It Begins: Bachmann, Perry at Same Iowa Event
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Madeleine Morgenstern
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Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry are both campaigning in Iowa Sunday, the same day former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the GOP race. (Reuters)
AMES, Iowa (AP) — It might be a preview of the months ahead in the GOP presidential race. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who just got into the race, and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, fresh off an Iowa straw poll victory, were competing for attention Sunday as their campaign schedules put them at the same event.
Both have the backing of tea partyers and evangelical conservatives. Both already are making big plays for those two important constituencies in Iowa.
Perry was making his first campaign visit to Iowa since announcing his candidacy Saturday in South Carolina in a speech that emphasized his economic credentials and Texas’ job growth, as well as his conservative stances on social issues and his faith.
The chairman of the Republican Governors Association, he’s an establishment candidate who could be an attractive candidate for economic conservatives in this lead-off caucus state who are looking for a candidate to rally around. Enthusiasm for the GOP national front-runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and his strong economic message has been muted.
Bachmann, who has risen in Iowa polls since entering the race this summer, was reveling in her first-place finish in the test vote Saturday that proved her campaign has the organizational skills and volunteer network needed to compete strongly in the state’s caucuses next winter.
“We see this as just the very first step in a very long race,” Bachmann said on NBC’s “Meet the Press. “There’s a lot of work to be done.”
A candidate backed largely by the grass-roots, she appeared on all the Sunday morning news programs as she worked to broaden her appeal and challenge rivals more linked to the establishment.
In the straw poll, Bachmann edged past Texas Rep. Ron Paul to win the vote – getting 4,823 votes, or 29 percent, to 4,671, or 28 percent, for Paul out of nearly 17,000 cast. But she trounced home-state rival Tim Pawlenty, a former Minnesota governor who had cast himself as an electable establishment choice but ended up drawing 2,293 votes, or 14 percent.
On Sunday, Pawlenty quit the race.
His exit means there’s now an available contingent of top GOP staff and consultants, including former state party chairman, former advisers to President George W. Bush and senior advisers to Mike Huckabee’s winning 2008 caucus campaign, including Sarah Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor’s daughter. Top legislators who had signed on to Pawlenty’s camp also now are free to rally behind other candidates.
It’s not yet clear the size of the electorate Pawlenty frees up. But it’s certain both Bachmann and Perry will try to go after his voters.
“I wish him well,” Bachmann said, quick to praise Pawlenty, perhaps mindful of the need to broaden her appeal and reach his backers. “He brought a really important voice into the race and I am grateful that he was in. He was really a very good competitor.”
Both Bachmann and Perry were scheduled to speak in a late-afternoon GOP fundraiser, the Black Hawk County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Waterloo.
It‘s Bachmann’s birthplace, a point she has stressed everywhere while campaigning for the leadoff caucuses, and she wasn’t willing to cede the spotlight to Perry. She changed her plans and decided to attend after Perry announced that he would make his Iowa debut at the event.
“I welcome anyone who’s coming into the race, and I think it will be good competition for everyone,” Bachmann said. “He’ll run his campaign, we’ll run ours, but we really look forward to that.”
She said she was confident that voters would choose her over him “because I have a demonstrated, proven record that I will fight for what people care about.”
Her straw poll victory is expected to give her a boost nationally, especially with fundraising. But it also makes her a target and comes with warnings. Only twice in the five straw polls since they were first held in 1980 has the winner gone on to capture the caucuses.
Romney won the straw poll four years ago, finished second in the caucuses and stumbled during the early primaries before quitting the 2008 race.
Just once did the straw poll winner take the GOP nomination. That was George W. Bush in 2000.
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Comments (158)
davida61
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:22pmI’m looking for a Perry/Bachmann ticket. Can’t stomach Romney, Cain is a big blow hard, Paul is old and scary with his views on Iran and Israel, Huntsman is a sleeper, the 90′s called and wants Gingrich back, and thank the heavens Pawlenty woke up and left the building.
