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Michele Bachmann Dismisses Possible Ron Paul Win: He ‘Would Be Dangerous As President’

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We may have seen the first glimmers of the “Santorum Surge” as the non-stop Rep. Ron Paul coverage takes it toll on the candidate, but as Rep. Paul continues to be the frontrunner, the onslaught of “is Ron Paul electable?” questions trudges on. This round of questioning went to Rep. Michele Bachmann, once the frontrunner in Iowa herself, on tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, where Eric Bolling asked her whether she could vote for Rep. Paul. She mostly refused to entertain the question.

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Bolling asked Rep. Bachmann whether she can vote for anyone who becomes the Republican nominee, a question that she brushed aside by responding “you don’t have faith in what I’m saying” and arguing that she will be “America’s iron lady” and the fact that “Barack Obama knows me” made her a more formidable candidate.

Bolling gave it another shot, noting that Newt Gingrich had said he wouldn’t vote for Rep. Paul asking whether she would vote for Rep. Paul. “It’s not going to be Ron Paul who is the nominee. He won’t be the nominee,” she insisted flatly, adding that he would be “dangerous because of his foreign policy,” where she brought the “right perspective on matters.”

Rep. Bachmann’s non-answer isn’t a point in the “will support Obama instead” column, but it certainly highlights the rift between Rep. Paul supporters and the wing of the right that supports Rep. Bachmann.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    Do any of these people ever think for themselves?  The reporters ask the same brain dead and biased questions and the idiot GOP candidates give the same brain dead non-answer.  

  • Anonymous

    Dumb and dumber

  • http://twitter.com/aipfan aipfan

    Where is the proof that the newsletter ‘scandal’ has hurt Paul? CNN’s poll today showing Romney leading and Santorum ‘surging’ (whereas Paul maintained, as I recall, the ~22% he has had for the past week) was flawed, as it only sought out Republicans.

  • http://twitter.com/HighlyRandom Highly Random

    i love how bachmann’s entire campaign is based “i fought obamacare”– that’s nice and all, but let’s say you repeal it. then what? 999??? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Edwards/588445226 David Edwards

    Michelle Bachmann is HOT!!! seriously!!

  • Anonymous

    She really didn’t do squat. It’s like when Santorum harps on about how he was a “leader” on certain issues when he was US Senator. Dude, you were an unknown, and got blown out after one term in by almost 17pts! Guffaw. They both suffer from delusions of grandeur.

  • Hout Bosques

    What do you expect – they’re Republicans! We get visited here every day by a plague of them, with their memes. This is a meme: that Ron Paul is “dangerous”.

    Why? Why is he dangerous? For his domestic policies, his Von Mises nuttiness, his aim to kill the Fed (the thing the power of which is holding us to historically LOW interest rates, that’s all the Fed is; the thing that would get rid of unemployment in a quarter, if we only could get it to), his opposition to the Civil Rights Act 1964, his opposition to abortion, his flirting with death camps for Teh Gay? Nope: for his foreign policy position.

    This is “dangerous” because it takes foreign wars off the table. This is “dangerous” because it takes Oil Wars off the table. This is dangerous all right – dangerous to Big Oil.

    You think banksters own us? Ha! Big Oil owns BANKSTERS! The Wall Street banksters are just the one’s that take the money from us – to lend to the Big Oil consortiums to produce massive oil tankers & Canadian sludge … & Oil War with Iran, all prettied up as defending our “friend” Israel.

    There are two recent polls out now on Iowa, one a few days old that shows Santorum “surging”, and another more recent showing RoPaul edging towards victory. Both are credible – finding Iowans who actually will vote in these caucuses is tough enough; finding Iowans will not just do that but remain steadfast in their loyalty to particular candidate is even tougher. And that’s true for every candidate … except Ron Paul.  

    Thus, this meme. The word has been passed down to the other candidates from the masters, the GOP establishment, and to them from their masters, the Wall Street banksters, and to them from their masters, Big Oil.

    The rest of us are less than pawns. We are as the dust one wipes from the board before play begins. 

  • Anonymous

    I fully support Michele Bachmanns right to be married to a gay man .

    Other than that she is a complete idiot .

  • Hout Bosques

    A little more on Ron Paul’s domestic policies – he’s picked up a big endorsement, from Stormfront – you’re one-stop-shopping place for “paleoconservatives” – yeah, paleoconservatives. Yeah.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MocET16B6bk

    Go check out Stormfront on the net. Just writing that takes you straight to the outcome predicted in the Godwin Rule.

  • http://twitter.com/lesterhalfjr Chris Hadrick

    I agree. Always preferred her over Palin. Her least attractive quality is her circa 03 neoconservative foreign policy.

  • Anonymous

    Well crunch time is here in Iowa and New Hampshire and the establishment is freaking out over Ron Paul’s now undeniable rise to the top. I really thought they would be better organized to fight him when it counts??? After doing my own research, the media lies in comparison are simply amazing but, they seem to only be motivating Americans to look through it and find the message of freedom and liberty is larger than the man and even harder to besmirch.

