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Is Michele Bachmann a Serious Contender for the 2012 Presidential Election?

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It was a tough week for Michele Bachmann! The Tea Party darling and Minnesota congresswoman gaffed up an appearance in important presidential-election-training ground New Hampshire - by confusing it with Massachusetts as the home of the Revolutionary War Battles of Lexington and Concord.

But no worries, says conservative columnist George Will! Because no one's going to take her seriously as a presidential candidate anyway.

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Will spoke on ABC's "This Week":

"She's not among the serious contenders. We know who settles presidential elections, they're independent voters. Independent voters are not inflamed, and not inflamed in the way that some of the marginal Republican candidates are."

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  • Bill 2011/03/14 15:12:59
    No
    Bill
    +14
    Bachmnan is joke and already shot herself in the foot when she attacked Vet benefits, SS, and medicare.

    She is anti-womens rights and a Xenophobe. The only people she appeals to is the far right extremists.

    The more she talks the more it helps the Dems so I hope she runs!

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  • Leinad 2011/04/28 15:30:51
    Yes
    Leinad
    And there is 57 states..and she had a serious gaff..a TOUGH WEEK ?..57 states, tea party are filled with racists..that is a tough week...in opinion..neither of those are true and said and promoted by that certain some one and their allies of lies..57 states should have gotten that certain person, mocked till the end of time, which is not very far away, just around the CORNER..
    enywho, his comment DISQUALIFIES HERE TO BEING INTELLIGENT CANDIDATE (57 STATES, Will)..that is a mole hill compared to that certain someone, that constantly lies and verbalizes his false and incorrect assumptions..on the state of this country..and she had a hard week....wow ..and GEORGE WILL IS a RINO and a blue blood arrogant republican..and ABC...? 57 states...hey george will 57 states...
  • Branden 2011/04/07 13:44:46
    No
    Branden
    Though she has raised an incredible amount of funding for her previous campaign, I do not find myself able to take her seriously
  • TaurusNYC 2011/04/06 13:13:33
    Yes
    TaurusNYC
    Of course -- don't all the other dizzy, airheaded, ultrareligious failed beauty-queens of this Country deserve a President who looks like them? She has more followers than George is willing to admit....
  • Whowho 2011/04/06 03:28:45
    Yes
    Whowho
    WHO ? This woman ? woman ugly woman
  • Jay 2011/04/06 01:47:55
    No
    Jay
    She's certifiably insane, a freeloader and documented liar. While that may endear her to the far right, mainstream America knows a crackpot when we see one.
  • Guru_T_Firefly 2011/04/05 19:14:36
    No
    Guru_T_Firefly
    Not to anyone with at least one working brain cell, she isn't.
  • Space Invader 2011/04/05 14:10:04
    No
    Space Invader
    No..love her to death, but no way..
  • DanielBruski 2011/04/04 08:44:59
    No
    DanielBruski
    A possible Palin-Bachmann ticket could be in the works, though.
  • Guru_T_... DanielB... 2011/04/05 19:15:26
    Guru_T_Firefly
    Thus guaranteeing another win for Obama.
  • vis_viva 2011/04/04 02:16:19
    No
    vis_viva
    Though compared to most of the rest of the Republican field she's not THAT much beyond reason.
  • Selketskiss 2011/04/03 09:09:13
    No
    Selketskiss
    I would not vote for her she was outed on John Stossel's "Freeloader" show last week rich people getting subsidies on the taxpayer dime. She has alot of nerve.
  • Meng 2011/04/03 09:01:57
    No
    Meng
    She is contender for #1 most batsh*t crazy person in the US--oh, sorry, I mean the Republican Primaries.

    Oh and btw, Republicans are generally quite easily inflamed--emotion trumping logic.
  • HillaryLover 2011/04/02 04:34:38
    No
    HillaryLover
    +1
    No, silly question. Sarah Palin and "The Rent Is Too Damn High" guy are not serious either.
  • John 2011/03/25 16:47:05 (edited)
    No
    John
    I've always liked George Will and have listened to him for the past 30 years, but Bachmann is out of the Twilight Zone and will attract and pander to the cult tea party followers who she needs to be re-elected in 2012. She hasn't done anything for her District. She's crazy, a fraud, and a deliberate liar. Palin and Bachmann couldn't be elected dog catchers, but they will spew their crap to the delight of the tea party. Embarrasments to common sense conservatives.
  • tikiteek 2011/03/20 14:56:53
    No
    tikiteek
    NO! And I can see us going to he!! for real then!
  • Seriously Folks 2011/03/18 19:27:19
    No
    Seriously Folks
    No, but I hope she does. This will give people some indication as to how far with craziness the Republican Party and Tea Party people have come to even put someone up like a Michelle Bachmann, and educated woman who sounds like an
  • Serious... Serious... 2011/03/18 19:31:07
    Seriously Folks
    Did not complete my first response.

    No, but I hope she does. This will give people some indication as to how far with craziness the Republican Party and Tea Party people have come to even put someone up like a Michelle Bachmann, an educated woman who sounds like an Air Head.

