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‘On Fumes’ & ‘Sputtering’: Is Bachmann Working Harder Than Ever to Rally Evangelicals?

Michele Bachmann Campaign Tries to Rally Evangelical Christians

ST. PAUL, Minn. (The Blaze/AP) — Is GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s campaign heading toward an iceberg (some would argue it’s already collided with one)? Bachmann, who surged into the Republican presidential race by preaching tea party fiscal conservatism, is now faced with a campaign that some say is on life support.

As she struggles to remain relevant, the Minnesota congresswoman is trying to rally the evangelical voters who have powered most of her political career. ”Don’t settle,” has become Bachmann‘s pitch as she tells Christian conservatives they shouldn’t accept a Republican nominee who isn’t fully dedicated to their priorities.

It’s likely to be her message when she speaks Friday night to activists gathered at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, a who’s who of social conservatives who lead the constituencies Bachmann needs to court. She won’t have the stage alone; the other Republican presidential candidates conservatives favor are scheduled to speak earlier in the day.

Bachmann reached the high point of her campaign seven weeks ago when she won a test vote of Iowa Republicans. But as Texas Gov. Rick Perry entered the race, Bachmann dropped in polls, replaced her top campaign staff and struggled to raise money. And even as Republicans have grown wary of Perry, polls show that it‘s businessman Herman Cain who’s rising from Perry’s slide – not Bachmann.

So, as she looks for a political lifeline, Bachmann has retooled her message to focus intensely on energizing conservative Christian voters, who traditionally have a heavy influence in the early voting states of Iowa and South Carolina. Bachmann’s campaign still views tea party support as integral to her success, and she still talks about fiscal issues, but she’s also returned to speaking in more overtly religious terms.

“It was really pretty intimate and quite personal,” said the Rev. George Grant, the chancellor at New College Franklin, a Christian college in Franklin, Tenn., after hearing Bachmann speak to about 200 evangelical pastors and faith leaders gathered near Nashville.

Grant said he arrived at the speech uncommitted to a candidate but left much likelier to support Bachmann. “She was speaking to a lot of like-minded folks and she was using their language,” he said.

On Thursday, Bachmann’s congressional office announced she would sponsor a bill in Congress that seemed aimed directly at evangelical voters. The “Heartbeat Informed Consent Act” would require doctors who perform abortions to show the mother an ultrasound image of the baby’s heartbeat before performing the procedure.

Bachmann’s campaign is looking for “pastor chairmen” in all 99 Iowa counties, each charged with building support not just among churchgoers but with other ministers and church lay leaders. Similar organizing is under way in South Carolina and Florida.

“I think we‘re building toward having a more comprehensive evangelical outreach in Iowa than anyone’s ever had before, with the possible exception of when Pat Robertson ran,” said Bob Heckman, a Bachmann consultant and GOP presidential campaign veteran.

Heckman said fiscal conservatives remain important to Bachmann’s campaign, which is also looking for 99 tea-party chairmen in Iowa. Still, there is no question that Bachmann is particularly well-suited to refocus her efforts on reaching Christian conservatives: She distinguished herself in Minnesota as a politician who didn’t merely align herself with the religious right, but rather rose from the heart of the movement.

“Don’t settle when it comes to your relationship with Jesus Christ,” Bachmann recently told an audience at Liberty University, the Virginia Christian college founded by televangelist Jerry Falwell. “He is the lord of the universe, the master, the creator, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.” Here’s her Liberty address:

Bachmann repeated that theme- “don’t settle” – and urged evangelicals not to choose a nominee who has strayed from their principles. It‘s a shift from Bachmann’s earlier emphasis on spending restraint and the federal government’s overreach. Below, see a montage of her “don’t settle” rhetoric:

It‘s also the message at the core of Bachmann’s political history. As a law student at Oral Roberts University in the 1980s she was taught that Christian morality is the basis of U.S. law. Bachmann proceeded from that point as an activist and politician – as a protester outside abortion clinics; as a school board candidate who blasted state education standards for downplaying the religious convictions of America’s founding fathers; and as a state senator who helped organize and lead a “pastor’s summit” at a suburban megachurch to build support for a constitutional ban of gay marriage.

