America’s Iron Lady? Bachmann Campaign Turns to Gender Card
- Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:35pm by
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Counting on a strong finish in Iowa, the Associated Press reports that Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is increasingly stressing her gender as a distinction in the crowded Republican presidential field.
“She’s made the gender card central to her closing argument. She‘s urging voters to embrace the idea of a ’strong woman in the White House‘ and is molding herself as ’America‘s Iron Lady’ in the vein of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.”
Iowa has never elected a woman as governor or to its congressional delegation, and some have speculated that her closing strategy may cost her some conservatives who have more traditional views about gender roles.
Bachmann rarely drew attention to her gender early in the campaign, but AP notes she‘s been hitting the theme hard as Tuesday’s caucuses near.
“I’m an Iowa girl. And one thing I remember about Iowa is we are a state of strong women,” Bachmann told the lunch crowd at a 50s-themed burger joint in Mount Ayr. “We need a strong woman to turn this country around, right?”
Bachmann was born in Iowa, and rose to prominence in the Republican presidential primary campaign after winning the state’s Ames straw poll over the summer, in turn ending the campaign of former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. The Minnesota congresswoman’s presidential campaign has lost some steam in the state since then, finishing sixth with only 7 percent support in the final Des Moines Register poll before the January 3 Iowa Caucus released Saturday.
Bachmann spoke from the pulpit of Jubilee Family Church in Oskaloosa, Iowa Sunday morning, where the Los Angeles Times reports she preached for half an hour not on politics, but her own personal story of salvation. On the sidewalk outside the church following the service, Bachmann said she was not worried about evangelical voters deserting her for outspoken social conservative and surging former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
The New York Times notes that Bachmann has said she expects “astounding results” that are nothing short of miraculous in Tuesday’s caucuses. The Times reports that outside the church the Minnesota congresswoman stressed that she would continue to fight for “faith, marriage and the protection of life from conception to natural death” because “it matters what’s true. It matters what’s right.”
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Comments (122)
Free2speakRN
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:44amI don’t know if she can beat Obama and his gangsters, and their ‘end justifies the means’ Godless mentality, or their warped image of a Marxist god. But she is the most aggresive one of the bunch. It‘d be nice to see Nancy P’s face at the moment of a Bachmann presidential victory. HA!
I hope she has a big role in the government, if the Right wins. She’s a scrapper all right.
Obama has made America a hemophiliac…as well as making the first cut. In the middle of the heart, no less. If he gets in again America is done, and ‘freedom’ will be a word only to be whispered.
So when the rubber hits the road, Anybody But Obama.
God, Please Bless America. Let us return to You.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:28amSo right FREE2SPEAK. But the media will be ruthless and relentless with any candidate. Much to my dismay, their all-out nasty tactics worked with Palin. And what they did to Palin is still having repercussions here. People are afraid that the media will succeed in doing the same to Bachmann.
And she is right! It is totally a gender issue! The right is afraid to nominate a woman because they KNOW the msm will RIDICULE the very voice she will use to defend herself. But be careful, they would most likely do the same with Romney’s voice and image. I hear that SNL wants Paul….
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:00amBringing down the Islamic/Marxist/Pansexual/Feminist/Globalist/Climate Change and the rest of their (power-mongering, rabid, hate-fueled anti-Christ) coalition can only be achieved by an act of G-D.
This is a spiritual enemy – and no human force or material weapons guns, bombs, or political deals, ballots, no counterterrorist campaigns, no counterprotests, nothing can bring it down but an Act of G-D.
Only the Sword of the LORD and His spiritual weapons can defeat this enemy of our souls and of righteousness and peace. Isaiah 31:8-9, II Corinthians 10:4-5 and II Chronicles 7:14
Glenn Beck’s campaigns: Honor, Courage and Love tell us what we can and must do. We must Faith, Humility, Repentance, Return to God’s Word, Truth and Life are our part. Our nation is worth saving and can be restored – only if we are restored to G-D.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:23amWhat ^ they ^ said.
