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Bachmann on ‘12 Run: ‘I’m Committed to Doing Whatever I Can’ to Oust Obama

Appearing on Fox News with Greta Van Susteren on Wednesday night, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) didn’t do much to dispel rumors that she might run for president in 2012. While she didn’t flat out announce a run, she didn’t flat out deny one. Sure, she said she’s “not focused on my own personal ambitions,” but she also said:

I’m very committed to doing whatever I can to make sure that we don’t have a second term for President Obama. So I’m going to add my voice to that conversation in the next two years. . . . [I]t’s not about my personal ambition. But it is about making sure that people know what the issues are, what the principles are, because I think a year from now – I mean, can you imagine two years of speculating about who the nominee will be? . . . It is boring.

Sounds like she’s training.

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  • Not a BeckerHead
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:01pm

    Crazy Shelley Bachmann is overcome with delusions of grandeur (when she barely qualifies to be overcome with delusions of adequacy). This dim-wit is only interested in one thing — shameless self-promotion. She has seven people on her staff who do nothing but publicity, press releases and PR.
    She has done little to nothing as a congresswoman but she manages to get frequent bookings on FoxSnooze, right-wing rant-radio and even some legitimate news outlets.
    That being said, I do hope she’s serious about her presidential aspirations. She is a constant source of amusement and as unelectable as a certain dim-witted half-term governor of Alaska. I say “bring it on, Shelley!”

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:14pm

      AHHHH RIGHT ON CUE! The haters from the left with the CRAZY, dim-wit, talking points! HAHA SO predictable when it comes to good looking, smart and strong conservative women. You’re a bully! Are you mad because GLENN stole Betsy? Hey, you can BULLY her, too, since you will now call her a conservative, right? You guys are SUCH poor losers. Stamp your feet and name call all you want, you still LOST and it’s not over yet and you know it! :)

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    • hulagu
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:21pm

      Your comments as well as Middleclassprophets’, prove to me that she is at least worth consideration for the job. She obviously makes you nervous. Perfect.

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    • omigosh
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:34pm

      Oh, yes, please run, Michelle. You have these unimaginative progressives doing what they do best when they cannot bring intelligent debate to the table, and that is to spew vitrolic, scathing criticism from their bitter little minds.

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    • Chuck Biscuits
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Truly amazing how not one but two sad sacks who got turned down by Ms. Bachmann when they asked her to the prom would show up on the same website!

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  • macat
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:01pm

    I trust Representative Bachmann and would vote for her in a minute, she is one of the truly conservative, constitutional members of congress!!

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  • tinlizy
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:53am

    I don’t trust her as much as Palin. she voted for the Patriot Act, tarp, and more progressive legislation. so I am not convinced. she is a great person but a little too progressive. I will vote for Ron Paul.

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  • Bronco II
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:48am

    Stay focused on NOW but good to hear more stepping up when the time comes.GOD BLESS HER.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:39am

    She would have my vote. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves now. Michelle is a good conservative woman with traditional American values. Good luck to her if she tries!

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  • Tore
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:38am

    Though I do like Michell, I’m not incline to vote for anyone who has not had executive experience prior to being POTUS.

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    • ComeOnToolsOnTheLeft
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:37pm

      @TORE You said “Though I do like Michell, I’m not incline to vote for anyone who has not had executive experience prior to being POTUS.”

      You also said you were a convicted felon, how would you be able to vote? Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad you are a conservative, but don’t post you are a felon, and then post about who you would vote for!

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    • Tore
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 2:52pm

      I can vote. Attached you will find what each state has enacted as law regarding voting rights for felons.

      http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=286

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    • ComeOnToolsOnTheLeft
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:45pm

      That’s good to hear. Sorry, you confused me by the statement. Thanks for clarifying.

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  • PatriotDaze
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:35am

    This has Sharron Angle Deux written all over it.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:37pm

      Unfortunately, as far as the outcome is concerned, you are right. She is no match for Obama. I’m sorry, but we are going to need A PAIR. Just sayin’.

