
Michele Bachmann, in a dead heat with Mitt Romney in Iowa in the latest Des Moines Register poll, got some more good news from Gallup today.
Under the headline “Bachmann in Strong Position as She Enters 2012 Race,” Gallup reports that the Minnesota congresswoman “enters the race with 69% name recognition among Republicans and ties for the highest Positive Intensity Score of any GOP candidate Gallup tracks.”

(Gallup defines “positive intensity” as the percentage of those who strongly favor the candidate minus the percentage that strongly opposes him or her.)
Note that Newt Gingrich, one of the best known of the GOP candidates, has a positive intensity rating of 2 among his fellow Republicans. And Tim Pawlenty is turning out to be the kind of man who can’t excite anyone but his dog back home, if he has one. With a PIR of 8, he trails even Rick Santorum. (In GOP presidential politics, Santorum serves as the equivalent of baseball’s Mario Mendoza.)
Pawlenty is counting on performing well in Iowa, but after weeks of working the state, he’s still at just 6 percent in the Register poll. It ain’t happening for TPaw.
According to a Register analysis of its poll:
Bachmann, 55, rates the strongest with very conservative caucusgoers, along with those who are well-educated and ages 45 to 64.
More respondents pick her as their second choice, 18 percent, than name Romney, 10 percent.
“Michele Bachmann has always looked like a fit for Iowa on paper, and the debate likely helped solidify her standing,” pollster J. Ann Selzer said. “This poll confirms she has potential to do very well here.”
Me, I’m not buying it. I’ll admit to being surprised by the degree of discipline that Bachmann has demonstrated to date, but it won’t last. In the harsh glare of the national spotlight, wackiness will out itself in time.
As Ron Carey, a former chief of staff for Bachmann and now a Pawlenty backer, writes in the Register:
“The Bachmann campaign and congressional offices I inherited were wildly out of control. Stacks upon stacks of unopened contributions filled the campaign office while thousands of communications from citizens waited for an answer. If she is unable, or unwilling, to handle the basic duties of a campaign or congressional office, how could she possibly manage the magnitude of the presidency?”
For the time being, people are enamored of Bachmann because she is saying things they like to hear (the same trend drove the early support for Herman Cain.) But like Cain, she is not someone to be taken seriously as a potential occupant of the White House.
– Jay Bookman
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Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:15 pm
Why the insults JC, you cannot debate facts. Can you?
josef
June 28th, 2011
6:15 pm
Cynthia McKinney?
Now there’s the poster child for batshyte crazy!
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:18 pm
JC, do you think what is happening in Detroit is my imagination?
Do you think that JUST MAYBE, democratic policy, and the exact “take what is ours from the MAN” philosophy you still hold onto MIGHT have something to do with the condition of that city today?
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:19 pm
Peadawg @ 6.14,
Nice try…but I didn’t say “gaffes”, I said batshyte crazy quotes. You know…stuff he actually believes. Even then 5 out 8 (yes 8 not 7) aren’t even quotes. Lame..even for you.
Mighty Righty
June 28th, 2011
6:21 pm
Please show me 10 batshyte crazy quotes from Obama before he was elected.”