Report Post »voiceofreason305
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:57amGo make me a sandwich, lady.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:31amAll she ever wanted was a VP spot with Mitt. She is not even on the Ballot in Va
Report Post »just like Satan o rum and Forest Perry Gump. Even Newt world order Gingrich was
so incompetent he did not get on the ballet and he lives in Va…Why would anyone pay him
1.6 million unless it was PURE influence peddling.Would you hire a lobbyist than can’t even manage
simple election rules to get on a state ballot ???
hauschild
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:43am“anybody but Obama”
Careful what you wish for because what you’ll then end up with is Obama, or Obama-lite.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:08pmIron Lady LOL LOL LOL This woman is borderline psychotic. What other sound bite and self serving label can she possibly come up with. How about this one….. If she only had a brain.
Report Post »kiblings
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:04amI say ‘good for her’! I think she is on the right track. As we all know, our brains are wired a bit differently (male vs. female). I think the White House needs a strong woman to place a different perspective into the mix. Sorry, but I say – ‘Keep going Michele! – you have my vote’.
Report Post »TheWholeTruth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:08pmSo what you are saying is you are for the Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act? She voted for these you know.
Report Post »Daddymac10
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:02amEverything is upside down, nothing make sense anymore. There is no candidate more Tea Party than Michele Bachmann, but yet they don’t support her. Those doing well in polls are basically big government anti Tea Party. I am all about Tea Party values, I honestly believe Michele is not polling well because the conservatives will never ever have a woman represent them. When she is far more conservative and pure than anyone in the field, what other way can you explain what is happening?? I smell a stinky fish..
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:08amSome of the so-called conservatives are economic/political conservatives but not social, religious conservatives. They are moderate to liberal when it comes to social issues such as abortion, contraception methods, LBGTxyz marriage, hanky-panky between consenting adults (as long as they are not currently married).
Report Post »TheWholeTruth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:09pmDo you know when and where the Tea Party was started? The true Tea Party is still alive and well and voting for the man who started it.
Report Post »TheWholeTruth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:19pmCONNIPTION FITZ Social liberalism. You mean those who do not wish to tell others how to live? You wish to legislate morals. Okay. Who’s morals shall we legislate? Mine? Yours? The guy down the street’s? Tell me something. What is the difference in legislating morals and Sharia Law?
I say, as long as it doesn‘t hurt anyone other than perhaps the one ’indulging‘ in the ’act,‘ then it shouldn’t be legislated. Our Constitution doesn’t give the power to the government to do such things. STATES can, but not the Feds. Look, it’s the same as alcohol and when they had prohibition. It leads to gangs and violence with a small number of people making piles of money from the blackmarket. They finally understood that people that wanted to drink were going to drink, law or not. Now there is no law against it but if you hurt someone under the influence there is a penalty. States, counties and even cities have the right to be ‘dry’ and many are (counties and cities anyway.) Just because some want the Feds to drop the laws on social/moral issues doesn’t mean they are FOR the issue. They simply want the brakes put on the Feds and give the power back to the rightful owners the States and the people. It really is that simple.
Report Post »TheWholeTruth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:26pmOh, what would Jesus do? Did he not save a woman who was going to be stoned to death under the ‘law’ for adultery? What laws did God give us? Jesus didn’t advocate for more laws on moral issues. He was satisfied with the laws God, Himself, handed down. The bible does say that those who engage are going to hell, but they didn’t have laws against the acts. It‘s a good thing to talk to people about how you feel and try to persuade them to do ’right.’ Jesus talked to them, loved them, led by example. He didn’t go and try to force them into His way of thinking and believing. We have become the modern day Philistines. So worried about ‘law’ and pushing morals on people through force of law. No wonder we now have more missionaries coming HERE to evangelize than anywhere else in the world. We have lost our way when it comes to loving each other. Sad.. very sad.