      What do you think of Rubio? I like Christie as well, but he has given a resounding “No”.

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  • Hugie 59 PA
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:22am

    She should keep everyone guessing and keep the Dems attacking everyone on the Republican side because they won’t know who Obama will be going against. They are such an unhappy bunch. Like all their constituents they will never be satisfied simply because of their warped ideology.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:32am

      Hugie 59 PA,
      For the foreseeable future it won’t be the dems that will be attacking her, it will be the establishment republicans. When Michelle tried to lay claim to a leadership position in the new Republican controlled congress, they dusted her off so quickly it made her head spin.

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  • DRSAVAGE24
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:18am

    Funny, middle class prophet, the Obama administration never would tell us what it actually cost. Her ridiculous claim was debunked? Really? Because Robert Gibbs said so? If it was “debunked”, we would know what it cost, but we still don‘t know the actual cost because the open and transparent White House won’t tell us.

    I’m from Minnesota, and the embarrassment here is that we elected Norm Coleman to be our Senator and Mark Ritchie, our Secretary of State, former ACORN community agitator, and member of George Soros’ SoS project was the guy counting the votes. Ballots were being “found” in trunks of cars, for gosh sakes…convicted felons were voting! We have terrible voting laws here where just about anyone can vote and they don’t have to show photo ID. That is the real embarrassment about Minnesota, not the patriot Michele Bachmann, who will have my vote if she ever gets in the race.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:28am

      DrSavage24,

      BINGO! Since no one in an official capacity documented the cost/day of the trip to India, Bachmann was repeatedly quoting a statistic she knew was unsupported by anything other than an anonymous Indian blogger. Never let the lack of facts get in the way of MANY good sound bites.

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    • Tore
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:50am

      @DRSAVAGE24, please stop with the “convicted felon” line. I happen to be one, and I also happen to be a conservative.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:42pm

      Clueless, aren’t you? If you think Gibbs is the only one who debunked that pathetic story then you must only watch Fox. http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/11/obamas_india_trip

      Thanks for playing!

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  • radioguru
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:16am

    Will support Michelle… she’s the “real deal”, NOT a rhino. She not only scares all the dems, but also a lot of republicans. She wants to upset the apple cart. Bach Rocks!!

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:03am

    Brilliant. Michelle doesn’t have the baggage that Sarah Palin has. She would be a brilliant choice.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:17am

      If by ‘brilliant’ you mean for the Democrats, you would be correct sir!

      Run Michelle! Run!

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:48am

      Middleclassprophet- You have regurgitated all the talking points we’ve heard a thousand times.
      Please give us something new with specificity. You haven’t given me anything to debate with you yet. You are losing. I win by ignoring your ignorant laden facts-oops I mean opinion.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:51pm

      -Libertyluvnmomma-

      Losing? Ha! I‘m honored that you’re even keeping score. LOL! This is a joke of a site on the internets not Debate 101 class t NYU.

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  • middleclassprophet
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:00am

    The woman lies all the time. She continued to spew that b.s. about how much the Obama/Indian trip was costing tax payers even WAY after that ridiculous claim was debunked. She is also one of the blowhard GOP-ers who voted against the 1st responders bill…Patriot, she is not.

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    • hickoryrat
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:09am

      Why don’t you put some clothes on,come out of your mother’s basement and pull your head out of your a$$.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:16am

      -hickoryrat-

      Sounds like you’re speaking from experience, blazer. Do you really think every single liberal poster is sitting in mom’s basement? I guess that means every conservative poster is logging on in between lynchings, huh? Grow up.

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    • hulagu
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:47am

      MCP, (”The first lady has more class in her toned arms than Michelle could ever dream of. Comparing the 2 is like comparing dial-up to a cable modem.”)
      If you consider “class” an America hating communist,then you are right on.

