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Politico reports:
DES MOINES, Iowa — Michele Bachmann served up red meat to the crowd at the Iowa conservative principles conference Saturday, slamming President Barack Obama as a Jimmy Carter retread, dissing the Mitch Daniels “truce” call for social issues, and saying she wants a “waiver” from the last two years of White House leadership.
Talking loudly and waving her hands, a pumped Bachmann used a slide presentation of various numbers — the national debt, the cost of a gallon of gas two years ago the day before Obama took office, the corporate tax rate — to make her points and pull the crowd in.
Suggesting that Iowa caucus voters had the power to halt Obama, Bachmann wrapped up her speech by asking, “Are you in? are you in for 2012?”
“I agree with you!” she said as the crowd cheered, and added, “I’m in!”
The Minnesota firebrand gave the best-received speech of the potential 2012 hopefuls appearance at Rep. Steve King’s conference and the crowd wildly applauded her brand of populism. It was a reminder that while Bachmann has been criticized for miscues in her public statements, there is a space for her to fill in the Iowa caucuses should she decide to jump into the race for the White House.
Excellent, maybe she and Newt can be on the ticket together. We’ll call it the hypocritical Catholic ticket.
Add “sane” to the end and I think she’s got something there.
A slide showing “the cost of a gallon of gas two years ago the day before Obama took office”
Good grief. I’ll see your slide and raise you one.
I would love for Bachmann to run for President. Watching Romney and Pawlenty (both of whom have already sold their souls to try and make the Far Right really really like them) twist themselves further into human pretzels to try and keep up with Bachmann would be priceless.
And the added bonus of seeing what Palin would do as Bachmann becomes the new Palin and watching Palin try to remain relevant would be another bonus.
As Josh Marshall put it, will we, in the end, remember Sarah Palin simply as John the Baptist to Bachmann’s Jesus?
So ScoopA…
You really are a realist…
Why did you waste my time…
I’m actually “pissed”…!
It is clear that the GOP run up to the primary will be one of the most entertaining spectacles of all time. While it will be hard to beat some parts of the 2010 election (“I am not a witch”), the GOP primary is poised to exceed all prior excesses.
The most entertaining aspect will be the extent to which the potential candidates slam themselves to the right without going so far that they can’t get back to the middle for the general election.
“Michele Bachmann served up red meat to the crowd … dissing the Mitch Daniels “truce” call for social issues,”
(Let me complete the thought: “…as she explained to them why the Republican party will never be able to heal itself from within.”)
” and the crowd wildly applauded…”
What part of “the other 80% of voters in America aren’t anything like your crazy-ass base” does the GOP not get?
I understand the mechanics of getting the nomination before the general campaign . . . but if the only way to get the nomination is to brand yourself utterly unelectable, then what’s the point? Talk about “winning the battle but losing the war”!
FrumForum.com is a site edited by David Frum, dedicated to the modernization and renewal of the Republican party and the conservative movement.
Is this reform and modernizaion?
“I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?” -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a new McCarthyism, Oct. 2008
SOURCE: About.com
“That’s why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.” -Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), a pro-lifer who completely missed the irony of using the same slogan as the pro-choice movement in arguing against health care reform
SOURCE: About.com
“Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.” -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, April, 2009
SOURCE: About.com
“There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.” -Rep. Michele Bachmann, Oct. 2006
SOURCE: About.com
One wonders if her cheering, adoring, pumped up fans were chanting “four more years!” because that’s clearly what they’re going to wind up with if they manage to get her nominated.
“Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.” Isn’t this a textbook example of Ignoratio Elenchi? It appears that the only thing some of us have learned about fallacious arguments is that they often succeed.
You…madame or sir…
Are possibaby…only the last same person, here…
[blockquote] I salute you fer your circumstance and place…
Hugs and kisses to you and yours…
You…dear, Madame or sir…
Are possibaby…the, only the last same person, here…?
I salute you fer all, your circumstance and place…
Hugs and kisses to you and yours…! [/blockquote]
Hugs…!
You…madame or sir…
Are possibaby…only the last sane person, here…
[blockquote] I salute you fer your circumstance and place…
Hugs and kisses to you and yours…
You…dear, Madame or sir…
Are possibaby…the, only the very last same person, here…?
I salute you fer all, your circumstance and place…
Hugs and kisses to you and yours…! [/blockquote]
Hugs…!
I actually watched the livestream of her speech hoping to get some comedic entertainment out of it and see what her next gaffe would be.
Did anyone else at FF actually watch her speech?
To my surprise, she sounded… sane. For the first time, I actually got why she is so popular with a certain segment of the population and I actually saw real political skills that weren’t evident in any of her appearances in interviews or that bizarre Tea Party post-SOTU address. She gives good stump speech. Much much better than people like Newt or Haley.
I mean, I know she’s full of crap, but then most populists are. The thing is, just from a political perspective, she’s damn good at it.
I think the GOP candidates ignore Michele Bachmann and her influence on this race at their peril.
She is certainly capable of playing a normal politician . . . but her problem (like Newt) is that there is way too much recorded footage of her being a nutjob.
No matter how normal she starts acting, she’s not going to bable to outrun her file footage.
That matters in the general election certainly, but will it matter in a GOP primary where no one pays attention to “lamestream” media that would be reporting on file footage?
You’re right it won’t matter in the primary, but then I’m back to my earlier comment that the FarRight wing of the GOP has completely lost focus. Winning the primary so you can get blown out in the general (and take alot of Senators and Representatives down with you) is not the goal.
As someone who generally opposes their policies, I’m more than happy personally to watch them insist on losing . . . but the strategist in me is left wondering what chain of thought makes this seem like a worthwhile course of action.
You could “caulk -it up to lessons learned…?
As President, she can explain to the National Science Foundation that carbon does not absorb heat and that an airliner at altitude is not above 90% of the atmosphere. And she can assure her numerous progeny that none of them will ever be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition, and that packing heat at Notre Dame has the approval of the theologians at Rome.
A tv pundit said this of Bachmann just the other day: “Her greatest strength is that she can’t be embarrassed.”
“can’t be embarassed”
This is true of most long-lived politicians. Bachmann’s unique talent is that she is never wrong.