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“We’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy.” —on Wall Street reform, Quincy, Ill., April 29, 2010
“One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world — Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard.” –mispronouncing “Corpsman” (the “ps” is silent) during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010 (The Corpsman’s name is also Christopher, not Christian)
“The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.” –Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010
“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” –attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
“The Cambridge police acted stupidly.” —commenting on a white police officer’s arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference, July 22, 2009
“The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.” –in remarks after a health care roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009
“It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.” –confusing German for “Austrian,” a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009
“No, no. I have been practicing…I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something.” –making an off-hand joke during an appearance on “The Tonight Show”, March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)
“I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances.” –after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)
“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” — defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama’s policy hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
“What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith…” –in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying “your Christian faith,” which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)
“I’m here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis.” –speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
“Let me introduce to you the next President — the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.” –slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008
“Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.” –referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.” –Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
“How’s it going, Sunshine?” –campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’re going to do — we’ll do a press avail.” –to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
“I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.” –at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” –after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” –explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
“Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by reporters after a news conference
“You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” –during a Democratic debate
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” –on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009
“No, no. I have been practicing…I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something.” –making an off-hand joke during an appearance on “The Tonight Show”, March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)
“I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances.” –after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)
“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” — defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama’s policy hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
“What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith…” –in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying “your Christian faith,” which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)
“I’m here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis.” –speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
“Let me introduce to you the next President — the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.” –slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008
“Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.” –referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.” –Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
“How’s it going, Sunshine?” –campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’re going to do — we’ll do a press avail.” –to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
“I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.” –at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” –after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” –explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
“Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by reporters after a news conference
“You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” –during a Democratic debate
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” –on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
“Let me introduce to you the next President — the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.” –slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008
“Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.” –referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.” –Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
“How’s it going, Sunshine?” –campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’re going to do — we’ll do a press avail.” –to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
“I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.” –at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” –after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” –explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
“Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by reporters after a news conference
“You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” –during a Democratic debate
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” –on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008
“Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.” –referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.” –Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
“How’s it going, Sunshine?” –campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’re going to do — we’ll do a press avail.” –to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
“I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.” –at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” –after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” –explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
“Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by reporters after a news conference
“You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” –during a Democratic debate
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” –on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
Israel, July 23, 2008
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.” –Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
“How’s it going, Sunshine?” –campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’re going to do — we’ll do a press avail.” –to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
“I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.” –at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” –after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” –explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
“Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by reporters after a news conference
“You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” –during a Democratic debate
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” –on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
Florida
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’re going to do — we’ll do a press avail.” –to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
“I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.” –at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” –after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” –explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
“Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by reporters after a news conference
“You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” –during a Democratic debate
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” –on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:22 pm
Mr. Charlie,
“do you think what is happening in Detroit is my imagination? ”
No…but it also not “Mass inflation, devaluation of our currency, riots, violent protest and class warfare”.
“Do you think that JUST MAYBE, democratic policy, and the exact “take what is ours from the MAN” philosophy you still hold onto MIGHT have something to do with the condition of that city today?”
Been reading a little Ayn lately?
Joe Mama
June 28th, 2011
6:23 pm
Mr Charlie — “Do you think that JUST MAYBE, democratic policy, and the exact “take what is ours from the MAN” philosophy you still hold onto MIGHT have something to do with the condition of that city today?”
ZOMG here com the poar peepl to raip yr bank acct!!!11!!!!1111111!
josef
June 28th, 2011
6:23 pm
jewcowboy
@ 6:19
I wish some folks on both sides could just let go and enjoy the gaffes they (we) all make. They’re fun. That way they DON’T get confused with batshyte crazy stuff…
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:24 pm
Mr. Charlie,
“Why the insults JC, you cannot debate facts. Can you?”
Perhaps when you provide something other than “Mass inflation, devaluation of our currency, riots, violent protest and class warfare” as well as Detroit ala Ayn Rand I’ll debate you…but facts do not seem to be in your repertoire…only exaggeration and conjecture.
Peadawg
June 28th, 2011
6:25 pm
“Nice try”
Aw I’m sorry jewcowboy. Mad I actually found some? Too bad.
Peadawg
June 28th, 2011
6:26 pm
“I wish some folks on both sides could just let go and enjoy the gaffes they (we) all make. They’re fun.”
Bingo.
josef
June 28th, 2011
6:26 pm
mighty righty
A link would serve the purpose…and, yes, I would have gone to it…
F. Sinkwich
June 28th, 2011
6:26 pm
Good to see Jay got the DNC email:
“…Bachmann is getting traction. Trash her as a lunatic. Use words like ‘wacky.’ Get quotes from disgruntled former staffers…”
You forgot to mention the strongest argument she has to use against Obama, Jay: She’s a free market capitalist opposing a president steeped in European socialist dogma approaching Marxism.
The choice between to two is easy.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:27 pm
josef,
“Now there’s the poster child for batshyte crazy!”