Report Post »for-what-its-worth
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:43pm@ davida61
I’m looking for a Perry/Bachmann ticket.
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I agree with you.
It will be a Bachmann/Perry rivalry until the end, but I think Perry will ultimately get the nomination.
It would make sense for him to ask her to be his running mate and pull her voters over.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:32pmI loved listening to the dip sh*ts on the Sunday round tables today especially Meet The Press’s Mike Murphy of the Washington Post, and Jonathan Martin of Politico …
Report Post »Physically describing “Rick Perry” … it was incredible!!! …
I wonder just how many Sundays until David Gregory, Chrissy Matthews, and Bob Scheifer go before they just come right out and call Rick Perry a boot wearing.. REDNECK!
american1st
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:13pmperry has a strong smell of RINO/NEOCON about him…. don’t be a band wagon jumper… take some time and watch his history and see his record come out.. my bet is that he will be just another installment in the bush/obama dynasty, and we can afford another RINO in office!
for far to many years now, republicans have been eating up the “lesser of two evils” argument, “we must beat the other guy even if it costs us our country and our constitution”… well there isn’t enough of either left this time around CHOOSE WISELY
NO RINOS NO NEOCONS 2012
Report Post »american1st
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:19pmcant afford another RINO (just in case it wasn’t obvious from context)
Report Post »DarkFire
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 7:29pmbachmann is a flake and will say somthing dumb soon enough. PERRY IS A LIBERAL, WAKE UP!
this is the perfect for Palin when she enters mid october or early november. let the early, so called front runner beat each other and burn themselves out and Palin will come in a show them how it is done.
Palin for pres 2012, let bachmann be the sect. of the tresuary, cain as the sect. of state. and who as vp might you ask, Trump, and here is why. Palin can send Trump to do all the negoatations in the Senate and the House, and actually get a good deal done with what needs to be done.
PALIN/TRUMP 2012
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 8:33pmFrom The Wall Street Journal:
Report Post »Rick Perry’s Crony Capitalism Problem
Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential pitch goes something like this: During one of the worst recessions in American history, he’s kept his state “open for business.” In the last two years, Texas created over a quarter of a million jobs, meaning that the state’s 8% unemployment rate is substantially lower than the rest of the nation’s. The governor credits this exceptional growth to things like low taxes and tort reform.
It’s a strong message. But one of the governor’s signature economic development initiatives—the Texas Emerging Technology Fund—has lately raised serious questions among some conservatives…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576428262897285614.html
SamIamTwo
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 9:04pmI’ve liked Bachmann way before all of this. Watched her a few times on CSPAN…she is excellent…Smart, quick and great replies to Chris Wallace today.
Perry meh, not so interested in him but if he is Bachmann’s pick for VP…I’m in. Sort of like to see RP as VP. But so far I’m for Bachmann for president. One classy lady, with level headed responses. She says what she means and means what she says and knows how to negotiate to correct the rudder if need be…you gotta give a little to get the ship righted if we don’t win the Senate, and her logic is dead on. Props to Wallace for the apology.
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:25pmSign up us two Texans for a Perry/Bachmann ticket!
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 11:18pmI really like Congress woman Bachman but Id like to see Rubio on a ticket. Man, imagine the soiling of underwear on the democrat side when they loose the latino vote. Ill bet there would be some butt puckering if that happened.
Report Post »Master_and_Commander
Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:46amAgreed, a Perry/Bachmann or Bachmann/Perry ticket would be unstoppable
Report Post »LibertarianForLife
Posted on August 15, 2011 at 3:26amIf either of them are on the ticket, Obama will win in a landside. Anyone who has imaginary friends to the sky and especially make claims of talking to them, is a complete moron. They are both young earth creationists who ignore facts to make themselves feel better.
Report Post »KimNota
Posted on August 15, 2011 at 6:08amWell said!
