Our soon to be 2102 Elected POTUS handled this situation very well.

And she didn’t need a teleprompter.

Yogi Gupta said:
Jon Stewart cunningly out-smarted Chris Wallace. Jon looked smart and on his feet. Chris looked timid and out-smarted. Jon was wrong on facts, but he won the debate. Chris did not even know the facts. FactCheck had to prove that Jon was wrong. Now Chris wants to prove that he can be as snarky and insulting as Jon. So he asked Bachmann: ‘Are you a flake?’. He is trying to over-compensate by being as snarky and insulting as Jon. He failed at this attempt miserably. He only succeeded in being a ‘useful idiot’ for the liberal media. HuffPos immediateley created a headline using ‘Flake’, followed by Politico.

I posted the above on another thread here. The same applies here as well

Im increasingly thinking she has a significant chance….. the contrast between who she is and the way she has been portrayed by the lib-leaning media is striking. If the Tea Party in general was mischaracterized as a bunch of yahoo racists, she was the poster child of the character assasination even more than Sarah Palin because she is the more serious candidate.

BatBoy said:
Our soon to be 2102 Elected POTUS handled this situation very well.

And she didn’t need a teleprompter.

She will never win anything cept the evangelical vote. Bachman doesn’t stand a chance anywhere except iowa.

I hope he’ll ask Mitt Romney these kind of awful questions too, I prefer Bachmann to all of the RINOs in the race combined.

Next time Michele Bachman should remind him of this and wonder why the media is not up in arms:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-flubs-speech-to-troops-by-claiming-dead-soldier-is-alive/

Generally a good idea to confront bad image issues early on, and Chris does her a favor by raising the flake issue, though, the pressure is going to be on to not say any more flakey things. I will bet he gave her a heads up on that question, though, because she seemed too prepared.

got a grip said:
the contrast between who she is and the way she has been portrayed by the lib-leaning media is striking.

http://wrmarsolek.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/19255055_5d1f68dce7_o.jpg

“In 2009, after she saw a news story about the Chinese calling on the world to abandon the dollar as its reserve currency, Bachmann somehow took this to mean that the Obama administration might force ordinary Americans to abandon their familiar green dollar bills for some international and no doubt atheist currency. To combat this possibility, Bachmann introduced a resolution to “bar the dollar from being replaced by any foreign currency.” Even after the gaffe was made public, Bachmann pressed on, challenging Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to “categorically renounce the United States moving away from the dollar.” Imagine Joe McCarthy dragging Cabinet members into hearings and demanding that they publicly disavow the works of Groucho Marx, and you get a rough idea of the general style of Bachmannian politics.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?page=3

BatBoy said:
Our soon to be 2102 Elected POTUS handled this situation very well.

And she didn’t need a teleprompter.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. The Republican field may be shaky but it’s not in shambles; she is in for a real fight.

“This hasn’t been talked about very much – the president’s plan for senior citizens is Obamacare,” Ms. Bachmann told party activists here. She added, “I think very likely what the president intends is that Medicare will go broke and ultimately that answer will be Obamacare for senior citizens.”- Bachmann

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/90245/bachmann-obama-hates-socialism

Michele Bachmann is no flake, she is a republican candidate for presidential nomination that promotes the same failed economic policies that have failed the american people and endangered our unique democracy. She exploits her motherhood, but advocates for giving tax cuts to millionaires, while cutting food, shelter, education and health care programs for children. She took in 23 foster children over a 8 year period for which she was paid handsomely. She says she understands the needs of children of special circumstance, but promotes the cutting of the same programs that help advance those children-special education, counseling and health care. She is dangerous because she like Eugene McCarthy tries to label people as anti-american, socialists etc… because they disagree with her. Republican fiscal policies: de-regulation, tax cuts for the rich and union busting, tax subsidies for big oil, big ag, big pharma, haves indebted our nation, shrunk the middle class and shipped jobs overseas. The republican party is the tool of american and international corporations to shape the economy of the US, the richest country in the world, so that business/corporate interests are superior to workers. She is a tool of that world of selfish, ruthless and dispassionate world of egoists. She is a danger to america and to women’s rights particularly.

Isn’t it odd that when left wingers have kids, they’re just having kids. But when conservatives do it, it’s exploitation. And God help them if the kids are ever ‘out there’ in public.

Wallace tries to hide his flaky commie roots and sometimes does OK but guys like me with built in Comdar automatically hone in on PROGS— they think they are so clever. Wallace can’t even handle a light weight like Stewart, how in the hell does he think he —he chas NO chance with Palin or Bachman— his old man is one who made a career thinking he was smart, just another leftie—If it wasn’t for FOX news I wouldn’t even have a TV. I have to turn it off when Chris comes on, Juan sits in for Bill, or they bring back Colmes.