Report Post »TheWholeTruth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:28pmCorrection: Philistines should be Pharisees
Report Post »SerikFox
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:18amYa know, she could be be a chick, a dude, an it, pink, purple, black, white, red, green or whatever; I don’t care. I vote based on what a candidate says and does; not on who they are. I hate it when candidates go “I’m the unique one”. This doesn’t make me less likely to vote for her at all (to be fair she is at the bottom of my list; she‘s pissed me off a bit with several comments she’s made), it’s just mildly annoying, but I wish someone someday wouldn’t go around capitalizing on this type of tactic.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:36amIf you agree with TEA then she’s the one. Cain is TEA. He can still get into the race. We’ll see. Bachmann can win. She has no baggage or issues. Right now she’s the best choice. The only candidate in the race who has not waffled on the issues. TaxedEnoughAlready.TEA.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:56am1Casa, You are again wrong. Bachmann jumped on the Tea wagon after it was in full bloom. Cain was no real Tea, He was a Koch bro Tea. Paul is the true Tea here as he started this movement on Dec. 16, 2007 while he was running for the nomination for 2008. Here is a video to explain from back then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKZmIzEMUN8
Ron Paul, the true Tea Party candidate 2012.
Report Post »jcannon98188
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:59amno baggage? I highly consider supporting the Patriot Act as baggage. She is no small government conservative, she has betrayed America by voting for that.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:13am@ West Coast Patriot
I don‘t see why you don’t understand “why” Ron Paul won’t be elected. First of all, he’s not a Republican. Secondly, his statement of: “If Iran wants to have nuclear weapons, they should have them.” ruined any chance of him be elected. That’s what Ron Paul believes, and he has stated it over and over again. Ron Paul believes that the worse enemy of the USA; those who celebrated the attacks of 09/11, have some kind of “right” to have weapons with nuclear capabilities. That’s just nuts.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:35amDiane, Your statement tells me that you get your ideas from the news. I am thinking that you believe that the U.S. is immune from economic collapse. You probably think that the One World (economic) Order is a conspiracy theory. You must think that policing the world is in We the Peoples best interest. You must believe that Iran is one of the strongest nations on the planet. Research. We could wipe out Irans navy in one day! How are they a threat to us? I was in the U.S. Navy and understand that to be a force in this world, you have to have a strong Navy. It is all bunk. If Isreal felt toward the U.S. as Iran does, there would be some concern as they have the fourth strongest military in the world. Please watch this video, it is Pauls foreign policy in a nutshell and is done in a way that makes it entertaining.nLet me know what you think. I do have more also. Also look up The Vancouver Declaration of Human Settlements from way back in 1976. The last get together on this was in 2007.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:36amDianne, sorry, forgot the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3N0s_Ibau4
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:13amBachmann supported the Patriot Act because of the infiltration of Islamic terrorists in our country, including the military and government.
See this video: http://www.pjtv.com/v/2930
Report Post »TheWholeTruth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:33pmLet’s not forget she also voted FOR the NDAA!!!
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:15amI’d rather vote for Sarah Palin than Michele Bachmann, but Palin isn’t in the race. I would NEVER vote for Donald Trump for President because he’s a moron. Rick Santorum needs a charisma implant, stat! Rick Perry has no talent at debating, and Obama would eat him for lunch. Ron Paul is a Republican? I don’t believe so.
I would thoroughly enjoy debates between Obama and Gingrich. Gingrich (the intelligent one) versus the teleprompter President, who was raised by Communists and Socialists. Then there is Romney. He’s the establishment, endorsed, Republican candidate, and it’s “his turn”. Remember when it was Bob Dole’s turn? That didn’t turn out very well.
The thing that I’m positive about, is that if Obama is re-elected, the America that existed before the Socialists and Marxists came into power, will be forever gone.
