Slipping Bachmann seeks jolt for GOP campaign

[louis-t]

Source: AP

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign fell just as quickly as it rose. Now, she's looking to Iowa, at the expense of other early voting states, to get back on track.

"We know that when Michele is in Iowa, she wins," said Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman, Kent Sorenson. "If she's here, she'll win Iowa."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/slipping-bachmann-seeks-jolt-gop-campaign-073940990.html

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Maybe she can be the prezeeedent of Iowa. Sheeesh!

[rrneck]

1. If the corndog didn't do it... nt

[liberal N proud]

12. You would think

[rrneck]

17. Although on second thought even then

I could neither achieve nor sustain.

[wordpix]

21. OMG lol

:rofl:

[LongTomH]

2. She needs a jolt from the defibrillator paddles.............

............she's flatlining!:rofl:

[AndyTiedye]

3. Will This Do?

[Bucky]

5. You are never to post a picture labeled "adjustable thong" in a Bachmann thread ever again!

I don't care how water tight the tongue is

[customerserviceguy]

6. Ugh, yeah

That's an even grosser mental picture than the corn dog one...

[customerserviceguy]

4. Nope

She'll just pray away the flatline!

She's toast. She has absolutely nothing that the tea partiers can't already get from Rick Perry. Plus, he's got executive experience, and she's just a three-term congresscritter that was a nobody before January first of this year.

I'm sure a lot of fundies and baggers have been horrified by her history gaffes, her husband, and her migrane problem. Besides, unless it was Caribou Barbie, they really didn't want to vote for a woman, anyway. Perry is a natural place for them to jump to.

[jwirr]

7. She wins a silly poll that means absolutely nothing.

[julian09]

9. She played the "Iowa her home state card"

that is all she has and will play it again for primary. Iowa is really just first of right wing states on the dole, for subsidies. Winner there is less and less relevant to nomination every election that goes by.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

15. Iowa is right wing?

And here I thought Obama won Iowa by more than 9 percentage points. No wonder middle America feels so alienated by SOME in the left. I have been a Democrat my whole life and have lived in the midwest my whole life but I'm still nothing more than a small town conservative yokel. Get over your snobbery, its not helping anyone and it certainly isn't helping the progressive movement.

[Liberal Veteran]

8. 10 cc of 2-4-5 Trioxin might work.

At least it did in "Return of the Living Dead"

[FarLeftFist]

10. So FUNNY how nobody in the MSM realizes she won Iowa because she's FROM Iowa.

Bachmann could carry about 3 states.

[truthisfreedom]

27. And the state she's presently "from" (and I mean that loosely) probably wouldn't be one of them.

I don't know a single person in Minnesota who doesn't think she's full-blown batshit crazy.

[SnowCritter]

11. Here in MN-6

we're hoping she does good enough to keep her from running for re-election to our seat in the House. Just stay viable, Michele, until it's too late to file for re-election.

[russspeakeasy]

13. She can be the president of Iowa, and Perry, Prez of Texas

on one condition...Those states must go without any federal aid until their presidents die.
:evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[PuffedMica]

14. Bachmann should invite Justin Timberlake for speech and have a wardrobe malfunction

That will send a jolt through the campaign.

[No Elephants]

23. Should Huntsman unzip his fly?

[pscot]

16. She had a nice little scam going

but her 15 minutes is about done.

[left on green only]

18. I Noticed Her Clown Costume Yesterday And I Wondered

Now that nobody wants her or her acid mouth to be president, is she now doing Barmitzvahs?:shrug:

[BlueIdaho]

19. It's over Michelle, pack it in.

Time to start working on that post public service plan.

[Douglas Carpenter]

20. IF Perry implodes for some reason - She may still have a chance at the GOP nomination

I don't know how likely it would be for Perry's campaign to disintegrate. I don't think his crazy opinions will do him in. But it is totally possible that one thing or another - perhaps some skeletons in his closet are revealed or some other unforeseen reason could cause his campaign to faultier. If that should happen, where will the true believers go? They don't like Mitt. They are absolutely convinced that anyone less than a certified right-wing kook would be unacceptable and would lose the general election anyway - since they really do think that McCain lost because he was too liberal. So the crazies will have to rally around someone. Palin is obviously out. Who else would from the nut majority that comprise the overwhelming majority of activist in today's Republican Party would even have the campaign structure to take over if for some reason Perry were to bomb out? They just don't have very many options that would be acceptable to the right-wing lunatic fringe who do after all comprise the vast majority of foot soldiers in today's Republican Party.

[No Elephants]

24. Meh. I think the establishment candidate will get the nomination.

S

[Douglas Carpenter]

26. I HATE to make this comparison because it involves a hero of mine - but I think of the situation

with the Democrats in 1972. At that time the grassroots activist core of the Democratic Party had unprecedented power and influence like they never have had before or since. The only thing that George McGovern and Michelle Bachmann have in common is that he also was the dream candidate of the highly energized grassroots activist core. This core that had come to play a major perhaps dominating role in the Democratic Party by time Nixon's first term in office was reaching the end of its third year. There was a strong feeling that Humphrey had lost in 1968 because he was not acceptable to the anti-war movement. A similar type of social dynamic seems to be at play in today's Republican Party. Their right-wing activist core has more influence and are more demanding and have the influence to be more demanding than anytime since the Barry Goldwater movement of 1964. When the Muskie campaign disintegrated in early 1968 this opened the door wide for the McGovern campaign. Like I said I don't this comparison because George McGovern is one of the most knowledgeable, principled and intelligent persons to ever run for President. Michelle Bachmann obviously is not. But in terms of social dynamics, I can envision the Bachmann campaign really taking off in a similar manner should the Perry campaign collapse.

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. The problem with running against governors

in GOP primaries is that Representatives and Senators aren't allowed to execute anybody.

[No Elephants]

25. Neither was Governor Romney.