Report Post »BB671
Posted on August 15, 2011 at 5:57pmPerry / Bachman is the winning ticket for sure. I choose Perry over Bachman because a Governor trumps a Congresswoman everytime…No puhn intended.Congress is better than the corrupt senate but just barely… I would rather see a Paul / Cain ticket for dramatic change we can really believe in…Any one but Romney who seems to be the media darling at this point. If the left wants Romney so bad, they can have him on their ticket..
Report Post »Hisnameishussein
Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:34pma Bachmann/Perry ticket would be better, Rick is a big fat RINO who wants amnesty and open borders….a VP job might be ok, he could strut around and do whatever Biden does now
Report Post »HotBreakingStory
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:14pmAt the same event and the sky didn’t part?
A military coup d’etat began in 2008 with the introduction of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate.
Obama is not the president, he’s the acting president. He disappeared for 2 weeks after his election win only to reappear looking exhausted sitting next to John McCain, with a bad poker face, for a press photo shoot. Obama is now a Pentagon puppet. Who did you think writes his teleprompter?
This is the real story that the media is not and cannot report on. Here’s what Obama, Osama, Biden, Bin Laden, the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists, and Sarah Palin had to do with the last election and the military’s overthrow of our government.
http://alturl.com/bcrnw
Report Post »HellPhish89
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:26pmlol wut?
Report Post »IowaWoman
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 8:39pmBullShite
Report Post »ROB RAGE
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:51pmOne thing for sure..We Have to have a Strong Conservative candidate that’s easy to look at…. Young…since many uninformed people vote on looks alone……..No More Old Snapping Turtles like… John McCain !
Report Post »american1st
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:23pmbeing a pretty boy sure worked out well for obama…. what we need is somebody with principals and to get over voting for the guy with the best looks… if America stays this shallow we are doomed… McCain was a disaster because of his political views not his age …
Report Post »psst
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:39pmThe NWO/OWG/CFR/Bilderberger Cabal have 3 candidates in the race.One of them, Huntsman does not have a chance.
Report Post »Perry came in should Mitt falters.
The NWO also have a 4th contender. But he does not have any challenger.Unless we can see his real BC and not some trumped up electronically doctered one.
If that should happens, (it won’t, the MSM have too much invested)hilLIE will jump in and the NWO/OWG Cabal would just be exchanging Soetoro for hilLIE.
BTW, I am wondering just how much of that loot Soros made on the US downgrade will he pass to his employee Soetoro.. Yes, Soetero is an employee of Soros who runs the Americas for the NWO.
Yes, the Fed Reserve is also a child of the NWO/OWG. They put it in place.
CrazyTexan
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:21pmYou forgot to mention a few things…
Report Post »The “typical” Alex Jones, info warrior/Ron Paulinista; Commercial air planes are spraying “chem-trails” designed to make us all sick and compliant to the will of the NWO. 9-11 was an inside job. FEMA is setting up camps to round us all up and subject us to “re-education”, every politician is controlled by the powers that be at Bilderberg, EXCEPT Ron Paul and Debrorah Medina. Vaccines and the yearly flu shot have “things” in them, put there by the federal government to destroy our minds and make us into zombies. Most of them you will never hear on the debating stage. The list is endless, and if you do not subscribe to this way of thinking you are “sheeple”, dumb, stupid, brainwashed etc.
Yeah, Ron Paul’s the man! He and his followers are so conservative….not!
Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:24pmWell you sure are A Crazy (head-in-the-sand) Texan!
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:08pmI stand with the Crazy Texan. Right on Bubba, it’s all a big conspiracy to some.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on August 15, 2011 at 2:47am@Crazypost Nothing I saw in his post was Conspiratorial. Unfortunately You are very close- minded and Naive. Should you subscribe to the every theory or story you hear from infowars? I can only say for myself, they report, I decide. A majority of the stories there, are FACT. Some are far-fetched and questionable.
They ARE spraying aluminum, and mylar – FACT.
Other substances – Undetermined.
Hundreds of thousands of caskets were in Atlanta – FACT.
What they are going to be used for – Undetermined.