By the time Bachmann first ran for Congress in 2006, she was comfortable enough with congregations to take to the pulpit at a suburban megachurch near Minneapolis and proclaim herself a “fool for Christ,” while winning the endorsement of its pastor.

Bachmann‘s strategy isn’t without risk – previous candidates boosted by Iowa’s evangelical voters have failed to capitalize on that success once the campaign left the state. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, won the Iowa caucuses in 2008 but could never draw even with eventual GOP nominee John McCain. Pat Robertson – a spiritual father of today’s Christian conservatives – finished an unexpectedly strong second in 1988 but failed to match that success elsewhere.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:27pm

    Speaking of prayer and politics…we need it bc if we don’t observe our own, it will be taken away by theirs…this is ridiculous when we get fired for wearing Christian emblems at jobs.
    http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/07/8206772-muslim-drivers-suspended-over-praying-time?GT1=43001
    Bachman is a terrific person, but I haven’t given up on Perry quite yet, bc I also think he is a great guy and would make a great president. Cain has taken center stage bc people are afraid he is the only one that can beat Obama, but I believe Obama is going to defeat himself, thank the Lord.

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    • jedi.kep
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:46pm

      Bachman was my first choice, but I can vote for Cain just as easily. Perry, there is no way I would vote for him because of his stance on immigration. He won’t defend the borders. I can’t trust him. PLUS Perry comes across completely fake and plastic. WE DON’T NEED MORE POLITICIANS. We need real people in office.

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:17pm

      “Working Harder Than Ever to Rally Evangelicals”
      Evangelicals “may” carry her through a few straw polls if she buses in supporters but it sure as hell wont defeat Obama. She makes as many gaffs as obama however she wont get a free pass on them. She’s toast.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:31pm

      I love Michelle, but her major power base was the Tea Party, and now we have another candidate in Cain that we could easily support. His rising will suck the oxygen out of her campaign. I‘m sure she’ll stick it out until Iowa but I expect her to bow out after that.

      Iowa will be fascinating. Romney has basically written it off. Perry is in danger of losing any edge he might have had. Cain is surging, and Santorum has a good ground game there. By the end of January we’ll be down to four candidates I fugure.

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    • revel222
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 7:00pm

      I think Bachmann will work harder to preserve the Constitution than Cain. I like Cain but Bachmann seems so sincere about returning our country to the vision of our founding fathers. I believe she has worked hard on this and she is our ally in Washington. I fear that Cain would be sincere during the election process but would be easily distracted once in office. We need someone who is willing to work hard everyday. Give the women a chance!!! They run the household effectively!! Let’s try the country next!!!

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    • Watchingtheweasels
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 7:13pm

      Between “the HPV vaccine making a child retarded” and “God sent the hurricane”, Bachmann has effectively ended her own campaign.

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    • Pappypatriot
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 8:15pm

      @ISLESFORDIAN,

      Mitt Romney has no where near written Iowa off! Are you kidding me? He is leading in Iowa by a fairly large margin. His wonderful wife Ann was just in Iowa and he will be there campaigning soon. Mitt Romney will be one of the best presidents ever and Ann will be right up there with Laura Bush as a very dignified first lady one the nation will really fall in love with.

      Michelle Obama is a total disgrace as is her Marxist American hating husband. Both of them are most pathetic.

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 10:22pm

      Guess who Michele Bachmann invited to her town hall meeting when all of the other “representatives” were getting their butts chewed.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJyYiH7g38s&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL08D312CE7BB48935#t=80
      Who has been on the financial channels talking economic policy more than all of the other candidates combined?

      Who has more military donations than all of the other candidates combined? Even more than ohmamma?

      Who warned us of the financial collapse that is now here, and only going to get worse unless you elect him.
      Others laughed at him and said that “the fundamentals of the economy were sound” back in 2007.

      He is a champion, where most of the others are chameleons. That is why he is a threat. He has integrity, and “is who he says he is” as Bachmann says.

      He is the most principled man in congress. Sometimes being the LONE NO VOTE, in an area was that unconstitutional.
      I pray that Michele Bachmann supporters see the light, and support the man she obviously supports.

