Posted on 06/25/2011 9:23:12 PM PDT by Babu
She hasn't even officially announced her presidential campaign yet, but already Rep. Michele Bachmann is virtually tied with Mitt Romney in the 2012 Iowa caucus polling season.
In the first summer poll, published just minutes ago, the Minnesota congresswoman who was born in Iowa has 22% to Romney's 23% lead in the still developing field of Republican presidential prospects, according to the closely-watched Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.
Business executive and tea party favorite Herman Cain finished well behind with 10% in the poll. No other Republican attracted double-digit support.
The former governor from next door Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, lags at 6%.
Bachmann will appear on two of the Sunday morning talk shows. And then formally launch her run for the Republican nomination Monday in Iowa. After, she'll do the same in New Hampshire and South Carolina, three early states that have historically played major roles in deciding the nominees of both parties.
On Tuesday, no doubt by coincidence, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be in Iowa to campaign for -- wait for it -- the new documentary movie about her life, "The Undefeated." The premiere that day is already sold out. Palin has not indicated her decision about a 2012 race, but too much delay this summer could make her decision irrelevant. The poll reported no numbers for Palin.
Republican ex-Sen. Rick Santorum (4%) will also be wandering around Iowa this coming week, along with Rep. Ron Paul (7%) and Newt Gingrich (7%). Even President Obama will visit Iowa on Tuesday to talk more about creating jobs.
Ex-Gov. Jon Huntsman (2%) has indicated he will not be making a major effort in the Hawkeye state. Presumed GOP front-runner Romney, who finished second there to Mike Huckabee in the 2008 caucuses, can't appear to be writing off Iowa.
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oh noes, this means if bachmann is the nominee she’ll pick mitt as her running mate! /chickenlittle
Poll after poll now shows we have a conservative that can take down Romney. I’d expect Bachmann’s numbers in Iowa to soar if the field remains as it is.
This is like polling for the Dem nomination and leaving out Mr. Obama. What a crock of shiite.
First poll I’ve seen where Bachmann is just one point away from Romney’s runaway {snicker} lead.
BACHMANN A DISAPPOINTMENT ON AFGHANISTAN
There were hopeful indications, suggestions, soupçons, that Michele Bachmann was an at least incipient dissenter from the Bush / Obama / neocon paradigm on nation-building and “democratizing” Muslim nations.
Alas, it was not to be. She tells a delighted Matthew Continetti at The Weekly Standard:
On Afghanistan, I firmly believe that we are at a point where we’ve got to stay the course, and we’ve got to finish the job. Reports coming out of Helmand right now are positive.... David Petraeus, who wrote the book on counterinsurgency and on the surge strategy, is successfully prosecuting the surge.
Now, President Obama has not told the story the way President Bush did. President Bush did let the country know where we were at, and I give him a lot of credit because when he was getting all sorts of invective pointed against him, he stood against the world for what he knew to be right in dealing with terrorism. And perhaps no other would have stood the way that he did. I give him great credit for that.
Now in Afghanistan, we are making great progress. We have to win southern Afghanistan, then we have to go on and win eastern Afghanistan. I believe that we will be victorious, and we’ll end it. I understand why people are frustrated. I completely understand. But I do trust General Petraeus in that effort and in what he is doing over there. And I think that they are doing what we need to do.
Bachmann apparently has no grasp, not even a tiny hint, of the essential hopelessness and insanity of what we have been doing there—sacrificing our men to build “trust” with our mortal enemies. Apparently the repeated mass murders of U.S. soldiers by their Afghan “allies” has not caused the slightest tremor of cognitive dissonance in the congresswoman’s comely head. And apparently she has never even thought about the fundamental questions asked the other day by Diana West:
Is Western-style nation-building in the Islamic Umma in any way a practical policy?
Are basic American concepts of governance compatible in any way with a culture based in religious and sexual supremacism?
Should Americans be dying for people who, for example, practice child marriage? Pederasty? To whom women are chattel? To whom corruption is as much a part of their lives as air? Whose allegiances, whose belief system, whose natural reflexes default, in the end, in ways subtle and not subtle, to the ways of jihad against infidels?
Could someone maybe arrange a meeting between Rep. Bachmann and Miss West?
It’s being reported as a tie because the media can’t bring themselves to admit that Bachman is eating the designated front-runner’s lunch on Day 1 of her campaign.
They should at least have a poll that includes a “What if Palin ran?” scenario.
MB 2012 ping
iowa is a caucus state, which is a stupid way to pick a candidate. you may as well have a riot.
the better organized candidate will win.
Bachmann, bless her well intended soul, needs to bone up on some history. Once a Muslim group has gone from nominal to radical in its Mo Madness, virtually nothing short of annihilation or severe ignominy will stop it. Now, if she really is willing to be that ruthless in Afghanistan, if this Lutheran lady can call up the spirit of the Lutheran warriors of the old Nordic countries, there might be a chance of some progress. But she’ll have to be more devastating to radical Islamic groups than even Russia was able to be.
I assume you are joking.
You may think it's stupid, but at least its a closed system. It's a hellava lot better of a system than the states that have open primaries.
I saw that. Excellent news. I’d sure like to see the early primary states present us with a good jump on a great nominee for a change.
It has been at least 20 years, and if you get right down to it, more like 27 since we’ve had a solid in the general election. George the Elder was too much owned by the NWO crowd, and was on a par with McCain when it came to campaigning.
