Posted on 07/01/2011 6:13:52 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Ping!
Blabbity blah, yadda yackity yack.
Whatever dude.
Maybe Bachmann is running so Palin can under the radar gather forces to emerge when she declares with thousands of volunteers, and just zoom to the top of the heap.
Brice u got the coolest articles on FR.
If Bachmann’s campaign is DOA, how d o we account for the following news just the past 2 days:
How Michele Bachmann’s Surge Reshuffles the GOP Presidential Race
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0611/The_Bachmann_surge.html
The Bachmann Surge
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2011/06/more-bachmann-surge.html
More Bachmann Surge
With Michele Bachmann’s surge comes fresh scrutiny
Bachmann is running because she has an ego as big as outdoors and a grossly elevated opinion of her own importance. There is no way she is going to let the undereducated country bumpkin keep her from her rightful place as today’s most influential conservative female.
Hey Thaddeus McCotter is getting in! Things are a changing!!!! Hold the phone.
I respect Bachmann too much to think that she would deliberately betray the nation's best interests out of greed for power. I think she's a genuine limited government conservative who stands against statism. But I also think that she may truly believe that by running, she is doing the right thing.
I wish she had approached it with more humility and acknowledged that Palin is the far stronger, better, safer presidential candidate for limited government conservatives who aim to conquer the statist GOP Establishment.
From what I know so far, Bachmann lives up to all I ask -- the 80 percent standard that Reagan prescribed: I agree with her 80 percent of the time, and that makes her a valuable asset to the party of limited government. But then again, so did Duncan Hunter.
I shrink from describing her as ill-intentioned becuase I don't think she is. However, it's perfectly legit and right to point out to fellow conservatives the flaws in her that make her an extremely risky bet as opposed to Palin. I would, and will, urge people who would support her over Palin to seriously rethink their position.
You are a much better person than I, but I have grown more cynical over the years.
He is on batchelor tonight. This guy is smart x 10. I love batchelor show.
>> Hey Thaddeus McCotter is getting in!
Seriously?
Excellent wit.
If she craved power, then I think that she would have struggled harder to get some over her 10 year political career, instead she seemed impotent, and incapable of gaining power, or respect, or success, among her peers, she has nothing to show for her time in politics, until she found a public stage.
I think that she craves celebrity and a chance to tell people about herself, it was when she found a stage that her fortunes changed, she is the sudden celebrity candidate, with the empty resume.
Somebody must have forgotten to tell Michelle Bachmann since she seems to be climbing the polls pretty fast. Our author also forgot one little problem about Palin. She isn’t running. At least not that I’ve heard.
What Palin candidacy? You are delusional...
It essentially will minimal unless the latter steps up to the plate and enters the fray.
Actually, at any other time in our history, about any other person, it would be a given that Palin was running and was presently running an amazing and brilliant campaign, she just hasn’t declared yet.
Two people...
One doesn't smile with their eyes, the other smiles with their whole face
one uses words like "we" and "team", the other focuses on "i"
one is always understated, the other likes their bling.
one connects with me, the other only thinks they do...
But that is just me...
Best analysis yet. Spot on.
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