Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann has become the latest Republican to announce a bid for the US presidency in 2012.
Ms Bachmann, a favourite of the economically conservative Tea Party movement, formally declared in the US state of Iowa - her birthplace.
The 55-year-old, who is running high in Republican polls in Iowa, called herself a "bold choice" for president.
Iowa is the first state Republicans vote in for their 2012 candidate.
Its caucuses in early February are the first electoral event in the US presidential nomination process.
Ms Bachmann said she was announcing her candidacy because she was "so profoundly grateful for the blessing I have received, both from God and this great country".
"My name is Michele Bachmann, I stand here in the midst of many friends and many family members to announce formally my candidacy for president of the United States," she said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13929877
Will she turn her overdrive?
Will she turn her overdrive?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
She could match wits with Sarah Palin:
http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-bachma ... 45347.html
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Examining 24 of her statements, Politifact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking service of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, found just one to be fully true and 17 to be false (seven of them "pants on fire" false). No other Republican candidate whose statements have been vigorously vetted matched that record of inaccuracy. ..."
But machine-gun lying is a winning strategy for Rep. voters. Just look at Shrub.
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http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-bachma ... 45347.html
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Examining 24 of her statements, Politifact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking service of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, found just one to be fully true and 17 to be false (seven of them "pants on fire" false). No other Republican candidate whose statements have been vigorously vetted matched that record of inaccuracy. ..."
But machine-gun lying is a winning strategy for Rep. voters. Just look at Shrub.
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Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
They could have "YOU AINT SEEN NOTHING YET!! as their campaign song and slogan. 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
I can see the ads against now.Sue U wrote:Bachmann/Palin 2012!! I so can't wait!
Another BP disaster...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
A mother of five from Iowa has emerged as one of the front-runners in the Republican race to take on Barack Obama in next year's US presidential election. So could Michele Bachmann end up in the White House?
All the momentum among Republicans dreaming of the Oval Office is currently with one woman.
Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party favourite and Minnesota congresswoman, is gathering a head of steam in her attempt to win her party's nomination next year.
One day after dominating the Sunday political shows, the former tax lawyer formally launched her campaign in her home state of Iowa, which hosts the first stage in the Republican contest in February next year.
An Iowa poll published in the Des Moines Register on Saturday places her alongside Mitt Romney at the head of the Republican field, well ahead of the rest. That's encouraging for her supporters -but the same poll in 2007 proved to be wildly inaccurate.
BBC analysis here.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
Oh Balls! That could have made these American elections the most interesting yet.."They want to see two girls come together and have a mud wrestling fight. And I’m not going to give it to ‘em," GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said about media comparing her to Sarah Palin.
"I have great respect and admiration for the Governor."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/ ... fight.html
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Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
She's not desperate for votes yet, so there's still a chance.
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
Popped right out of the same mold as Ronald Reagan.
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July 04, 2011
Michele Bachman's False Claim That the "Founders" Worked "Tirelessly" to End Slavery: For the Virtual Green Room
Rebutted by Mark Byrnes:
t is complicated, and Bachmann is looking for simplicity. To talk about the movement to end slavery in the northern states inevitably draws attention to the reality that the southern states not only did not follow, but over time grew more committed to maintaining slavery. The reason later generations had to work so "tirelessly" against slavery is that other Americans were working so tirelessly for it. The reason the Founders did not end slavery in their new republic, one born with the phrase "all men are created equal," is that to insist on an end to slavery would have insured an end to the United States.... A truthful account of the Founders and slavery has to acknowledge this fact. They were something today's Tea Partiers say they abhor: compromisers. In the Constitutional Convention, they compromised on everything, most notably on slavery.
Another reason those later generations had to work so tirelessly to end slavery is that the Constitution so well ensconced slavery in the United States. Arguably the Constitution was the largest impediment to ending slavery. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a "covenant with death and an agreement with hell." He burned a copy of the Constitution in protest.
So to speak honestly and accurately of "the Founders" is to confront that messy reality.