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:55am

      “Sounds like you’re speaking from experience, blazer. Do you really think every single liberal poster is sitting in mom’s basement? I guess that means every conservative poster is logging on in between lynchings, huh? Grow up”.-Middleclassprophet

      If you weren’t sitting in your moms basement you might be posting during work. Are you paid to post on personal threads at work? If not, is what you are doing ethical? If you are unemployed how to do pay for internet? the Library?
      Lynchings? what lynchings?? Can you post a newspaper article where a person was lynched particularly by a fiscal conservative.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:48pm

      -Libertyluvnmomma-

      You’re here, aren’t you? Do you see me accusing you of being in your mom’s basement getting paid to post? Look in the mirror, bro. I’m here during the same time you are yet you label me as a moron…classic. What does that make you?

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  • Eblaze44
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:58am

    IF you want to “oust” the current Socialist in the White House, I suggest you support a candidate that will win – DO NOT support their party – put your money and your effort and your vote for a person. Don’t get tied up in a Party – the current RNC is NOT conservative – it is still way too progressive and full of RINO’s.

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    • VermontPatriot
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:32pm

      That‘s what I’ve been thinking. There are a bunch of career weenies in both houses that need to be sent home.

      I think we should support the freshmen all we can…and send a bunch more new folks to join them in 2012.

      I like Bachman better than Palin. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

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  • flashk
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:57am

    First class Lady ! Go,go,go all the way Michelle!

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:56am

    @Middleclassprofit… Did you lose your page? Isn’t Huffpo your bookmarked page?

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  • NC1
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:56am

    Go for it!! I’d like to see Bin Laden get his arse kicked by a girl since they value women so much. I thinks she’s got the smarts to get things turned around too.

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    • N37BU6
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:07pm

      Yeah, as long as she stays professional and doesn’t end up with an idiotic “reality” show on TLC I‘d say she’s a winner.

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  • PhantomsPhorever
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:47am

    She’s hot, but not Chris Christie hot, politically speaking of course.

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    • Mikee T
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:56am

      Listen up……!! I live in NJ……..lot’s of hype about Christie……..meanwhile…Atlantic City is sinking into the ocean and he and his Trenton comrades are STILL at odds with the local moron politicians….they sign a bill to allow 2 “boutique stye” casinos to apply for licensure with a regulatory requirement that they MUST build 300 more rooms within 3 years after opening to meet the minimum requirement of 500 rooms……..again, more totalitarian style of government……don’t be fooled …..this guy is from a PROSECUTORS office background….he IS big government…so don’t get carried away…

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    • Spawnomite
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:40am

      As an open homosexual, I still find myself more attracted to Michelle than Chris.

       
  • Mikee T
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:44am

    I don’t have a problem with Michelle Bachman or Sarah Palin since we have nothing but weanies for men in politics these days…….period……..Everybody is so hell bent on being “politically correct” (liberal/progressive scare tactic) they have forgotten that it is good to be yourselves…..whether you are quick to emotion, tears, joy, admonition……..whatever it takes to get it done and TELL THE TRUTH….is what we need……..somebody with the character and resolve of a VINCE LOMBARDI….because the ******* / progressives are evil, calculating and pathological liars….

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  • middleclassprophet
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:42am

    She’s committed, alright.

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    • Mikee T
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:49am

      another ******* trolling a conservative “normal” blog site………go away moron…….stop using new sign on names to veil your identity…..in other words….grow up, face the issues, tell the truth and stop the blathering……….What is so offensive about a conservative woman that it drives you miscreants crazy….? Oh, I get it…..it enrages you people when people that are god fearing and still believe the framers / founders had it right get a little bit of a pulpit….Well, the “bully pulpit” that the libs/progressives have had for too long is find it’s end days at hand…..progressives = treason…period..

