Every day it seems like I read the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. Today is no exception.
“Some aspects have to be traditional,” said the source close to [Michele] Bachmann. “You’ve got to have a media guy, you’ve got to have your political guy and your message guy. Then there is the non-traditional side. If she runs, you will see a grassroots campaign that looks like none you’ve ever seen before. It will make Barack Obama’s effort pale in comparison.”
I understand the need to put a positive spin on things for your candidate, but Michele Bachmann is not going to create a grassroots organization comparable to Barack Obama’s.
Yet, Bachmann is apparently getting enough positive feedback from voters that she is leaning more and more towards running for president. Americans generally refuse to take congresspeople seriously as presidential candidates, and I see absolutely no reason why Bachmann will be any different. But she should be a spectacle at the debates and there is a good chance that Rich Lowry will see starbursts.
I’m looking forward to her campaign.
I want her to run too.
oh, that would be WONDERFUL!
Does her head still spin around like Regan’s?
The more GOP Presidential candidates the better. The chances are they will disperse Republican energy and funding and damage their collective brand by internecine squabbling. Meanwhile Obama just has to look serene and Presidential, avoid more wars and get the economy moving better. The Republican base might actually vote for someone like Bachman. Better again still. Meanwhile Democrats should focus on retaining the Senate and winning back Congress. Democrats should focus on winning the overall argument and leave the inter-personal squabbling to Republicans.
Is there any chance anyone of substance will run against Obama in the Dem Primaries?
Do you ever get concerned that the republican establishment is OK with her running because it will make Romney and Daniels look so reasonable? Also, it might draw a lot of the crazies away from Huckabee or Palin should one of them run, clearing the path for the “Reasonable Republican.”
I’m just worried we’re going to get in this dynamic in the general where Romney (or Daniels) is sort of seen as the “centrist” candidate with Obama on the left and the vanquished primary foes Bachman/Palin/Huckabee on the right, notwithstanding the fact that at that point, Romney will be anti-health care, denying climate change, pro-union busting, pro gutting entitlements, etc.
One thing I’m always struck by talking to friends of all political persuasions here in ny is that terms like left, right, center, moderate, etc are 100% subjective terms, and even the educated don’t have the intellectual tools or the desire to even attempt to put policy positions in their proper category. So that’s always in the back of my mind when I see Bachman and other tea partiers take such reactionary positions.
Oh, please run. Even the batshit crazies should have a voice in the national debate and no one does that better than Bachmann.
What? Do these people use Baghdad Bob toothpaste in the mornings?