Miroco said:
Wallace tries to hide his flaky commie roots and sometimes does OK but guys like me with built in Comdar automatically hone in on PROGS

He was in fact a chief anti-Mosley agitator during the “Battle of Cable Street”

Miroco said:
If it wasn’t for FOX news I wouldn’t even have a TV

Even the inanimate scream for a better fate!

The answer that Chris Wallace knew he’d never get: “Why yes, Chris, I’m a flake. I don’t know why anyone takes me seriously.”

He’s pretty worthless.

hehehe….funny…..

Anyone else got the feeling Wallace is trying to prove he’s not a stupid cheerleader?
Making sure the interview is not soft and then try to bash Stewart again?
Dude,I swear this guy is asking for it…..
Let it go man…you’re not good enough, or smart, or right enough….just let it go you twit…
Jeez man they never learn…….

We have yet to hear any serious coverage from the national media of Obama’s hundreds of gaffes while in the White House, just as we heard little of his “57 or 58 states” remark and other gaffes on the campaign trail, such as the six-month string that produced these doozies:

* The Selma March in 1965 did not contribute to his birth in 1961.
* Kansas tornadoes in May 2007 killed 12 people, not “ten thousand”.
* Afghans do not speak Arabic.
* Within 24 hours, Obama reversed his assertion that Iran did not pose a “serious threat” to the US to an assertion that the threat is “grave”.
* Declaring that Memorial Day honors an “unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today“
* Saying that his uncle liberated Auschwitz
* Asserted that the Nuremberg tribunals offered habeas corpus and appeal rights
* Referred to “the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor“

Did any of the national media ask Barack Obama in the summer of 2008 if he was a “flake”?

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/26/great-moments-in-journalism-are-you-a-flake/

If Michele Bachmann is a flake, Obama is a glacier.

Michele………now they have taken New York!…..the gays….the GAYS!!! AAAAAAHHHH!!!!!

Question to Chris Wallace:

Are you an asshole?

Obvious answer is yes; can you imagine Chris talking to hehimself and reminding him of all his gaffes and asking if he is a flake?

What a sexist and ridiculous comment by Wallace; I hope he gets a lot of negative feedback for such an absurd questions.

Not a Flake….Just a moron.

BatBoy said:
Our soon to be 2102 Elected POTUS handled this situation very well.

And she didn’t need a teleprompter.

2102?? You need a teleprompter. Just because she has a resume doesnt make her qualified but it doesnt matter because the prez is black,, thats enuf to hate him. Simple fact; DOW when bush left office eas in the 7k range and now its at 12k. Numbers dont lie. Jobs wont come back because the repubs and wall street agenda is for the rich not the average american; white, black, hispanic,etc. U dumb teabaggers are so paranoid about non whites the rest of the country just laughs at you. Proof is the amount of thumbs down this posting will get.

“Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government.”

(More from Rolling Stone/Taibbi)

The term “batshit crazy” was custom made for Bachmann.

In my best Foghorn Leghorn voice: ‘Smart girl, got a mind like a steel trap – full of mice.’

Jim Treacher said:
If Michele Bachmann is a flake, Obama is a glacier.

Well, if Bachman frosts her hair she will be a frosted flake.

The problem is she is a firebrand and makes a lot of partisan claims and exaggerations. But since she is a woman that makes her a bitch, cunt, bimbo, slut, whore, idiot, dummy, and fart head. All because of the sexism present in the political system, media, and many anti-intellectual Americans.

Just imagine how fun it would be if she got the nomination.

Michelle Bachmann’s answers sound very INTELLECTUAL, and she isn’t a FOLKSY type soccer mom. She is an attorney, so I think she is more qualified and dedicated than Sarah Palin. This lady is into the political arena allot different than Palin is. Palin QUITTING her governorship, to write a book to make the BUCKS, says it all right there. Bachman is a more PROFESSIONAL talker than Palin too… Guys, don’t just look at what you SEE as having brains, LISTEN to her answers, because she has more integrity. I think she has a good CHANCE, cuz I am not a Rommney fan at all…

We have yet to hear any serious coverage from the national media of Obama’s hundreds of gaffes while in the White House, just as we heard little of his “57 or 58 states” remark and other gaffes on the campaign trail, such as the six-month string that produced these doozies:

* The Selma March in 1965 did not contribute to his birth in 1961.
* Kansas tornadoes in May 2007 killed 12 people, not “ten thousand”.
* Afghans do not speak Arabic.
* Within 24 hours, Obama reversed his assertion that Iran did not pose a “serious threat” to the US to an assertion that the threat is “grave”.
* Declaring that Memorial Day honors an “unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today“
* Saying that his uncle liberated Auschwitz
* Asserted that the Nuremberg tribunals offered habeas corpus and appeal rights
* Referred to “the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor“

Did any of the national media ask Barack Obama in the summer of 2008 if he was a “flake”?

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/26/great-moments-in-journalism-are-you-a-flake/

valkyrie101 said:
Well, if Bachman frosts her hair she will be a frosted flake.

now that was funny

Michelle Bachmann is not dumb.