      He is truly the Thomas Jefferson of our time.
      http://www.awesomestories.com/biographies/thomas-jefferson/story-preface

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 11:50pm

      She could take advantage of this…

      JOIN US IN DC ON 11-11-11

      This is a NATIONWIDE Call-to-Action!
      We CALL upon every member of federal, state and local government, legislative, judicial, law enforcement and military, who have taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitutional Republic from all enemies, foreign and domestic, to act upon those oaths for the stated purpose of restoring the Constitutional Republic.

      We CALL upon ALL veterans and veteran organizations in America, who still believe in their oath to protect and defend, to unite with us at once – in this Declaration to Restore the Constitutional Republic.

      We CALL for ALL citizens who still desire freedom and liberty, to stand with us in peaceful protest, and carry our demands to right the wrongs against our nation in the preservation of freedom, liberty, justice and the rule of law.

      Help us save our Nation. Start here… http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topics/just-this-minute-launched-a-declaration-to-restore-the-constituti

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:09am

      I was for Bachmann a few months ago. Before that, I was for Santorum. Now I am for Herman Cain. All three of them are good, genuine people. The more I learn about Perry, the less I like.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 5:31am

      On ABORTION: IT’S not a RIGHT – IT’S a BABY. That’s it. WE don’t have the right to kill the next generation. WE were created. Life comes from GOD. What we need to do is STOP PAYING WELFARE for BABIES who become nothing more than “chips” for unwed mothers, and we absolutely need to stop funding PLANNED PARENTHOOD which is nothing more than a SCAM as proven. THEY don‘t deal in women’s health…it’s an abortion mill, that’s it. AND BACHMANN has been in CONGRESS and WHERE WAS THE FIGHT TO UNFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD?? NO one who has been in CONGRESS can complain about anything that’s gone on there if they are ANY TYPE OF LEADER. WE have a few real leaders in the 2010 Batch: RUBIO/WEST for example. BUT where were the rest of them? GOING ALONG TO GET ALONG? THAT’S not what they were elected for. That’s another reason I like the BUSINESSMAN CAIN NOW.

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    • robert
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:34am

      Here’s an excellent person with the right ideas, but she’s too good looking and nice to garner enough votes to be nominated….and certainly not elected.

      I’ve never in my life seen a 55 year old woman who was as pretty and youthful as she is right now.

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  • bruce_baker
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:26pm

    The country is in terrible shape. It’s very easy to put all the blame on Democrats because their goals are precisely what has gotten us to this point. What too many of us forget is that so called “conservatives” were one step behind them, every step of the way. George Bush was as bad as any Democrat before President Obama. Obama is so over-the-top socialist that he almost makes George Bush look good. Almost, to anyone who does not know the Constitution and the Federal government’s proper role.

    When Ron Paul was asked, “Which Federal agencies would you abolish because they’re unconstitutional?”, he replied, “That list is too long. Couldn‘t I just tell you which ones I’d keep?”

    You could justify the State and Defense departments under the Constitution. All the others, Education, Labor, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, the EPA, etc., etc., etc. need to go.

    All the other candidates don’t see the problem, and thus, can’t possibly solve it. If we elect another RINO, the problems won’t get worse as fast as they are now, but they won’t really get any better. The public would think that conservatisim doesn’t work, when we wouldn’t have really given it a chance. In that case, they’d be tempted to give the Liberals another chance. I’d rather that Obama won a second term so the country would be shown without a doubt how the socialism would ruin the country. It’s just that I fear he could do so much damage that we might not recover.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:52pm

      @Islesfordian// Why would that even matter to an Obama voter ?

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 9:23pm

      Impossible to know to whom or to what you are refering, Demintdisciple.

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    • realindependent
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 7:33am

      yeah lets get rid of the EPA, so we can eat tainted meats and crap shipped from 3rd world countries without being inspected. Real smart!! Lets get rid of the Dept of education and leave it to the states, so the can privatize them, corporations running schools works so well right now. or lets home school everyone so they can believe that dinosaurs and people lived together. that will give us a leg up on Japan ,china and India’s growing educated populations. Come on Ron paul is a joke. pure unregulated or self regulation is what got us in this problem.