Look at the eyes:
http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2011/06/xlarge_bachmann.jpg
http://hotair.cachefly.net/mm/mckin.jpg
Crazy eyes…both of them.
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:31 pm
Joe, again, no answer, just an insult. What a weakling you are.
josef
June 28th, 2011
6:32 pm
jewcowboy
I couldn’t get the second one…who was it?
And those eyes remind me of Village of the Damned!
godless heathen
June 28th, 2011
6:33 pm
Bachmann as Veep might serve the same critical role as Biden. Complete safety for the President.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:33 pm
Mighty Righty @ 6.21,
Again…I did not ask for gaffes. I readily admit all public people make recordable gaffes,and Obama is not excluded. But what I am seeking is statements that are part of a belief system that Obama espouses..not a misstatement. An example would be most Bushism’s were gaffes…not batshyte crazy statements.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:34 pm
josef,
“That way they DON’T get confused with batshyte crazy stuff…”
Bingo!
bman
June 28th, 2011
6:35 pm
anyone but obama, please
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
6:35 pm
JAY:
Just when I think your bias can stoop any lower ………………………
But alas, I digress.
What the heck is this? Unless there is something the government is keeping under wraps this article should strike fear in the heart of every American ……………. all while illiegal aliens roam our streets !
Headline: “Vet Checks Wrong Box, Faces Charges”
Army, Navy Photographer Accused Of Passport Fraud
http://www.news4jax.com/news/28373245/detail.html
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
6:35 pm
Excuse me: “can’t stoop any lower”
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:36 pm
F. Sinkwich
“She’s a free market capitalist opposing a president steeped in European socialist dogma approaching Marxism.”
Except when she’s accepting $250K in farm subsidies…
bookthief
June 28th, 2011
6:36 pm
It would be wonderful if Michele went all the way!!! Obama would make her cry real tears and we’d get to keep a rational person four more years. You go girl, God luv, ya.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:37 pm
josef,
“I couldn’t get the second one…who was it?”
Mckinny..same crazy damn eyes….
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
6:37 pm
Headline: “Michele Bachmann’s thin legislative résumé”
……………. as compared to the “community organizer” ?
The bias of the left wing press is astounding.
josef
June 28th, 2011
6:37 pm
I don’t quite get it from the anti Obama crowd…is he all powerful and leading us down the road to perdition or is he all incompetent leading us down the road to perdition. And, no, I don’t think he’s leading us down the road to salvation either.
I think he’s spectacularly mediocre and leading us down the road to spectacular mediocrity…jmo
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
6:38 pm
Headline: “Pooper snoopers demand dog DNA
“A New Hampshire apartment complex is requiring that residents submit pet DNA samples. Why? To check if any of them are leaving their dogs’ waste on the property.”
Any of you libs. want to apply to be the “Poop PoPo” ??
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
6:39 pm
josef:
………………… and they will come for “you” first.
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:39 pm
When then knock on your front door, how you gonna come, with your hands on your head or the trigger of the gun?
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
6:39 pm
Headline: WASHINGTON — “The passage of historic legislation legalizing same sex marriage in the state of New York last Friday was owed in large part to a compelling political motivator: MONEY (emphasis added)”
Why is the above not surprising ?
I Timothy 6:10
“For the LOVE (emphasis added) of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”
“Wickedness arrays itself in beautiful clothes and even imitates the language of holiness.”
Charles Spurgeon
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2011
6:40 pm
Any of you libs. want to apply to be the “Poop PoPo” ??
Naw Scout, that clearly is below our pay grade. Right up your alley though. Hope you can handle it as well as you shovel it.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:41 pm
josef,
“I think he’s spectacularly mediocre and leading us down the road to spectacular mediocrity…”
I couldn’t have said it better myself…bravo!
F. Sinkwich
June 28th, 2011
6:41 pm
Cowboy:
“Except when she’s accepting $250K in farm subsidies…”
Assuming that’s true, did she break the law?
bman
June 28th, 2011
6:41 pm
Josef – he’s in over his head. I’m shocked that democrats aren’t lining up to run against this guy
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
6:43 pm
“Assuming that’s true, did she break the law?”