The USA will be like every other Country across the Globe. No longer will someone who is dirt poor be able to rise to the top on their own merit. The “new” USA will be: if you’re born rich, you stay rich. If you’re born poor, you stay poor.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:29amDadgumit, Diane make up your mind. Vote TEA endorsed candidates.Bachmann,Cain, Santorum, Huntsman. Cain is not currently in the race but he can get back in. Make up your mind. Are you in or are you out? Vote TEA. TaxedEnoughAlready.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:51am@ 1casawizard
Herman Cain has been destroyed by the lame media, and Jon Huntsman – who? Huntsman has a bunch of misguided daughters who believe that “sexy” can a president, make. Middle Americans do not vote for a President because he/she has sexy daughters.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:07am1Casa, look at my post above. Paul is the one that has never flip flopped.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:42amDianne, he is what Republicans used to be. You should not have a problem with Libertarian philosophy, as Bachmann would fall under a Neolibertarian philosophy, “Neolibertarianism is a post-9/11 ideological offshoot of libertarianism that incorporates neoconservative ideas on foreign policy, including the use of preventive military force.” Conservative principles in the economy with Neoconservative foreign policy. Here is the Philosophy of Liberty which is a Libertarian Philosophy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muHg86Mys7I
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:55am“She’s made the gender card central to her closing argument. She‘s urging voters to embrace the idea of a ’strong woman in the White House‘ and is molding herself as ’America‘s Iron Lady’ in the vein of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.”
Report Post »Iron Lady? You mean like “Iron Man” Stalin?
CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:21amGets to you when someone won’t believe and bend to the activist agenda propaganda and goals because they are not simply not true or good for you.
Report Post »ldaopines
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:51amAsking America to embrace the idea of a strong woman in the white house is NOT “playing the gender card”. Playing the gender card would be saying something whiney like “I‘m not doing better in the polls because I’m a woman”. (For more examples of WHINEY cards, please google Holder)
What Bachmann is selling here is her ability to be a strong leader, not that people are against a woman.
Report Post »JP16
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:19amLast ditch effort as she sees all her previous support going to Santorum. If she doesn’t do well in either Iowa or New Hampshire, she is done for.
Meanwhile Santorum might as well declare that the first thing he would do if president is go to war with the entire Middle East. All the Republicans need is to be promoting another war when Americans are tired of them and we have enough issues to fix in our own country before trying to fix some other country.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:10amYou got your wish.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:03amThe problem with tossing cards is that you no longer have a full deck.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:09amAlas…We may have to settle for Mitt. Either RINO or Obama.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:37amKickinBack it will be Romney/Huntsman when the dust settles, they’ll spilt the conservative vote with third party candidates, result…Obama back in…..NOT GOOD, NOT GOOD AT ALL. That’s what we get for nominating a couple of democrats on the GOP ticket!
Report Post »pandora
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:29amThe media won’t have to destroy her. It seems many republicans also hate her. That’s because she is not a party line shill like most of the others. Romney and Gingrich are not conservatives. Ron Paul is in a category by himself – a very strange and conflicted man who does not seem to be someone with whom the whole country could possibly identify. I like Santorum. But both he and Bachmann are interested in making the constitution the way the government should be run. We have gone so far afield of our founding they are considered crazy. It is all of us who have become crazy. We must start again with our constitution as our guide or America is not going to make it past 2012. Enjoy New Year celebrations. By the next one we may be totally under a dictatorship.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:39amOn the Republican side, we have Romney the Progressive, Newt the lying, horny Progressive, Bachman, the “I‘m the one to choose because I’m a female”, Perry the Texas two-face, Ron Paul, who was delivered by the mother ship, Santorum, who has a face nobody remembers, and now maybe Trump, the New York loudmouth……..Why do I have a feeling that somewhere Obama is laughing his @ss off right now?
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:02amBachmann has always been the same and not wavering and flip-floping in her statements as everyone else has. SHE is TEA and ya gotta love her for it. The media hates her because she cannot produce fodder for them to write about. If they would get behind her she would be a shoo-in. I hate to say it but the media dictates who represents U.S.We have to change this gov. run media right now.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:19am@TXPILOT, you are so right no wonder he is golfing, surfing and going out for dinner, he doesn’t have to do Richard to stay where he is!
