As of Monday, June 27th, Michelle Bachmann has announced her intention to run for President of the United States. Even more alarming is the fact that she is only one point behind "Perfect Hair" Romney in Iowa. Unfortunately for her, she is only the latest flavor of the month in an increasingly unwinnable republican race.
True, that the most ardent of republicans are grinning ear to ear over the possibility that they may actually get rid of the Kenyan, Marxist, Socialist, Nazi Obama, regardless of the fact that none of the previous ideologies are in any way compatible. The minute anyone espouses the idea that someone can be all three at once shows a glaring lack of understanding about political factions and the sure thing that they watch Glenn Beck religiously.
The GOP has been in a fit lately over the sheer lack of good candidates. Rick Santorum and John Huntsman are all but forgotten which is bad for Huntsman as he just entered the race last week to a thundering yawn. Barely ahead of them are Tim Pawlenty who seems constantly unable to say the right thing about anyone or anything. His own party has disavowed his economic plan after it was revealed by anyone who looked at it that it was completely unworkable and would actually increase the deficit. Has he changed his tactics? No, he has instead crowed that every economist in earth is wrong and only he has the right way out. The right way out for him is straight out the door as his numbers are plummeting faster than an elephant pushed off a skyscraper.
Other stalwarts include Herman Cain whose numbers seems stuck at ten percent as his vision of America is based on how to run a pizza company and Newt Gingrich who seems to find one insurmountable obstacle after another as his team has quit, he's millions in debt, he has two lines of million dollar credit with Tiffany's, and the US public liken him to cancer on a list of things they despise.
Ron Paul is likewise stuck at ten percent as the main stream media continues to downplay his chances of success. Recent television polls have him dead last which is odd because Internet polls have vastly different numbers giving him an overwhelming majority of GOP votes. These numbers could have significance in age differences or technology (phone versus computer), but the fact remains that Paul is a contender.
All that leaves is Bachmann and Romney. Romney may be a little too Mormon for the Christian right which has taken over the GOP along with the Tea Party. It should come as no surprise that Michelle Bachmann may be the one they actually pick as their Presidential candidate. She's a Christian AND a Tea Bagger. Joy.
There's only one problem with this logic: She can't win a national election versus a dead cow let alone Obama. Why you ask? Because she's crackpot insane. There are years of her saying dumb things on camera, all of which will be there for the world to see once we get deluged in political ads. And thanks to the Supreme Court rulings that now allow unlimited money for political ads and unlimited money to candidates themselves, it's going to be 24/7 of attack ads. I can hardly wait (insert sarcasm here).
Worst of all, she's a raging hypocrite and possibly even a pathological liar with all the crap that spews from her pie hole. Here's this holier than thou persona that is demanding entitlements be cut, calling people "freeloaders," when she herself has benefited from such programs. This "fiscal conservative," ran a counseling clinic that received nearly $30,000 from the state of Minnesota over the last five years, with some of the money coming from the federal government. And a family farm she is a partner with in Wisconsin received some $260,000 in federal subsidies. She has said that she has never received one dime from the government and has never taken any money from the farm. However, in financial disclosure forms, Bachmann reported receiving between $32,503 and $105,000 in income from the farm between 2006 and 2009. So she is right in the fact that not one dime was collected but instead somewhere between 32,000 and 105,000 dollars. Unbelievable.
This couples with the fact that she has said such outrageous things as "I truly believe Obama has unamerican beliefs," "If we took away the minimum wage, we could potentially wipe out unemployment because we would be able to offer jobs at any level," and "There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists out there, many with Nobel prizes, that believe in intelligent design." Not one of those above statements is true, and that's just a sampling.
When the mass public sees what a nutjob she is, there is no way she gets to the Presidency. The nomination on the other hand is not out of the question, seeing the sad state of the other competitors. The real test will be how she does outside of her home state of Iowa, where she was born and raised. As of June 27th, she was near the bottom in a New Hampshire straw poll where Romney was thirty points ahead of Bachmann, who was at 5%. Romney is still the guy to beat, regardless of what Iowa says. As they tend toward Christians above all us, the fact that Romney is ahead in Iowa is really saying something. Most likely Bachmann will flame out soon, but it should be a fun parade of misstatement, half truths and outright lies. Just like most politicians today.
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