    Neocon mouth piece Fox News is in full-court press along with the left wing media outlets in concert in pushing anyone but Ron Paul. I am so proud of Paul and his supporters getting the message through it all. It gives me hope for America!  I hope more Americans will drop the traditional media altogether with their doctored polls and agenda based bias interpretations which can not be considered reporting.

    I am now concerned that the opportunity to dismiss Paul has passed and that the establishment will be tempted toward outright vote fraud to defeat Paul. We must now watch the vote as independant citizens in our home districts. I am very concerned with vote fraud in early primary states. The caucuses are much harder manipulate. 
    Please outlaw computer voting in your locality. Observed and audited paper ballots are an important part of preserving liberty and honest democracy.
    “There is no such thing as computer security”.

    ron

  • http://twitter.com/Winston80 Winston

    wrong Paul is a neo-nazi fraudster. A dirtbag of high order. Shame on RNC for allowing him on the debate stage.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Says the crazy lady who says the U.S. Census is a lib’rul plot to put conservatives in camps.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is a respectable and principled man. He shows it every time he steps onto the stage.

  • Woman.For.Paul. Now

    Michelle Bachmann is simply nuts.

    Ron Paul has had consistent policy positions from the
    start.  The other candidates simply say what the voters want to
    hear.  Ron Paul warned us about the housing bubble, the debt crisis, the
    collapse of the US dollar, the high employment and recessions; basically, the
    entire collapse of our economy. He is the only candidate who can get us out of
    our mess.

     

    Ron Paul is a man who defends the constitution, civil
    liberties, peace and prosperity.  Paul has the wisdom, foresight, honesty
    and integrity to be president.  

     

    Mitt Romney does not where he stands on any issue; Michelle
    Bachmann is just very angry; Rick Perry does not know very much; John Huntsman
    has worked for Democrats for many years; Rick Santorum is an extremist; and Newt
    Gingrich is philosophically unanchored, an unstable element, whom as Peggy
    Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter writes is a “human hand grenade who walks
    around with his hand on the pin, saying, Watch this!”.

     

    America
    Needs Ron Paul.

     

  • us995

    no if that was true msnbc would offer her a job

  • Anonymous

    ha.here comes brainwashed brigae.spoon fed on syrup and shit by the cable tv .i for one,have only pity for you.

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann’s Support for Israel is immoral and against conservative values.  Ron Paul knows this and opposes it.

    Every year we give 3 billion dollars to the State of Israel which they then use to subsidize legal abortions to exterminate over 20,000 unborn babies each year

    Even Palestinian women must go to Israel if they want to abort their babies (Palestinians consider abortion to be a crime.)

    Meanwhile,if a female Israeli soldier finds herself pregnant, the Israel Military (IDF) will pay for at least two free abortions.  If she refuses to kill the fetus, she is  immediately dismissed from the army without any benefits or severance pay

    Please Google “Israel, abortions” to find out how American tax dollars are being used to subsidize the extermination of innocent Jewish children of God each year.

    Call your Congressman  and remind him that US aid to Israel contravenes the Hyde Amendment, which forbids US aid to nations that use government funds to subsidize abor tion services.

    Then vote for Ron Paul

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lysander-Spooner/100002296276481 Lysander Spooner

    If people knew and understood the philosophical consistency
    and intellectual depth of

    Dr. Ron Paul and studied the books of the people from whom
    he draws his principles, the election would be over and America would be saved.

     

     Although Dr. Paul is
    sometimes accused of being a Randian, this is a lie. While he mentions her, and
    what libertarian wouldn’t, he actually draws his beliefs from John Locke,
    Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Hans Hermann Hoppe, Carl Menger, F.A. Hayek,
    Randolph Bourne, Lew Rockwell, Raimondo, and others of the Austrian school.

     

    It is an American shame that most people are ignorant of the
    arguments these individuals have made for liberty and free markets.  Their writings are kept from the American
    people and our educational establishment so the media can be left to frame
    debate. This censorship and media filtering is a form of thought control.  The ruling class knows it is better off if
    Americans are divided and spend their time arguing about gay marriage and flag
    lapel pins.

     

    Americans, I beg you. 
    Please educate yourself and discover the questions that need to be
    asked.  Learn how genius economists,
    statesmen and philosophers have advanced the arguments for liberty and free
    markets.  Read how they have answered
    questions regarding liberty, peace, property rights and prosperity after having
    made the study of economics, history, war, government, philosophy, religion and
    liberty a lifetime endeavor. 

     

    When people understand that all other politicians are
    statists, except for Ron Paul who champions the individual, their choice for
    whom to elect as president will be made clear. 
    What other candidate authored books like “Liberty Defined”, “A Foreign
    Policy of Freedom”, “The Revolution, A Manifesto”, “Freedom Under Seige” and
    “Pillars of Prosperity”?  What other
    candidate would mention Bastiat’s “The Law” on national television?  The guy is a true revolutionary for
    liberty.  When you understand the
    argument you will finally understand Ron Paul.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lysander-Spooner/100002296276481 Lysander Spooner

    Ron Paul Knows War
     
    Ron Paul is the only candidate that understand­s the limits of military power and is able to discern when foreign policy dressed in reasonable sounding pronouncem­ents ends up being nothing more than the mass exterminat­ion of humans the other candidates laughingly refer to as peace.

