Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, speaks to supporters and media during a campaign stop, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in West Des Moines, Iowa.
I like Michele, but she's done, at least with this election.
Posted on 01/03/2012 12:49:49 PM PST by SmithL
URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, fighting low expectations in the Iowa caucuses, is dismissing predictions that a poor showing could effectively doom her campaign.
"We think people are going to be very surprised with what the vote is tonight. We're confident," Bachmann said after addressing an assembly of suburban high school students Tuesday morning. "We're moving on. We're moving forward because this election is far from over. This is the opening chapter. Tonight is the first vote. We've got a long road to go.
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Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, speaks to supporters and media during a campaign stop, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in West Des Moines, Iowa.
I like Michele, but she's done, at least with this election.
I like her, too. I was a Cain supporter and I still don’t know who I’m going to vote for..
I like her, too. I was a Cain supporter and I still don’t know who I’m going to vote for..
There comes a point where you have to put the good of the country above your own personal ambition. Apparently, Michele is not there yet.
“Bachmann said after addressing an assembly of suburban high school students...”
Bachmann is showing the world that she knows how to run a masterful campaign by targeting the most vital voting group in America, high school students.
I still believe in Santa, but I never did believe in the Easter bunny.
I suspect that Bachmann believes in the Easter bunny and that she also thinks it’s a tax lawyer.
It might take Paul’s straight jacket just to get her off the stage. LOL
She makes me think of every mans ex-wife.
Nope. Can’t count out anyone till the results come in and they figure out what to do. Fox news said last night she has been organizing for months. Today they are saying that it could be wide open because of the format of the caucuses. Anything is possible. Bachmann was the only one to go all 99 counties. I do understand Rick Santorum also visited nearly all counties, but the media didn’t say that. I read it somewhere. But I head on Fox News them say only Bachmann hit every county. Anything can happen. It is all about how one organizes and stops defections.
I believe she seriously shot herself in the foot when she seemed to dedicate her campaign for a week or so to the vaccination program in Texas. It didn’t really hurt Perry, but she sure as hell ‘deep sixed’ her own campaign.
I want to hear more from Dr. Bachmann on how vaccines cause autism.
Bachman is one of the current GOP candidates I would actually be pleased to vote for in the general election.
America wants a RINO NOT a conservative..
So.. they will get and deserve one..
The surprise will be she will have the chutzpah to continue to accept peoples’ money and campaign in a hopeless cause
well, maybe no surpise there
I think she has peaked at being in Congress
C'mon, now! Some of them should be 18 by election day!
Hoping she is right. First woman president? I’d be happy with that.
If that’s an important issue for you than Ron Paul is your candidate. He was a gynecologist in addition to being opposed to big government and deficit spending.
I think so, too. Wasn't for lack of trying, but it's just not a "go" this time around.
Would you be pleased to vote for Mitt Romney in the general election? Because when the "no chance" candidates like Bachmann continue to stay in the race and split conservative support, this is exactly what's going to happen.
It might take Paul’s straight jacket just to get her off the stage. LOL
She makes me think of every mans ex-wife.
I suspect that if Bachmann doesn't win, she going to boil the Easter Bunny (ala Fatal Attraction).
Sorry Michele but you are getting second place behind Rick Santorum. Perhaps you can be his VP. I would die if we had this combo for President. Our country would be in such good condition that we might even have to cancel taking taxes from anybody because we wouldn’t need them. My goodness if this happens I would be so excited!!!! Santorum/Bachmann 2012!!!! Oh man I feel good now! Come on Iowa!!!!! Prayers for the Santorum family and Bachmann family as they keep their humility and conservative moral values after their first and second place in Iowa tonight.
Santorum/Bachmann 2012! An Obama crushing defeat! 1 billion dollars would still be in Obama’s bank because he could not find one thing to complain about. Absolutely ZERO baggage.
She makes me think of every mans ex-wife.
Hey now. You are speaking about President Santorum’s Vice President.
Your response is irrelevant to what I posted.
Bachmann is showing the world that she knows how to run a masterful campaign by targeting the most vital voting group in America, high school students.
At least she knows that they are going to vote soon. Unlike Perry who had no idea that the voting age was 18. He thought it was 21.
“I head on Fox News them say only Bachmann hit every county.”
Per Fox News, both Bachmann and Santorum have visited all 99 counties. (Or 106-107 counties if using Obama’s knowledge of America’s geography.)
” I like Michele, but she’s done, at least with this election.” <<<
What am I suppose to think about the candidate who does conservative speak to perfection on so many of the issues, but when the bell rings and the contest engages at last, they advantage the Establishment?