HAARP does manipulate the weather – FACT
Also manipulates brain waves into thought control – Undetermined
911 inside job – Undetermined ( but tower 7 footage VERY strange.)
“Things” in flu shots – Undetermined
“Things” in other shots that caused great damage to thousands of people, short and long term – FACT
NWO/illuminati/Military-Industrial Complex controlling our politicians – FACT
Percentage of Politicians Controlled – Undetermined. ( I would guess 75-90% )
I can understand if you can’t handle going that deep into the rabbit hole. Most can’t.
Report Post »Take the Blue Pill and go back to enjoying that steak. You won’t remember a thing in the morning.
Workforit
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:35pmI like Bachmann much more than that RINO Perry … Romney is done, “say thanks Rick”
Ron Paul still gets my vote but with my luck, my vote will be one of the 218 “missing straw poll votes”!
Report Post »EdBoo
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:33pmI would like to see a ticket with Bachman and Perry. I don’t know enough yet about Perry to decide who gets the top job.
Palin needs to revert to a formalized drum beater role and be satisfied with a senior cabinet level post – Energy or the Interior. Keep her in the wings for eight years after 2012. Sec of Labor would be highly entertaining but not for Labor.
Romney needs to go away, enjoy his millions and serve on blue ribbon committees as the need arises. He probably will drop out (during the convention) after a heart-to-heart with the RNC over who has a best chance of winning the presidency. Anyone who cannot admit failure (Mass healthcare) is not fit for the highest office in this land,
I’d like see John Bolton as Secretary of State after 2012. I think that would see countries who have been ripping us off for decades start to finally bend over and brag their ankles to keep the cash coming. Pakistan for starters.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:28pmMay the best, uh, PERSON, win!
Report Post »CrazyTexan
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:26pmMy two favorites in one spot! Almost worth taking a 1200 mile road trip.
Report Post »waluman353
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:41pmsince for some reason i cant reply to your above post i’d like to comment here (nice editing by the blaze i guess)
Report Post »LOL…how can you be so ignorant? i guess its a hard pill to swallow but if you actually did some research you would see that all “typical” things you mentioned are in fact true. its funny how you can be aware of everything you said and just not look into it….that is “dumb , stupid , and brainwashed”. ….we all have a chance to actually save our country now with Ron Paul…please do your research people, thats the only way to find the truth , preserve our freedom , and our constitution.
neverending
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:26pmHopeful and happy days may just be coming to America again. Would love to see Perry/Rubio ticket but I have a lot of respect for Michele and her on the ticket with Perry would also be just fine. She has faced some really rough and tough crap and she has taken it standing tall, confident and answering everyone of them head on. I wish her very well. She is honest, decent, high morals and walks the talk.
Report Post »Diamond Girl
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 7:20pmHear! Hear!
With your sentiments all the way.
Nov. ‘12 can’t get here soon enough.
Report Post »Hisnameishussein
Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:48pmGuys perry is a freaking rino……We can’t risk it. He can’t be trusted.
Report Post »Barry
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:18pmPerry generates interest and excitement, i’m way more interested in the canidates now.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:34pmWhy? You can see RINOs at the zoo..
Report Post »rdsxfn
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:00pmHmm….Perry just left an event in NH that I attended. He left around 1:00 PM. He must have headed straight to the airport.
Report Post »ruchamah
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:16pmRick Perry was Al Gore’s campaign chairman in 1988. How can ANYONE, who today calls himself a Republican, ever have backed that Gore idiot? I dont trust this guy for ONE minute…and the libs LOVE him.
Report Post »Fed up in Bama
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:47pmHe supported him because he was a Democrat. BUT…southern Democrats are a lot different from these Liberal ‘thiings’. Even as a Democrat, had he any clue who and what Gore stood for, I‘m sure he wouldn’t of backed him.
Report Post »A lot of us have changed our mind. I used to be a registered Dem. (Good Lord only knows why) and I’m as conservative as they come. Don’t judge just because someone once had a D behind their name. It’s what they stand for that counts.
JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:30pmGeez.. enough with the “Supported Al Gore” crap. That was 23 years ago!!
Report Post »Do you think Perry has altered some of this thinking at all?
Put it this way, since that time, Al Gore sure has! Gore wasn’t nearly as much of a freak in 1988.
RA0725
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:58pmI think with these two debating it will lead to a stronger platform. Both bring good things to the table.
Surfing channels this AM and saw the DNC chair Debbie Whatsername Putz saying Perry really had nothing to do with the job growth in Texas. I choked, then turned it off. This crap is all the Dems can do, they don’t have a single positive accomplishment to run on. Nothing.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:38pmGo to page 5:
http://www.edweek.org/media/ew/qc/2011/QualityCounts2011_PressRelease.pdf
Report Post »Ole Country Doctor
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:41pmIsn’t it amazing how scholarly Debbie Wasserman can opin about the economics of Texas and yet be so obtuse on the economic state of the US? It is truly laffable. She should make those statements wearing a bag over her head, or a berka. How embarrassing!
Report Post »BCBORNCRAZY
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:57pmWhat makes you people think your puppet Perry is going to win. Here is a friendly reminder of who this guy is. He has been involved in the Bilderberg Project. Campaigned Al Gore as his chairman, Rick Perry is the Bankers guy! That means BAD NEWS. Rick Perry is a “big government” politician. The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. He turned roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads. Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation.He made Texas have the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage. and to top it off, Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:12pmhey son do you know who ronald regan is he was a democrap before he saw the mess the party was in and then he went to the educated party with adults in it the repubs go carry obammas water somewhere else
Report Post »IdahoPatriots
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:13pm@BCBORNCRAZY I completely agree @ Perry. Search “Perry bilderburg 2007 and the North American Union”. The global elites always have both bases covered.
Report Post »staci
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:15pmAnd lets not forget the Texas Land Grab. Where he wanted to build the TransTexas Corridor from Mexico to Canada, while declaring eminent domain through the center of Texas for a drug running, illegal immigrant drop off through my home state!
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:16pmyea and your brother obamma passed a illegal bill to force everyone to buy health insurance so whats your point . you know if woman hang with a democrap they probably should receive gardasil
Report Post »BCBORNCRAZY
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:18pmNot an Obama supporter. Your being fooled. Nothing will change. It’s Ron Paul or Goodbye to this Country. No one cares about your useless New World Order and Control over the American people/
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:25pmBC – I know that all of HIS negatives will be exposed. Some will be real and some will be made up, we all know how this game goes….. the bottom line is no matter how bad Perry is, he’s better then obama.
Let’s make sure that a Republican candidate that we can all respect is elected in 2012.
Report Post »RoBoTech
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:33pmConcealed9mmpeni
Report Post »Hey son, maybe you aren’t against an ACTIVE Bilderburg member, a North American Union supporter, AL GORE campaign guy, Big Government, horrible education system, LYING Politician.
Eh, there’s a lot of us that do. You lose.
CrazyTexan
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:53pmI once went to a Sierra club meeting because I like back woods camping, checked it out decided that they were a bunch of loons. Does that mean I support agenda 21? Our education system sucks? Really? My kid graduated from a Texas public school and was accepted into several Ivy League colleges despite being a pasty white male. And how many illegal aliens does your state have to deal with? (FEDS control the border not governors) they don’t usually qualify for “salaried” positions. We have multiple cases of communicable disease every year in part due to illegals bringing it with them across the border. We “force” our children to get vaccines against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chicken pox, Hepatitis a, b, c, Polio, etc so that when one of these illegal kids who is sick enters our school system the legal residents do not die. Preventing cervical cancer, which also runs rampant here, is just another on a long list. You can get wavers here on religious and medical grounds easily if you so wish.
