Now we know where the machines are going to send Ron Paul's votes this time.
"Bachmann jumps into crowded GOP field
WATERLOO, Iowa — A recent Iowa poll shows Republican Michele Bachmann essentially tied with national front-runner Mitt Romney, signaling she is a clear caucus favorite.
Bachmann is betting that her standing with the Tea Party movement — she created the Tea Party Caucus in Congress — and affinity with evangelical Christians will deliver a win in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
“I seek the presidency not for vanity, but because America is at a crucial moment and I believe that we must make a bold choice if we are to secure the promise of the future,’’ she said.
Republican opponents have yet to directly engage Bachmann, but recognize they ignore her at their own peril. Her candidacy presents a particular challenge to fellow Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty, the state’s former governor.
She's usurped Sarah Palin's position.
Asked about Bachmann on NBC’s “Today’’ show yesterday, Pawlenty demurred while focusing on his record. “I’ve actually led in an executive position and moved the needle on conservative results,’’ said Pawlenty, who is running radio ads in Iowa that end with the slogan: “Results, Not Rhetoric.’’
The fallback candidate for the corporate masters that control the selection of candidates.
A Des Moines Register poll published Sunday showed Bachmann and Romney far ahead in Iowa of Pawlenty, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, former House speaker Newt Gingrich, former senator Rick Santorum, Texas Representative Ron Paul, and businessman Herman Cain.
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Also see: Bachmann Bends Over For Israel
I'd say she has a shot at the prezidency.
"In N.H. visit, Bachmann praises moratorium on US income tax; GOP hopeful says 1-year halt would boost economy" by Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent / June 29, 2011
RAYMOND, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann suggested yesterday that she would support imposing a moratorium on the federal income tax as a way to boost the economy....
She was greeted enthusiastically in the first-in-the-nation primary state, where a new poll shows her popularity growing....
But today the idea of a one-year income tax holiday is not being discussed because of its cost....
Nothing like a nothing distraction on the campaign trail.
Bachmann, a favorite of the Tea Party movement who started the Tea Party caucus in Congress, has seen her support grow since her strong performance in the New Hampshire debate earlier this month.
Related: What Did You Watch Last Night?
She was tied for the top spot with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in a poll of likely Iowa voters by the Des Moines Register last weekend. A poll of likely New Hampshire primary voters released last night by Suffolk University/7NEWS found that Bachmann would get 11 percent of the vote, compared with 3 percent in May. Romney remained ahead with 36 percent, with every other candidate in single digits.
David Paleologos, director of Suffolk University’s Political Research Center, said the poll finds that more New Hampshire residents are identifying themselves as conservative and as Tea Party affiliates, Bachmann’s core constituency.
Enthusiasm was clear at yesterday’s event. “She’s our hope for winning and beating Obama,’’ said Belinda Hamel, a church secretary from Danville. “She stands for all the principles I value — our freedom to worship, to have property [and] small government, not large government.’’
Republican state Representative David Bates, of Windham, who founded the Southern New Hampshire 912 Project, a libertarian-leaning conservative group, said he believes he can count on Bachmann as someone who “believes in following the Constitution.’’
Then RON PAUL is your MAN!
As president, Bachmann said, her top priority would be improving the economy by cutting government spending and lowering taxes. She said she would reduce corporate taxes, eliminate the capital gains tax, and “put a nail in the coffin of the death tax.’’
The WEALTH GIVEAWAY to the RICH should go over well.
Bachmann pledged to bring together fiscal, social, and national security conservatives to defeat President Obama.
Bachmann did not mention comments she made earlier yesterday on “Good Morning America,’’ when she said she would be open to eliminating the federal minimum wage as a way to address unemployment....
Yeah, $he know$ who elect$ prezident$.
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Has she taken the pledge?
"For candidates, position pledges can pose unexpected perils; Romney not alone in tripping over special interests" by Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent / June 29, 2011
When Mitt Romney refused to sign a sweeping antiabortion pledge earlier this month, the Republican presidential candidate found himself in one of the minefields of contemporary politics — the pledges and questionnaires advocacy groups use to get candidates on the record.
Not signing carries a risk, as Romney discovered when his refusal to sign the Susan B. Anthony List pledge revived doubts about his antiabortion commitment.
Related: Susan B. Anthony Was an Anti-Abortionist
Also see: Romney's Remark
Yer losin' it, Mitt!
Pledges are particularly big in the antitax world. It was a pledge by antitax activist Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, created in 1986, that tripped up Bush in 1988. During his presidential campaign, Bush signed Norquist’s pledge not to raise taxes. The candidate then made his famous statement at the 1988 Republican National Convention: “Read my lips: no new taxes.’’
But the deficit soared, Democrats controlled Congress, and Bush was forced to raise taxes. Democrat Bill Clinton used the broken pledge against Bush during his reelection campaign — and Bush lost.
Read my lips: don’t break promises.
Norquist’s pledge has also played a role in a recent Senate debate over ethanol subsidies. When Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, tried to eliminate the subsidies, he ran into opposition from Norquist.
The problem? Norquist’s pledge, signed by all but seven Republican senators and six House members, obligates members of Congress to oppose efforts to reduce tax deductions or credits without an equal lowering of the tax rate. In Norquist’s eyes, since Coburn was eliminating a tax credit without lowering tax rates, he was effectively raising taxes and violating the pledge.
Bush isn’t the only president whose promises have come back to haunt him. In 1996, Illinois state Senate candidate Barack Obama wrote in response to a questionnaire from Outlines newspaper in Chicago, “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.’’
Yeah, forget the BROKEN PROMISES on TORTURE, the WARS, and SPYING!
Flash forward 15 years. First as a presidential candidate and now as president, Obama has supported civil unions for gays but not same-sex marriage. At first, a White House spokesman asserted that Obama hadn’t written the 1996 response. When that didn’t work, the White House issued a statement....
That means THEY LIED, dear readers.
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Update: Michele Bachmann Not Truthful On Benefiting From Government Money
I guess not, readers.
