For Michele Bachmann, a pattern of getting facts wrong (Mixes up Rev War history in NH)

Politico ^ | March 12, 2011 | JONATHAN MARTIN & KENDRA MARR

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s suggestion Saturday that the Revolutionary War began in Concord, N.H., rather than Lexington and Concord, Mass., marks the third time in recent months that the potential GOP presidential hopeful has committed a puzzling gaffe about history and current affairs.

Making her first trek to New Hampshire as a 2012 prospect, Bachmann told a GOP crowd in Concord: “You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord.”

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“She makes Sarah Palin look like Count Metternich,” groaned longtime GOP consultant Mike Murphy on Twitter after reading about the Concord confusion.

[Godebert]

You forgot the Navy “Corpse Man”.

[Dawgreg]

I LOVE IT! LOL! It’s a wonder she can do as well as she does. I love that woman!

[TigersEye]

It was my mistake, Massachusetts is where they happened.
New Hampshire is where they are still proud of it!

LOL I don't care who you are, that's funny!

[Friendofgeorge]

As far as MB being on the same team as Sarah Palin? I hope/pray you are right!

I think Huck is all about Huck and I am sorry, but I think MB may just be about MB?

The idea that she is actually toying with the idea of running is troubling to me, YES she has the right to run!

We will see who is about self soon enough. Should Sarah Palin run and MB also, to me that would be MB being for self.

Also if Sarah Palin does run, are we going to hear MB being slow to endorse her, nothing would surprise me.

[editor-surveyor]

SO dimwit Mike Murphy has to turn Bachmann’s error into an attack on Palin?

Enough from the elitist clowns.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “When she says America watched FDR give his fireside chats on television during the Great Depression, then I’ll worry.” <<

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And the evening after the crash in’29 to boot! :o)

[editor-surveyor]

No, West has joined up with the elitist fools.

Trying to buy himself some unearned power, instead of representing his constituents.

[grey_whiskers]

Hoist, meet petard.

[sauropod]

Longtime GOP consultant Mike Murphy can put a sock in it.

[DallasSun]

BTTT

[DallasSun]

Then he would be entombed...not buried.

[teeman8r]

would that be on breed’s hill...

something from my past says so... but then again... i have been wrong before...

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[LibLieSlayer]

Same treatment for Palin but times 1 million... if Michele grows in popularity, some on FR will attack her also. mitt and the blue blood elites pay their trained monkeys well to write these attacks on TRUE CONSERVATIVES.

LLS

[Hatteras]

On the front of a can of hot dog chili?...