But she still lacks a solid grasp on policy and on the issues. If you get her too far away from her talking points, she comes undone.

I think the scrutiny of a campaign will reveal that.

I think it will also reveal that, even if she’s a smart woman, she’s out of the mainstream.

Mahala4 said:
Michelle Bachmann’s answers sound very INTELLECTUAL, and she isn’t a FOLKSY type soccer mom. She is an attorney, so I think she is more qualified and dedicated than Sarah Palin. This lady is into the political arena allot different than Palin is. Palin QUITTING her governorship, to write a book to make the BUCKS, says it all right there. Bachman is a more PROFESSIONAL talker than Palin too… Guys, don’t just look at what you SEE as having brains, LISTEN to her answers, because she has more integrity. I think she has a good CHANCE, cuz I am not a Rommney fan at all…

She might have a good shot at the nomination….but she’s too far right for most Americans.

Polls show her trailing Obama by double digits in her own state.

She’s not going to win alot of those swing states…..Can anybody really see her winning in CO or OH? No way.

The entire Republican field is pure rubbish. They are either rank flip-floppers or nuts and flakes as in the case of Bachmann.

If she wins the nomination, she’ll have to run to the center…..I just can’t see her doing that very well or very easily.

Bachmann is actually very complex individual–far more so than Palin, to whom she’s most often compared. Is she a flake? Hell yeah. But she’s also intelligent; the two aren’t mutually exclusive. The term “crazy like a fox” comes to mind.

But a smart flake running the country? Um, no thanks.

I like Wallace but that has to be the worst question he’s asked in his career.

Chris, that was a stupid and insulting question. You should be ashamed of yourself. Buddy you just dropped from my list of serious interviewers.

mcstokes said:
Chris, that was a stupid and insulting question. You should be ashamed of yourself. Buddy you just dropped from my list of serious interviewers.

That was an entirely credible question, made even more so by his efforts to establish context.

I loved Chris Wallace’s question about her being a flake. She apparently has consumed too much breakfast cereal and it’s started to leach into her brain, such as it is.

That’s not to say Michelle Bachmann wouldn’t make a good PTA president.

mcstokes said:
Chris, that was a stupid and insulting question. You should be ashamed of yourself. Buddy you just dropped from my list of serious interviewers.

Not really….he basically lobbed her a softball. It was basically “Here’s a free chance to show people how smart you are.”

It was a softball question disguised as a rude one.

With each day, Bachmann is rendering a Palin candidacy more and more unnecessary.

What Palin candidacy?

As usual, the media, all media, paint Republicans in the worst possible light.

Here Wallace drags out adverse, inside the beltway, commentary on Bachmann, and asks her to comment on it.

Yet, this kind of question was never asked of Obama prior to his election and even after the election there has only been rare, isolated, occasions where Obama gets anything near this. Such as when Stephanopolous asked Obama, “Why do you think people hate you?” And when Obama responded with “Because they don’t know me the subject was immediately dropped without follow up.

There was no follow up with something such as a question on his unpopular policies and highly questionable decision making, or his blatant arrogance.

As for who is most qualified for the job of President??

Bachmann’s resume compared to Obama’s, shows him to be what he truly is, a rookie with no experience and even after nearly three years, he shows daily that he is in way over his head and a man of limited decision making ability.

Azarkhan said:
We have yet to hear any serious coverage from the national media of Obama’s hundreds of gaffes while in the White House, just as we heard little of his “57 or 58 states” remark and other gaffes on the campaign trail, such as the six-month string that produced these doozies:

* The Selma March in 1965 did not contribute to his birth in 1961.
* Kansas tornadoes in May 2007 killed 12 people, not “ten thousand”.
* Afghans do not speak Arabic.
* Within 24 hours, Obama reversed his assertion that Iran did not pose a “serious threat” to the US to an assertion that the threat is “grave”.
* Declaring that Memorial Day honors an “unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today“
* Saying that his uncle liberated Auschwitz
* Asserted that the Nuremberg tribunals offered habeas corpus and appeal rights
* Referred to “the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor“

Did any of the national media ask Barack Obama in the summer of 2008 if he was a “flake”?

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/26/great-moments-in-journalism-are-you-a-flake/

Did any of the national media ask Barack Obama in the summer of 2008 if he was a “flake”?

No…in his case they didn’t have to.

kswheels said:
What Palin candidacy?

The Palin Candidacy that the left fears. She is not running for any office, yet the left still feels the need to attack her and treat her as if she were the RNC front runner. The left routinely pronounces Palin as “politically dead”, but they continue the attacks as if she were going to thrash Obama in 2012. Why the Dems in this country insist on beating a dead horse is merely a demonstration of the raging paranoia prevalent in the DNC.

