I just got an e-mail that my Yahoo! post on Yahoo! Answers was chosen as the best answer to their question: “Would you approve of Michele Bachmann for President in 2012?”
I just said that I thought she was very bright and articulate. The Left doesn’t think so – they say she has said stupid things. But they think Joe Biden and Harry Reid are brilliant, so they’re in an entirely different universe.
And then I answered someone else who said, “I think that we have seen what happens when you go straight from Congress to the White House and it isn’t pretty. She should be a governor or Vice President first and get some executive experience.” I added that JFK went directly from Senator to President and seemed to do okay, and that Lincoln went directly from the House of Representatives to President. It’s laziness, I think, to generalize over things like that. You have to look a little deeper at a person.
Do you understand that the Left spent more money trying to defeat her this past election than on any other Republican incumbent? That tells you what they honestly think of her, deep down, in their gut, at a level that they may not even consciously understand.
And it has to be maddening to them that with all they put into that campaign, she won by 12 points.
If she gave any clue about being serious in pursuing the presidency, I would join in forming a Bachmann for President committee here in Arizona. She is my favorite potential candidate, though not the only one I could get excited about.
It’s not just about how conservative someone is. The biggest need we conservatives have in a 2012 candidate is courage – courage to strike death blows at the very foundations of what Mark Levin calls statism. Courage to not back down on basic principles. And Bachmann radiates that plain-spoken courage to say exactly what she thinks.
Um….Bachmann raised more than TWICE her opponent. And she raised most of it from outside her district. So, no. The liberals didn’t have enough money to defeat her. Becuase liberals aren’t heads of corporations. Corporations pay republicans to eliminate taxes and regulation. Liberals aren’t that crooked.
Response from David Hall:
Dear John in MN,
She did raise a lot of money, which is another thing that would make her a great candidate. But you Liberals have such a hard time facing up to the reality of public opinion in this country. There are twice as many conservatives as liberals among the common people. And this myth about rich Republicans – the truly rich are Liberals and Leftists – George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, etc. Hollywood elites are overwhelmingly Leftist.
The website Opensecrets.org tracks contributions to candidates. Analyzing the data on the Michele Bachmann page shows that over 80% of the donations to her campaign were in amounts under $200. And of the larger contributions, only six were over $10,000 apiece, and the overwhelming majority of that money came from individual employees of the corporations and not the corporations themselves.
The dark underbelly of the Obama administration, which you will have a very hard time coming to grips with, is the crony capitalism – the partnering with large corporations such as GM, Goldman-Sachs, Countrywide Mortgage, GE, and so forth. Certain companies get cozy with the government, and when the government passes new financial regulations and doles out contracts, these corporations get favorable treatment. That’s one tactic that the 20% minority of Liberals in this country use to hold onto their power against the will of the majority.