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  • donh2
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:22pm

    The only reason Michelle entered this race was to be a stumbling block for Sarah Palin. The boys in DC put her up to this. Sarah could never poll over 15% with Bachmann sponging off 5-7% out of the anti Rino pool of votes. Now that Palin has dropped dead Michelle will leave the race very soon.

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    • 4freedomssake
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 12:33am

      That is absurd! Sarah Palin did not get in because most primary voters did NOT want her to run. She has hurt Bachmann the most because of her indecision and teasing the media.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 5:09am

      Actually what you say makes sense. Bachmann came out west in 2009 and met with TEA PARTY groups and it was clear to most of us that she was more about BACHMANN than about USA. I never liked the words “FOSTER” (referring to any kids) and then I heard that some of them were only with her for 3 days. I mean…really. Then I heard about how her husband was sort of a thug with reporters (never heard that about TODD) and she hung out in her Motor Home instead of hanging with the people in Iowa…just too many things. My main one was that she’s been in Congress for several terms and unlike ALLEN WEST who just got there….I couldn’t find ANY legislation that she has passed or any hell she has raised UNTIL this TEAPARTY and ELECTION. I really think she thought she could commandeer this grass roots effort AKA TEA PARTY for herself…anyway… It didn’t ring true…so she should get out of the race and leave $ for candidates who can win.
      CAIN’S speech today at VALUE VOTERS was a BARN BURNER…I’d just watched his interview with the self-described Socialist Lawrence O’Donnell (only I thought he said COMMUNIST) and CAIN flattened O’Donnell..like an adult. That’s what I want…a tough Adult. SARAH could have won it all…just like she did in ALASKA..but I think she’s been at it for 3 years and she is young still. I hope that CAIN wins and puts her in his cabinet as Energy Secretary since she still the ONLY one who took on EXXON and won for her State!

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    • JazzGuy
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 5:49am

      Hey, Mr Know-it-all : Glad your crystal ball works, and so much BETTER than everyone else’s….NOT!

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 6:40am

      If I knew a baby who needed care for only a few days, I would much rather see it placed in a secure, good home than to be left with the government or undesirable, irresponsible, dangerous people. I’m not sure why Bachmann should be criticized for opening her home as a temporary shelter for children with nowhere to turn. I’ve known several foster parents who sheltered children only temporarily and I think they should be thanked and saluted – not criticized.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:20pm

    “On Thursday, Bachmann’s congressional office announced she would sponsor a bill in Congress that seemed aimed directly at evangelical voters. The “Heartbeat Informed Consent Act” would require doctors who perform abortions to show the mother an ultrasound image of the baby’s heartbeat before performing the procedure”
    Why not just show them a picture of a water pump?
    A picture of the brain would should a far more interesting and relevant organic mechanism to examine–it certainly has far more to do with the generation of emotions, ability to feel pain and pleasure, and the capacity to cross examine stimuli and make valid inferences based upon there observations–in other words, to reason. The heart just pumps blood throughout the body, certainly just as necessary for the set of behavioral characteristics we would identify as “life” as a brain but not as directly causal as the latter.

    Of course, at the same temporal point where they would be showing these hypothetical abortionees pictures of their fetus’ heart, there really wouldn’t be an identifiable “brain” (although, of course, since we know what to expect in normal humans, assuming the fetus grows normally we can predict where it’s brain WILL be once limbs are distinguished, even if the brain isn’t very defined by that point)…

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  • CCRYDER
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:16pm

    I think the reason she supports an ultra sound for women (many very young and ill-informed) prior to abortion is to help them realize they are not just aborting a “bunch of cells” but a real child. There have been 10s of millions of abortions since it was made legal and has become a form of birth control which was never the intent in the first place. The fact that life begins at the instant sperm meets egg is something not explained especially by Planned Parenthood. They’re all to happy to persuade to abort and not inform as to what is being aborted. If you don’t know and are interested, check out what happens when that sperm meets egg here: http://www.pregnancy.org/fetaldevelopment

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:33pm

      “The fact that life begins at the instant sperm meets egg.”
      Depends upon what your definition of “life” is–
      1) Collections of molecules forming self-replicating carbon based organisms.
      2) Consciousness–the ability to perceive the surrounding world and respond to it in a non-deterministic (pre-determined i.e. mechanical) manner.
      3) Self-awareness–possessing a complete awareness of the active process of consciousness and cognition, capable of abstract thinking, imagination, the ability to detect patterns (categories of similarity and difference), and use reasoning to make inferences about causal relationships between objects and events, and, most importantly, the capacity for moral reasoning.