AmericaSucks said:
That was an entirely credible question, made even more so by his efforts to establish context.

his efforts were nothing more than trying to appear fair and balanced by entertaining specious notions of bachmann’s intellect… your so called context was illustrated by rush recently when he pointed out how the left harps on their perception of a conservative until they get that question asked in a public forum, and wallace took the bait… “are you a flake?” has now been asked of her, on record and in a public venue… score one for the left…

MBW said:
Michelle Bachmann is not dumb.

But she still lacks a solid grasp on policy and on the issues. If you get her too far away from her talking points, she comes undone.

I think the scrutiny of a campaign will reveal that.

I think it will also reveal that, even if she’s a smart woman, she’s out of the mainstream.

Just what in the hell is the “mainstream”? And how is he outside of it?

MBW said:
If she wins the nomination, she’ll have to run to the center…..I just can’t see her doing that very well or very easily.

that’s how liberals win elections, not conservatives…

Dave Richards said:
Just what in the hell is the “mainstream”? And how is he outside of it?

Most americans don’t see a socialist under every rock….or hide in bushes at gay pride rallies. She’s a far-right Republican and I don’t really get how you can’t see that.

MASSMURDERMEDIA said:
that’s how liberals win elections, not conservatives…

No. This country is basically a centrist country. She’s extremely anti-gay, anti-abortion (even against most exceptions)…etc.

Most Americans are not liberal, but they’re also not in Glenn Beck paranoia territory either. Michele Bachmann is a paranoid conservative who is simply unreasonable compared to most americans.

Dave Richards said:
Just what in the hell is the “mainstream”? And how is he outside of it?

MBW said:
Most americans don’t see a socialist under every rock….or hide in bushes at gay pride rallies. She’s a far-right Republican and I don’t really get how you can’t see that.

girls, girls, you’re both pretty!… she is clearly a far right republican, but hardly out of the mainstream…

MBW said:
She might have a good shot at the nomination….but she’s too far right for most Americans.

Polls show her trailing Obama by double digits in her own state.

“Her own state” is about to go on strike against all its citizens to get more tax money. There is a reason public employees cannot strike: it is blackmail with essential services, life and death. Gov. Marcus Brutalus Daytonator is bypassing the unions and putting the entire government on strike against the citizens. It’s the Democrat Fricking Labour Party up in there!

Like Charles Manson and Rev. John Brown, he is trying to ignite and incite a violent class and race war to make Minnesota a “better place.” Yeah, he’s cutting off food stamps, emergency rooms, aid to dependent children, all forms of aid and government services. But I’ll bet he will not cut state troopers giving traffic tickets, building and fire inspection fines, taxpayer-financed professional sports stadiums, parking fees in the city parking lots, buses and trains that take in money. And stop paying all the lawyers that are going to have so many billable hours to defend against all the lawsuits that will cascade against the state. Oh, no, let’s save the lawyers!

Let him stop street cleaning, water treatment, police patrolling, and garbage collection if he’s to be taken seriously. The people will instantly set up their own volunteer essential services.

The unions killed the Herald-Tribune, Eastern Airlines, Pan Am, and the milkman. Now they are going to kill Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Dem4Ever said:
Did any of the national media ask Barack Obama in the summer of 2008 if he was a “flake”?

No…in his case they didn’t have to.

No, they didn’t have to ask, since they knew he was an inexperienced rookie with no leadership ability, but his being a Democrat was enough for them to over look all of his obvious failings.

In addition to those mentioned above, I am still wondering when his health care plan is “going to reduce medical insurance premiums by 3000%” as he said during his speech in Oregon, since a 100% reduction would result in insurance being free, the 3000% that Obama claims means that insurance companies would be paying us to remain customers. In my case AETNA would be sending me checks of $1.1 million per month, if my rates were reduced by the 3000% that Obama touts, so far not checks have arrived.

Also, I have looked through the history books and I have been unable to locate the part of WW2 history where, as Obama claims, “Emperor Hirohito signed the instrument of surrender”, I doubt that I will ever find it since Hirohito never signed it, contrary to Obama’s recollection of history, the document was signed by the Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff, not by the Emperor himself as Obama claims.

MASSMURDERMEDIA said:
girls, girls, you’re both pretty!… she is clearly a far right republican, but hardly out of the mainstream…

Mainstream enough to have earned a degree fro Hollywood Upstairs Medical College? Very upstanding centrist organization that one!

MBW said:
Most Americans are not liberal, but they’re also not in Glenn Beck paranoia territory either. Michele Bachmann is a paranoid conservative who is simply unreasonable compared to most americans.

Very true, most Americans are not liberal, nor are they far right Conservatives, but the reality is that most Americans are gullible as evidenced by Obama’s election. If Bachmann were really wanting to win the White House and to do so handily she could easily bury Obama by using his own tactics. All she would have to do is lie her ass off, tell people that she was a live and let live person on gay issues, and that abortion should be left up to the mother.

Then after she gets into office she could do whatever she wanted…just like Obama did.