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:58am

      Another Huffpo p*ssy.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:02am

      I actually find the woman amusing. She will provide puh-lenty of comic relief for undecided voters across this great country of ours. And the only name I post under is middleclassprophet. Sorry to burst your hate bubble, brother. Truth hurts sometimes and the truth is that this lady is about as wacky as Nick Nolte on a 4 day drunk.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:10am

      -RightUnite-

      Typical Blaze response. Limited vocab, huh? You’re totally qualified to vote for Michelle.

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    • tankerBigRed1
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:17am

      bty – minn has their license plate wrong- it should read 10000 taxes @ a couple of lakes– go lady you are bout the only sane one in that state..

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:40am

      MikeT imagine the lonely life of a ‘troll” blogging on threads of stories they despise. That’s apathy for the Left! Imagine if this person got up and out of their underwear and was useful during the day! We need more people like this, it will make our job so much easier.
      Welcome Middleclassprophet!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:23pm

      The only demented witch — and rhyming word — in Congress has been sent to the back of the room with her broom. You can’t get wackier than a Speaker of the House saying that a 2300-page bill of massive health care overhaul needs to be passed before it is read.

      Here’s the middle digit, former Madame Speaker and false prophets.

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    • jim6058
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 4:56pm

      Must agree with Mikee. Anyone who would choose a username that invokes a class distinction (implying an upper and a lower class), should confine his/her comments to the lib rags (or come out as a progressive shill).

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  • myfamily04
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:41am

    I agree with Spawn…this is one tough WOman and she is all about the constitution. She would have my vote!

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  • rfycom
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:39am

    Oust? How about concentrating on fixing the damn country oh pretty lady…. and stop spending your time thinking about how to oust someone. We don’t have the God damn time to ping pong another election and wait for an oust. Use what is in Washington now and work with it to create the best outcome. Oust my ass. allaboutusa on tweeter – the beginning of a new beck empire

     
    • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:48am

      I think she will be using what tools are now available to help stop the bleeding and get things turned, but we also all have to have a plan that will ensure we will not have to worry about another term of this craziness…………………VICTORY OR DEATH

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    • shawnabelle
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:25pm

      wow do you kiss you wife or mother with that mouth,oh right you may not have either

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  • Spawnomite
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:31am

    Michelle’s balls are bigger than most politicians.

    Speaker of the House just cries alot.

     
    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:39am

      Michelle is an embarrassment to the state of Minnesota and will never be considered a serious candidate. She’s a joke.

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    • psst
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:39am

      Bigger than most male republican pols.
      That’s for damn sure.

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    • Mikee T
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:52am

      He cries because he knows how @ucking bad things are…….MORON !!!! Vince Lombardi cried daily…..in between kicking people’s @sses……Don’t confuse emotional outbursts as a sign of weakness liver lips……….I’m so sick of feeble minded people in this country….staring with all of you *******/progerssives that were indoctrinated by this leftist agenda in our current day universities….most of you @ricks come out of school with all these credentials but can’t even spell….

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:03am

      @MIDDLECLASSPROPHET
      If Bachman is an “embarassment” for Minnesota it’s only because they have set the bar so very, very high…..I of course refer to Congressman Kieth Ellison, Senator Al Franken, and former Gov. Jesse Ventura….A Progressive, Christian-bashing Muslim…….a Conservative-hating, failure of a Progressive Air America radio talk-show host……a Hollywood loser of an actor and 9/11 Truther. Who can compete???

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    • tankerBigRed1
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:03am

      mcp– the peoples republic of minn is an embarrassment to any producer in the U.S.

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    • psst
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:08am

      @Middleclass
      The real embarrASSment for Minn is the crooked marxist pig Al Franken.
      Now only a true marxist would think the commie pig Franken will help solve the country’s problem.
      Franken is in the pockets of the rent a mob (aka union workers) who are helping to ****up the country.
      After the election, the marxists kept finding boxes of ballots in their cars that had not been counted.
      Even the jail-birds got to vote after the election.
      .