      “Life,” obviously, self-evidently, exists, as humans understand it, in a wide scope of complexity and sanctity. Some life is completely immaterial to human interest–we don’t ascribe any rights to bacteria and destroy them when convenient or beneficial to the human race (duh). Whilst others, complex rational life like our own species, we value (or similarly more intelligent species, such as primates and many breeds of domesticated pets, are ascribed a higher status and different elevated expectations of treatment relative to other animals) the highest because of its rarity and capacity to adapt it’s environment to suit its own needs and desires.

      To simply state something categorical about something as ambiguous and subjective as “life” is erroneous.

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 7:21pm

      It seems some people posting here are pro-abortion. Pro-abortion people, please don’t get so caught up in “rights” that you miss the overwhelming negative consequences of abortion and what it does to men and women who are involved in it. The mainstream media does not cover this topic because the abortion industry makes millions for the clinic owners and doctors. Here are some things you need to know: Women who have had abortions suffer with lifetime depression. Also, many suffer from infertility later. There is a link between having abortions and developing breast cancer. A great many women who abort live to grieve later and regret their decision. Many guys trick girls into getting abortions with promises of future marriage and when the abortion procedure begins, the guys abandon the pregnant girl at the clinic. Many clinics are dirty hell holes. Please investigate the horrors of this practice yourself. It is inhuman and grotesque.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:04am

      It is established in both philosophy and in the law: an action is only a “choice” to the extent of the information available to the actor. If someone is really “pro choice” then they must also be in favor of full information.

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  • ltb
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:12pm

    Sorry Michele, you lost me when you started attacking Governor Perry. Still like you, just don’t want you to be my President.

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:39pm

      Perry is running for President. Because of this, he needs to answer for his immigration policies and his sexual vaccine policies. The vaccine he forced on little girls is proving to be very dangerous. Patients have fainted after receiving it. Please research the dangers of the vaccine. Why shouldn’t Perry have to discuss this? This is America – not an experimental lab from Nazi Germany.

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    • ltb
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 12:13am

      Melanie, let’s reserve the Nazi comparisons for people like Obama. Of course Perry’s weak stand on immigration and his poor judgment about the HPV vaccination need to be examined, but we already have MSNBC, NBC, CNN, ABC and CBS savaging the Governor about these things, we really don’t need fellow Conservatives piling on. I like Michele, I just don’t want her to be President after violating Reagan’s 11th Commandment in front of the entire country.

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 6:03am

      Any politician who favors immigration policies which are against US law and which burden taxpayers with unfair costs is by definition NOT a Conservative. If the US doesn’t elect a true Conservative, our country is lost. Concerning Gardasil – the NY Times did an article questioning it’s safety in 2008. Yet, this investigation didn’t seem to go anywhere. Since many Americans don’t follow politics closely, and mostly judge candidates by commercials and debates, I stand by my claim it was Bachmann who exposed Gardasil. Please read Shelly Ross on Gardasil and http://www.looktruenorth.com/limited-government/17688-the-real-reasons-michele-bachmann-is-being-pilloried-about-gardasil.html

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 6:35am

      Reagan’s 11th Commandment was “Thou shall not speak ill of any fellow Republican”. According to what I’ve read, Reagan used this approach in 1976 in the first 5 primaries against Ford. After losing all of those, he took the gloves off in NC and began winning. Reagan wasn’t just a RINO Republican he was a Conservative.

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  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:06pm

    I am not afraid of her. I respect her message. I just don’t think her message reasonates in her public speaking. No matter how you cut it, the POTUS is the spokesperson for the US. She just feels not ready yet to me. I would not mind her as VP.

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    • quicker
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:24pm

      Besides we don`t need a nother lawyer in the W hite House.That is part of the problem with the goverment.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:55pm

    I like her. I think she‘s qualified and very smart but I’m one of those people who has been won over by Herman Cain’s business smarts and overall courage in facing down the onslaught of liberal slander. He’s the guy…… Cain 2012.