    Is this all the Republicans can produce? They use to be a party with some good ideas and Intelligent Reasonable folks. My bad, maybe those types of Republicans have taken to the Hills.
  • Harmonica79 2011/03/17 21:28:42
    No
    Harmonica79
    My left nut has a better chance of being elected President.
  • decrepi... Harmoni... 2011/03/20 02:24:47
    decrepittex
    +1
    And probably about the same IQ.
  • Tea in the Harbor 2011/03/17 20:22:02
    Yes
    Tea in the Harbor
    +1
    She's an idiot.
  • Willie 2011/03/16 03:44:43
    Yes
    Willie
    +5
    No worse than Palin. Or Huckabee. Or Romney. Or Gingrich.

    The Republicans keep saying how they're going to take back the White House in 2012, but so far, they've shown us no one but buffoons, hacks, has-beens and foot-in-mouth artists. Good luck with the bunch we've seen so far.
  • tea for... Willie 2011/03/17 14:01:03
    tea for you
    +2
    thats all they got the GOP , a bunch of has been misfits
  • patriot... Willie 2011/03/23 20:18:05
    patriot88000
    Look at the biggest foot in mouth buffoon we currently have. Almost everything he has ever said he has lied about at one time or another then takes a vacation because apparently lying just wears Obama out.
  • bjamnjm 2011/03/16 03:24:56
    Yes
    bjamnjm
    +1
    I like her as much as anyone running for the Republican ticket.

    The Republicans are going to have to develop a strong platform around her. They as a party are going to have to solidify support around her from now until mid Jan. 2013.

    She isn't the naive little farm girl Palin was, she's been in politics for a while, her record speaks well for her, if you like her, and she can throw w/BHO no problem. If the Republican Party isn't unified, starting w/its boss, BHO will get 4 more years in the white house and Lord only knows where that'll take us.

    Would one party or the other, for the love of God, make subsidizing roof-top solar panels to reduce energy consumption in coal plants, nuclear plants, water turbines in dams & for damn sure get rid of those horribly huge & obnoxious wind farms all across Iowa & Minnesota.

    They’re manufactured abroad, transportation cost must be enormous, assembling requires lots of skilled labors & maintenance will be expensive. I understand they are tied directly to the coal fire plant or whatever & after the 16 yrs it takes to pay them off they will reduce your electric bill.

    Roof top solar panels cut down need not at the source but at the point of use. They require expertise to build & materials some of which we may have to import but instal...&&

    I like her as much as anyone running for the Republican ticket.

    The Republicans are going to have to develop a strong platform around her. They as a party are going to have to solidify support around her from now until mid Jan. 2013.

    She isn't the naive little farm girl Palin was, she's been in politics for a while, her record speaks well for her, if you like her, and she can throw w/BHO no problem. If the Republican Party isn't unified, starting w/its boss, BHO will get 4 more years in the white house and Lord only knows where that'll take us.

    Would one party or the other, for the love of God, make subsidizing roof-top solar panels to reduce energy consumption in coal plants, nuclear plants, water turbines in dams & for damn sure get rid of those horribly huge & obnoxious wind farms all across Iowa & Minnesota.

    They’re manufactured abroad, transportation cost must be enormous, assembling requires lots of skilled labors & maintenance will be expensive. I understand they are tied directly to the coal fire plant or whatever & after the 16 yrs it takes to pay them off they will reduce your electric bill.

    Roof top solar panels cut down need not at the source but at the point of use. They require expertise to build & materials some of which we may have to import but installation is low tech any shlub, even I could install them & immediately begin to cut into the electric bill noticeably. As for gas, roof top solar panels can be used to heat water & w/some foresight could be used w/ambient heat.

    Roof-top Solar panels are out of the way, they’re not a monstrosity, they don’t require some full-time goons driving around to oil them either. Most importantly of all, they allow you to effect reduction of energy usage at your house as opposed to having it reduced for you at the plant.
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  • obamabe... bjamnjm 2011/03/16 17:39:00
    obamabeatsmccain
    +1
    41% of the people voting on this question say yes.
    a drowning man will grab at a passing straw.
  • bjamnjm obamabe... 2011/03/16 21:35:25 (edited)
    bjamnjm
    "Spite" I wouldn't expect more from one who no doubt bemoans his own existence to such a degree he lives vicariously through another man's victory in the Presidential election.

    41% That's just about been your man's average approval rating while in office. No doubt, a straw man will be along any minute to take the blame.
  • obamabe... bjamnjm 2011/03/16 21:50:01
    obamabeatsmccain
    +2
    oh please, spare me guessing about how i lead my life. bachman is a joke, as are all the other 'contenders' from the extreme right who couldn't carry the all important middle in an election. they're out there collecting donations from hard working people who don't know any better than to support the myopic right who have zero interest in helping any one in the middle class or any one who is poor even move up to that middle class standard. they would be just as happy standing in a canyon and listening to their own voice echo back at them.
  • bjamnjm obamabe... 2011/03/17 02:13:29
    bjamnjm
    “Yawn, like I’m going to try hard to give the impression I’m above you’re argument”.