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:13am

      -HillBillySam1-

      “During an on-air interview at the Fair, Bachmann told Jason Lewis that “Life is from conception to natural death and so I want to respect life at every stage.“ A CNN reporter might have asked Bachmann exactly how she exercises this respect for ”life at every stage” by taking away a single mother’s food stamps or dropping a cancer patient from their health insurance plan in the middle of a round of chemotherapy. But Lewis dotingly sings his choir part with a glazed look in his eye, and offers nothing but a frame for Bachmann’s delusional self-portrait.”

      Yuh, that bar is r-e-a-l-l-y set high. lol

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:01pm

      @MIDDLECLASSPROPHET
      I take it from your response that you are pro-choice, pro-unfettered entitlement, and pro single-payer healthcare…..Bachmann obviously isn‘t any of those things but let’s take a look at these issues, shall we??? Every single one of them comes down “personal resposibility”….the Holy Water to the vampiric Progressive. Human life begins at conception….every aspect of the child’s DNA and chromosomal make-up are present at conception. Why do Progressives hate life so much?? Or is it that they don’t want to face the consequences of life? Pregnant?? You can just chemically smother, burn, dismember limb-by-limb, or jam a steel rod into the base of the babie’s skull in order to suction his/her little brains out!! All while you wait!! In the convenience of the mother’s own womb! Problem solved!!!! This is what Progressives consider to be the sanctity of life?? This is human dignity?? Which young mother was cruelly booted off of the food-stamp program…..to be left to starve in the cold, unforgiving streets?? I have never heard of anyone losing food stamps unless they were convicted of a felony. The health insurance issue seems to be just another Progressive talking point. Your hero Nancy Pelosi said that even if everyone loved their insurance and that everyone had access to it, the Progressive/Democrats would still take it over…..doesn’t matter if the cancer patient had trouble with his insurance company or not. Single-payer is on the way!! Bachmann opposes these things…..as do I and the majority of Americans. This was demonstrated by the mid-term elections. Hold tight to your talking points over the next couple of years….you’re going to need them.

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    • Tore
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:10pm

      @MIDDLECLASSPROPHET

      “During an on-air interview at the Fair, Bachmann told Jason Lewis that “Life is from conception to natural death and so I want to respect life at every stage.“ A CNN reporter might have asked Bachmann exactly how she exercises this respect for ”life at every stage” by taking away a single mother’s food stamps or dropping a cancer patient from their health insurance plan in the middle of a round of chemotherapy. But Lewis dotingly sings his choir part with a glazed look in his eye, and offers nothing but a frame for Bachmann’s delusional self-portrait.”

      The answer to this is quite simple. It is not the job of the federal government to take care of its citizens from cradle to grave. When people need help they should be able to tun to charitable and philanthropic organizations, but the Fed has put so many restraints on these organizations that the find difficult, if not impossible to do the works they are set up for.

      As with most problems in this country today it’s the Fed who has made a mess of thing. Until the States take back their power (if they can) this will continue and worsen.

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    • neverending
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:10pm

      Can’t stand some genuine humility?? Many of us have no problem with it at all.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 2:23pm

      @“Middleclass”

      You are not empowered to speak for the state of Minnesota, in whole or in part. Further, she has experience under her belt as a legislator, for many years. Your second point is thus moot.

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  • Johnnyp1958
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:29am

    You already have my vote, go get em

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:39am

      JohnnyP1958,

      Should Michelle and her family keep getting their farm subsidies under her era of fiscal responsibility?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:20pm

      @Patriotdaze

      “Should Michelle and her family keep getting their farm subsidies under her era of fiscal responsibility?”

      No, nobody should get a farm subsidy.

      Your argument, again as always, is a form of tu quoque. Please, try to learn a new technique, I implore you.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 4:06pm

      Ghost,
      You are driving me crazy with your application of tu quoque to any comment that decries hypocrisy or demands accountability. According to your interpretation of that fallacy, nobody could ever be accused of hypocrisy, without committing tu quoque. That is a wrong understanding of the “appeal to hypocrisy,” vs. hypocrisy, per se.