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    • JazzGuy
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 6:12am

      I couldn’t agree more. Cain, as a NON politician, presents all us voters with a chance to get someone who has not yet become polluted with Washington’s filthy ways…AND, as a bonus, to also provide another African-American for the libs to accuse us of being racist. I for one, can’t wait to see how THAT goes, although the moronic and brain-dead Bill Maher thinks he has already touched upon. With over 200 years of “status-quo” politicians, Democrat and Republican both, having made a mess of running our once-Constitutionally minded country, it’s indeed time to take a different tack, ads this is our opportunity.

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  • whywonder
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:47pm

    It takes a bachman to get rid of a palin. It takes an obama to get rid of the rest

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  • Spqr1
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:43pm

    Looks like the few remaining rational conservatives are figuring out she’s a dangerous nutcase.

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:51pm

      Nancy Pelosi has publicly cheered on the Wall Street protesters who are living in filth, can’t clearly articulate why they are protesting and costing New York taxpayers a fortune of money.

      I doubt there are any Conservative women who can approach this level of confused thinking.

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  • whywonder
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:41pm

    I’ll give Cain a week before the blazers are done with him. Bend over and accept Romney, its just a matter of time and all of you know it. Why doesn’t Glenn run for office? All americans agree with him right?

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    • TheMediaWolf
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:13pm

      I like Glenn, but you would be surprised how many people don’t like him… I know I was.

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    • veruca salt
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 9:11pm

      Glenn is too much on the fringe, much like Michele, to have a broad enough appeal to even have a chance. Plus, it’s always easier to complain and whine about the state of the union, which is how Glenn makes his living, than actually try to get involved and make changes.

      Glenn makes money by polarizing people and it’s been working out pretty well for him.

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  • Winedude
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:39pm

    Plain & simple, this woman is scary. The hypocrisy of not wanting any government involvement and then wanting a law that doctors have to do a ultrasound and show it to someone wanting an abortion is the grossest type of government intervention and has no place in anyone’s life. I guess it’s some religious nonsense that propels her…

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:43pm

      If someone decided they wanted to kill you, wouldn’t you want the government to intervene and try to save your life?

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:44pm

      I just don’t know why people always think they have to actively do the bidding of God? I mean come on really? God instructs men not to build Graven Images of anything in the earth or Heaven. So what does God do? He sends Atheists to tear them down.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:47pm

      And people pursue Liberty at their own personal level and the Harlot, which is “Playing God.” But yet all things are taken care of by God.

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  • Melanie Hamilton
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:39pm

    It seems to me Bachmann’s popularity went down when she had the great courage to go after Perry in the debate. She is the one responsible for taking Perry out. He was the promising RINO candidate. For the next few days after that event, the big Republican talk radio hosts were all ordered to talk against her. And, the people who don’t follow politics enough to recognize she was being punished for her truthfulness, fell for the attack against her. It’s very sad. I will be suspicious of anyone the RINO’s endorse. There is so much dirt on all of them. They don’t get grilled, besmirched and picked on to any extent like the Conservative women. This is what tells you – if there is any hope for our country to survive – we need a Conservative woman president with a great big broom. Bachmann/Palin or Bachmann/Pence

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:59pm

      For the next few days after that event, the big Republican talk radio hosts were all ordered to talk against her. And you know this how ? Take that tin foil hat off it’s blinding me..

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 7:46pm

      One of the biggest parts of the Rush Limbaugh show is how he illustrates liberal talking points by playing the clips of the liberal news shows and revealing how each show was using almost the same exact words to report the same story they were all pushing. If you are a regular listener to Conservative shows, you can hear they do the same thing. You can buy subscriptions to the sites and look up what each host said if they have archives. Also, aren’t you suspicious about how all of the sudden one of them starts really pushing for a candidate, like Perry, for example? A candidate with a record on immigration like Perry has? Why is a so-called Conservative host pushing a RINO? A person would do this because they are required to because of their contract. Why does Fox News report so many stories which have a liberal bias or slant? Why did Glenn Beck leave Fox News and make an independent site? He did it because he was tired of being forced to say things he didn’t believe.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 9:32pm

      Michelle isn’t responsible for taking Perry out. Perry is responsible for taking himself out. If he hadn‘t acted like he wasn’t ready for prime time last debate he might have weathered Conservative disatisfaction over a coupe of issues. We wanted someone other than Romney the Stepford Republican. We thought it was Perry. We were wrong. Our money’s on Cain now.