It isn’t neccessary to be a law-breaker to be a hypocrite
Joe Mama
June 28th, 2011
6:43 pm
Mr Righty — “Joe, again, no answer, just an insult.”
First, you didn’t ask me a question. Therefore I owe you no answer.
Secondly, I didn’t insult you.
Thirdly, you might make a fun internet chew-toy, since I’ve apparently gotten under your skin. (laughing, pointing)
“What a weakling you are.”
Given your inaccuracies in your first sentence, I wasn’t holding out much hope for your second to be any better. And you didn’t disappoint! (giggling)
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:44 pm
I think he’s spectacularly mediocre and leading us down the road to spectacular mediocrity…jmo
And in American in 2012, Mediocre is good enough, that is why he will win in 2012.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2011
6:44 pm
February 2010, Bachmann said the GOP’s 2012 nominee would need to be forthright with the American public about the need to “wean everybody off” Medicare and Social Security. Bachmann voted for the GOP’s plan to end Medicare, even though she later admitted she was concerned about the $6,000+ in additional annual health care costs that the plan would shift to seniors.
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First step will be to wean Bachmann off the delusions.
Joe Mama
June 28th, 2011
6:44 pm
Correction — above response is for Mr Charlie.
It gets so difficult to tell the cons apart these days. (laughing)
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:45 pm
Mr. Charlie,
“When then knock on your front door, how you gonna come, with your hands on your head or the trigger of the gun?”
Let’s hope that it isn’t a Jehovah’s witness knocking on your door. Zyprexa is your friend.
Joe Mama
June 28th, 2011
6:46 pm
Mr Charlie — “When then knock on your front door, how you gonna come, with your hands on your head or the trigger of the gun?”
You can crush us, you can bruise us, but you’ll have to answer to . . . the guns of Brixton.
F. Sinkwich
June 28th, 2011
6:46 pm
“I think he’s spectacularly mediocre and leading us down the road to spectacular mediocrity…jmo”
I think you’re giving him too much credit.
He’s destroying this country.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:47 pm
F. Sinkwich,
“Assuming that’s true, did she break the law?”
Assuming you are totally paranoid and can actually read, I didn’t say she broke the law and that wasn’t what your post was about…it was about being a free-market capitalist. Who is this case accepts $250k in farm subsidies…
josef
June 28th, 2011
6:48 pm
bman
I won’t go for over his head…up to his waist, for sure…
Scout
Yep. The money. Gay folks and their friends figured it out and paid off your much beloved “good Christians” and GOP who voted against it before to vote for it this time…
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:48 pm
You libs are a hoot for sure. Been here for an hour and have not hear a single idea or original thought. Just “tax the rich”….Yawn. Like that’s gonna cure it all.
MarkV
June 28th, 2011
6:49 pm
1811/1801 – 0311/0317 @6:37 pm
‘Headline: “Michele Bachmann’s thin legislative résumé”
……………. as compared to the “community organizer” ?’
Nobody has told you of anything of Obama’s career between being community organizer and being elected President?
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:49 pm
Scout,
Still going on about NY huh? Well here is a rebuttal for every argument you can make: http://www.madatoms.com/site/blog/what-your-opposition-to-gay-marriage-really-means
F. Sinkwich
June 28th, 2011
6:49 pm
“It isn’t neccessary to be a law-breaker to be a hypocrite”
Sort of like the lib ilk paying their taxes (the few that do pay taxes) based on the Bush tax rates?
Tax cuts for the rich, ya know.
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
6:50 pm
” have not hear a single idea or original thought”
You get back what you give, around here
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:50 pm
F. Sink, I have to say it, but GW destroyed this country. He was pres 8 years and our financial system Collapsed. I mean, it effing collapsed. Unfortunately we refuse to take your medicine, so we are just rolling it all into the next bubble, just doubling down….It should be interesting.
F. Sinkwich
June 28th, 2011
6:51 pm
Hey, Cowboy, if you paid any income taxes, did you use the Clinton rate structure, or the Bush rates for the rich?
