Comments on: If Michele Bachmann runs… https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Will https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-214183 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:22:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-214183 I like her a lot, and even sent a donation to her. I still have a very bad feeling about the upcoming Presidential election, and anyone running against the dirty, corrupt Chicago machine. A second term will devastate this country.

]]> By: Jack https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213855 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:24:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213855 “The amazing fact about the Left’s hate is that it can be focused in an instant on any one who disagrees with them. Like switching on a light.”

No doubt the “journolist” has been replaced.

]]> By: Dan Smith https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213806 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:47:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213806 I live in MN but not in Bachmann’s district. Locally, the progs have a special hatred for her, inflamed all the more because she was a phenomenally good fund raiser and, as a woman, contradicts much of the conventional prog wisdom: religious, pro-life, unabashedly patriotic. The DFL party put a cookie cutter female liberal against her in the general election and Michelle kicked ass.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213805 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:44:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213805 I’d like to see a nationwide billboard campaign by the GOP featuring the huge faces of different prominent MSM talking heads with the caption “Why couldn’t this man/woman be honest with you about the radicalness of our President?”

For insight go to msmknowswhatsgoodforu.com

]]> By: Jim https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213773 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:30:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213773 Even though I mentioned it first, I think we may be overstating the impact of MSNBC/Chris Matthews. Their ratings are in the toilet, and will probably get even lower over the next two years. They only appeal to the crazies who wouldn’t vote (R) if a reincarnated Abraham Lincoln entered the race.

The bigger problem in my opinion is the pop culture wave of bias facing the candidate (whoever it is). I believe when the message is sent by SNL/Jon Stewart/MTV/etc it can burrow deeper into the minds of impressionable voters, especially the young ones. Because it’s so relentlessly delivered, yet disguised as “entertainment” and not “news,” the “Palin/Bachmann/Random (R) Candidate is a Fool” meme becomes “common knowledge” for them. In ’08 the media literally made it “uncool” to support McCain/Palin. When the people who actually check the “real” news to verify this belief and see “news” broacasters on ABC/CBS/NBC backing it up 100%, it becomes a set-in-stone fact in their minds.

I’m afraid in 2012 the media assault on the Republicans will be worse than it was in ’08. They’ve been biased for a long time, but they saw how well their Let’s-Not-Even-TRY-to-Be-Impartial Plan worked last time, so they’ll REALLY turn on the hate, especially if Obama’s poll numbers are low. We have to hope that the majority of voters will have figured them out by then.

]]> By: alanstorm https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213765 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:40:04 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213765 “But unlike Palin, she has a law degree, which makes her more immune—although hardly completely resistant–to the charges of “dummy.””

I note that a lot of Congresscritters have law degrees. Judging by their output, holding a law degree DEMANDS a charge of “dummy”.

No one who voted for Barry O. has any standing whatsoever to criticize any other candidate’s intelligence. It was obvious from the first moment of his campaign that he was an idiot – and his performance in office has demonstrated that many times over.

]]> By: Amy Kane https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213758 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:43:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213758 I think Bachmann maybe running a good thing. It makes it harder to treat Palin like she’s a freak exception to the rule rather than part of a powerful political and cultural trend.

]]> By: ABC https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213736 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:30:10 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213736 The first female leaders of countries always seem to be conservative…

]]> By: Palin Derangement Syndrome: A Collection (384 Cases) « BUUUUURRRRNING HOT https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213716 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:26:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213716 […] If Michele Bachmann runs… – …for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, will she split some of the […]

]]> By: FenelonSpoke https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213713 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:03:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/05/if-michele-bachmann-runs/#comment-213713 Jed said: “The amazing fact about the Left’s hate is that it can be focused in an instant on any one who disagrees with them. Like switching on a light.”

That is one of the best summing up of the mind of many liberals as I have ever seen.

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