Posted on 07/02/2011 12:25:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
I don’t see how you can say Bachmann has not led. As in, at all.
She got where she is (now a credible candidate for POTUS - at least for now) because she has led. She’s been out there talking on radio and tv, addressing rallies, being a thorn in the side of Boehner & gang, constantly rallying the voters to positions of fiscal conservatism and limited government.
To define leadership as only introducing bills or working on legislation is just dumb, IMO. Sorry.
P.S. How in Hell’s Bells would any of us even know who she was if she wasn’t leading the charge on the issues that are important to the Tea Party movement?
Yes.
But this post is saying that Bachman is, basically, disqualified because she doesn’t have “executive experience.”
I don’t agree with that.
That’s separate, though, from whether she is the best candidate for POTUS.
It’s a weakness, imho. However, I also believe that she is still a better candidate than many of the others out there, regardless.
Agreed.
The question it raises is she smart enough to get the people around her to provide “experience.”
Sometimes you can tell this about how a candidate runs his campaign, though I don’t think that’s foolproof either. Plus we, on the outside, really don’t know how well or poorly a campaign is being run on the inside. We only know what leaks out or an incident here or there.
It will be interesting to see how the race develops. I really don’t see anyone currently in the ring generating more enthusiasm for the longterm. Yes, if Palin gets in, things change (How? Not knowable.) I don’t think Perry gets out of the gate at all, as great as he may be.
This is a “changed” election, not a “change” election as Rove used to use that term. We’re really at a unique crossroads in history.
You know, I apologize. I have been participating in two Bachmann threads more or less simultaneously and may have sort of interwoven the two in my conversation with you.
If so, again, sorry.
My points, however, do remain! :)
Obviously I knew you didn’t mean it literally. Congressman Bachmann has not moved beyond “mere” representative as long as she pockets that taxpayer paycheck, and uses that office, staff, and status to leverage her way into another government position.
Real Americans recognize when a career politician is hedging their bets. Let’s leave that detestable mode of operation to the Kerrys, McCains, Hilarys, and Obamas that populate this depressingly cheap era of our nation’s political life.
So the organizations she has run don’t fit with your elitist frame of mind.
Dairy farm business.
Very large household.
Charter School business employing 30. Founded and ran it.
These are organizations she ran.
Hey, but to the elitists they don’t count.
But to the Tea Party that says the people have to take this country back, THEY DO.
She has led the people who have sent her there. The Tea Party is an insurgency into the establishment to take this country back, and if you do not understand the Tea Party and Michele Bachmann you have no clue what the heck is going on.
She is not the one!!! Come on, I cant believe such smart folks here on FR are gaga already.... Whoaaaaaa.
Not the one. She is awesome in Congress, thats all right now.
Come on! Seriously?
Your posts 22 and 23 are very good. She is a leader. She has led, she is leading. To say she wasn’t leading because she’s not passing her bills and holding leadership posts in Congress or whatever is just silly in this day and age. Leadership is leadership. Just ask the Tea Party. Grass roots, baby...
Here I must disagree, only because she does have experience running organizations.
The reason you keep being told she doesn’t have any is because the ones saying so have nothing but contempt for the type of experience running things that she has.
She ran the business side of a dairy farm. She ran a huge household. She started and ran her own business that employed 30 people.
This is Tea Party member type of experience.
It’s instructive to see who on here has no use for it.
What you said.
That’s a different issue than people stating that because Bachmann is “just a Congress member,” she has no experience, can’t win, blah blah blah.
Yes, I know it’s a differnt issue, and a more important one.
I think you have a point. It is weakened by Obamas time in office, however. Obama has lowered the bar on qualifications for the job.
No apology necessary. I’ve enjoyed our conversation. :)
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