Bad news for T-Paw. Romney is skipping the Iowa straw polls and putting everything on NH as is Huntsman.
phase 1: anybody but obama
phase 2: anybody but romeny
Tim is toast.
Mitt who ?
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on her support for Israel [”Dangerous” Michele Bachmann]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWYFWpMp-o
Update from Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on Israel [Michele Bachmann]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y0nN_hAiWY
We Now Have A Total Gangster Government [”Dangerous” Michele Bachmann]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thR-lVuztIY
Bachmann: “Not All Cultures Are Equal” [”Dangerous” Michele Bachmann]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP4hYkfwuTY
Michele Bachmann: “CO2 Is A Natural Byproduct of Nature!” [”Dangerous” Michele Bachmann]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAaDVOd2sRQ
Michele Bachmann “After 2013 You Won’t Be Able To Purchase Private Health Insurance Anymore! [”Dangerous” Michele Bachmann]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbJ8_cC9UWM
Bachmann Warned Of Pelosi Security Crackdown On Capitol Tea Party [”Dangerous” Michele Bachmann]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h-0P5PI9mA
Crazy when you think about it. WTH.
Gawd! I wish people would get themselves educated on McRomney before they go and make another huge mistake.
Never before has a Democrat stunk like Obama.
What is a McRomney?
A cross between Juan McCain and Mittens Romney... In other words another loser that we can’t afford to run.
B..Bu..But Ted Baxter(aka the Leprechaun) says that Romney is invincible! What gives?
The ship has left port for the ‘what if’ polls. There are REAL candidates in the race now like them or not. Want Palin in these polls? Then you know what she must do...and no not another bus tour, try running.
Whomever the GOP nominee is, we need Marco Rubio for the VP spot. It’s the Hispanic vote that will determine this Election; not the Independents.
Tim is toast.
BFD. Plenty of time for Romney's dumpster divers to sink MB.
No argument here. We'll see if the media is successful in covering that stink and creating it with the GOP nominee.
Fred Thompson was included in all of the polls this time last cycle. The only thing he wound up doing was being a stalking horse for McCain in South Carolina. While Thompson had a low-key exploratory committee at the time, his speculated impact was far less than Palin.
I am painfully aware of what happened with Thompson. He was promoted as our last minute saviour who we could beg to get in and if we did he save us. Who pushed this idea? Rush and Levin were two I remember. I was skeptical.
I don’t think Romney has any chance in Iowa.
Hopefully, supporters of marginal candidates will coalesce around Bachmann sooner rather than later. We don't need another 2008.
The Hubert Humphrey conservatives never see problems with wars ever.
“A Foreign Policy For Americans”
“If we are foolish in our use of our strength, we shall not survive” - Robert Taft “Mr. Republican”
http://mises.org/books/taft.pdf
“Run Sarah run”
Wait, wait, come back. We meant for office.
At this point I’m feeling neither can beat Obama.
Bachmann will be on Fox News Sunday, and Face the Nation, later, where we can get to know her a little better.
Mises? I have posted them here before, maybe 100 times.
Here's the thing about wars. Don't start them because once you do you have a hell-of-a-mess on your hands. Back under GWB and even early last year that opinion was not very popular with Republicans and got many of them mad at me.
Just abandoning allies is not as easy as it sounds as previous Dove Obama has learned.
Sorry to disappoint the media, but Governor Sarah Palin has not even declared she is running. And if she was to do so, she would quickly steal all of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s advantage and knock her out into single figures. This is just hopeful speculation by the media that Gov. Sarah Palin is somehow affected by this. They are talking up Rep. Bachmann because they know and I know Bachmann is the weaker candidate between the ‘tea party queens’ against Mr. Obama. In fact they will talk up almost any republican candidate other than Palin. Should have listened to Politico, MSNBC and CNN last week, for the first and only time they are actually saying complimentary things about Bachmann, when in the past the level of abuse she got from the likes of Chris Matthews was immense. It is like that abuse never happened now. But believe me if Bachmann runs againist the annointed one in the White House they will tear her to pieces. I hope the republicans don’t allow the media to pick their candidate again like 2008.
“Hubert Humphrey conservatives” - Irving Kristol was on the Hubert Humphrey task force in 1968. He didn’t like McGovern in 1972 and voted for Nixon. Socialist Michael Harrington in 1973 wrote a article about him and his buddies called “The Welfare State and Its Neoconservative Critics.” Until that particular Socialist decided to call those particular ex Trotskyite Democrats “Conservatives”, it was assumed that they were Liberals.
Now, they’re part of the Republican party, and considered “conservative”.
A couple of them do and she tends to do pretty well.
I think this one only includes those who have filed the paperwork.
(That being said, the only polls I take seriously are at the end of the primary and the one in November 2012.)
(I'm guessing Marco Rubio).
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Are you Lawrence Auster?
If not, your are stealing other people’s writing and claiming it as your own.
I’ve been seeing a lot of this lately here on FR, not even bothering with quotes or credit where credit is due.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/019707.html
If you ARE Lawrence Auster, then well said..
Why is it that conservative women pols are always being told they need to “bone up” on history? I know a lot of male pols who could start hitting the books if need be told.
Why not say you totally disagree with her position on Afghanistan and will not support her until she changes that position? Why is the implication that she’s somehow uneducated?
Bachmann does not have my support while Rollins still works for her. Rollins represents an evil that infects the GOP like a foul, socialist disease. I will not tolerate the presence of a RINO traitor on the team of anyone who calls themselves conservative.
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