Posted on 12/06/2011 11:46:09 AM PST by RobinMasters
In an interview on GBTV, Michele Bachmann criticized Newt Gingrichs support for the Medicare Part D prescription drug entitlement program, calling him a frugal socialist.
It doesnt help to have a frugal socialist, Bachmann said. Thats really what were talking about is managing socialism and trying to be a frugal socialist.
Host Glenn Beck invited her to repeat the accusation, asking her pointblank whether she was calling Newt Gingrich a socialist.
Im saying a frugal socialist, yes! Because youre looking at proposals and programs that are in effect redistribution of wealth and socialism-based, and are we going to have real change in the country or are we going to have frugal socialists?
Bachmann then delivers an inspiring soundbite in which she explains why the solution to high health care costs is to eliminate federal involvement in the health insurance space entirely.
What I would do is have free markets in health care, she said. The problem has been the federal government intervening in free markets in health care. That has driven the cost up everywhere. What we need to do is go back to allowing people to buy any health insurance policy they want anywhere in the United States with no federal minimum mandate requirement
and then have them pay for their policies with their own tax-free money
and then have true medical malpractice reform.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
I guess she’s not close enough to 0% yet.
Please, God, stop the GOP candidates from destroying each other and focus their aim at Obama!!
So much for the 11th Commandment.
Idiot.
She appears to be picking up lots of former Cain endorsements.
SHE NEEDS TO JUST SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. DID YOU KNOW SHE RAISED 28 KIDS - FIVE NATURAL AND TWENTY THREE FOSTER!?!
I’m really tired of Republicans who spend their energy attacking other Republicans, instead of attacking Obama.
I know that Michelle will not be the President, but she needs to be at the table. She would be a great cabinet candidate.
“I guess shes not close enough to 0% yet.”
I wonder how that strategy meeting went:
Aide: “You know Michele, you’ve been cast as a crazy woman for some time now by the media, and you’re barely a blip in the polling. I think it’s time you went somewhere receptive... like Glenn Beck, because... well, because he’ll have you. And then you can start taking vicious jabs at your rivals. Aside from Santorum, Gingrich is probably the most conservative, so how about you call him something good... like a socialist?!”
Michele: “I like it! Wild claims on Glenn Beck! That will get me noticed, and establish I have gravitas.”
But I doubt she’ll get the Cain endorsement.
Not if she keeps trashing the rest of the field.
From left to right, Newt Gingrich, John Huntsman and Mitt Romney.
I'd vote for Michele Bachmann instead of the many RINOs in the race.
Bachmann is the ONLY conservative.. Noot and Myth don’t even come close..
FOR Noot and Myth will NEVER DO WHAT THEY SAY THEY WILL DO..
Like Obama they will say one thing and do another..
Assuming a GOP POTUS in ‘13, she may have to look to a cabinet appointment. She’s talking herself right out of her House seat.
I would not be so upset with her were it not so patently obvious at this point that she is still in the race soley to shill her book.
Whatever they are, they aren't translating where it matters ...Bachmann at 4.8% RCP average
Note to Bachmann - front towards enemy. Figure out who that really is.
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