    War is the biggest centrally-planned and counter-productive government program ever devised. I have served as an officer in the military for 28 years and understand Army operations.  These plans are always counter-productive and involve massively profound unintended consequences that sequence and branch into results that destroy the social fabric and pervert every democratic institution upon which civil society rests, not just of the country that is being attacked, but also of the country that is doing the attacking. 

    The house of cards the U.S. creates by installing puppet governments only remains standing so long as there is a never-ending commitment of U.S. foreign aid and American blood.  The end result is that we fracture and atomize a society that eventually solidifies into one where the people are violently anti-American.  Our hegmonic policies always eventually reach a point of diminishing returns regarding what advances American interests and begins to cultivate an anti-American movement that expands with exponential growth.  

    We have truly seen the end results of American foreign policy on 9/11.  The people who run American foreign policy can not accept nor ever face that fact.  Ron Paul is also the only one who seems to understand that by doing more of the same we will end up with more terrorism, not less. Take this advice from someone who has studied history, economics and war for 28 years.  If we maintain our present course, we will end up destitute and living under an oppressive police state, but I surmise at this point I am stating the blantantly obvious.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=577531511 Neal Phinney

    This is why Ron Paul is growing so strong, because when you blindly throw around hateful words like that and are unable to back them up or give any supportive argument, people come to realize the smear campaign that MSM is engaged in. I invite you to go to his website, http://www.ronpaul2012.com and look for yourself. Better yet, I invite you to go to the library and check out some of his books. I recommend to you Liberty Defined. Its a great book which challenges you to ask “what is the role of government”. Man, you are entitled to all of your beliefs, you can call him names and throw dirt around. Just remember that when you throw dirt, you loose ground. Take it easy brother and have a happy new year.

  • Anonymous

    Why are you still debating whether you want to have a President who can
    lay out an economic and constitutional thesis without a teleprompter? Do
    you really want an economically illiterate president advised by Don
    Corzine?

  • Anonymous

    Austrian economics is for people who can’t do math. Ron Paul is an idiot and no one with any sense, and not a thief, believes Hayek and Misses had anything useful to say about economics.

  • Anonymous

    That’s why Kent Sorenson defected to Ron Paul’s side….

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  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    If Ron Paul would be a “dangerous” President, what the Hell would Michele Bachmann be??

  • Anonymous

    How well has the Keynesian math worked out for us? Keynesian philosophy believes deficit spending is good for the economy. Any second now it will work just keeeeeeep spending and waiting. 

  • labman57

    Word of advise for Michele:  Know thyself.

  • Anonymous

    Michele knows that Paul would keep the Iranian embassy open.

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann votes for the NDAA. Yes, indefinite detention of American citizens at the presidents discretion. What’s more dangerous than that!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jah-Red/570904477 Jah Red

    A Strong principled Conservative woman?

    We the People are tired of our public servants who will lie to us to make themselves look better… Bachmann needs to be brought up on ethics charges for lying to the public about Iowa State Senator Kent Sorenson.. SO much for her claim to be a good Christian woman… Can’t believe anything that comes from her mouth, but then she is a lawyer and we all know how to tell when a lawyer is lying…

  • BooBoo Bear

    I wish your mother had aborted you.

    IF YOU ARE AGAINST ABORTION,  DON’T HAVE ONE.

    It’s as easy as that.

  • Anonymous

    You have studied history, I have lived through the times you mentioned and can verify everything you wrote is true. The 1950′s seemed to be the most stable period in my lifetime even though the Soviet Union threatened to bury us, but cooler heads prevailed and armageddon was avoided. Our government interfered in other nations business too often and all we accomplished is to make more enemies throughout the world. I believe in a strong national defense, but not an aggressor force to invade other lands that are no threat to the U.S. I proudly served from 59-63, the early part of the Viet-Nam war. I didn’t reenlist because I believed the war was a civil war and we had no business over there. Today the country is united and we import many things from Viet-Nam. So what did we accomplish other than forfeit American lives and killing thousands of Viet-Namese people ?  The same holds true for Iraq, we go to war for lying politicians and corporations, not to defend our country. We need a president that has common sense and a sense of reality as to what we are doing to others. There is a chance we will be involved in a war with Iran, another country we meddled in for corporate profit. Like the old song says, When Will They Ever Learn.

  • http://twitter.com/blindsman Mike Wasdin

    And we dismiss you douche bag….

  • http://twitter.com/blindsman Mike Wasdin

    Lol…what a moron….

  • http://twitter.com/blindsman Mike Wasdin

    Winston, you are a complete moron….and complete morons are rare….congratulations…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002431312379 Daryl Harmon

    “Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.”
    -Ron Paul, a fascist neo-nazi.

    And lol, someone who has defended freedom for 50 years, while maintaining the most consistent record in modern legislature history is a fraud? Ha! You are a loon.

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