Why Not Bachmann?
If history recycles, we can expect people in Barack Obama's White House to start building up Michele Bachmann just as JFK's White House built up Barry Goldwater.In early November of 1963, the Gallup Poll gave President John Kennedy a 55-to-39-point lead over his probable 1964 Republican candidate, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona.
Good news for the White House. Very good news.“This could be fun, if it’s Barry,” said Kennedy, who liked Goldwater a lot. Everybody did. A lot of them, specifically Kennedy, thought the Arizona senator was too conservative or just too dumb to become president. “Give me Barry. I won’t even have to leave the Oval Office.” Then he told his staff and political people: “Don’t waste any chance to praise Barry. Build him up a little. Don’t mention the others.” (The “others” were New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Michigan Gov. George Romney, whose son, Mitt Romney, is a candidate this time.)If history recycles, we can expect people in Barack Obama’s White House to start building up Michele Bachmann, the feisty congresswoman from Minnesota who has said she considers the Obamas to be “anti-American.” Obama would not have to leave the White House either. In fact, compared with Bachmann, old cowboy conservative Goldwater is Thomas Jefferson.If you Google “Michele Bachmann,” among the first of 4,970,000 entries that come up are:“The 10 Craziest Bachmann Quotes.”“The Ultimate Collection of Bad Bachmann Quotes.”© 2011 UNIVERSAL UCLICK
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