      To commit tu quoque, a person has to claim that AN ACCUSATION IS UNJUSTIFIED, because the accuser himself is guilty as charged. Dave said this to a Bachmann supporter:

      “Should Michelle and her family keep getting their farm subsidies under her era of fiscal responsibility?” TO WIT, “Isn’t it hypocritical for Michele to call for fiscal responsibility, when she and her family get farm subsidies?”

      Dave is not denying that the Obama administration has been fiscally irresponsible or that Obama should not be held accountable. I’d wager he strongly agrees both are true. Thus, Dave is not dismissing her viewpoint. To commit tu quoque, he would have had to defy Bachmann‘s accusation regarding Obama’s lack of fiscal responsibility: Ex.:

      “Bachmann does not have a right to accuse the Obama administration of lack of fiscal responsibility, since she and her family get farm subsidies.”

      You need to distinguish between a false statement and moral indignation/outrage. There is nothing wrong with moral indignation. A blog, of all places, should allow people to discuss motives, character and credibility, and to express their outrage or frustration when they believe a politician is being inconsistent or hypocritical. Dave was dismissing Bachman’s suitability for office, based on character, i.e., she talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk. Anyone who does not agree with him (you did, on that issue at least), is free to challenge him.

      Please don’t take this as a personal attack. I do find most of your contributions to this blog valuable, and there is nothing wrong with pointing out invalid arguments, but you are getting carried away on the side of curtailing free thought. Whatever happened to the strict libertarian in you? :)

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 4:35pm

      Ghost,
      Sorry, it’s Daze, not Dave. This person may be an Obama supporter, judging by the username. However, he or she still has a legitimate right to question Bachmann’s character.

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  • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:27am

    If she decides to run, let her pitch her own case as to why she would be the best candidate for the job, just as any other prospectives should do. Concentrate on what you would do specifically, and why we should elect you. Keep it all above board, and lets get rid of the name callings and the mud slinging back and forth.

    http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:38am

      Amen SnowLeopard3200.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:38pm

      She‘ll also need to explain why she wants to repeal Wall Street reforms and why that goal isn’t linked to the $500K+ she has received from finance industry special interests over her Congressional career. She’ll go on the stump saying how the Wall Street bailouts were a bad thing, but behind closed doors she is aiming to eliminate any punishment or regulation of the industry to prevent that fiasco from happening again. But go ahead and vote for her. Competence and integrity are overrated anyway…

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    • taskmaster78
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 3:19pm

      ABC please provide me some of the legislation she’s drafted to prove your accusations as to Wall St. and her love for them. The only person that will have trouble defending himself is our current president and the amazing bail outs he’s pushed forth and the strong arm tactics used to force banks to accept money. Case and point Wells Fargo’s refusal and the feds threats. We’ve destroyed the private lending business for mortgages and college loans. We purchase auto manufacturers along with GE bailouts all the trillions blown in the last two years is and remains uncalled for. So I’m not so worried about Ms Bachmann as you should be by the hacks currently in office. All tax dodging mental midgets currently running our government agencies.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 4:22pm

      So the donations from the finance industry to Bachmann are a matter of public record and available on Open Secrets among other websites. As for proof of Bachmann’s stance on Wall Street, you need only see her actions and quotes:

      http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Michele-Bachmann-Frank-Dodd/2011/01/06/id/382092

      Bachmann is not criticizing the bill for coming down too hard on the banks, but for creating too many regulations on the industry that will kill jobs. This is the very same sentiment reflected in the ABA spokesman’s comments later in the same article. The lobbyists, as has been widely reported, have pushed for repeal of the reforms so Wall Street can go back to doing what it did before with insufficient regulations to stop them. But since conservatives do not understand the causes ofthe crisis, they fail to see that Bachmann is making it easy to repeat itself.