It is mind bending, for me anyway, to appreciate Bachmann sniping when she is intellegent enough to know who it advantages. She never talks about her targets being far more conservative than Romney, or comes clean about the results of sniping benefiting him, but just shows up and snipes at each of his nearest threats, one after another, just as the Establishment and Romney Super PAC would hope for, and she does it for free. (Unless he actually does pay off her campaign debt eventually.)
Same with Santorum. He is as pure on conservative speak as the wind driven snow, but in the contest there he goes, he endorses Snarlin’ Arlen and turns his back on the conservative Pat Toomey. His conservative fiscal positions led him eight times (according to Perry) to spend out the budget, and help create the red line of debt as far as the eye can see.
These candidates have records of irritating all of us at one time or another, but who among them, while on the job, has consistently done the most, *consistently*, for conservatism and for conservatives? I think I know. They are both HELL on wheels when it comes to actual results.
I would like for the contest to get down to them, and SOON.
I admire your ability to tune out reality.
There are NO perfect candidates, but I would love to see her take out Franken.
She should have made that step before considering a nationwide run. A POTUS candidate should at least be able to win a statewide election before moving up to the big leagues.
LOL. That sentence would make a beautiful tag line.
More accurately, the MSM wants a RINO, not a conservative. If they can't keep Obama, that is. For a case in point, just check out today's LA Slimes web site and notice the hero treatment they're giving Romney as an alleged shoo-in in Iowa.
And the posted story, written by Associate Press, is as MSM as it gets.
the surprise will come when her checks start bouncing
I’ve held firm with Bachmann, Santorum and Cain (Till Cain dropped out) and she’s the most rock solid of the 3.
I’m not claiming that the media isn’t manipulating me while running from candidate to candidate like so many others.
Not only that, but she and Rollins sandbagged Palin and everyone else down the line except Romney.
I was a strong Bachmann supporter until she started her taking shots at the other candidates and her final snit at Gingrich in the last debate.
It's sad since I like her Conservative positions on the issues.
Not only that, but she and Rollins sandbagged Palin and everyone else down the line except Romney.
I was a strong Bachmann supporter until she started her taking shots at the other candidates and her final snit at Gingrich in the last debate.
It's sad since I like her Conservative positions on the issues.
What kills me is how the republican candidates will attack each other using LIBERAL TALKING POINTS/demagoguery!!!
It really turned me off toward all of them. The entire field is a dog show, IMO. How in the hell did we get here?!?! ......
I’m beginning to become very annoyed at her shrill voice. Sounds too much like scolding... I just want her to shut up.
Her attack on Perry regarding his Texas Guardasil vaccine executive order was based on three fundamental limited government principles: (1) Parents, not the state, should retain control over medical decisions regarding their public school children, unless the state is acting to prevent an immanent outbreak of a serious contagious disease (e.g., mandating polio vaccine for young children) which cannot be practically done without a state mandate. (2) Government officials, before mandating a health care measure for the children, should advise parents on the possible side-effects of that measure. (3) Ethical standards must be observed by public officials, including state governors, when making a decision on a health care intervention regarding public school children. (In the case of Perry, there was an ethical question as to whether their was a conflict of interest that played into his decision to issue the Guardasil order.)
Bachmann was perfectly within the bounds of good taste to distinguish herself from Perry on limited government, parental rights, and government official ethics - which apply at any level: federal, state, county, or local.
As for Romney, there was no sinister reason for Bachmann to lay off him. It was obvious that Romney by himself draws a clear distinction from Bachmann by his RINO history - especially on socialized medicine - so Bachmann strategized that distinguishing herself from Romney would be a poor use of very limited debate time.
LMAO
Perry admitted he made a mistake. Bachmann wouldn't let it go.
Time and again she factually incorrect statements and comments. For a lawyer, that's really unacceptable behavior.
BTW, I was a big time Bachmann fan, but she's proven herself incapable of assuming the role as a world leader.
Bachmann had a right to dedicate two weeks of her campaign to the vaccine mandate effort in Texas;the one that never happened, never passed, for which regret and an apology was issued, over and over, by Governor Perry, who clearly explained, over and over, his motivations were for the girl he was praying for, the victim of cancer, his friend whom has since died, and why he acted in haste and at her behest.
Bachmann simply never did mention that victim, never showed a sliver of consideration for the friendship between the victim and the governor as the centerpiece of his misguided effort.
Bachmann is free to do all that with overkill, but voters are free to notice it too. Many did. They didn’t much like it.
People ragged on Cain for not “going after Romney” too.
Thing is she is competing for conservative votes not Romney votes, same thing with Cain. So it makes sense neither would focus on Romney.
Thanks justiceseeker93 (for all three replies).
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