Posted on 06/27/2011 9:05:43 AM PDT by bjorn14
Rep. Michele Bachmann, stressing her Iowa roots and appealing directly to Tea Party voters, came out swinging Monday as she formally launched her campaign for president.
Buoyed by a strong showing in several recent polls, the Minnesota congresswoman cast her campaign as the voice for "constitutional conservatives" looking for a government that lives within its means while giving the private sector the room to grow. She launched a broadside against President Obama for racking up too much debt while stimulating too little job growth and vowed to make him a "one-term president."
"We cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama," she declared, later adding: "We can win in 2012 and we will win."
In her announcement, Bachmann described a special bond with Iowa, the nation's leadoff caucus state. She held the kickoff in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, and called herself a "descendent of generations of Iowans," saying the state is where she learned "everything I needed to know." She also appealed to another vital primary constituency, calling herself part of the Tea Party movement and defending it as a cross-section of Republicans, independents and disaffected Democrats.
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I just noticed that we have hijacked a Bachmann thread. I could start a thread based on the Palin BOR interview, but my purpose (not to hate Palin, but rather to alert others of the danger of falling into the amnesty trap) would certainly be misunderstood.
But, frankly, the fact that there is no such thread on FR worries me.
That is an idea!
Remember the time early 2010 you sent me a link to a Malkin Article “Things I DONT miss about Bush” and I posted it and all hell broke loose, 612 comments.
Things I don’t miss about George W. Bush (Michelle Malkin), | February 9, 2010 | Michelle Malkin Posted by sickoflibs
I remember two Bush-bots from Ohio showed up to complain. Then there was that Romney-babe GOPLady who loved Bush too but for some reason tried to tell one of them that I wasnt really Satan LOL. That was a waste of time.
Every Republican should have a staffer fact check their speeches and take them apart. In fact I’ve long suggested that candidates go further and do internal opposition research on themselves so they can get ahead of problems.
“WARNING TO MS. BACHMANN... Ahead in Iowa, pulling even in NH... major slime attack coming from the Lefties and GOP establishment.”
Yep, number 1 on the Weather Channel’s agenda this morning.
Her own gaffes caused them to called her a flak. And if that is considered an attack - she certainly is being given a cake walk.
” Interviewer: What will you do about the millions of illegal aliens in the USA?
Candidate (thinking “Yikes!”): I will “Secure the Border” (patent pending)!”
Interviewer: Well, uh, OK.
Palin tried that, but BOR didn’t let her get away. Other candidates who don’t want to be probed on this might want to get Hannity to interview them :) “
Palin tried like the very devil not to answer BOR, but he got her to admit to “registration amnesty”
” Unlike Palin, I don’t “compromise” with Obama or his Republicrat enablers, especially against real conservatives like J.D. Hayworth and Michele Bachmann. “
Amen, brother!
Sen RINO Graham-nesty: " I will support a constitutional amendment to stop birth-right citizenship if it ever comes up in the Senate under Reid, which it will not, and even if it did it would NEVER make it through the states ratification so you SC hispanics living with illegal relatives dont have to worry, I just dont want those stupid border-bots to get on my case during my Senate primary, you know they are all stupid racist Tea Party hicks and can be fooled easily. "You know who made up that term borderbots?
Palin does midget toss bowling?
I’ll check You-Tube and be right back... ;^)
If the GOP wins the Presidency in 2012, taking into account what kind of people most of the candidates are, I hope the GOP can hold on to the House. I don't trust the Senate when there is a GOP amnesty zealot (real agenda uncorked AFTER the election) in the WH.
Will see. Obama came out on the attack again today. New strategy is to drop demands for tax rates to increase and instead demand Republicans remove a few targeted tax breaks, ones that wont generate much revenue but have been politically poll tested and focus grouped to be toxic to defend.
New terminology : It's not increasing ‘taxes’ it's increasing ‘revenue’, they are not ‘making’ them pay the higher taxes, they are ‘asking’ them to. It's not ‘taxes’ it's ‘subsidies’ and ‘loopholes’. This is how the the game is played.
On the other hand it was speculated that House Republicans will wait till the deadline and then pass a bill with NO tax increases but with all the cuts that Biden agreed to in principle and dare them to block it in Senate or to veto it.
And naturally Democrats will keep the Ryan plan alive until November 2012,
I think you will understand that I am concerned about the possibility of President Romney (or some other amnesty opportunist), working together with Graham, McCain, etc. to legalize people who will vote overwhelmingly left. So-called Republicans who seek Hispanic votes in trade for a “path to citizenship” would have enough power and money to buy votes in a corrupt future in which conservative voters have little power, but IMO the rest of us would be out of luck.
McCain and company seem to fight amnesty in Dem administrations, but they are only too happy to help when it’s a GOP administration. As some FReepers argue, it’s bad when Obama does it but good when GWB does it.
I am hoping that, even if Romney becomes POTUS, his election would keep the House in GOP hands, because I don’t know if GOP senators would stop amnesty again.
Bingo, except one of the big arguments the Bush/McCain/Pelosi amnesty team used wont fly now :that we have a shortage of low paid unskilled labor.
I like your idea of a vanity demanding each candidate declare their positions on illegals specifically, but I figure it's still early and the race has just started. Someone else could still join it and I seriously doubt it will be Palin.
That is probably why we did not seen a bigger push for amnesty, even when Obama had 60 Dems in the senate and Pelosi. (I can imagine Bernie Sanders telling Reid his union buddies won't go for it, and Obama telling La Raza "We'll do this after my Stimulus brings the unemployment rate down!")
You know I am always concerned about this, because they never give up, and that includes the GOP when they see an opportunity.
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