Posted on 08/19/2011 6:38:30 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
candidate, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Friday.
Bachmann who made two appearances before enthusiastic crowds on the strongly Republican South Carolina coast, also said the appeal that helped her win last week's straw poll in Iowa will carry over into South Carolina, which has the first GOP presidential primary in the South.
The Minnesota congresswoman has misspoken a couple of times in recent weeks, most recently on Tuesday in Spartanburg, when she mentioned to a crowd that it was Elvis' birthday when it was actually the anniversary of his death. Bachmann corrected herself later that day as she spoke with reporters saying "he's still alive in our hearts."
(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
Rep. Bachmann’s campaign played a large part in her win, reportedly handing out some 6,000 of the $30 tickets to help bolster her numbers—the sort of tactic which is part of the reason the straw poll is often considered more of a contest for bragging rights than a harbinger of the Republican field.
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/08/13/michele_bachmann_wins_iowa_straw_poll.html
good for her!
LOL The Jerry Springer voters were horrified.
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That's the media's position.
John Engler was a great governor of Michigan Despite saying “Next Time I go on vacation to Mackinaw Island, I’ll drive my Oldsmobile” LOL
Not only is it an island, its and island that doesn’t allow cars.
Apparently, based on the amount of MSM reporting of both incidents, it is also more important to know when Elvis died then it is to know how many states there are in the Union.
“The Minnesota congresswoman has misspoken a couple of times in recent weeks,”
The Associated Pimps must have a team of gerbalist interns reviewing every word of every public utterance she makes.
Just like Dan Quayle's “Potatoe” incident.
If any of the others misspeak you won’t be hearing about it. In fact I’m seeing some serious moral cowardice from at least one particular set of political cheerleaders.
After a while you have to start wondering.
OF course, people are worried about jobs and the economy nothing else...the person who has the best record on that will be elected.
Perry supporters of course.
I don’t know...didn’t people just spend the last few days ripping Perry for his comments on Bernanke? Or did I imagine that whole episode.
I’m not concerned about the gaffes with Michelle. I would like to know why she lied about her family reunion.
There are many even here who still express their confusion—and anger—at journalists who make a great show “All The New That’s Fit to Print” and truth, etc., then go ahead and slant news to favor/protect “progressives”, in a way that is transparent even to sharp 9th graders.
Larry Schweikart explained it very well, I think, in his interview with Rush Limbaugh, transcript contained at the beginning of his book `A Patriot’s History of the United States.’
It should be read in context, but:
“My theory is that was not Vietnam or Watergate that caused the change (my note: from the `lead’ to the facts: who, what, where, when, how from the Civil War when people weren’t in any frame of mind to put up with BS, all the way, he says, to 1960).
“I think you see clear indications of this change happening earlier. My gut feeling is it involves John Kennedy. That the press, especially the males in the press, so identified with Kennedy that they started to throw fairness out the window and became terribly attached to his Administration, creating the whole Camelot myth. So by the time Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson came in, and the Vietnam war, they were already moving in the other direction Vietnam just accellerated something that had already happened, in my view, but I can’t prove that just yet.”
So you can add to confusion and anger, risibility. They may not know it yet, but we see these `guardians of truth,’ finally, for what they really are: Frauds. Saturday Night Live with a straight face.
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Not knowing Elvis’ birthday indicates a person who has no aptitude for strategic military planning, no empathy for the less fortunate, and probably right-wing lunatic tendencies.
Get her hair and make-up analysis, stat. We need to really dig through her qualifications.
She just sounds like an extremist. I don’t know why, she just does.
We can not have some normal person who might be an extremist in the most powerful job in the world.
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Isn’t Engler the guy who, exasperated with Fed regulations and interference in state matters, said “Tell me again why they call me ‘governor’ instead of ‘branch manager’”?
I thought that was a great line.
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