He claimed to be a centrist, moderately liberal, Democrat, then after winning election, he jumped on the extreme left wing socialist agenda, just like the good little crooked politician he is proving himself to be. Obama is nothing new, he is just a stereotypical, self indulgent politician, with a bit more narcissism than the average politician.

MBW said:
No. This country is basically a centrist country.

conservative politicians can’t win elections by pandering to people who will never vote for them…

i am not prepared to vote for obama in 2012 because i may disagree with the conservative nominee on one or two social issues… nor am i prepared to dismiss bachmann as a flake because of a verbal gaffe, evil incarnate because she may have an antiquated notion of homosexuality or paranoid because she’s not on the same page as the crowd you hang with…

After watching the other Wallace/Stewart clip, I think Matt Schneider’s first assertion is true. Wallace stepped it up and possibly went beyond what was appropriate to send a message to Stewart and detractors.

The funny thing is, Stewart had given Wallace a pass, he said he was the exception to the Fox rule. Stewart admired the job that Wallace does at Fox.

What a Goof.

Jon Weiss said:
e looked through the history books and I have been unable to locate the part of WW2 history where, as Obama claims, “Emperor Hirohito signed the instrument of surrender”, I doubt that I will ever find it since Hirohito never signed it, contrary to Obama’s recollection of history, the document was signed by the Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff, not by the Emperor himself as Obama claims.

In addition Obama once claimed to have eaten a hamburger, fries and milkshake for lunch… Curious claim considering he was caught on video that day drinking a cherry coke with his burger… Meanwhile, the mainstream and erstwhile Bachmann was overheard nearby stating… “I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under Democrat President Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it is an interesting coincidence.”. Finally, a leader with sense!

Greg said:
He was in fact a chief anti-Mosley agitator during the “Battle of Cable Street”

That’s a strange historical allusion, especially since Chris Wallace was not alive in 1936, nor active in radical politics in England.

If Chris Wallace asks tough questions of every guest, that’s a good thing. Fox News Sunday is not the same as Sean Hannity’s show or Greta van Sustern’s. The other networks lob softballs to Democrats and ask “gotcha” questions of Republicans. Bachmann knows this and needs to be prepared for tough questions 100% of the time.

Bachmann’s next commercial: “I’m not a Flake, I’m nothing you’ve heard…”

Jon Weiss said:
He claimed to be a centrist, moderately liberal, Democrat, then after winning election, he jumped on the extreme left wing socialist agenda, just like the good little crooked politician he is proving himself to be. Obama is nothing new, he is just a stereotypical, self indulgent politician, with a bit more narcissism than the average politician.

Not exactly.

-His healthcare plan was the same thing he campaigned on during the campaign….he said he was going to do it and he did.

-He said he was going to do a big stimulus bill and he did.

-He said he would repeal don’t ask don’t tell….and did.

-Meanwhile, he’s moved to the right on military….put MORE troops into Afghanistan, took out Bin Laden, kept Bush’s defense sec., kept the patriot act, didn’t close Guantanamo.

Hardly the record of a wild-eyed lefty.

If you think he misled anyone, it’s because you weren’t paying attention. He’s done exactly what he said he would do on a whole host of issues.

J Baustian said:
That’s a strange historical allusion, especially since Chris Wallace was not alive in 1936, nor active in radical politics in England.

Oh yeah? Than how can you explain the stunning resemblance to this wee nipper?
http://boingboing.net/2011/06/23/spitalfields-nippers.html

Actually, I was simply responding to absurdity with what I measured as equal absurdity.

MBW said:
She might have a good shot at the nomination….but she’s too far right for most Americans.

Polls show her trailing Obama by double digits in her own state.

First off, they also said Ronald Reagan was too conservative.

As for Minnesota, you have to consider this: The Minnesota Star-Tribune has been bashing Michele Bachmann since she was a candidate for the state senate. Wherever you live, if you consider the most left-wing newspaper in your state, the Star-Tribune is much further to the left. Republicans, no matter what office they are seeking, have to compete not only against the Democrat-Farmer-Labor (DFL) machine, but also the DFL’s house organ, the Star Tribune.

If you ever see a Minnesota poll with Michele Bachmann running even with Barack Obama, that means Obama is going to lose nationally in an enormous landslide.

Have there been any recent polls in Minnesota? The last one I saw was quite a while ago, and it was a poll of adults, not likely voters or even registered voters. Any time you compare polls of all adults with polls of likely voters, the results are going to be very different and much more favorable to Democrats when all adults are polled.

If you looked at the details of that poll, Bachmann was very popular among Republicans… and obviously not popular among Democrats. So a poll that includes a lot of Democrats who are not likely to vote, will not accurately reflect Bachmann’s likely strength on Election Day.

MASSMURDERMEDIA said:
conservative politicians can’t win elections by pandering to people who will never vote for them…

When was the last time a far-right conservative got elected?? Ask President Barry Goldwater how that campaign worked out for him.

