Posted on 07/01/2011 6:13:52 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
For me, Palin rings true on a gut level, but then again, she's a Westerner who came from a background of hard-country pioneers and independent-minded folks a whole helluva lot like my own. I recognize her.
For me, Bachmann is kind of like a foreigner. She comes across like an Easterner, and by that I only mean that I am not very good at understanding her style, the same way as Easterners are often baffled at Westerners' casual disregard for the more refined "rules" of fashion and social protocol. And ... some of my best friends are Easterners! But a true-blue born-and-bred Easterner can never become more than an honorary Westerner, the same as a hard-core Westerner can never really understand that nice reserve and formality that's simply a part of the Easterner's make-up.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it! ;^)
That was quite a read for a fellow like me, but I managed it :)
I liked your synopsis here....
Unlike 1964, 1996 and 2008, the GOP in 2012 has a genuine, indeed excellent. shot at victory. It is not going to exacerbate the disastrous formula of those election cycles by nominating a mere Congresswoman whose resume is even thinner than the Senators who went down to crashing defeats. 2012 is a year in which the GOP will nominate a governor to challenge a President, who came from Congress without Executive experience and has been a catastrophe. It will have two governors to choose from...Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin. Those who are inclined to vote for Michele Bachmann should know that they are very likely casting a vote for Mitt Romney. Bachmann cannot generate the political or financial support to defeat Romney, nor can she overcome the visceral reluctance of anti-Washington GOP primary voters to nominate a member of the hated Congress. Her impact, if she has any at all, will be to assist Mitt Romney in securing the nomination by drawing voters away from Palin. Let us remind our confreres, whom Bachmann is trying to lure, that those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
Well said! Cant say I disagree with a word.
“[Michele Bachmann]seems to be climbing the polls pretty fast.”
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A poll can be made to say anything the pollster wants it to say, by jiggering the sample and weighting it. It is especially easy to do this early. The polls that have shown her ahead of Palin have been some university polls, which always have a leftist bias, and PPP a notorious Democrat push poll outfit that had Obama beating Perry in Texas the other day. Ask yourself why Bachmann is getting so many puff piece from the Washington Post, Politico, PPP and Time. A blind man could see it in a minute: she is being artificially pumped up in order to promote the candidate the Left really wants—Mitt Romney.
In the final analysis, it won’t work. But if you think for a second this phony poll surge of Bachmann’s is real, you are deluded. The objective here is to promote Romney and to try to block Palin. This strategy will be an epic fail on all fronts.
Thanks, F.O.G.
Phillip Crane? Sheesh, thats weak... I’d say shes got a better shot than Palin, for example.
Polls this far out are nothing but foolishness, it is over 7 months till the first primary, and the campaign has scarcely begun.
You also forgot to mention she hasn't said she isn't running, which means you can guess as well as the rest of us.
Just a few points for you to ponder.
Bachmann’s resume is very similar to candidate Obama’s in 2007:
- No executive experience
- Less than 5 years in Congress. plus 2-3 terms in the state legislature
- Never chaired a committee or subcommittee
- Never had a bill they sponsored enacted into law
“Phillip Crane? Sheesh, thats weak...I’d say shes got a better shot than Palin, for example.”
Not as weak as your argument, which doesn’t even rise to the level of indecipherable but is essentially invisible.
Phil Crane! Now there’s a name from long-ago.
Big difference of course, Reagan was running, Palin who knows?
“Bachmann’s resume is very similar to candidate Obama’s in 2007”
You are quite correct. However, Obama had one thing on his resume that Bachmann did not. Unlike Bachmann he had won a state wide race. Bachmann has never even RUN a state wide race, much less onwon one. Now she is campaigning to be the GOP candidate to run 50 state wide races at once.
Talk about risky. The GOP is not about to roll the dice on her. No way.
Reagan helped turn the creeping tide of socialism back on itself. We need someone to do the same in 2012.
Obviously Mitt Romney is not the one to do it. I think of Romney as a surfer riding the tide of socialism to whatever personal gains he imagines it brings him.
And it seems Michele Bachmann is the bikini clad, sunbathing babe on the beach, giggling and waving to Mitt Romney, the surfing socialist.
“Big difference of course, Reagan was running, Palin who knows?”
Are you serioius? Reagan didn’t declare until November 1979. Phil Crane delcared his candidacy in July 1978, and according to Craig Shirley’s excellent chronicle of hte 1980 campaign, Crane was publicly declaring his belief that Reagan would not run throughout 1978 and 1979.
Palin has given far more overt indications (the bus tour, the movie, hiring campaign staff) that she is running than did Reagan at this point in 1979.
I think your imagery is apropos of both Romney and Bachmann. It captures their collective gravitas. LOL
“Phil Crane! Now there’s a name from long-ago.”
Don’t look now, but he is wearing a skirt and using the name Michele and has gotten so senile that he doesn’t know the difference between John Wayne and John Wayne Gacy.
Nonsense. Ronald Reagan was running the second he finished his GOP Convention speech in 1976.
Bachmann is not Crane and Palin is not Reagan. We need to deal with what we got. And to this point we don’t have Palin.
America elected an empty suit in 2008 and it ain’t working out too well. I am not about to elect a matching empty dress in 2012.
Palin is not Reagan. Reagan was a 2 term governor with an extensive base of suporters in the Party. Palin is fairly unpopular outside her tiny base in the Party and is essentially a lone wolf. Bachmann is more articulate than her and more credible, IMO. Crane was a pretty anonymous conservative House member and not particularly charismatic. ...Is that decipherable enough, groupie?
Michelle's eyes do not shine with hope. They are crazed. Don't believe me? Look at her eyes.
I think the key to whether Palin will actually run or not depends on what Rick Perry does. It’s quite likely we will hear from Perry’s decision before Palin. If he does enter the race, I doubt Palin would get in because at that point you have potentially 5 conservatives battling for votes, and while McCotter, Cain, and Bachmann might guess a smaller percentage than Perry and Palin, it is highly likely Romney would win a majority of contests by plurality with just the RINO base.
It’s possible the two are already in cooperation. Other than his recent back surgery today, is there any real reason for Perry to remain quiet on whether he’s making a run? He won’t wait too long though because I think he wants to participate in Ames.
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