Posted on 01/02/2012 12:25:40 PM PST by freespirited
No matter what happens at the Iowa caucuses Tuesday, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said Monday she will not drop out of the race for president.
During an appearance on MNSBC’s Morning Joe, Bachmann said her campaign has “already bought our plane tickets. We’re headed to South Carolina as soon as we’re done on Wednesday morning. We’ll be there. We’re going the distance.”
Bachmann won the Iowa Straw Poll in August, but suffered a fall hard as the campaign season went on. The most recent Des Moines Register poll shows her in last place, with 7 percent.
“This isn’t over,” she said. “We’re not here for a post mortem. We’re here because I intend to continue to launch our campaign out of Iowa. I think we’re going to do very well.”
Wow.
Yeah, Michele - it’s all about you, we know.
Flaky has just been proven.
I’m a little worried about my home district. MN6.. If she keeps going shes not going to be able to fight off the nasty attack from the left in her home turf.
Not wanting to be mean spirited or be looked at as a defeatist, but if I were a paid staffer and my candidate were to utter the words “No matter what happens in (noted location), we’re not dropping out”, I would be polishing up my resume before going to sleep that night and spending about 20 minutes at Kinkos getting 4 or 5 copies of my resume professionally bound the next morning.
Just being realistic.
I had 9 supporters at my last rally, we will win this. MB. Time to pack that grip Michele.
In all fairness, what else could she say?
She’s allowed to put on a show until the actual vote.
Afterwards, if she goes 7% or under then it’s about something else, as Iowa should be her high-water mark (excepting perhaps MN).
I doubt Michele will be in Congress much longer.
Not much, and that’s the problem. When faced with a daunting task, and your only response is “we’ll keep doing what we’re doing”, that isn’t very reassuring.
I HOPE she is saying this because it’s the day before the Caucus. Otherwise ... she’s just splitting the Conservative vote which means one thing ... RINO Romney.
Response: Sob!
She may not drop out, but judging by the actions of her staff lately and her poll numbers, she may be a woman alone very soon. I hope she can hold on to her House seat after this.
I’ve always like Michele Bachmann and admired her courage but the writing is on the wall. She could’ve been great. She has probably the clearest record of any and one of the most principled. Somewhere along the line her campaign decided to let her become a plastic pretty face as if she were being groomed to be Romney’s running mate which they should’ve known was never going to happen. The fact that she has been scattershot and small in her attacks and has failed horribly to leverage her clear strengths is unbelievable.
If she does better than expected in the final result then she may be justified in continuing but if she can’t do well in Iowa where can she do well? The worst thing to come out of the Iowa Caucuses is to have no one drop out. Selfish shortsighted conservatives will leave us stuck with Romney and that is the worst possible outcome in my book.
Yeah, like Fred “whats his name” in 2008...
She won’t do well in Iowa, she won’t do well in New Hampshire, so that leaves South Carolina. I don’t know what her prospects are in South Carolina but if she does not do well there then she should pack it in.
She is on TV before the caucus' get together and and become cauci, she can't say she is going back to her foster kids, take them to Target and start a breast feeding protest.
At least she pretends that it's not over, but since her campaign is broke, busted and disgusted, she has no real options remaining after the cauci.
You can't run a campaign on a Discover Card and food stamps.
Bachmann policy statements; the only one that I have not much interest in is repatriation, but it’s necessary to throw a bone to big corporate America.
American Jobs...
1. REPATRIATION. More than 1.2 trillion United States dollars could be brought back to America in days as an immediate “stimulus” if the government would zero out the tax rate on that money until December 31, and then permanently keep it here in the U.S. if taxed at a rate of 5 percent. Foreign earnings totaling over $1.2 trillion is more than the President’s failed stimulus and it won’t come out of taxpayer wallets. It would increase the value of the dollar, provide valuable capital for the job creators in this country and pump tremendous amounts of money into our economy.
2. CUT SPENDING AND GOVERNMENT. I have already voted to cut federal spending in the years ahead, every single time I have had the opportunity. In addition, I would phase out quasi-governmental enterprises, such as Fannie and Freddie, and eliminate duplicative government programs and costs. We must decrease government salaries to bring them in line with their private sector counterparts, and we must decrease the number of government employees. Over-spending by the government hurts job creation by devaluing the dollar and stealing capital from the private sector.
