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Bachmann flattens Pawlenty
Washington Post ^ | 7/25/2011 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 07/25/2011 8:14:58 AM PDT by balls

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To: ejdrapes

I think a lot of Establishment types are talking up Bachmann now, but they’d never actually want her as their nominee. Examples today would be J Rubin with this piece, and K-Lo (Mitten extraordinaire!) over at NR.

I also think there are more operatives with the same angle behind the scenes, but no, I don’t have proof of that. Just circumstantial evidence at best.


41 posted on 07/25/2011 9:50:51 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: RitaOK
I like her cool self confidence and unflustered presence whether in an interview, a debate or on the stump. We don’t have to hold our dang breath when she speaks in ANY of these venues.

She's always on offense.....hit her and she'll bite your head off.....very much like Palin.

42 posted on 07/25/2011 9:52:39 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
She's always on offense.....hit her and she'll bite your head off.....very much like Palin.

Misogynist much? How would you prefer she respond to irrational unfair attacks? Bend over and just take it?

43 posted on 07/25/2011 9:55:30 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: 9YearLurker

“not so sure I’m sold on the evidence that Bachmann’s a natural executive”

Good point. I don’t recall EVER seeing her golf.

Seriously though, I’m basing my assessment on a demonstration of leadership and an official record of adherence to principle.

But I understand that, to some, a good executive is someone who builds consensus, plays roles and feels other people’s pain.

We’ve done that. To death nearly. And all we have to show for it is an overstocked inventory of unicorns, impassable drifts of fairy dust, down under employment and devastating debt. We are circling the drain and holding hands does not seem to be helping as advertised. I only hope I can at least catch the corner of that dang “There’s no ‘I’ in TEAM” poster before I go down.

I don’t give a hoot if it ever rains Skittles again. I want a president with the balls to slide down that rainbow of diversity, kick that lousy Left-handed leprechaun smack in his entitlements and bring America’s pot of previously private gold back home.

I’m looking for that hard line. I’ve seen Bachmann’s work. She draws a bright and straight line. I want to give her the big pen.


44 posted on 07/25/2011 10:00:35 AM PDT by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: Beelzebubba

On Ed Rollins, I left the intended trail earlier and failed my point on Rollins that you made. The Palin broadside aside, I would say that Bachman’s perfectly framed retort to Pawlenty is vintage Rollins, and one more sign that he is an accomplished street fighter who is more than prepared to take on ALL candidates who fire in Bachman’s direction, or try to move in on her well earned early ground.


45 posted on 07/25/2011 10:00:46 AM PDT by RitaOK (We hang together or will hang separately. 2012, or bust)
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To: RitaOK

Yep, Rollins at least makes contenders of his candidates.


46 posted on 07/25/2011 10:02:31 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: balls
Executive experience is not an asset if it simply means bigger and more intrusive government.

Gotta remember that sentence.

47 posted on 07/25/2011 10:12:01 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: ejdrapes

Has all that changed now that T-Paw’s competing with Bachmann for higher office?


48 posted on 07/25/2011 10:19:40 AM PDT by chainsaw (I'd hate to be a democrat running against Sarah Palin.)
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To: BuddhaBrown

We all have our candidates and our reasons!


49 posted on 07/25/2011 10:30:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Bachmann is a fool! Being right on the issues is critical but equal is having the experience to make these issues reality. She has never won a state wide race , has never ran a business or a town or state. She is all talk. That is why her poll numbers are receding back to her pre debate numbers. Ofcourse Pawlenty is going nowhere too.


50 posted on 07/25/2011 10:42:48 AM PDT by RED SOUTH (Follow me on twitter @redsouth72)
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To: balls

Who’s running his campaign.........Bugs or Daffy? Pee-plenty is making a fool of himself.


51 posted on 07/25/2011 11:06:45 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: BuddhaBrown

Oh my gosh you are funny! Unicorns!! Fairy dust!! Exactly. We don’t need no more.
Love reading your posts and better...I agree with them.


52 posted on 07/25/2011 11:14:12 AM PDT by Boxsford (God Is.)
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To: RitaOK

Bachman’s perfectly framed retort to Pawlenty is vintage Rollins.


Yup. We agree.


53 posted on 07/25/2011 11:15:56 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Government borrowing is Taxation without Representation)
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To: BelegStrongbow
She's always on offense.....hit her and she'll bite your head off.....very much like Palin. Misogynist much? How would you prefer she respond to irrational unfair attacks? Bend over and just take it?

Bachmann and Palin are the only republicans that know how to respond. she has guts....just like when Palin KNOCKED OUT LETTERMAN. .

Click on image below to see how to handle bullies and not let their media protectors get them off message.



54 posted on 07/25/2011 11:45:58 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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To: balls

Wrong move, Mr. Timmy.

Michelle made you look like “Mitt Lite.”

Which, in fact, is what you are.


55 posted on 07/25/2011 11:51:15 AM PDT by mojito
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To: 9YearLurker

I’d agree with you re: Jen Rubin but not K-Lo. Seems to me she supports both Palin and Bachmann equally without a preference for one over the other.


56 posted on 07/25/2011 11:56:36 AM PDT by ejdrapes (Can we keep our attacks focused on the real enemy: Obama)
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To: balls

And yet only more evidence that Bachmann is being pushed by the LSM


57 posted on 07/25/2011 7:41:51 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (DID I MENTION...SARAH PALIN OR FLIPPIN BUST)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

I couldn’t actually bear to run through the whole thing. Matt Lauer is so slimy, it is a trial just to hear him, much less have to watch.

That said, she literally nailed him. I don’t know how much more bitten-off his head would have to have been.

And the moment now is the full-fire on Bachmann. A lot of very slimy people have their guns aimed and discharging at her 24/7. It is time right now for her to stop the assault and if that means verbally knocking heads, that is what needs to happen. Into the stunned silence she can then pour the reasonable rebuttal that wouldn’t otherwise even be heard.


58 posted on 07/25/2011 9:05:47 PM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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