      Finally, all smart conservatives and Republicans favored bailing out the banks when the world’s financial system was about to implode, but now they pretend like they didn’t think it was necessary. This is hypocrisy. But that is better than Bachmann. She reflects total stupidity. Without that bailout–a saving of the banks–there would be no recovery occuring now. Charlie Munger is a billionaire and has made all of his money on his own in the financial markets by being right more often than not. He is also a conservative Republican. But even he has admitted that Obama was right to follow through on the bank bailouts. Those that argue otherwise are prima facia irresponsible or perhaps just negligently ignorant.

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    • postscript
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:12pm

      Are there any MEN left in the country?…
      If so…please step forward…
      otherwise… vote for Michelle…
      She is willing to do what most MEN won’t…
      STAND UP for this country…
      My vote is for Michelle…

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    • abc
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:30pm

      Postscript, you wrote Bachmann is the only one willing to “STAND UP for this country…“ Please define ”stand up.”

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    • abc
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:33pm

      I guess I pointed out an important failing of Bachmann, since she just dropped the very effort I was criticizing her for. See: http://www.housingwire.com/2011/01/06/bachmann-drops-dodd-frank-repeal-ahead-of-criticism

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    • postscript
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:18pm

      “I guess I pointed out an important failing of Bachmann, since she just dropped the very effort I was criticizing her for”.

      hhmmmmm… you got us…

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:35pm

      @ABC

      I guess I pointed out an important failing of Bachmann, since she just dropped the very effort I was criticizing her for. See: http://www.housingwire.com/2011/01/06/bachmann-drops-dodd-frank-repeal-ahead-of-criticism
      —————-

      You are a fool, parroting commie talking points, but unable to read for yourself; just like Obama, your “savior”. Bachmann didn’t drop anything. What part of “introduces repeal of Dodd-Frank” is too literary for you to understand? You trolls are so pathetic.

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    • KICKILLEGALSOUT
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:04am

      Dr. Ron Paul 2012!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:03pm

      @ABC
      So much spin! Man,oh man: How can anyone debate you when you take facts and simply deny that they are true? And this one is the most egregious: 3.5M created jobs.” No, no no!! “2.5- 3.6M SAVED or created jobs (the range was later dropped). Did you learn in class how “saved or created jobs” are calculated statistically? If you did, go ahead and trash your diploma, because it is impossible to do. BTW, the “if… then” conjectures Obama is so fond of using in his economic estimates are also statistical crocks. The only FACT we have is that the Obama report clearly stated that with the injection of the stimulus monies into the economy, the unemployment rate would not surpass 8%. However it rose to over 9%. So the stimulus FAILED by their own stats to keep the country from “going over the cliff,“ and experiencing an ”economic meltdown akin to the Great Depression.” So much for Obama’s RED alert rhetoric (pun intended). Hahaha.

      Now the national car (a green one) is hanging for dear life at one to two decimal points below 10%. Obama will continue to massage the numbers using novel statistical tools, such as JOBS SAVED (take money, you’re saved), combining temporary and permanent jobs in the calculation process, using a fake multiplier to project economic growth, and so on, and we will continue to skid at an unemployment rate below the 10% margin deemed necessary to keep him re-electable. You think that Marxist liar can hide the fact that BUSINESSES AREN’T HIRING, and that only his BUREAUCRACY and his fat-cat unions are doing well in this cesspool economy? Give me a break!

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  • Eblaze44
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:26am

    Go Michelle. What a totally US Citizen you are, unlike the hapless “first lady” in the white house.

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    • Spawnomite
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:31am

      First lady hates fat children.

       
    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:37am

      She won’t be running for 1st lady, and she will hardly be held to that standard.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:37am

      The first lady has more class in her toned arms than Michelle could ever dream of. Comparing the 2 is like comparing dial-up to a cable modem.

      Run Michelle! Run!

      middleclassprophet  
    • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:39am

      So refreshing to see and hear someone who actually has an understanding of the problems we face and also to be willing to “try” and do something about them.