3. REPEAL OBAMACARE. Healthcare is one-sixth of the U.S. economy and this unconstitutional takeover of healthcare by the federal government is creating crippling uncertainty for employers across this country. This legislation does nothing to address the true problem with our healthcare system – cost – and will cost states trillions. I believe it is an intentional backstop to imploding healthcare entitlement programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to transition toward a single payer-system. This is the number one hindrance to job creation in the United States (according to a recently released UBS study).
4. CUT TAXES. I’ve demonstrated a firm commitment to cutting spending and balancing the budget. We need to reduce the number of tax brackets, repeal taxes outlined in Obamacare, fix the Alternative Minimum Tax, and eliminate the Death Tax. In addition, we must make the corporate tax code simpler and fairer, and allow U.S. companies that generate earnings overseas to bring back those profits and invest them in American jobs and growth.
5. REPEAL THE JOBS AND HOUSING DESTRUCTION ACT, ALSO KNOWN AS DODD-FRANK. This law tightened regulations on banks, made it harder for Americans to obtain credit, and failed to address the systemic problem that caused the Wall Street collapse — leverage. This 849-page bill calls for 400 new sets of rules that will be written on 6000 Federal Register pages, all written by bureaucrats, many of whom have never worked in the financial services field. The law also creates a potentially intrusive Financial Services Consumer Protection Bureau that is not accountable to Congress and which has but a vague mandate to combat misconduct – so in the wrong hands, it could cause its own kind of misconduct.
6. LEGALIZE AMERICAN ENERGY PRODUCTION AND AMERICA’S NATURAL RESOURCES. This could create 1.4 million jobs, bringing $800 billion of new revenue into the U.S. Treasury, and increasing domestic energy supplies by 50 percent. The price of energy has a direct impact on nearly every facet of our lives. We have to abandon the parochial and political energy policies of the past and install a comprehensive energy plan that not only reduces our reliance on unfriendly foreign regimes, but also creates millions of American jobs and generates increased tax revenues. According to the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. has more energy potential than any other country in the world. We should use that potential. It is a better policy to create American jobs and explore in an environmentally-sound way, than to rely on foreign dictators who give little regard to the environment. This includes specific strategies like reviving the logging, timber, mining and metals industries, and bringing federal lands back into productive activity by repealing radical environmental laws that kill access to natural resources.
7. REPEAL JOB KILLING REGULATIONS. America’s job creators and small business owners have lost economic liberty under the weight of $1.8 billion annually in compliance costs with government regulations. Together we sent $2.2 trillion in taxes to the federal government this year. By comparison, job creators spend nearly as much annually to comply with bureaucratic mandates. Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and the string of mandates and rules from the Environmental Protection Agency — as well as other agencies — are creating such incredible uncertainty in the market. The House Republican leadership has identified 219 planned Obama administration regulations, each of which will cost the economy more than $100 million. This red tape rampage must stop.
8. INCREASE EXPORTS. This President has been holding hostage trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea as he tries to negotiate favor for Big Labor. The world needs to know that we are open for business and U.S. Companies need to expand beyond our borders to the 95 percent of people who do not live here.
9. UNLEASH AMERICAN INVESTMENT. By eliminating unnecessary taxes and regulation, and expanding trade, we will create an incentive for investment in America again. We must do whatever it takes to restore our ability to manufacture here in the U.S. We can do this by reforming the tax code, providing incentive for growth, and allowing the private sector to control the market with little government involvement.
10. PAVE A PATHWAY FOR INNOVATION. Recent reports indicated that the United States has now slipped to 5th in the competitiveness rankings, and 47th in education. How do we expect to lead the world economically when we are not doing what is needed to inspire and foster innovation here at home? The future of the American economy lies with the innovation of this and future generations.
11. ENFORCE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWS. The failure of the federal government to enforce its immigration laws costs federal, state and local governments billions of dollars annually. Our nation was founded on the rule of law, and we must ensure U.S. immigration laws are respected and enforced not only to preserve our national security, but to protect federal, state, and local budgets, and to curb the unfair strain on our country’s job markets.
But she’s “crazy” according to some “conservatives”.
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