Bachmann prefers her Founders simple, god-like, and unchanging. Since the Tea Party ideology deems the Constitution a sacred document, inspired by God (remember, it was Bachmann who enlisted the fraud David Barton to teach Constitution classes to Congress), those who wrote it must be responsible for all that is good. Thus she cannot be accurate. She cannot say some of the founders worked tirelessly against slavery while others defended it....
On this Independence Day, to truly honor their work, we should stop pretending we can lazily rely on them to tell us what to do, and instead take up the challenge of finding what it means in our times to strive for what "of Right ought to be."
Happy Fourth.
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http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/07/m ... -room.html
July 04, 2011
Michele Bachman's False Claim That the "Founders" Worked "Tirelessly" to End Slavery: For the Virtual Green Room
Rebutted by Mark Byrnes:
t is complicated, and Bachmann is looking for simplicity. To talk about the movement to end slavery in the northern states inevitably draws attention to the reality that the southern states not only did not follow, but over time grew more committed to maintaining slavery. The reason later generations had to work so "tirelessly" against slavery is that other Americans were working so tirelessly for it. The reason the Founders did not end slavery in their new republic, one born with the phrase "all men are created equal," is that to insist on an end to slavery would have insured an end to the United States.... A truthful account of the Founders and slavery has to acknowledge this fact. They were something today's Tea Partiers say they abhor: compromisers. In the Constitutional Convention, they compromised on everything, most notably on slavery.
Another reason those later generations had to work so tirelessly to end slavery is that the Constitution so well ensconced slavery in the United States. Arguably the Constitution was the largest impediment to ending slavery. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a "covenant with death and an agreement with hell." He burned a copy of the Constitution in protest.
So to speak honestly and accurately of "the Founders" is to confront that messy reality.
Bachmann prefers her Founders simple, god-like, and unchanging. Since the Tea Party ideology deems the Constitution a sacred document, inspired by God (remember, it was Bachmann who enlisted the fraud David Barton to teach Constitution classes to Congress), those who wrote it must be responsible for all that is good. Thus she cannot be accurate. She cannot say some of the founders worked tirelessly against slavery while others defended it....
On this Independence Day, to truly honor their work, we should stop pretending we can lazily rely on them to tell us what to do, and instead take up the challenge of finding what it means in our times to strive for what "of Right ought to be."
Happy Fourth.
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rubato
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
I don't care how many organizations are calling that pic of her 'unfair' - she truly is friggin' bat shit crazy.
She decided to go into politics because God personally told her to. She railed against Fanny May/Freddy Mac, despite taking a huge loan through said programs. She yammers about the evils of socialized medicine, all while her husband's "Therapy" office rakes in the government money.
That she is leading in the polls on the Republican side scares the hell out of me.
She decided to go into politics because God personally told her to. She railed against Fanny May/Freddy Mac, despite taking a huge loan through said programs. She yammers about the evils of socialized medicine, all while her husband's "Therapy" office rakes in the government money.
That she is leading in the polls on the Republican side scares the hell out of me.
Where am I, and why am I holding a handbasket?
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
Hell has oficially frozen over, or this Newsweek story really is such an obvious and evil sexist hit peice, that even NOW defends her.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/08/the-n ... -newsweek/
http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/08/the-n ... -newsweek/
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark Twain
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
It was a pretty clumsy move. All that is necessary to demonstrate that she is completely batshit is to quote her own words. There was no need to allow her to claim victim status by presenting her craziness as a visual portrayal.
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
Republican candidates clash at Iowa debate
Republican presidential candidates traded barbs as they vowed to slash taxes at a televised debate in Iowa.
The eight contenders are jockeying for position in the nomination race, mainly against frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty attacked one another, while others touted their experience as governors.
Texas Governor Rick Perry did not join the debate, but stole some of the spotlight when his spokesman said Mr Perry would run for the White House.
The Texas governor is expected to announce his candidacy in South Carolina on Saturday. A spokesman said hours before Thursday night's debate Mr Perry would make his intentions "very clear".
The candidates hope to win the Republican nomination to face President Barack Obama in the November 2012 general election.
Attention now turns to Iowa, where Republican voters on Saturday will cast non-binding "straw poll" ballots.
The results have the power to make or break candidates in the second tier of the field, by highlighting their organisational prowess and grassroots support - or lack thereof.
