa, Michele Bachmann enrolled at the Bible-based Coburn School of Law, an affiliate of Oral Roberts University. She earned a Juris Doctorate at Coburn in 1986, and a post-doctorate degree from William and Mary Law School in Virginia in 1988.

From 1988 to 1993, Bachmann was a U.S. Treasury Department attorney in St. Paul, Minnesota, representing the IRS against people who underpaid or failed to pay their taxes.

Bachmann left that job to become a full-time mother. She has also had more than twenty foster children in her care.

Minnesota state legislature

In 1999, Bachmann ran as one of a slate of GOP candidates for the Stillwater, Minnesota school board, normally a non-partisan election. She and the other GOP-endorsed candidates did not win.

In 2000, Bachmann won election as a state senator when she unseated fellow Republican Gary Laidig, who had held the seat for 28 years. Bachmann had won the GOP endorsement; the two then faced each other in the primary. In the general election, Bachmann defeated DFL nominee Ted Thompson.

In 2002, Bachmann faced a 10-year incumbent, DFL state senator Jane Krentz, after district lines were redrawn following the 2000 census. Bachmann won the election by 9 percentage points.

Congressional career

2006 elections

Bachmann defeated Democrat Patty Wetterling 50% to 42% in the 2006 congressional elections to replace Rep. Mark Kennedy, who vacated the seat to run for the U.S. Senate.
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While I wouldn't vote for Bachmann, she is vastly superior in experience and acumen to Barack Obama.
 
The Prof said:
yes, on the topic of who might or might not actually be running:

romney declared 2 days ago that if he were elected president he would REPEAL obamacare via EXECUTIVE ORDER

If I Were President: Obamacare, One Year In - By Mitt Romney - The Corner - National Review Online

now, if i may...

were romney actually to run on this pledge---and it will be pretty hard for him NOT to, after announcing so incendiary an initiative

then folks like me, about as disposed a republican AGAINST mister mitt as you're gonna find

and it has nothing to do with mormonism, i actually pretty strongly FAVOR him for that

it's precisely because of his ORIGIN---massachusetts---a man like myself is lugubriously loathe to support anyone from so enlightened environs

and romneycare, of course, a poison to a person of my posture

but IF mister mitt were to message this measure---and it's gonna be pretty hard for him NOT to, after the scandalous stance he's assumed

then a partisan like the prof is gonna get PUFFED with pride

FOR MITT!

and if mr romney can wrangle reprobates like myself, with enthusism...

i don't like talking about myself, i apologize for doing so, but i really do represent pretty accurately what is still the heart and soul of the mainstream movement so many of you despise

if romney can inspire ME (and his executive commitment to REPEAL would go far), then there will be NO STOPPING him in my party

part of it is very practical, ie, political

that is, should a good ol boy like barbour, for example, make such a pledge, that'd be good, that'd be fine

but NO ONE is so uniquely positioned to UNDO it all like this RESUME from the NORTHEAST

just my opinion, i put it out there in an attempt to elucidate the landscape

stay up
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I saw Romney speak in DC at a Convention a few years ago and he was very impressive. Huckabee was not. Gingrich was hugely impressive, Jeb Bush was not.

It seems to me your assessment of Romney is spot on. I'd like to see Newt as VP. Him debating Biden would be priceless!
 
Grant said:
I saw Romney speak in DC at a Convention a few years ago and he was very impressive. Huckabee was not. Gingrich was hugely impressive, Jeb Bush was not.

It seems to me your assessment of Romney is spot on. I'd like to see Newt as VP. Him debating Biden would be priceless!
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Biden as VP means us democrats have to hope for some one like Palin as a VP candidate for him to have any chance during the debate.
 
Redress said:
Biden as VP means us democrats have to hope for some one like Palin as a VP candidate for him to have any chance during the debate.
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It's widely acknowledged that she whupped Biden in their last debate.

Who knew at that time that Joe Biden would actually be smarter than Barrack Obama?
 
Grant said:
It's widely acknowledged that she whupped Biden in their last debate.

Who knew at that time that Joe Biden would actually be smarter than Barrack Obama?
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I thought she did pretty awful in that debate... The best presentation she did was at the RNC, but she didn't take questions and it was a rehearsed speech with a teleprompter.
 
Grant said:
It's widely acknowledged that she whupped Biden in their last debate.

Who knew at that time that Joe Biden would actually be smarter than Barrack Obama?
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Widely acknowledged by who? She looked painfully unprepared and stupid. Biden just looked stupid.
 
People worry about whether Obama was born in the US, when clearly Michele Bachmann was born in a completely different reality.
 
Say it ain't so, Joe. ;)
 
Marshabar said:
Yes they are! But they are quite happy to call you names. :D
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Actually I don't think most of us are. I voted for Obama because he was a much better choice than McCain. See what happens when you assume you know something?
 
SheWolf said:
I wonder what Palin is thinking about this... I think Bachmann has a lot on Palin in every way possible. Bachmann can hold her own in a debate, she doesn't get tripped up in tangled thoughts... no matter how crazy or wacky she sounds, she can still communicate in sentence form.
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Palin always sounds like a ditzy high-schooler trying to b.s. her way through a final by filling the exam book with these run-on sentences in hopes that amid the calamity of disjointed thought, she sounds convincing enough to pass.

Nor was Bachmann made by John McCain or another politician. She got herself in office, and inserted herself in national politics and stays relevant by participating in the political process, not tweeting. She won't need half as much "handling" as Palin did.
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But the crazy factor will weigh her down in the long hall. She'll make headlines, but not get the primary numbers. Down the road, the leaders will be kissing her ass to get the fringe endorsement. She'll probably try to bargain for VP bid--which would tank 2012 for the GOP.

Overall, she has a better chance to win over Palin.. It would be funny to see them debate each other though... :2razz:
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Dream Scenario: Palin-Bachmann run as an independent ticket. Back to the days of Perot and Jackson, when there three podiums at the debates. Watch the smile come over President Obama's face as he watches the GOP candidate try to differentiate himself from Palin and come off as too moderate.

The GOP house has been piss-pour so far -- delivering nothing they promised the Tea folk. Too many fringe and private interests are going to deliver a pile of hurt to the middle and lower income wallets.

I wish they would have a live panel of fact checkers at the debates. Watching Palin/Bachmann's red FALSE light go off constantly would be amusing.
 
I found it interesting that not a single one of Bachmann's statements on PolitiFact is more than "half-true".
Here's the link
 
The Prof said:
the public saw the prescription and puked

tsunami tuesday---most house seats since 1938, most state reps and leg's in history, 10 gubs, 6 senators...

party on, practitioners
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the very real problem the Republicans have is that the type of candidate who most appeals to their activist base is also the least appealing to the Independents who are needed to win the election. The electorate which votes in November or 2012 will not be the same people who voted in November of 2010 but far closer in demographic make up to those from November 2008. Turnout will be much higher, far more minorities will vote, and the number of younger voters will return to 2008 levels.
 
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