Report Post »As for the toll roads, I take it you have never driven in Austin, Dallas or Houston during rush hour! You should get the concept…we have no public transportation system here! (Perry has tried to get rail through, but has been lambasted for that too) During rush hour it takes about 1 ½ hours to travel about 20 miles, no accidents, stalled cars or construction. For example my husband takes the evil toll road home and is there in 25 minutes. Good solution to bad
TroyBray
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:59pmThe Bilderburger thing makes me think you are a little loony, but the rest checks out, so I’ll assume you have more info than me. Perry isn’t a Tea Party sweetheart, he’s a pathetic Remocrat trying to co-opt the movement. At the very best, he is a Rino. It would be nice to see a true Tea Partier vs a phony, one on one. The first hour you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, but then the focus group stuff would be expended, and you would see the difference between a “tea party candidate” and a true to the core conservative that feels it in their soul. The difference between Bachmann or Cain, or Santorum or Palin (or even Gingrich) and Perry or Romney or Huntsman. Paul is the looney fringe.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:33pmQuit spewing off fallacies, Borncrazy. Texas does NOT have one of the worst education systems.
They are slightly above average across the board, which means they are around 20th out of 50 states.
And quit it with the Bilderberg garbage too. He attended 2 meetings. Hardly makes him a member.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:40pmRanked 13th overall accoring to 2011 data.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:40pmGo to page 5:
http://www.edweek.org/media/ew/qc/2011/QualityCounts2011_PressRelease.pdf
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:46pmTexas’ debt increase is largely due to 2 things: $11B in improved highways (much needed as the state is growing faster than any other state in the country) and a $3 billion cancer center—WHICH VOTERS APPROVED. That is on the taxpayers since they approved it!!
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:47pm“….and to top it off, Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade”
Which he later signed an executive order to reverse that decision!!!!!!
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:48pmBy the way… voters also approved Texas DOT’s autority to borrow that money for highway improvements.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:51pm“He turned roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads.”
Geez, here’s a crazy thought!! To help pay back the debt to build the roads in the first place???
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:56pmSo tired of the half truths from the uninformed!!
Report Post »claymoremacm
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:56pmPerry/Bachmann 2012 any bets?
Report Post »BCBORNCRAZY
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:57pmyeah sure adnd I’ll take all of your money
Report Post »notavictim
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:08pmMe too. I want both!
Report Post »FToth84
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:10pmI’m all for it!
Report Post »LICENSEDTOCARRY
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:03pmDream team. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out Bo-Bo.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:56pmWe’re all anxious but we need more research, better listening skills, less conjecture and fewer opinions. Let’s just enjoy the show for awhile. ALL the freaking marbles are on the table this time.
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:50pmAt this point in time, I like the idea of a Perry-Bachmann ticket.
Report Post »TerryCSA
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:58pmNow that’s something I could entertain. That’s what I call a good compromise.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:13pmhow about perry rubio
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:53pmAfter I posted the above , I got to thinking 8 years of Perry-Bachmann, then Bachmann-West for another 8 years. That’s 16 years to straighten this country around. Because it took a long time to get here, so it‘s going to take awhile to right this ship because we still have so many RINO’s and liberal donkeycrats to weed out of Congress.
Report Post »TerryCSA
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:49pmI have noticed Chris Wallace and other pundits have been trying to disparage Rick Perry for not being a part of the Iowa bruhaha and announcing his bid in South Carolina. This kind of stuff really ticks me off.
Rick Perry tried to get a spot in the Ames event and they wouldn’t give him one. He even asked for a spot out in the parking lot and they said no. So it isn’t that he thumbed his nose at them. They locked him out for whatever reason. So he went on to SC and announced there.
I wish for once that the pundits would tell the truth about something, anything.
Congrats to Bachmann for the win. She has worked hard for the American people.
I’m still withholding my thoughts on Perry as I check out some of the things that have come up recently about things he has said and done in the past. It will all depend on his overall record.
Of course everything is a mute point if Sarah Palin throws her hat in the ring. She knows how to “fight like a girl” and IMO has the best interest of the ppl of this country at heart.
