Posted on 07/13/2011 3:14:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge said Tuesday that fellow Republican Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who has been surging in the 2012 GOP presidential sweepstakes in recent weeks, was unelectable and unqualified to be commander in chief.
The former Pennsylvania governor, who also served in the U.S. House, gave the stinging assessment in an interview with The Washington Times on the sidelines of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition conference in Washington.
“We have a pretty inexperienced president right now,” Mr. Ridge said. “You see the range of issues in the 21st-century world. We are interconnected, we are integrated. Our ability to connect for both security and prosperity reasons now and forever more, I think, requires a set of experiences that she just doesn’t have in her portfolio.”
....Mr. Ridge, who said he was “very partial to the governors that are in the race,” leavened his criticism of the three-term House lawmaker with praise, calling her a “very articulate” and “very formidable” candidate with “a level of sophistication” and “a hell of a personal story.”
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“We have to say to ourselves as a party: Consistent with principles that we have, do we want to win or are we into Pyrrhic victories?” he said. “Do we want to appoint Supreme Court justices? Do we want to appoint a Cabinet? Do we want to set a domestic and foreign policy agenda? ......
“Now, of course,” he added, “if we’re into Pyrrhic victories if we like to win battles and lose wars who knows who we’ll nominate?”
Asked whether he thought Mrs. Bachmann had been unfairly compared to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, also thought to be considering the 2012 race, Mr. Ridge chuckled. “I think she compares quite well,” he said.
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Thanks Tom, but I will decide and I will send you a can of STFU.
And Mr. Obama was so infinitely qualified? Gotta love these blowhard has-been politicians, they just can’t stand to be upstaged.
Liberals want the government to run everything. That’s what makes the Obama administration so laughable. They want an emperor, not a president, but they settled for a community organizer. Now that’s funny!
Conservatives want a leader, not a manager or an emperor. We don’t expect presidents to fix the economy, tell us what to do, or micromanage a country of 300 million souls.
As for electability, that’s for We the American people to decide, not Mr. Ridge or any of the other GOP hacks who in no small part created the mess we’re currently in.
So how does the RINO Perry fit in to this attack?
and your post of it?
The last time Tom Ridge was in an election, he got beat by a dead man.
Look at all the experienced failures we’ve had.
Thanks for your opinion Tom.....now get the F out of the way and watch what happens. GO Bachmann!
Thanks for your opinion Tom.....now get the F out of the way and watch what happens. GO Bachmann!
PLEASE, enough of the RINOS telling us how to primary VOTE!
The marxist punk in the office of the presidency barely voted while a senator.
experience? yeah as a “community organizer” or some such horse crap.
Tom Ridge didn’t do such a hot job here as governor in Pa. I recall him blowing a deal because f his arrogance with Maersk in Philadelphia that would a lot of people to work at the Navy Yard and along the waterfront.
And we all know how well Homeland Security worked out..
Mr. niteowl77
Jimmy Carter had experience.
From a veteran RINO. Yea, I’ll remember that.
Sounds like the good old boy club is getting a little testy about a woman in the race.They seeem only to want someone who will play ball with them.
>>> And Mr. Obama was so infinitely qualified?
No, he wasn’t, and look what that got us. That’s precisely the point Ridge makes.
Mr tom must be a member of the rove firing squad. What a butt wipe.
born April 6, 1956 in Waterloo, IA (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
David John Amble, born in MN
Jean Johnson, born in IA
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus sanguinis Requirement)
Michele Bachmann is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
...and the RINOs begin the Pailinization of Bachmann! I am no longer a member of the GOP, buy the Tea Party Patriots. I will not work for the campaign of a Party Hack like McCain or Romney although I might be forced to vote for a hack... but they hear us now!
If you voted for Obama to prove you are not a racist, then you must not vote for him in 2012 or prove yourself an idiot
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