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:52 pm
F. Sinkwich,
“He’s destroying this country.”
You would have made a great vaudevillian…to bad it’s gone. So much DRAMA.
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:52 pm
I GOT AN IDEA!!!! LET TAX THE RICH!!! I just can’t believe the answer has been under our nose so long.
Disgusted
June 28th, 2011
6:53 pm
What is “it”? Mass inflation, devaluation of our currency, riots, violent protest and class warfare.
You haven’t seen violent protest and riots until you try to steal my Medicare and SS, cons. As for the rest, we already have class warfare, largely because the wealthy among us have tried to use tax policy as a means of fattening their wallets, and the devaluation of the currency is only a matter of time, as a desperate banking system tries to survive the onslaught of Republican hatred.
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:53 pm
JC, did you still have your Webvan stock? Cause once we tax them dummy rich guys, I am sure it will come back.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:53 pm
Doggone/GA,
“You get back what you give, around here”
C’mon…Mr. Charlie did advocate shooting any one who knocks on your door…that’s something right?
AmVet
June 28th, 2011
6:54 pm
“anyone but obama, please”
Quickly becoming the most trite ripost to this unenviable situation.
Some spammer has an extremely liberal (”slur” intended) definition of the word gaffe. Cheese, Louise.
Everybody I’ve ever known has put their foot in their big mouth sooner or later. Just a matter of when and how often.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwVAvnYKLJE
F. Sinkwich
June 28th, 2011
6:55 pm
Yep, Charlie, your man Obama the messiah has done everything right. Just because everything now is still sh*t hasn’t got anything what so ever to do with him at all, huh?
Libroolery, delusion is thy salve.
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
6:56 pm
“Mr. Charlie did advocate shooting any one who knocks on your door…that’s something right?”
It’s something, but it’s not original. Isn’t it Dave R. who rants on about the government taking you do jail at gun-point if you don’t pay your health insurance, or something like that?
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:56 pm
F. Sinkwich,
“did you use the Clinton rate structure, or the Bush rates for the rich?”
I used the appropriate 1040 form at the time…whatever that may have been. Though since mr. nonjewcowboy and I couldn’t marry at the time of his death, I did pay income taxes on his life insurance. Part of that there gay tax.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
6:57 pm
jewcowboy and josef:
So then ………… we don’t want a mediocre president next time now do we ?
AmVet
June 28th, 2011
6:57 pm
Hey jcb, howz that hot rod rollin’?
josef
June 28th, 2011
6:58 pm
Well, do like we do. Turn the lights out and don’t answer…
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:58 pm
Now JC, your putting words in my mouth, I did not advocate anything, I just asked a simple question. And I think is a valid question since you advocate asset forfeiture as a way out of deficit spending.
Mighty Righty
June 28th, 2011
6:58 pm
“Except when she’s accepting $250K in farm subsidies…”
Here are the facts. Her father inlaw owns a farm in Wisconsin and he has received “farm subsidies.” She and her husband’s names appear on the farms papers. She denies that she or her husband had ever made any money on that farm. Grasping at straws. I would rather talk about how if you will give Obama $750,000 he will make you a federal judge.
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:59 pm
“Well, do like we do. Turn the lights out and don’t answer”…I figured that.
josef
June 28th, 2011
6:59 pm
Scout
I didn’t want him the first time.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
6:59 pm
josef: As I said, “the ‘love” of money is the root of all evil”.
MarkV:
Of course I am aware …………. and it’s not better than Bachmann’s …………… just different. Yet the liberal press would never dared of emphasized that during the last campaign.
Thus ……….. the hypocrisy.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:00 pm
Mr. Charlie,
“did you still have your Webvan stock?”
Webvan…no…but since it’s not 2001, I do I suggest 3rd Avenue fund if you have at least $100k to invest…
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
7:00 pm
Well, this reminds me of the choice we might have had if we knew the Japanese were planning Pearl Harbor and we had a chance at all of their carriers in port just before they left for the raid .