Report Post »joey g
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:01pmChris Wallace is a worm..lib for sure…can’t stand the flake…
Report Post »Comeandtakeit
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:48pmLet’s face it, the Republicans have an embarrassment of riches running, or likely- all good people. The Democrats just have an embarrassment.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:18pmAbsolutely true.
Report Post »trooper
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:48pmThe Dems are soiling thier undergarments now, they will no doubt be directing epic smear tactics at these canditates, mostly filled with lies and mis-information on thier background.
Report Post »All you dems out there should get you resumes in order and don’t make any long term investments because your going to be out of a jod in abit over a year from now and obama should go into hiding his skinny a$$.
DeannaRae
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:46pmThe last Texas Governor that sat in the White House was a disaster in so many ways. He was sold to us as a conservative (after all, he’s from Texas!!). Rick Perry has much to prove.
Report Post »trooper
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:42pmThey make a nice couple, yup, that’s the ticket to winning back our nation and the White House.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:50pmI agree
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:41pmRon Paul for President. Perry was dealt a good hand being Texas. Bachmann sticks to her ground. As for getting things done it would be Santorum. The previous article-Allen West should be a military adviser not a congressman. Yes, Military needs to be cut also like other things. That is why I choose someone who will Cut Government. RON PAUL!!!
Report Post »bcherry25
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:19pmhahaha.. all you Ron Paul zealots live in a fantasy world that will never exist. West is 100% correct! Paul would be just as dangerous in the WH as Obama is. Ignoring problems, like a 2 year old would do, doesn’t make them go away.
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:08pmDoing the same thing over expecting different results. Open your eyes!! The only thing West knows is military and that’s it. Get a real job Allen West and then you can talk.
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:11pmCherry you sound like a 25 year old you knows everything..LOL
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:37pmIf either of these two emerge as the front runner, he or she will be easily and viscously destroyed by the $1billion Obama machine.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:47pmHave you seen the reaction the people have everytime the “machine” opens its mouth to attack us? It always seems to add to our numbers and strengthen our resolve. They aren’t attacking a candidate or a conservative principle. They are attacking the majority of the American people. And the people are able to see it for what it is.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:52pmWhy doesn’t he use some of his Billion Dollars to create a business,??. His lazer like focus on JOBS, JOBS,, JOBS, has jobbed the USA. Oh yeah, he knows NOTHING about business.
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:54pmIf the American people take his lies as the truth then they are the fault and will reap the consequences.
Report Post »TerryCSA
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:56pmObamas personal approval ratings are below 50% in ultra liberal New York. That speaks volumes. And if can down to just money then Huntsman, being a billionaire, would be the winner and no need having an election by your thinking. so I hope Obama has picked a country to retire in because he WILL be a ONE TERM POS ,,, er, I mean POTUS.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:59pmCAPTAIN, Sadly, you wildly overestimate how many of “us” there are.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:11pmI like Palin very much. I am also smart and blunt enough to know that she’s ALREADY been effectively destroyed. If she runs, it will only get bloodier and more embarrassing. Sometimes reality bites.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:36pmThe only way Obama wins is with voter fraud.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:35pmNo comment…yet. I like Bachman better, but will just have to wait a while and see what transpires.
Report Post »It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. Sorry Moooochelle.:)
TheCenturion
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:33pmThese are two who will battle it out, until Palin enters the race.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:36pmIf that happens it’s all over.
Report Post »Run Sarah run.
MODEL82A1
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:42pmYeah, it’ll be all over alright. And we get a second Obama term.
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:44pmYeah it is over if Palin enters. Obama wins!!!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:46pmI think you overestimate her ability to gather support now that others are in the race. What does she bring that others do not? Michelle has taken her Tea Party woman place and Perry can steal her Conservative Governor title. Only if both Bachmann and Perry remain unable to top Romney do I see her entering.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:58pm@Model82A1
“Yeah, it’ll be all over alright. And we get a second Obama term.”
Obviously you don’t like Palin, but I wouldn’t underestimate her.
Report Post »Lets hope your conclusion is wrong.