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Bachmann as ‘Unifying Choice’ in First Campaign Ad

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Posted on Jul 7, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s first TV ad airs Thursday in Iowa. After 25 seconds of nostalgia about the Hawkeye State and predictable rhetoric about not increasing the debt ceiling, it says she’s “the unifying choice that will beat Obama.”

When she announced her candidacy, Bachmann, a tea partyer who tends toward extremes in her opinions, said she could draw in “disaffected Democrats,” “independents” and “people who have never been political a day in their life.”  —BF

Michele Bachmann’s Waterloo, Iowa, Television Ad:

 

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By felicity, July 11, 2011 at 9:22 am Link to this comment

I don’t like to label people but after reading the
characteristics of a sociopath, Bachmann is one - as
was W and his mate-in-crime Dick - and we know how
their rule turned out (I’m beginning to doubt if we’ll
ever recover as a nation.)

The great danger of a sociopath being in a position of
power is his/her ability to cajole her audience into
suspending reason while listening to, and believing
unconditionally, her persuasive nonsensical drivel.

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By Jimnp72, July 11, 2011 at 9:07 am Link to this comment

the point is well taken that Reagan, a near brainless moron in senility when elected, and W, were two very very dumb presidents/ Michelle would out do them and to paraphrase W never misunderestimate the stupidity of the amerikan peo0ple.

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By SteveL, July 10, 2011 at 9:24 pm Link to this comment

Scary would be this future President believing her own
bullshit.

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By herb davis,jr., July 10, 2011 at 8:09 am Link to this comment
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As the smartest Minnesotan running, she deserves our enthusiastic support.Obama appears to be throwing the elction and we don’t want Perry!

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By Alex, July 9, 2011 at 7:52 pm Link to this comment
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Michelle is the perfect candidate: inane enough for most folks to identify with, no intimidating intellect.

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By JDmysticDJ, July 8, 2011 at 10:43 am Link to this comment

I must disagree with those who belittle Michelle Bachmann and scoff at the possibility of her being politically successful, and influential. Michelle Bachmann with her moronic sounding voice, and her moronic vacuous eyes, and her moronic pronouncements is no more moronic than was Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan was a stuffed suit, an untalented actor, the corrupt leader of the screen actors guild, a simple minded ideologue, a figurehead puppet Governor surrounded by right-wing ideologues, and a man very skilled at communicating simplistic ideological gibberish and sophomoric moral ideas and platitudes, and the President of the United States, elected by Americans easily duped, and moronic in their own right.

As President, Ronald Reagan implemented economic policies detrimental to those who elected him, policies that have had long lasting destructive affects. As President: Ronald Reagan violated International Law, supported brutal Para-military groups and jihadists, supported the over-throw of elected governments, spoke of “freedom fighters” who were nothing more than gangsters, thugs, and drug smugglers, kissed the asses of criminals in his administration, and maintained a demeanor of civility, and moral uprightness all the while. (According to my totally irrational and unsubstantiated intuition Ronald Reagan was also a child molester, but don’t allow my totally and completely irrational unsubstantiated intuition to discredit the very real facts pertaining to Ronald Reagan that I have mentioned.)

Anyone who discounts the danger of Michelle Bachmann, and her political potentialities and influence needs to consider the example of Ronald Reagan, throw in the example of a moronic George W. and the danger is multiplied.

(I’m feeling some angst about having violated the 9th Commandment as it pertains to my totally and completely irrational unsubstantiated comment, but my intuition tells me… no doubt, no doubt at all.)

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By schnauzermom, July 8, 2011 at 9:36 am Link to this comment

Maybe brain-dead disaffected democrats? But they’d have to be certified as brain-dead by at least three physicians…

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By ribbie149, July 8, 2011 at 7:50 am Link to this comment

If she used any more makeup, she would have to apply it
with a trowel.

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By TDoff, July 8, 2011 at 6:26 am Link to this comment

Bachmann is another TNT candidate, as Sarah was. She’s made her way through life flashing her T*ts ‘N Teeth, and faking confidence, as if the inanities she spouts were fact-based truths, rather than figments of a distorted, ‘god’-warped psyche.

It’s true she is a unifying force, a magnet for the other know-nothing witless twits in our society, and there are many. And they are proliferating, in fringe political/religious cults.But so long as they make up less than 50% of the voters, the rest of US should be safe.

Unless, of course, we continue to vote on rigged machines…and continue to accept our rigged, plutocratic/corporate political/economic system.

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By ribbie149, July 7, 2011 at 8:08 pm Link to this comment

She will unify voters- to vote for anyone but her.

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By scott maxwell, July 7, 2011 at 7:34 pm Link to this comment
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She’s a vapid minded woman—no substance, no knowledge of history
either present nor past, and is a sad sad testimony to the lunacy of those
who voted her into office to represent them…. uffda, dose minneeeesotans
are dumb.

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