    Easy killer, I write 41% as a mere guess on the part of this simple-minded extremist & the little lib’s claws come out! “Who wants a piece, who wants some, you?”

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/11...
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/14...

    That’s hilarious I just picked a number & not being a fellow-member of MENSA I guess I’ve just heard it on the news a lot lately. Bummer for the poster whose really above all this posting, Oh please…

    Who’s talking about how you lead your life I merely implied. Bachman (corrected spelling) isn’t a joke, regrettable though only one other member of the house made the leap to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. & he was assassinated. You’re a smart guy I’ll let you look it up.

    The only props I can give from your last post is that when you refer to Bachman (corrected spelling) as the “extreme right” once u[on a time it was referred to as the center of American politics.

    Harry Truman, ironically, I feel like he & his predecessor were two of the best President’s of our 20th & thus far into the 21st centuries. Anyway, Truman, would have no doubt been blasted as a right-wing simpleton who hadn’t the experience or ability to be President by you & yet he was a two-termer.

    Now where di...
    “Yawn, like I’m going to try hard to give the impression I’m above you’re argument”.

    Easy killer, I write 41% as a mere guess on the part of this simple-minded extremist & the little lib’s claws come out! “Who wants a piece, who wants some, you?”

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/11...
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/14...

    That’s hilarious I just picked a number & not being a fellow-member of MENSA I guess I’ve just heard it on the news a lot lately. Bummer for the poster whose really above all this posting, Oh please…

    Who’s talking about how you lead your life I merely implied. Bachman (corrected spelling) isn’t a joke, regrettable though only one other member of the house made the leap to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. & he was assassinated. You’re a smart guy I’ll let you look it up.

    The only props I can give from your last post is that when you refer to Bachman (corrected spelling) as the “extreme right” once u[on a time it was referred to as the center of American politics.

    Harry Truman, ironically, I feel like he & his predecessor were two of the best President’s of our 20th & thus far into the 21st centuries. Anyway, Truman, would have no doubt been blasted as a right-wing simpleton who hadn’t the experience or ability to be President by you & yet he was a two-termer.

    Now where did that President of ours go now?
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  • obamabe... bjamnjm 2011/03/17 13:03:53
    obamabeatsmccain
    no time for fools. i have a very busy life.
  • bjamnjm obamabe... 2011/03/18 00:26:09 (edited)
    bjamnjm
    Puberty...

    Thus would typify the idiocy of the rationale in your responses as well as your "very busy life".
  • obamabe... bjamnjm 2011/03/18 17:42:19
    obamabeatsmccain
    actually, the saturation point on right wing/ tea party sodaheads creationism of facts.
  • bjamnjm obamabe... 2011/03/18 18:10:55
    bjamnjm
    Yep, puberty.
  • obamabe... bjamnjm 2011/03/18 18:13:10
    obamabeatsmccain
    yawn.
  • bjamnjm obamabe... 2011/03/18 18:59:21
    bjamnjm
    Oh my and here I've been teasing you. Had I known puberty were so boring that you actually took time to type "yawn."

    Let's just say it makes me feel a whole new sort of pity than I'd known were possible.
  • obamabe... bjamnjm 2011/03/19 00:20:27
    obamabeatsmccain
    ENG 101-
    Oh my (Comma here) and here I've been teasing you. Had I known puberty were so boring ( You need to fix this second part of the sentence. It does not stay within the rules of the 5 types of writing) that you actually took time to type (comma here too) "yawn."

    Let's just say it makes me feel a whole new sort of pity than I'd known were (was) possible.

    YAWN
  • bjamnjm obamabe... 2011/03/19 06:15:06
    bjamnjm
    Ooh roar, flail those claws sister!

    As previously, best of luck w/puberty.
  • Serious... obamabe... 2011/03/18 19:37:55
    Seriously Folks
    You go, who ever you are. A voice of commonsense and reason. I often wonder how Repbublicans can convince so many working class people that they are in their best interest when they are all about protecting the Rich, Corporations, who have shipped their jobs overseas for profits and taken their retirements, and then want them to put all of their money in the hands of Wall Street to finally leave them with nothing but their mouths "Open" at the Horror of Wall Street Fat Cats, they very thing the TEA PARTY rails against.
  • tea for... bjamnjm 2011/03/17 14:03:41
    tea for you
    when Bachmann talks and acts like a idiot she's just clowning around . is that what your saying . she very good at acting the clown
  • bjamnjm tea for... 2011/03/18 00:55:58
    bjamnjm
    when (When) Bachmann talks and acts like a(an) idiot she's just clowning around(.) . is(Is) that what your(you're) saying .(?) she(She's)/(She is) very good at acting the clown(.)

    Look Magoo, I like you. People say you're dumb as a post but I like you. So don’t mess it up.
  • tea for... bjamnjm 2011/03/18 11:50:52
    tea for you
    the name is magill and i don't like idiots that don't use my name , BTW you can tell your goons I'm not writing a book , go hide some place
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