“AIR RAID PEARH HARBOR. THIS IS NO DRILL”
Pay me now …………… or pay me later:
Headline: “Iran test fires long-range missiles capable of striking Israel, U.S. bases…”
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:01 pm
Scout,
“So then ………… we don’t want a mediocre president next time now do we ?”
Preferably not…but I’ll take mediocre over batshyte crazy.
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:03 pm
SCOUT
But I would’ve thought Obama was your man in this…state’s rights and all…that’s is latest “evolved” position on equal marriage rights…you been sending him a few bucks on the side we don’t know about?
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:03 pm
AmVet,
“Hey jcb, howz that hot rod rollin’?”
Freaking awesome…did I tell you I got to try it out at Talladega?
BADA BING
June 28th, 2011
7:04 pm
I am amazed at the class structures we have in the US now. If you have a long time job making good money, you have not been hurt AT ALL by the economy. Go out on the weekend, bars are full, restaurants are full, the malls are full. I wait in line at any eating joint on Fri. or Sat. nite. The unemployed are living with their parents, or vice versa. Foreclosures, bankruptcies, unemployment at an all time high. It is truly 2 different countries, all on the same block. I prepared for this slump for 20 years, I am enjoying life. Some people will lose an entire decade.
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:04 pm
“we don’t want a mediocre president next time now do we ?””
If we had the sense to elect outstanding people to Congress, it wouldn’t matter if the President was mediocre or brilliant.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:06 pm
Mr. Charlie,
“And I think is a valid question since you advocate asset forfeiture as a way out of deficit spending.”
The intent of your “question” was patently obvious as was this follow-up post as have been your previous posts about guns…
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
7:07 pm
jewcowboy:
…………… and I’ll risk “batshyte crazy” over “known dangerous”.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:08 pm
BADA BING,
Your 7.02…quite salient.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
7:10 pm
josef:
As I told someone yesterday I think, some issues are “states rights” and some are not.
Free speech, search and seizure, the draft, right to an attorney, and in my opinion what should constiltute marriage are all too important to be left to the individual states ………….. therefore I support a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
Now that said, you know this Republic is a state’s rights Republic don’t you (and it has nothing to do with the 10 Amendment) ?
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
7:11 pm
Doggone:
Some truth in that. At least it would lessen the impact of a “knucklehead” president.
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:13 pm
“Some truth in that. At least it would lessen the impact of a “knucklehead” president.”
Sadly, the opposite is not true
AmVet
June 28th, 2011
7:13 pm
Love of capitalism based on legally cooking the books is more than the root of evil, it might just have been foretold:
…corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Some b*tch about the poor slobs making 27K/year and paying “nothing” in. OK, so it sucks, but what are you gonna get from that individual? Another lousy $500 to a G? Nothing from nothing…
Yet we have countless mega-corporations who also pay nothing in fed income tax. And I assure you, you could get more a thousand bucks from each of them.
And why not? They enjoy the bounty of this country and all the benefits therein. And some now deem them “persons” anyway! How screwed up is that? So by their own argument, they should pay, especially if individuals do.
Our tax code is a pernicious and perverse travesty…
Mighty Righty
June 28th, 2011
7:14 pm
Mr Charlie
June 28th, 2011
6:50 pm
F. Sink, I have to say it, but GW destroyed this country. He was pres 8 years and our financial system Collapsed. I mean, it effing collapsed. Unfortunately we refuse to take your medicine, so we are just rolling it all into the next bubble, just doubling down….It should be interesting.
You missed the boat. The time for blaming W is over. That boat has already sailed. Barack is now the skipper. The boat is his and it is leaking like mad. He is clueless as to what to do. His solution is to spend more money but we ain’t got it. He devalued our currency. Actually he isn’t smart enough to devalue it but he let Geitner do it so same o same o. Unemployment up 15%+, food up 30%, gasoline up 100% all on his watch, all on his boat. Hope and change is now is now read it and weep. He put everything in the pot and drew to an inside straight while the man across the table was holding four aces. Stupid is as stupid does.
