Bachmann predicts a GOP win in California in 2012

[Zorro]

Source: LA Times

GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann on Friday predicted California would side with Republicans in 2012, a distinct improbability given voting registration trends and recent history in the Golden State.

"I'm here to announce to you tonight, we will take our country back in 2012 and together we will make Barack Obama a one-term president," Bachmann told about 400 people at a dinner at the California Republican Party convention.

"President Obama's numbers are the lowest they have ever been and I'm just here to say they haven't hit rock bottom yet. I think Election Day in 2012 will probably be the lowest they are yet, that's why I know … that we have got a message and we have got a winning streak," she said. "I firmly believe 2012 will be a blowout election…. I believe 2012 will be a wave election that goes all the way across the United States, it will even take in the Golden State, I am so excited."

Bachmann's comments notwithstanding, a recent USC/Los Angeles Times poll showed Obama with expansive leads over the major Republican candidates, including Bachmann. The last Republican nominee to win the state in a general election was George H.W. Bush, who eked out a narrow victory over Democrat Michael Dukakis in 1988.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0917-gop-convention-20110917,0,2126969.story

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Another fine example of batshit craziness.

[RZM]

1. No way she believes this. If she does, she's loonier than I thought n/t

[Ohio Joe]

2. Crazy person speaks... Media reports it

WTF?

[MidwestTransplant]

3. She knows this because the woman who told her guardisil causes retardation told her.

[Lil Missy]

4. Sure. When monkeys fly outta my butt.

[awoke_in_2003]

25. careful with that one...

remember that W made it to office

[Mz Pip]

5. Teabag nuttery bypassed us

in 2010 and it will again in 2012.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. All the West Coast Tea Party Caucus members are from CA

Wally Herger (CA-2)
Tom McClintock (CA-4)
Gary Miller (CA-42)
Ed Royce (CA-40)
So it did not entirely pass CA by, the nuttery.

[Mz Pip]

13. McClintock has been around for ages

so has Wally Herger. Miller is in his 7th term. Ed Royce has been in Congress since 1993. They may be caususing with the Tea Party but they didn't ride in on the wave of newly elected Tea Party people. We didn't get any new ones.

[Bluenorthwest]

20. They are 'official Tea Party Caucus Members'

I am familiar with all of them. I am a California native. I live here in Oregon now, and fact is we have Republicans, but none who steep the tea, and that's not nothing, it took hard work to keep it that way. So I do have to stress the difference between none and 4. I will also note that 'they may be' is a tad edgy, the Tea Party Caucus has a website that lists the Reps who have officially singed on with them. Those 4 are part of the Tea core. So 'they may be but' that they are.

[alp227]

22. CA has voted for the D presidential candidate since 1992, but keep Nixon and Reagan in mind.

last time it voted R was in 1988 with Vice President George H.W. Bush, and CA voted Bush's boss Reagan (governor of CA, 1967-1974) in both 1980 and 1984. CA voted for Ford over Carter in 1976. And for Nixon, who represented part of Orange County in Congress, in both 1968 and 1972. However, in 1932, CA picked FDR over CA native Herbert Hoover.

[SpiralHawk]

6. But Cal has been immunized

They got the Batshit vaccine a while ago.

Guess the RepubliBaggers like Bachmann don't read email (those are them there word message thingys that get whiz-whanged through the Intertubes not by Jeebus, surprisingly enuf, but by succulent electro-proton wizardry or something like that).

[NICO9000]

7. I predict her husband will "cure" gays!

Leno is an asshole. He sure loves having these republkkkunts on, don't he?

[left on green only]

17. Yes! Misery loves company, doesn't it?

Remember when he had Arnie Schwartz on to announce his candidacy for the office of governor? Which one was the bigger asshat on that night?

[Unvanguard]

8. That's substantially more likely than her claim about the HPV vaccine.

:shrug:

[Zoigal]

10. Not if i have anything to do about it....z

[SoapBox]

11. Hey Crazy Shelly....You Are Going to be a NO-Term President!

...STFU Crazy Shelly. YOU are what is wrong with America today.

[truthisfreedom]

12. If Michelle Bachmann wins the rethug primary Obama might as well stop raising campaign cash.

Seriously. He won't need any money to beat her. She's the ultimate political laughingstock.

[Turbineguy]

14. She's crazed

and filled with shit.

[DFW]

15. She also believes Massachusetts cities are in New Hampshire

Bachmann believe several things that require, to put it mildly, a stretch.......

[HuckleB]

16. Slow News Day, Eh?

[left on green only]

18. She would have been the ideal person to be selling swim club memberships on the Titanic

[Bette Noir]

19. The only way a Republican wins CA is if they nominate

a moderate from CA. Seeing how the only moderate Republican left in the wild (Schwarzenegger) is ineligible for the Presidency, and suffered a recent scandal, good luck with that.

[rpannier]

21. Maybe she meant the republikkans were going to win

California, Kentucky or California, Pennsylvania

[No Elephants]

28. LOL

[jmowreader]

23. Michele Bachmann also believes she's going to be on the general ballot

It's not outside the realm of possibility for a Republican to win California. But to beat Obama in 2012, it would have to be a very moderate Republican, or someone who could play one on TV, from California. The batch of pukes who are running now probably couldn't win Orange County.

[Zorro]

24. CBS News tonight featured Bachmann's speech

in a piece about how Obama's support in California is eroding, and how the state may be in play in the 2012 election.

Since California elected no Republicans to major statewide office last year, I found the report a bit specious.

California's political landscape may evolve over the next 14 months, but I seriously doubt any Republican candidate has a chance to win those electoral votes.

[Hubert Flottz]

26. "Bachmann predicts"

She must have gotten a hot tip from this preacher of her's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AEN5BzwJGI

The great toothless one has spoken to Frau Bachmann...

[BeHereNow]

27. Okay, she is either smoking crack or knows something we don't.

Like the elections will be rigged? Diebold?
Voter suppression?

Sorry Michelle- California knows we are in the
situation we are because of the GOP.

Some of us DO remember Arhnold's meeting with Enron
in Santa Monica before he was conveniently installed
as our governor with the help of Issa's fake petitions
through out the state.

George Schultz, dear friend of GWHB and the BFEE was the first
member of the PTB to endorse his nomination.
Nuff said.

BHN

[No Elephants]

29. Never despair, but never be cocky, either. Just ask Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts.

(Whether or not he understands the question, he'll be happy to answer.)

[lunatica]

30. "have got", She can't even speak English correctly

"… that we have got a message and we have got a winning streak."

I have no idea why this woman appeals to anyone at all.