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Michele Bachmann’s Former Chief Of Staff Says She’s ‘Decidedly’ Unprepared For The Presidency

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In a blistering op-ed in The Des Moines Register, a former chief of staff to Michele Bachmann says his former boss is “decidedly” unprepared for the presidency, and he urges Iowa voters to join him in supporting Tim Pawlenty. “Having seen the two of them, up close and over a long period of time, it is clear to me that while Tim Pawlenty possesses the judgment, the demeanor, and the readiness to serve as president, Michele Bachmann decidedly does not,” writes Ron Carey, a former chairman of the Republican Party in Minnesota.

Carey writes of his time working for Bachmann, suggesting she was poorly equipped to do the work required in Congress, and would be unfit for the Oval Office:

The Bachmann campaign and congressional offices I inherited were wildly out of control. Stacks upon stacks of unopened contributions filled the campaign office while thousands of communications from citizens waited for an answer. If she is unable, or unwilling, to handle the basic duties of a campaign or congressional office, how could she possibly manage the magnitude of the presidency?

In praising Pawlenty, Carey is unrestrained in his comments about Bachmann:

I know Michele Bachmann very well. She is a faithful conservative with great oratory skills, but without any leadership experience or real results from her years in office. She is not prepared to assume the White House in 2013.

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  • Azarkhan

    Where was this guy in 2008, before the amatuer Obama was elected?

  • lonestar77

    Thanks, Ron. But, I’ll make that determination myself.

  • Rokker

    Michelle Bachmann = Sharon Angle = Crazy

  • kvon

    lonestar77 said:
    Thanks, Ron. But, I’ll make that determination myself.

    Let us not rely on people who actual know this person. We should not worry that she has been wrong about everything she’s ever spoken about. She hates Obama, she should be president.

  • CAconservative

    Unprepared to be president? Isn’t that what almost EVERYONE is saying about Obimbo? Of course, he’s actually proving he’s unprepared. I’m more than prepared to take my chances with Mrs.Backmann, or for that matter, almost the entire Conservative field would be a welcomed relief from the present idiot-in-chief.

  • CAINtheBULL

    Bachmann has the highest attrition rate of staff in Congress. It’s for a reason.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Geffory-Kremser/1244652779 Geffory Kremser

    it’s funny to me that just 3 years ago I became aware of Ron Paul and my impression of him was that he was some kind of nut…. Now just 3 short years later I can’t help but wonder if a good 4 year stint of libertarianism would not be just what the doctor would prescribe to reverse the effects just 2 years of progressivism.. Thank god for the elections of 2010 and please stay away from Romney in 2012.

  • lonestar77

    kvon said:
    Let us not rely on people who actual know this person. We should not worry that she has been wrong about everything she’s ever spoken about. She hates Obama, she should be president.

    You can rely on whomever you want. Me, I’ll rely on myself. The guy worked for her for five months and he likes Pawlenty better. Good for him. But, I really don’t care.

  • Fokker News

    But she has a deep faith in God and opposes abortion. That qualifies her.

  • seek

    Where do these idiots come from? What happened to personal integrity and proper decorum?

  • Dave Splash

    It doesn’t take five minutes to know Bachmann is not qualified or capable of being president. It takes five seconds.

  • Harry Flashman

    Come on, guys – we all know that a former employee can always be trusted to have a non-biased opinion of their former boss.

    Don’t we?

  • GoneFishing

    I thought she was running for VP? and for that she is at least as qualified as O’l Joe…They both seem to be gaff machines too.

  • Don_Tanna

    Mr. Carey that is what underlings like you are supposed to address, opening letters, answering mails, etc.

  • Barfly

    Michele Bachmann needs to take responsibility for the comments she has been making instead of just saying I am human and make mistakes. She seems to have no problem spewing out falsehoods about the President and when called on them she says oops mistake, I am sure if the President did the same to her she wouldn’t accept a oops mistake apology. There is NO way in hell this woman is ready to run a country let alone the mightiest country in the world the USA. It sends shivers down my back to think she has a chance probably more shivers then I had when Trump was thinking of running. The Republican party is so desperate to get the Presidency back it seems they will put just about anyone in the mix.

  • TeaPartyNation

    As they get to know her conservative philosophy – which Americans overwhelmingly favor over d-cRAT socialist extremism, American voters become more and more supportive of Bachmann every day – and you know what that means…the lamestream socialist fake-news stooges will bring out the SLIME against her:

    Theme song of the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist stooges in the lamestream socialist media:

    99 buckets of slime on the wall, 99 buckets of slime. When one is thrown at a American Patriot, there are 98 buckets of slime on the wall.

    98 buckets of slime on the wall, 98 buckets of slime. When….

    Come-on all you lunatic-lefties – join in !!! (It’s what you mental defectives do instead of rational discussion.)

  • avoidswork

    Fokker News said:
    But she has a deep faith in God and opposes abortion. That qualifies her.

    Word.

    And don’t forget that she’s anti-socialist.

    seek said:
    Where do these idiots come from? What happened to personal integrity and proper decorum?

    Bachmann? She came from her parents. Isn’t that where most idiots come from? Then they fortify themselves with being misinformed and/or intellectually incurious as time rolls on. See “Fox News Channel” for tips and samples.