Mr Romney, Mr Perry and Utah Governor Jon Huntsman will not compete in the straw poll.
Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who has flirted with a candidacy but has not entered the race, is to begin a bus tour of Iowa on Friday. She is not participating in the straw poll.
The Republican field has been slow to take shape this year, although the first official balloting in the primary contest will not be held until February in Iowa.
In Iowa on Thursday night, Ms Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman; Mr Pawlenty, former Minnesota governor, Mr Huntsman and others faced a key test of their ability to emerge as Mr Romney's chief challenger.
Clashes
As the third debate of the 2012 race began, hosted by Fox News, the candidates offered a round of boilerplate Republican calls for lower taxes and repeal of Mr Obama's "Obamacare" healthcare reform law of 2010.
Mr Romney, a former financier and Massachusetts governor, touted his experience in the private sector but was forced to defend his record as governor over similarities between his healthcare policy in Massachusetts and Mr Obama's 2010 law.
Mr Huntsman talked up his record as governor of Utah, Mr Pawlenty his record of financial management as Minnesota governor and Ms Bachmann - a Minnesota congresswoman - her opposition to the Democratic legislative agenda.
Congressman Ron Paul, former Senator Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and a businessman Herman Cain also took the stage for the wide-ranging debate.
Mr Romney, who failed in his 2008 bid for the Republican nomination, leads the current pack in polling and fundraising.
Much of the early debate centred on exchanges of attacks between Mr Pawlenty and Ms Bachmann, who are vying to pull to the front of the pack and take on Mr Romney.
Mr Pawlenty repeatedly criticised Ms Bachmann's lack of substantive success in enacting a legislative agenda, and accused her of "making false statements".
"She speaks of leading these efforts in Washington and Minnesota," he said. "Leading and failing is not the objective."
Ms Bachmann hit back, attacking Mr Pawlenty's pursuit of policies that sound "a lot more like Barack Obama".
Later, Mr Santorum - who complained that he was not being given enough time to speak - clashed with Mr Paul over foreign policy and called for a 0% tax on manufacturing.
In addition, pizza restaurant magnate Herman Cain said Islamic "sharia law" should never be recognised in US courts, and on immigration said "America can be a nation of high fences and wide open doors".
Mr Gingrich attacked "Mickey Mouse questions" from the news media on reports of staff defections in his campaign, while Ms Bachmann said Americans should be allowed to purchase whatever lightbulbs they wanted.
Mr Huntsman has thus far failed to live up to the excitement his entrance into the race generated.
In the debate he defended himself over his previous role as Barack Obama's ambassador to China, and said his support for civil unions was a personal choice.
Known as a political moderate, Mr Huntsman has pledged to run a civil campaign.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14499365
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
The news for me in that article was that Gingrich is still bothering to show up. He should go back to making money being a talking head.
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Straw_PollUS Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann has won a key pre-election campaign poll in the state of Iowa.
The Iowa straw poll held in Ames attracted about 17,000 voters and is considered the first big test of the 2012 presidential race.
Mrs Bachmann, an Iowa-born social conservative, narrowly beat her rival Ron Paul in the non-binding contest.
The vote was held on the same day Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his intention to run for the presidency.
It comes five months before the first official Iowa primaries in the race for the White House.
Mrs Bachmann took 4,823 of the 16,892 votes cast after the day-long political festival held on the campus of Iowa State University.
Runner-up Mr Paul took 4,671 votes and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty finished in third place with 2,293.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14519660
Ok, you're determined to prove to me that your system is crazy, aren't you?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
It is due to a Republican party which selects for 'stupid', 'bigoted', and 'dishonest'.
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Re: Will she turn her overdrive?
Tim Pawlenty has announced he is dropping his bid to become the Republican Party's candidate in the 2012 presidential election.
The Minnesota ex-governor finished a distant third in the Iowa straw poll, an early test of strength for candidates vying to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama.
"The pathway forward for me doesn't exist," Mr Pawlenty told ABC TV.
Michele Bachmann, a Congresswoman from Minnesota, won the non-binding poll.
Ron Paul, a Texas Congressman, finished a close second.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14522579
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”