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  • 828mom2010
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:37pm

    I do support Bachmann but her technic of relating her messages and plans are so weak… Especially when she is on camera… She has great values and beliefs but she is losing the connection with Tea Party members, such as me and my husband… Just like Mr. Robert Kiyosaki says, “to know the truth, know the tax law!” Bachmann will be great leader to take us to the truth. I wish she regains her confidence and forget her advisers and tell us like it is!! But for the meantime, Mr.Cain is leading with his candid speech and answers. It may be the great time to send nonpolitician to the white house!!

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  • Godfather.1
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:35pm

    Is anyone surprised her campaign has sunk like a rock? All she does is spout off cheap talking points that always come back to bite her. She’ll report what she heard from one person, thinking it will score her some points but because she has no idea what she is talking about, it always ends up hurting her.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:41pm

      Godfather1, I question just which side you are on due to the other posts you have made. You are obviously anti-tea party and anti-beck but that is your right. As you do not appear to be a blatant troll I will respond to you.

      I think in this case you are exactly right. It is almost artificial, like someone is telling her what to say and where her stance should be. She will spout off a talking point and it will come back as being inaccurate. This happens over and over. Not to mention the “intelligence” errors she makes.

      She is just not presidential material. As Momprayn says, she is just too intense or something. Something is not “right” with her and I do not want to dwell on that or question it. I just want to move along.

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:41pm

      Well, she told America at large about Perry and Gardasil.

      She deserves to forever be held in the highest esteem just for that alone.

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    • whywonder
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:06pm

      Trolltrain
      I let you in on a secret. You are going to vote for romney because thats how the tea party and the rep establishment are “training” you to vote. If the tea party was a true grass roots movement this would not be true.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:32pm

      whywonder,

      I will let YOU in on a secret, I will vote my conscience in the primary and then ABO in the general election. If that means Perry, Romney, or even Bachmann than so be it.

      That is simply the way our system works.

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    • whywonder
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:50pm

      Troll
      Does ABO mean always blame obama? Thats the way your mind works.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 9:21pm

      “blame” Obama? No, I cannot blame someone for being what they are. I was against Obama from the first moment I heard him make a speech. It has always been blatantly obvious to me what he is. I find it sad that we elected him into office just because of his good looks and smooth talk and probably just a little white guilt. But I think, as a nation, we have learned. I thank you libs for that at least. He is done, I just hope we can elect someone that will start bringing things back to where they need to be. The insanity has gone on too long.

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    • fatjack
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 9:26pm

      Do you wonderwhy I’m voting for Bachmann…………….because she’s my slugger if she never gets a hit.

      It’s coming!…………………..Are you ready?

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    • whywonder
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:06am

      Fatjack
      You ask am I ready?Son I was born ready. Are you ready for the end of bachmanns campaign?

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  • six6six
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:32pm

    She’s just another flavor of the month. She just happens to be last month.

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:17pm

      @666 We are just VETTING our candidates intelligently, unlike you commies did with the trader Barack Hussain Dumbo. Don’t get too concerned, regardless, of who we end up with we will trounce your commie President, who may or may not even be, a true American born citizen. I like both Cain and Bachmann, I’m just waiting for one to take a firm lead, then my check book will be opened for business.

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  • wewantchillywilly
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:28pm

    step of the tracks when the Cain Train is coming through.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:27pm

    Don’t know what to say exactly — she’s sort of an “enigma”. I loved her more at the beginning & was happy we had such a strong, “right on” Christian with all her enthusiasm, etc. But over a little time, she just worries me. She seems too “intense” to a fault or something. She’s different than Sarah Palin – I’d go for her more, but of course she isn’t running. Get the feeling she’d be better being in the authoritative position she has to effect change we need. We need to remember it’s not only the President we need to be concerned about. It’s Congress – the Senate we don’t have yet, the advisors, etc. So I’m comforted in knowing, whoever wins – can’t just do whatever they want – have to have Congress behind him too. So don’t neglect them when voting. Think Michelle isn’t going to be moving up in the polls….