Reagan was as close to a “real” conservative as it gets….but he was basically pandering to the evangelicals and didn’t believe half the crap he said.

MASSMURDERMEDIA said:
girls, girls, you’re both pretty!… she is clearly a far right republican, but hardly out of the mainstream…

She’s not out of the mainstream of her party…..but she IS out of the mainstream of America. She will never win a general election nationally.

SurveyUSA poll has Obama up 14 over her in Minnesota.

MBW said:
SurveyUSA poll has Obama up 14 over her in Minnesota.

That being a standing president with a strong likability factor over a *congress*woman barley known outside of her district and the world of cable news punditry is hardly good news for Obama, just so you know.

Same poll has Obama tied with Pawlenty. That should tell you something about Bachmann’s “mainstream” appeal.

MBW said:
When was the last time a far-right conservative got elected?? Ask President Barry Goldwater how that campaign worked out for him.

Reagan was as close to a “real” conservative as it gets….but he was basically pandering to the evangelicals and didn’t believe half the crap he said.

Coincidentally, Reagan was one of the most loved presidents we’ve had in recent memory, and scores high even on the popularity lists of academics. Not that you can substantiate that he didn’t believe what he said, either. That’s one of the things people liked about him. You knew where he stood.

As far as who can get elected in the country, take a look at presidential elections going back 40 years. If an Republican administration doesn’t have an enormous scandal near the end of their presidency, or a national ticket splitter such as a Ross Perot taking double digits mainly from Republicans doesn’t enter the race, the trend of who really is electable in America becomes crystal clear.

I was shocked when Chris Wallace asked this question of Michele Bachmann? SHAME ON HIM! I guarantee he doesn’t have the spine to ask that of Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi or any of the other democratic females. Talk about a flake, Pelosi is a complete moron and says some of the most stupid things I’ve ever heard. Watching this show has been a ritual for me for a long time, but now I don’t know if I can watch Chris anymore. It was insulting and frankly a very low, dispicable thing that a gentleman would not do. He became “Jon Stewart” in that moment and I NEVER watch or listen to him. Again, Shame, Shame, Shame on you, it spoke more about you and had nothing to do with being “Fair and Balanced”.

MBW said:
No. This country is basically a centrist country. She’s extremely anti-gay, anti-abortion (even against most exceptions)…etc.

America is a center-right country, so Barack Obama had to disguise who he is and what he really believes. Plus he was running against the weakest possible Republican nominee, at precisely the worst moment in economic history since WWII.

Gallup polls in every year since at least 1991 shows about 38-42% of Americans describe themselves as conservatives, while 19-22% call themselves liberals; the remainder are moderates.

As for social issues, most Americans are willing to accept civil unions for homosexuals, but they oppose calling them marriages. Every time there’s been a referendum, the voters have rejected gay marriage. This is not anti-gay, this is not calling for punishing people who are gay; this is defending the principle of marriage between one man and one woman…. which has generally worked better than the alternatives over the last several thousand years. People can still establish households with any number of men or women, participating in practically any kind of sexual activity that can be imagined. But when you call something “marriage” then you have to consider inheritance laws, liability laws, child support policies — no matter how many enacting laws you create, you will still have the civil courts clogged with lawsuits.

The public is split on abortion, but most want some kind of limits and most want individual states to be able to make their own rules. That seems reasonable — I think that is Herman Cain’s position and Cain may give Bachmann and others some cover to discuss a states’-rights solution. On the other hand, a US president really can’t do much except appoint pro-life judges. And all Democrats can do is slander any pro-life nominee for a judicial post.

I laugh at the wingnut idiots who call Obama a Marxist.

S&P 500 up 90% as a direct result of him reversing Bush’s socialist TARP program, capital equipment can be expensed in a year now, 17 tax cuts for small business, Silicon Valley loves him, corporate profits all time high, even health insurers like Aetna love him.

Let him send out $300 checks like Bushy-boy did before you spout ignorance.

Greg said:
Oh yeah? Than how can you explain the stunning resemblance to this wee nipper?
http://boingboing.net/2011/06/23/spitalfields-nippers.html

That nipper does bear a certain resemblance to Chris Wallace, if he had been born in 1902 instead of 1947.

Raising her 5 kids and her highly dubious record of “fostering” 23 teenagers are the only qualifications Michele Bachmann is capable of touting. Is she a flake ?

If these so-called qualfications are so very critical for the Oval Office, Michele should get into a debate with the Octomom to let the voters decide who is more qualified as US President and leader of the free (breed) world.

Maybe, Arnold’s nanny and Kate plus her 8 kids can join in as the debate moderator.

Michele vs the Octomom – The debate of the century !

“I’m a serious person” ? Really ???!!!

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha……..Even Bachmann also can’t help cackle at herself.

Listen to Michele Bachmann’s annoying cackle, at the end of the clip:
http://www.businessinsider.com/gop-debate-newt-gingrich-american-idol-dwts-video-2011-6

Girth Brick said:
I laugh at the wingnut idiots who call Obama a Marxist.