      Ms. Bachmann will have to face a fire storm to say the least but I think she will be able to manage the storm well and come out by 2011 as someone we will all want to support. I know Palin also “wants” to make a run at least I think she does, as much as she (Palin) is likable Bachmann is just more “PRESIDENTUAL” in my humble opinion. With Paul/Palin maybe being in the VP slot and West up for Sectary of State we can’t go wrong………………VICTORY OR DEATH

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:39am

      “I’m very committed to doing whatever I can to make sure that we don’t have a second term for President Obama.”

      ME TOO!

      God save the United States.

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    • Aldo_the_Apche
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:00am

      Bachman has my vote totally what we need a strong conservative woman

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    • snowloepard2300
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:00am

      Whateverhesaid.

       
    • forestnomad
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:13am

      Michele Bachmann – for those who think that Sarah Palin is just ‘just too brainy’.

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    • miketheplumber2011
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:03pm

      Bachmann-Palin Overdrive !!!! im a manly man who thinks its time America gave a good,sensible woman like Bachmann a chance. she will be my candidate if she runs.

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    • henrythemexican
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:29pm

      Why is Michelle not an American citizen?

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    • Curator_JDR
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:35pm

      Way to go Michelle. If Chris Matthews calls you a “zombie” you must be doing something right. Its time we Conservatives had a symbol to unite us that attacks the Progressives without words and rallies the American public behind us.

      The “head-up-the-butt” people from Marc Rubin’s new animated short feature exposes the insanity of the Progressives with BIG TIME HUMOR. http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu Please feel free
      to save the image of a “head-up-the-butt” person to your desktop from the movie link page.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:37pm

      @snowleopard2300

      Your grammer needs some fundamental working upon it to be correct.

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    • BocaBaby
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:04pm

      MICHELLE WE LOVE YOU!!!! RUN MICHELLE RUN!!

      and yes, just for the record, it would be GREAT to have a MICHELLE in the White House, that isn’t at all like the narcisisstic, kreeps that occupy that space now. The OBUMMER and michelle the corruptocrat are not worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence with Michelle Bachmann.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:18pm

      So now the first lady is also not a US citizen. What nonsense.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:19pm

      @forestnomad

      “Michele Bachmann – for those who think that Sarah Palin is just ‘just too brainy’.”

      Ah, nothing like the smell of overt sexism in the afternoon, mate.

      I suspect that you‘ve not actually heard much of what she’s said or read, and rely instead on bites carefully selected and fed to you by HuffPo. An easy trick to do of course, which can make any person look like a flaming idiot. Familiarize yourself with actual propaganda techniques and break out of your self imposed exile from reality. Bachmann is quite bright and far more often than not is very eloquent and intellectually impressive. I know this since I‘ve heard her speak and have read a lot of what she’s said from apolitical sources.

      It’s frustrating to me to consider how anti-woman the Left really is. I had hoped that we as a society had grown beyond that kind of thing.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 2:16pm

      the left is only anti-woman if its a consevative woman…I watched the interview on Greta and Ms. Bauchman is one smart lady..and she’s right..we have to focus on the here and now before we start toting a canidate for 2012…as I said before…consevative women ROCK….

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 2:30pm

      Spawnomite, and fat kids hate her!

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 3:35pm

      we love Michele…. she is a great lady,smart and she loves this country!!!!! I TRUST her

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    • billjohnson91
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 3:50pm

      I think the one ticket that can defeat Obama is ROMNEY/BACHMANN. We need the electability that Romney brings and the Tea Party would love Bachmann. What do you think?

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    • ozz
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:29pm

      She has my vote.

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    • James
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:14pm

      I am commited to ousting Obama too.

      http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/

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    • M 4 Colt
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:17pm

      As much as i like her, i dont think she would receive the money or support from the Republican good old boy network that she would need to run a campaign that could win against Obama, and lets not forget all the hell that the Obama lame stream media would put her and her family through.

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