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  • lukerw
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:16pm

    When on camera, she looks like a Deer caught in Headlights… and cannot seem to propose a strong platform. I supported her for Congress… but this is not her thing.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:15pm

    Do not be afraid to give Michelle B. a chance. She is honest and would always do what is best for America. How can anyone fear to give a true Christian American a chance when many gave a communist black punk a chance and he is destroying us as we speak.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:26pm

      The thing I have against her are her misquotes. It seems every time she opens her mouth she says something that makes her appear stupid. She is not, she is highly intelligent, but she just does not have the bearing the POTUS needs.

      If she, through some miracle, won the primary I would not hesitate to vote for her. At one time she was top of my list. But she is sunk and will not recover. Like Ron Paul, she has just said the wrong thing one too many times. She lost the public.

      Speaking of Ron Paul, I am waiting for the Ron Paul troop to pop up. I swear they are like a swarm of gnats…Not that they reflect on Ron Paul, but can you guys tone it down a notch or five? You are preaching to the choir here anyway, why not take it out to your college campuses or your local neighborhood bars?

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:37pm

      @thegreatcarnac

      What does it matter that he’s black?

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    • hauschild
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:46pm

      @TrollTrainer

      Misquotes are a deal-breaker for you? I think I’ve read it all now.

      We’ve got complete candy-ass candidates to choose from with the exception of Bachmann and possibly Cain, a Marxist regime posted in the White House and you’re worried about misquotes???

      In my best Charlie Brown voice………..”Ughhhh!!!”

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    • quicker
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:29pm

      I would back a Caine and Bachman presidental run.Have her serve 8yrs as vice then run as President.By that time she would have more exsp.

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  • Nlitend1
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:12pm

    I do not like this woman, she is oblivious. Maybe I just don’t trust lawyers and I know too many tax lawyers and too many evangelicals with political views that are completely opposed to the constitution. Herman Cain is a mathematician with a background in computer science…besides being an elite businessman. He doesn‘t know politics and isn’t a constitutional maven, but he can learn and he has integrity. That’s my 2 cents.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 7:07pm

      @Godfather.1
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:37pm @thegreatcarnac What does it matter that he’s black?

      Not sure, Why don’t you ask the 97% of Black Americans that voted for Obama ?

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:11pm

    Bachmann is not nuts. She is honest to a fault. I would vote for her because she is a true conservative and never wavers.

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  • Johnny916
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:09pm

    What do conservative voters on the Blaze think about voting for Bachmann? I believe there is Ron Paul and Herman Cain are becoming or are very popular with different conservatives.

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:06pm

    Michele, we love you. You are a good woman and a decent politician. Us evangelicals like your values and do not doubt your heart.

    But you are a bit nuts and you do not have a snowballs chance in hell…

    Please, save your money, just go away…

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  • hauschild
    Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:06pm

    Why is everyone afraid of this woman? Because she understands the problems and how to fix them, and we all know we can’t have that, now – or what?

    She’s a brilliant conservative from the Midwest – which is pretty remarkable in and of itself.

    Sadly, it appears she’s gonna be one of those candidates everybody knew would effect the change necessary, but people are too afraid to back her.

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    • Melanie Hamilton
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 8:18pm

      Bachmann is feared by the establishment for two major reasons. Number one – she is not part of their raising taxes to enslave the American people for the profit of politicians and big business. And, most importantly right now, she is a true Conservative meaning SOCIAL and fiscal conservative. The RINO’s keep saying – we don’t need or want Social conservatism now or ever. RINO’s claim fiscal conservatism is all we need. Right on the face of this – this is a lie. The biggest cause of poverty (where much tax money is spent) is unwed mothers, broken homes and the results of broken homes – increased crime, increased drugs, increased prison costs, increased police costs etc. etc. The more unwed mothers – the higher the taxes go. There is a direct link. So, if America does not make a pledge and effort to return to social conservatism and traditional values all this talk of fiscal responsibility is unrealistic and a scam. RINO‘s don’t want to turn back the clock on morality.

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