Report Post »LibertarianRight
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:29amPaul? Conflicted? You got some strange definition of that word. One of the things that you can really say about Paul is that there is no confliction – that there is only one question he asks when determining policy: does this fit with the Constitution and the ideals of a free society? The others seem to carve out quite a lot of exceptions to the Constitution for banning drugs, forgetting to declare war, etc.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:52pmI feel sorry for people that refuse the Lord Jesus and his Word that is true…Letting everyone know that the “End of this Age” is drawing to its end. MANY.. will Deny The lord Jesus and his Word . They spew out climate change as the “cause” … When in fact My Bible shows me that.. climate change/global warming/ earthquakes/ tsunamis/drought/floods and such.. Are “SIGNS” ..and like.. Birth Pangs… that are getting stronger and stronger.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:02amDo you have any idea how many people throughout the ages have said the same? The end times are nearly here… and have been for millennium.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:57amThe end is always gonna end tomorrow.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:49pmI’m afraid no kind of card is gonna help Backmann!!!!!
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:53pmIs this story true…I haven’t seen it on THEBLAZE http://www.naturalnews.com/034537_NDAA_Bill_of_Rights_Obama.html
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:04amWhat exactly is ‘A Gender Card?’ The mere fact that this was written tells you all that you need to know about the author.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:22amMost of the candidates are lame, and Obama will draft Hillary, and seal another 4 years.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:24amIf Republicans don’t throw their support behind Ron Paul, then Obama will see another 4 years.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:30amWhipping out any “card” stinks of desperation. Once the card is pulled the puller has already lost. She would have been better served to leave her integrity intact and live to fight another day. All these candidates and we who vote for them need to realize the true enemy resides in the White House right now.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:33amAnd President Obama will play the “Sympathy” Card, grabbing Hillary as a VP, while Obama tries to garnish sympathy from voters in a “I’m doing the best I can, and learning in these hard times, but I will have it together in my second term” sense of a campaign.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:24amShylow, sorry to say, pretty much. Ron Paul is the only one that is really up in arms over this. Who would have thought that? They are getting things in place with the Patriot Act and this that is being deemed Patriot Act 2. When the world economies fall, the U.N. will step in and use these laws against us. They will finally get the Weapons trade treaty signed and will use our military to take us over. Now I believe that 80% of our military will refuse these orders and this bill will be used to label them as terrorists and send them to Gitmo. The original Patriot Act will be used against us as we band together with our weapons, they will kick in the door, label us terrorists and send us to Gitmo. Paul wants to bring our troops home, shore up our borders, and build up our military here instead of sending the money overseas. He would then fight against the U.N. and try to keep our Constitution and bill of rights. Don’t be fooled by the establishment as they want the NWO as they think it is the only way. This plan has been in place for a long time, look up The Vancouver Declaration of Human Settlements from 1976. That may open many eyes.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:43pmI knew Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher was a friend of mine, Representative you’re no Margaret Thatcher”
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:20amI’m being serious…Is this story true? http://www.naturalnews.com/034537_NDAA_Bill_of_Rights_Obama.html
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:48amShylow, yes. In essence, the story is true.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:27amThe fact that no news outlet is covering this…not even the THEBLAZE…It just blows my mind…The biggest leap for freedom was the Bill of Rights and now they have been nullified and no news outlet is covering it…Not even THEBLAZE…blows my freakin mind
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:38amYes it’s true and the sellout Blaze refused to ever report on it until it was too late.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:22amDid any of the canidates vote for this?..This is the biggest issue of our day…I can’t vote for anyone that would nullify The Bill of Rights…I‘ll guarantee Ron Paul didn’t vote for this
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:52amRon Paul didn’t vote for it. Michelle Bachmann did. I believe they are the only two candidates currently serving in the House or Senate. The Blaze has probably been downplaying the story because more Democrats voted against it than Republicans, and they don’t like to report stories that don’t support the narrative of the Democrats being the greatest danger to libertarian values. Obama signed it, but of course the National Defense Authorization Act is something that has to pass in some form or other so we can pay for the army. If he vetoed it and tried to hold out for a clean version it could delay it for months. I don’t know what I would have done if I were him.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:30amI should clarify my last post. I wrote that more Democrats voted against it than Republicans. That was true in the House by a sizable margin. In the Senate there was much lass opposition, more evenly divided. Only six Republicans, six Democrats and one Independent voted against it, with one Republican abstaining.
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:23amBachmann may be even stronger: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/the_case_for_the_lady_with_the_titanium_spine.htm
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:02amHave you all forgot about the UN agenda 21 and what that will do to us.
