In a switch, GOP's Michele Bachmann talks of empathy

Politics Now ^ | June 16, 2011 | James Oliphant

[rob777]

In her first televised interview since declaring her presidential candidacy, Michele Bachmann accused President Obama of having a “shocking" lack of empathy toward Americans victimized by the struggling economy.

“I talk to people. I care about people,” the Minnesota Republican told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity Wednesday evening. “The president has no understanding of what is happening in real people's lives.”

[rob777]

She is smart to go after him on an area where he is vulnerable.

[Grunthor]

This might be the candidate we need. She’s conservative enough, she’s smart enough and if Obozo attacks her, he looks like he’s beating up on a girl.

[PapaNew]

I don't know. That's the liberal's strong suit - "government empathy."

We don't need nor want government empathy. What we need is for government to get back in its Constitutional cage, stay there, and stick to what we've delegated it via the Constitution...and leave us alone to live our lives.

[cripplecreek]

In a switch?

[Enterprise]

Bamstervich and his ilk are hysterically laughing their assess off because they fooled the American people with the promise of shovel ready jobs. Obama and the unions got the money, and the only thing that got shoveled was the mountain of manure on the people who wanted to go to work. Yeah Bamabitch, you and your boot licking hacks are really funny people.

[nascarnation]

With his profound experience in the Chicago ‘hood, Baraq gets a MSM free pass on anything to do with the downtrodden.

Words that haven’t been used by the MSM since 08:

homeless problem
McJobs
recovery for Wall $treet but not for Main Street

[HIDEK6]

“Well, I guess it really wasn’t shovel-ready, yuk, yuk, yuk.”

[cripplecreek]

Empathy is a good thing. How liberals deal with it is another.

[MHGinTN]

Michele is no ‘girl’, she’s every bit a woman in full. She is very conservative, but accepting Ed Rollins to run her campaign is a flaw in judgment I find too perplexing.

[FourPeas]

Of course, the LA Times just has to interject Romney into the discussion.

[PapaNew]

Empathy is a good thing.

Don't get confused with personal or individual empathy, which, of course is a good thing, and "government empathy."

Communism and Marxism are founded on such confusion and such empathy and that's how these Leftists have made inroads here. We don't need nor want government's "empathy" or "help." As Reagan once said, "The scariest words in the English language are, 'Hi , I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" Over the centuries, thousands upon millions of dead bodies have accumulated as a result of believing those words.

[rob777]

That's the liberal's strong suit - "government empathy."


It may be a liberal strong suit, but it is not an Obama strong suit. He comes off as cold and distant. This may be our chance to turn what was a liberal strong suit against them.

[cripplecreek]

Rollins is no better or worse than anyone else out there doing the same job. Strategists are sleazy creatures. Carville, Buchannan, Morris, Trippi etc.

Randy Scheunemann was Sarah Palin’s foreign policy advisor and he’s a Soros lackey. Doesn’t mean anything about Palin, just shows what these pure political animals are. After the campaign, Scheunemann went to work for Christine O’Donnel.

[bvw]

She’s talking PERSONAL empathy. Folks are sick of “Government” empathy.

[MHGinTN]

I’m sorry, but I’ve just heard too much CNN crap from Rollin’s mouth. I like Bachmann but I find Rollins to be ‘a bridge too far’.

[rob777]

"This might be the candidate we need. She’s conservative enough, she’s smart enough and if Obozo attacks her, he looks like he’s beating up on a girl."


She also appears to be working on a plan. As of late she has been talking up her taking in 23 foster children, then she goes after Obama on his lack of empathy. It will be hard to for him to counter her on this issue after she has established her own capacity for empathy. As another poster on this site has mentioned, empathy has been the strong suit of liberals. Bachmann may be able to turn this strong suit into a weakness. If she can it would be a lot easier to sell spending cuts and entitlement reform. As Jack Kemp once said, "people need to know that you care before they care that you know".

[cripplecreek]

Don't get confused with personal or individual empathy, which, of course is a good thing, and "government empathy."

Obviously. I am concerned for the people who have been hit by tornadoes and floods but I still want FEMA eliminated. It doesn't mean I want to just leave them screwed, only that I want to help on my own rather than having the government take money to do it for me.

With liberals, empathy isn't really an altruistic thing. With liberals, empathy is bait they use to create dependents.

[wolfman23601]

Rollins came a Fred Thompson stalking horse candidacy away from getting Huck the bid in 2008 out of nowhere. Don’t underestimate him. He is a sleazeball but he is good at his job.

[PapaNew]

Obama...comes off as cold and distant. This may be our chance to turn what was a liberal strong suit against them.

That would be a sad mistake. Let Obama dig his own grave which he's doing very well. This other stuff starts to sound like RINO-speak.

We should be about getting government back within its constitutional limits and giving the country back to the states and the people, not feeding them with more of these poison entitlement "we love you" pellets. The government doesn't love you - never has, never will. That's the liberal's lie and is not what's needed here.

[rob777]

"Of course, the LA Times just has to interject Romney into the discussion."


Unfortunately, yes.