S&P 500 up 90% as a direct result of him reversing Bush’s socialist TARP program, capital equipment can be expensed in a year now, 17 tax cuts for small business, Silicon Valley loves him, corporate profits all time high, even health insurers like Aetna love him.

Let him send out $300 checks like Bushy-boy did before you spout ignorance.

TARP was socialist, but Obama, who voted for it, is not, huh? I laugh when people like you think your central planning socialist dreamer with no life experiences outside of those failed social and economic theories he kicked around in college board rooms with his terrorist friends is going to be re-elected.

MBW said:
Same poll has Obama tied with Pawlenty. That should tell you something about Bachmann’s “mainstream” appeal.

Again, you’re not reading the import of a poll such as that. Pawlenty, a milktoast Republican Gov little known outside his state is tied with Obama a year and a half out and every economist talking about *at best* an anemic recovery and some starting to voice the possibility of a double dip recession or even a monetary crisis?

Oh, Obama is such toast.

MBW said:
Not exactly.

-His healthcare plan was the same thing he campaigned on during the campaign….he said he was going to do it and he did.

-He said he was going to do a big stimulus bill and he did.

-He said he would repeal don’t ask don’t tell….and did.

-Meanwhile, he’s moved to the right on military….put MORE troops into Afghanistan, took out Bin Laden, kept Bush’s defense sec., kept the patriot act, didn’t close Guantanamo.

Hardly the record of a wild-eyed lefty.

If you think he misled anyone, it’s because you weren’t paying attention. He’s done exactly what he said he would do on a whole host of issues.

Actually, you have some facts that are actually not “factual”.

His healthcare plan is NOT what he campaigned on, it is much more intrusive and carries many provisions that he never mentioned which are specifically designed to force us into a socialized health care system totally run by government, which will increase costs (exactly the opposite of what he campaigned on) and reduce services, which is also the opposite of his promise. His healthcare law also carries punishments for non compliance with the law, something that he claimed would be aimed at those “evil” insurance companies, not the individual citizen which is exactly who is targeted by the law.

He also claimed that taxes would not go up for the poor, but I am well below the $250,000.00 mark, and on a fixed income, but my taxes are going up this year as a direct result of his policies. I have even received a letter from the IRS informing me that “due to changes in the tax code my withholding has been increased $100.00 per month.

-He said he was going to do a big stimulus bill, but came up AFTER the election, the stimulus was never mentioned in the campaign and he actually spoke out against it when it was “Bush’s stimulus”. Just as he has spoken out against many things that Bush enacted, only to embrace them after his election, such as the surge in Iraq which he campaigned against, then took credit for after entering office, and the Patriot act condemned as too intrusive then extended and expanded.

-”He said he would repeal don’t ask don’t tell” – And he did so unilaterally without consideration of that actions effects on readiness. More Obama narcissism.

-”He put MORE troops into Afghanistan, took out Bin Laden, kept Bush’s defense sec., kept the patriot act, didn’t close Guantanamo.” –

He has announced a timeline for withdrawal from Afghanistan, something that no Republican has advocated, and he has done so stupidly in telling the enemy when we are leaving in effect, he has surrendered. He did this without consulting the military experts on the ground and in direct opposition to the man he hand picked to lead the Army. So now the rookie Senator from Illinois knows more about military operations than a General who has been on the job for nearly 30 years? Or perhaps he just needs a talking point for the next election? He ranted against Gitmo during the campaign and swore he would close it, even signed and executive order ordering the closing of the facility, then proceeded to violate his own E.O.

He has in effect adopted many of Bush’s plans and policies, which he was very outspoken and opposed to during the election campaign. Remember the quotes???

No “Stupid Wars, only wars that protect U.S. security.” Like the “non wars” in Libya and Yemen?

Obama speaking of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Obama stated “As President, I’ll end it”, almost three years and he’s still not done that. He has claimed credit for ending the war in Iraq, BUT!!!! Iraq was in a draw-down to closure when he entered office, he didn’t “end it”.

As a Senator he voted against the Patriot Act but now that he’s President he not only didn’t end it, he extended and expanded it.

“HE” got Bin Laden, and in his announcement he would have us believe that only “HE” got Bin Laden, the Navy SEALS had nothing to do with it, “HE” ordered the mission it was “HIS” plan, “HIS” operation, “HIS” order that did it all. When the truth is that the mission order to “get Bin Laden”, had been issued under the Bush administration, the operation was planned by the SEALS S-3, and the only reason that Obama was even connected with the operation is that it took the NSA this long to track the guy down. And with all of that going on Obama gave orders that still botched the operation giving preference to Islamic tradition over informing the American people of the details following the mission, leaving many to speculate as to whether or not Bin Laden is even really dead. He balked at releasing photos of the body, saying that it would upset people. People who watched the 9/11 attacks, live, people who for 10 years watched news stories of people coming home maimed from the war, and the caskets coming home with the dead, for 10 years, and Obama says that they will be upset by the mastermind of the attacks? It seems that Obama was not worried about the American People as much as he was Bin Laden’s supporters. And all this secrecy from the “Most Transparent Administration in History”. Obama’s Administration has been as transparent as a mud wall.