Report Post »TheWholeTruth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:51pmShyLow.. yes, sadly it’s very true. and Yes Bachmann voted for it. The others, with the exception of Paul, support the NDAA as well. Sorry, but that’s the truth.
Report Post »possom
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:37pmIf you have to pull out any type of card then just quit already, king obie has used’em all up.
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:18pmSomething about her turns me off. I like Sarah Palin. Maybe it’s the fact that she has become the “Iron Lady” is what turns me off. She didn’t start out that way.
Report Post »fencekicker
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:12amI agree. When she raises her voice to emphasize a point, it voice takes on that nagging wife/bitchy woman tone that just puts men into fight or flight mode. With the tube on mute, I am in agreement with what she says. Her tone aside, she is my candidate of choice. Which isn’t saying much, as in Kansas, we are pretty much just along for the ride.
Report Post »reggie patrick
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:05pmShe is the purest conservative who is championing small central government, cutting scores of unneeded agencies, balancing the books, securing the border (not telling us we are heartless for desiring secure borders and respect for our laws), wiping out Obama Care stronger than other typical political reactions and for foreign policy hands down the best!! Just think how having that strong and beautiful woman dropping the hammer on the mullahs and dark age sheiks of the muslim world. Those dark age tyrants would be humiliated having to their ass kicked by a 95 lb lady. Also look at those who hate her; abortionist,suckular humanist, the hellywood culture, marxist/socialists ie “ the demoncratic party machine”, homosexuals, lesbians, pornographers, pedophiles, ACLU, and all reprobates.
Report Post »Michele is sounding a clairion call for an American awakening– win or lose ‘she’s a winner”!!!!!
str8blues
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:11pmNicely put!
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:06amMust say that you have made an excellent point. With an enemies list like this one, she must be doing something right.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:08am@Reggie Patrick
“She is the purest conservative that is championing small central government, cutting scores of unneeded agencies, balancing the books, securing the border (not telling us we are heartless for desiring secure borders and respect for our laws), wiping out ObamaCare stronger than other typical political reactions and for foreign policy hands down the best!!”
Congratulations! You‘ve just stated an eulogy that’s befitting of Ron Paul.
Report Post »Stopit
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:30amI like Michelle‘s stances for the most part and don’t see why she’s not doing higher in the polling. While she did have a couple strikes against her with a couple of her votes (Patriot Act) and some of her viscious attacks during the dabates, one major plus with her was that she held the line on the Debt Limit. She may have a point in regard tor biblical conservatives (Isaiah 3, etc) with the gender card. Her repetitions about the number of children and foster children just wore on my nerves also.
Behind Paul she is number 2 to me. Don’t believe I could vote for any of the others at all…just don’t trust them, or I should say I trust them to do “more of the same” based upon their history.
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:15amRight on, Reggie!
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:00pmShe is starting to give me a migraine. I Am Just glad she gives OWS Commies Hemorrhoids!
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:54pmI hope Bachman stays in this election as long as she can. She splits up the Neocon vote.
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »str8blues
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:11pmIts the Alex Jones NEOCON comments by dopes like you are precisely why I’ve turned my back to Ron Paul. Any time I hear neocon its obvious where it comes from . Alex Jones cult members are the only group that use the term neocon. Ron Paul should have shut that sweaty loon up long before he tossed his hat in the ring (yet again). Jones and his koolaid drinkers turn more people off from Paul than converting anyone.
Report Post »ICRedifURBlue
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:15pmMaybe Ron Paul could be Surgeon General……..maybe……..
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:26pmLOL if you let people on a forum control who you vote for there is no hope for you.
People who will vote for Ron Paul are voting for radical change from the ways both D and R have run things. Alot of people who let Bill, Sean, Mark, Glenn, and Rush tell them who to vote for dont get it.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:32pmstr8blues
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asybot12
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:28amI still am trying to find some to explain the word neocon and where it started. I know, just trying to find ONE other person that knows what it really stands for (you would not use it )!