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:15 pm
Scout
If you think that marriage should be defined by the federal body, good. That means that it won’t be much longer before me and Unmentionable can legally tie the knot here in Georgia…all we gotta do is pay off a few G-d fearing GOPers, and we’re on our way…so, I’ll go in your corner on that one…
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
7:15 pm
The bottom line: Muslims aren’t happy!
They’re not happy in Gaza.
They’re not happy in Egypt.
They’re not happy in Libya.
They’re not happy in Morocco.
They’re not happy in Iran.
They’re not happy in Iraq.
They’re not happy in Yemen.
They’re not happy in Afghanistan.
They’re not happy in Pakistan.
They’re not happy in Syria.
They’re not happy in Lebanon.
And where are they happy?
They’re happy in England.
They’re happy in France.
They’re happy in Italy.
They’re happy in Germany.
They’re happy in Sweden.
They’re happy in the USA.
They’re happy in Norway.
They’re happy in every country that is not Islamic (yet).
And who do they blame?
Not Islam.
Not their leadership.
Not themselves.
THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN.
midtownguy
June 28th, 2011
7:16 pm
I love Michele. Love her, love her, lover her. Praying she gets the nomination. Michele getting the nomination = second term for Obama. My old guard Republican friends are squirming in their seats. Only Romney or Chris Christie and beat Obama.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:16 pm
Scout,
“therefore I support a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.”
Sorry (not really) to disappoint…that will NEVER happen. In fact, the opposite will happen…Loving v. Virginia will be the reality soon than later…
The good news is that will impact your life in absolutely no way…
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
7:17 pm
josef:
I hear you but what about my “states rights’ comment.
This country is a “States Rights Republic” ………… yes ?
poison pen
June 28th, 2011
7:17 pm
Jay
“It is easy to tell who the looney left fears. They immediately use personal attacks.”
U gotta love it.
Jay, are you on meds today? you start your blog attacking someone and then chastize others for doing the same thing.
Grow up !
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:19 pm
midtownguy,
“I love Michele. Love her, love her, lover her. ”
She is good for a chuckle…
AmVet
June 28th, 2011
7:19 pm
With Ricky Bobby, jcb?
What a gas that must have been.
And please, no dumb constitutional amendments.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
7:19 pm
jewcowboy:
You are probably right. A study of world history shows that all governments/peoples/civilizations degenerate over time. It’s just a natual progression.
And you are correct in that it won’t impact me ………… that’s not my point. It will impact my grandchildren and great-grandchildren and that is my concern at this stage of my life.
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:21 pm
“lover her.”
Maybe someone should let her husband know what she’s up to.
Mr Right
June 28th, 2011
7:21 pm
Except when she’s accepting $250K in farm subsidies…”
Which she did NOT do!
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:25 pm
“Which she did NOT do”
“Bachmann also stated that she or husband never made a penny from the family dairy farm, but her financial disclosure forms report that from 2006-2009 she made $32,503-$105,000 in profit off of the farm”
http://www.politicususa.com/en/bachmann-dairy-farm
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:25 pm
Mr. Right,
“Which she did NOT do!”
Oh yes… it was her in-laws…in which she and her husband are partners. Care to provide a legal definition for “partners” in a business venture?
Disgusted
June 28th, 2011
7:25 pm
This country is a “States Rights Republic” ………… yes ?
We old-timers understand that comment, Scout. I understood it when I stood in bus stations in the early ’60s with doors reading “Colored Only.” Most of us who’ve been around the block know what a Southerner means when he acclaims “states rights.” Thank God there’s a U.S. Constitution.
midtownguy
June 28th, 2011
7:27 pm
Regardless of what she did or did not get personally, do you think she is such a fiscal conservative that she would work to end farm subsidies that are netting her in-laws a million dollars every four years?
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:28 pm
Scout
Of course I am aware of the origninal intent on the relationship of the federal versus states. I just find it intriguing that you want to bring the feds into something as “holy” as marriage and the Obama wants to go states’ rights…methinks the world has shifted on its axis or that y’all are both mealy mouthed weasels more than willing to sell out your “principles” when it suits your aim…and as for your grandkids and great grandkids…I hope they’re happier in the world they will help make than you are in the one you helped make…