    See, people don’t have to speak positively about Bachmann. She’s demonstrated on more than one occasion that she’s crazy. Determined, but a little off-center. Her verbal gaffe proclamations are absurd as is the notion that she’s remotely qualified to be POTUS.

    Now, she’s not as hillbilly odious as the other crazy chick with the funny accent, but she’s up there. She’s classier than her hillbilly counterpart and has certainly worked a lot harder than the other chick would ever dream of working. And yet she’s still not qualified to be POTUS.

  • TeaPartyNation

    “Michele Bachmann’s Former Chief Of Staff Says She’s ‘Decidedly’ Unprepared For The Presidency”

    Yep, it’s true – she has ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE AS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.

  • TfT

    wow – Pawlenty playing dirty and we get headlines about Bachman?

    Typical left winger – trash the women conservatives…it is what ya’ll do on a regular basis.

    The headline, like the article, is a waste of time and space.

    But digging dirt and throwing trash aroundis what we have grown to expect from the liberal left. Just think, if this had been the one’s old chief ofstaff, you would have called him a dolt or worse, but alas, it isn’t, so the ex employee gets the headline.

    oh to typical, oh so boring, oh so left.

  • Sanders Youth

    And in other news, water is wet, the sky is blue and Sarah Palin is a dunce.

  • Yoda002

    Rokker said:
    Michelle Bachmann = Sharon Angle = Crazy

    I hope she doesn’t turn into another Angle.

  • BatBoy

    Get that book published, you jerk.

    There is a special place in hell for these people – the ones who write about their bosses (goes for both the left and right and in the middle if there is someone like that.

  • LOGICandREASON

    According to Ron Carey’s assessment, he now suggests that Michele Bachmann WAS and IS somehow incapable of her duties heading a campaign or congressional office.

    Logically one has to wonder where Ron Carey was(or what held him back from bringing this issue up) before or during the US House of Representatives elections in 2010, when Bachmann won Minnesota’s 6th congressional district with 52.5% of the votes, and gaining more than the combined votes of her opponents Tarryl Clark and Bob Anderson, whom each got 39.8% and 5.8% of the votes respectively in that race.

    Maybe Carey’s ill-conceived piece at the The Des Moines Register would have more credibility if he made this assessment before or at the time Bachmann ran for re-election last year, rather that when Bachmann is apparently running against his preferred candidate. It is reasonable for one to question his motives now as Bachmann appears to be gaining momentum for the 2012 Presidential elections. This is the Republican Party establishment at its best(worst).

    The fact is, my reasoning transcends these politically motivated back-stabbing; and while hit-and-run tactics are quite effective in swaying the shallow minded of the electorate, I certainly do not base my judgements on the opinion of another individual. While Ron Carey is entitled to his opinion as he has expressed; Michele Bachmann’s records throughout her academic and political life are public and subject to scrutiny; those records speak for themselves.

  • glenn113

    unprepared??? more like unqualified.

  • Katepatate

    Bachmann, Palin, Romney, Pawlenty, Santorum, Cain, and any other Republican who would get in the race are so much more qualified than the little man we have in office right now. And the best thing about them is they grew up in this country, love it and want the best for it. Growing up where he did, Obama has no idea of the American experience. He came in with a chip on his shoulder determined to destroy all traditions and anything that is good for our country. He has spent more of our money than all the other presidents combined. He has made NASA muslim friendly, his secretary of state helps Lady GAGGAG get a gig at a sodomite pride? day in Italy, he has taken over American businesses, taken over our healthcare, aided Brazil in drilling its offshore oil while not allowing the drilling of our own oil, spent days golfing, more than any other president, well, I could go on and on. Any of the above Republican people would be a far sight better than our abysmal failure of a president.

  • Just my Opinion

    Unless, I have missed it somewhere in this article, or the comments, it looks like the word that is unspoken
    here so far, IS that Bachmann obviously showed him the door one day and told him not
    to let it hit him in the ass on his way out>
    Who in the hell is more incompetent than Obama?
    Did anyone else suffer through that Prtess Conference today????

  • http://none pyrope

    I believe there are people more qualified to be our next president than Michele Bachmann but when one reads a story like this, one must ask what is the Motive.

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  • X-3

    pyrope said:
    one must ask what is the Motive.

    Just my Opinion said:
    Who in the hell is more incompetent than Obama?

    You both seem to be arriving at the same conclusion.

    I must admit that I am not a strong Bachmann supporter, but by comparison, she is abundantly more qualified than Mr. -0bama.

  • Bids

    X-3 said:
    You both seem to be arriving at the same conclusion. I must admit that I am not a strong Bachmann supporter, but by comparison, she is abundantly more qualified than Mr. -0bama.

    Or just as unqualified. Doesn’t make me want to vote for her. “Vote for me, I’m just as lame as the current president, but I”m not a socialist!”

  • naughtymonkey

    It’s not breaking my heart that the Republican right cannot produce a sane, accomplished, qualified, scandal-free woman to run for President.

  • Anonymous

    There are
    some interesting points in time in this article but I don’t know if I see all
    of them center to heart. There is some validity but I will take hold opinion
    until I look into it further. Good article, thanks and we want more! 

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