Report Post »LibertarianRight
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:46amThe neoconservative movement is based on the philosophy that the “Old Right” (Robert “Mr. Republican” Taft, etc.) and its non-interventionist, free-market opposition to the New Deal liberalism was wrong, and what is needed is a mixed approach between the New Deal/Great Society and true free markets – and also war, or the willingness to go to war over just about anything. Neoconservatism is rooted in a group of former liberals, who in the late 1960s, began to oppose many of the policies and principles associated with President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs. However, the philosphy as a whole is less concerned with social programs – generally supporting any that already exist, while fighting new ones – than with foreign policy, where it is all about fighting the enemy, and even blowing small threats out of proportion to get an enemy to help them maintain power. Their foreign policy, then, is really Wilsonian, supporting “spreading democracy” and nation-building.
On the economic side, neocons are, according to neocon Irving Kristol, more relaxed about budget deficits and tend to reject the Hayekian notion that the growth of government influence on society and public welfare is “the road to serfdom”. Instead they opt for “moral” guidance of the economy and society from on high in Washington. Hence, neoconservatism is almost the opposite of Constitutional conservatism – and supported by most Republican candidates now, excepting Congressman Paul.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:53pmShe lost as soon as she opened up about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan being God’s wrath. Joke or not, that’s when she lost any shot she thought she had.
Report Post »Stopit
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 12:35amYea, speaking the truth isn’t very popular.
Report Post »ICRedifURBlue
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:50pmAhh Michele, grasping at straws to try to start a resurgence….throw yourself behind Rick Santorum and save the day……(maybe he’ll offer you the VP slot)
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:50pmThe Iron Lady would have My VOTE!!!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:57pmShe DOES have my vote.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:08amDITTo
Report Post »BornJewishMuslimByFaith
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:48pmI can never imagine Bechmann, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin or any other female politician becoming president. If they do then God help us all. The image of women in this country is terrible. I do not mind a woman leader just someone better then the turds we have as politicians. Someone like Margaret Thatcher, Dilma Rousseff, Michaëlle Jean, or even Julia Gillard. Beautiful women and very good leaders.
Report Post »reggie patrick
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:18pmYea thats obvious when your handle reads “muslimbyfaith”!! Women leaders!! your against women leaders no kidding; your faith is against women period. Your faith forces young girls to have genital mutilations, stones them to death for being raped, forbids them to drive cars, have them walk in back of you, Put bags or scarfs over their head and face, and in general treat them worse than dogs!! And pal you tell us you are against women leaders— no kidding, but you did not have to say that; with your muslim faith, thats a given.
Report Post »BornJewishMuslimByFaith
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:38pmYou’re entitled to your own opinion. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you do not know anything about Islam and how women are portrayed in Islam. My girlfriend is a Muslim and she is not lesser then I am or ever had a genital mutilation. She knows how drive but doesn’t know how to ride a bike. So, we’re going to work on that. Many people just do not understand Islam and see it as this negative. Coming back to the genital mutilation different cultures in Africa practice that; whether their Muslim or not. Benazir Bhutto was a famous leader and has many fans still after her death. Throughout history all people of all faiths are guilty in hurting others. I can admit Islam has not had a perfect history. Same with all other faiths and people of non-beliefs. We all have our black sheep. Just let God be the final judge.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:23amDillma the terrorist that killed dozens as a leader of a terrorist group???? I know she is now # 1 just goes to show how the progressives all over the planet are in control. The US is the only hope thanks to the 2nd amendment.
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:02amYou need to read Psalm 2, 19, 119.
Repent of that evil madman’s religion from the pit of hell.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:42pmand so goes that campaign bid…
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:42pmLove Michelle, but she will not make it to Super Tuesday (my prediction).
Report Post »neverending
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:57pmI agree that it will soon be over.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:57pmThanks for splitting the neo-con bombing for Jesus vote Michelle…God really does have a purpose for you
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:40pmthe haters and the mentally ill will never vote for her all the time saying she is a hater and mentally ill….
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 10:48pmYes .. and the MSM will set out to totally destroy her … like they tried with Palin. The MTV and realiity TV types will believe anything.
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