Obama is not a “wild eyed lefty”, he is a very political animal, but one bereft of any actual experience of any are aother than how to operate around a political agenda orchestrated by others.

MBW said:
If you think he misled anyone, it’s because you weren’t paying attention. He’s done exactly what he said he would do on a whole host of issues.

He did not mislead me because I expected him to be a bald faced liar from the start.

Four of the past five Presidents, two Dems and two Repub have all been people who skipped the truth to tell the fawning crowds what they wanted to hear from the start, Obama is merely following in that same lane, as I said he’s nothing new or special. Just another crook in an expensive suit.

Jon Weiss said:
Four of the past five Presidents, two Dems and two Repub have all been people who skipped the truth to tell the fawning crowds what they wanted to hear from the start,

I agree with you that it’s a bipartisan thing. That’s what happens when you have an ill-informed public….many of whom chose not to be informed.

Jon Weiss said:
His healthcare plan is NOT what he campaigned on, it is much more intrusive and carries many provisions that he never mentioned.

Again, I don’t think Obama misled anyone. His plan was laid out in writing for everyone to see….but perhaps y’all were too hung up on Jeremiah Wright to be bothered to read his plans.

Obama will be re-elected. Mark my words. Maybe we’ll be lucky enough to have Michelle Bachmann as the nominee to help him along.

americanborn said:
U dumb teabaggers are so paranoid about non whites the rest of the country just laughs at you. Proof is the amount of thumbs down this posting will get.

If that wasn’t a self-fulfilling prophecy, I don’t know what is!

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Chris Wallace was out of line. Some of these so-called news people are getting top big for their britches.

Apologize Wallace

djhtex says:
Chris Wallace was out of line. Some of these so-called news people are getting top big for their britches.

Apologize Wallace
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Wallace is going to apologize, right after Palin, Hannity, Beck, well almost all of “Fox”.

Say what you want about the woman, but I’ll tell you on things I respect about her. She is not afraid to go be interviewed by real journalists or people with whom she clearly disagrees. She’ll go on “Face the Nation,” for example, unlike Governor Palin.

Bachmann may not be my cup of tea, but she is tough.

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Say what you want about the woman, but I’ll tell you on things I respect about her. She is not afraid to go be interviewed by real journalists or people with whom she clearly disagrees. She’ll go on “Face the Nation,” for example, unlike Governor Palin. Bachmann may not be my cup of tea, but she is tough.

Unconscious, is the word.

timcajun said:
djhtex says:
Chris Wallace was out of line. Some of these so-called news people are getting top big for their britches.

Apologize Wallace
…………………………………….
Wallace is going to apologize, right after Palin, Hannity, Beck, well almost all of “Fox”.

See how easy that was? Rather refreshing – “I screwed up – sorry”.

The answer to that question is “YES” !

MBW said:
When was the last time a far-right conservative got elected?? Ask President Barry Goldwater how that campaign worked out for him.

the last time a far-right conservative was elected was when ronald reagan ran unapologetically as a conservative… ask presidents jimmy carter and walter mondale how those campaigns worked out for them… and had george w bush ran as a real conservative, not one of those wishy-washy-please-love-me-moderates, he would have clobbered al gore and john kerry soundly…

She’s the flakiest flake who ever farted.

She could borrow some of Obama’s shampoo. Ears and Shoulders.

seek says:
See how easy that was? Rather refreshing – “I screwed up – sorry”.
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As long as you have learned from this example.

Since she’s from Minnesota, I guess that makes her a snow flake.

bumsrush said:
Since she’s from Minnesota, I guess that makes her a snow flake.

Obviously.

valkyrie101 said:
Obviously.

How did I miss that one. :-)

writer said:
She could borrow some of Obama’s shampoo. Ears and Shoulders.

I heard the reason the secretserviceXXX cruises this site is looking for great ear jokes, because Obama loves em. That was a keeper. I’ll pass it on.

This was just a rhetorical question, right?

Tedderman said:
This was just a rhetorical question, right?

The context of the questions was in response to the claims made by her liberal detractors–except, said detractors use exceedingly more vile language when referring to Ms. Bachmann! Even still, Chris Wallace has already apologized to–and the apology has been accepted by–Ms. Bachmann.

Bachman will make Sara PaY-lin look smart lol

Isn’t it funny how the tea Baggers and rightys always blame the media for the gaffes their Dumbo candidates make…..its always GOTCHA questions…..ah HEllloooo…these are idiot Republicans (gingrich..palin….bachman) has nothing to do wt media