87 Replies to “Bachman Meets The Press”

  1. “Needs to cut back on the fermeldahide”
    Is there anything more pathetic than someone who can’t spell their insults? It’s that sort of dimwitted illiteracy that gives alex his confidence.
    As for Bachman, she was much better than I had expected. I admit, though, I’m impressed by anybody that can handle tax litigation. It’s a lot more demanding than being some kind of con law lecturer like obozo.

  2. “ET, I think Bachmann came across very well in this aggressive interview.”
    Oh, absolutely! Getting called on her lies and inconsistencies, and refusing to answer the question – yeah, she came across very well!
    I kinda feel for her ‘cos she was obviously stuck. If she answered honestly and said “yes I hate atheists and faggots and want them to burn in hell!” she’d lose all hope of drawing in anyone from the center or left, whereas if she tried to denounce those opinions she’d piss off the people who already support her. Still, I’d have more respect for her if she’d just be honest for a change. Everyone already know she’s the christian equivalent of ayatollah Khomeini, so why pretend otherwise?

  3. Ah, baseless hyperbole. You’re becoming the resident comedic relief around here Alex.

  4. if Alex is trying to be funny, then he/she is failing miserably.
    if it’s trying to be irritating well then consider it “mission accomplished” and move along. You are a moron and don’t pretend otherwise.

  5. I think Rick Perry will take it. The guy is a fundraising machine. He’s got Texas money behind him and a fantastic track record.
    He’s got the Bush style religion and a plan to do what needs doing.

  6. That was no interviewer! To borrow a term from the Democrats about those with whom they disagree, he was a “terrorist”. What an unprofessional prig!
    I really respect Bachmann’s “sang-froid”, but I wish she’d turned the tables on this pompous ass by outing his narrow-minded assumptions. E.g., Re his put-downs about her being a praying Christian, I’d have responded, “God’s Second Great Commandment is, ‘Love thy neighbour as thyself.’ What would your objections be to me attempting to follow that advice from God?”

  7. Kelly,
    He’s serious with his posts. Anytime religion, especially Christianity, is remotely related to the topic, he can’t help but foam at the mouth. Then he starts displaying the behavior that he has self righteously condemned of other SDA commenters in the past. It’s very amusing.

  8. Wow. I wish interviewers had been that hard on Obama about Ayers and Rev. Wright.
    “Mr. Obama, you were a member of that church for many years! You have said this preacher inspired you. Do you think Americans are going to feel that you like America when you listened to “God DAMN America” Sunday after Sunday?”
    Could you just picture it? Didn’t happen, of course.

  9. I appreciate the advice Michelle Bachmann has received on the problems in front of her. I also think she is probably aware of them and will pick them off one by one.
    This interview by Gregory is great in that he probably has a team of researchers combing the files for anything he can make a mud ball of and she put them back into his face.
    I did wonder at the link which popped up on the screen offering a chance to go elsewhere when Congresman Bachmenn started to “tear him” (see previous post at 12:55p.m.) apart. I thouight NBC was doing damage control to reduce the audience. Cheers;

  10. Yeah I agree that Palin should enter the race. Anything that dilutes the Media Party’s attacks is good in my books. Bachman will be running good interference for Perry though.. but the more the merrier!
    What a rude, shamelessly partisan interviewer.

  11. She handled his economic questions appropriately.
    Her opinions on homosexual people is complete garbage and embarrasing.

  12. dmorris: “,Bachman will be defeated.” Not on the gay marriage issue — the press might try to capitalize on this, but the US does not have the same attitude regarding this issue as Canadians. There is a BIG Conservative heartland.
    ward: Voters respond to talking points — sad but true.

  13. She isn’t a liar, and it is clear she believes the things she says. She does seem to understand the economy in regards to lowering taxes and creating jobs. But she just has too much baggage, and will not win with such negative quotes on record.
    Obama and bad economy or not, pissed at Obama dems and independants will not be able to bring themselves to vote for her with comments like those in this video. It’ll be for the same reason that BO got elected 3 years ago people will avoid her to prove something, just like they flocked to him to prove something.
    It’s not the religious, moral crowd that needs to be won over in this election – the chance of anyone here voting for Obama are less than zero. Heck, the chance of Obama getting back in is pretty darned low. So please don’t chose someone with horrid quotes like her’s to drive independants away.
    It’s all about the economy right? People will look past what she said in the past to create jobs? Why even go down that road? Pick a strong fiscal conservative who has great values but doesn’t force ’em on anyone. Someone who will stand strong and slash the budget and get people on her/his side by speaking to the people, but who isn’t going to turn voters away with quotes like Bachman’s.
    Sarah Palin brings most of the good of Michelle Bachman, but without the baggage. Sure she has come out personally against gay marriage, but she didn’t veto gay rights and says she has gay friends. I also doubt anyone will believe she submits to anyone, least of all her husband. She is well known and well liked, despite what hollywood and the MSM would try to brainwash us to believe. And she will win.

  14. Bachmann, Perry, Palin: the left have a lot of sleepless nights these days. They are beginning to worry that the Repubs won’t pick a loser like McCain this time. Even Romney gives them the chills.

  15. Steven Burton: “Pick a strong fiscal conservative who has great values but doesn’t force ’em on anyone.”
    Unfortunately, Mitch Daniels was hounded out of the race by the socons.
    If Bachman wins the nomination, we’ll lose. She believes that gay people can be cured. Her husband makes a living trying to cure gay people. That is not a minor belief.

  17. alex:
    Two words.
    Rev. Wright.
    And, another thing.
    The Soviet Union tried to run a godless country and, quite frankly, they now understand their mistake.
    They’re way ahead of the US commies.

  18. “Two words. Rev. Wright.”
    What, is he running for office?
    “The Soviet Union tried to run a godless country and, quite frankly, they now understand their mistake.”
    lol. Yes, that was the problem with the USSR: godlessness :p
    Congrats, you’re now in the lead for the “stupidest comment of the month” award. There’s another half-month still to go, but I doubt anyone will take it from ya.

  19. @ Jason M: I agree. The economy is a very important issue, but I also want to see, and many Americans also want a president who respects personal liberties. Her opinion about homosexuality is noxious, but opinions are allowed in a free country. What is disgusting is the denial of homosexuals the right to marry, which suggests a lack of comprehension of what liberty means.

  20. I think I like her, and as has been noticed, I think a lot of people in the fly-over states will find her honesty and lack of fear, refreshing.

  21. “What is disgusting is the denial of homosexuals the right to marry, which suggests a lack of comprehension of what liberty means.” – Langmann
    Actually it’s the homosexual activists that want to use state coercion to force private institutions such as Churches to sanctify homosexual marriages against their traditions and principles (and coincidentally against the will of the majority of voters). That is against liberty. I doubt that even Bachmann would (or could) deny gays the use of contract law to establish whatever unions they so choose. The problem is state involvement in the marriage business. It belongs in the private sector bound by contract law, sanctified or not by other institutions.

  22. Well, Bachmann is refreshing in some ways, and her handling of the debt ceiling vs default was ok. But with her baggage of less than flattering quotations, she has no chance in hell.
    (And it doesn’t help to claim the MSM is not “fair” toward her (or any other Obama opponent), it isn’t and never will be. Any contender to the throne must be able to handle that.)
    At the moment Perry looks promising.
    Romney is simply too lame & polished. He will never be able to generate enthusiasm.
    Ron Paul, as always, is fighting his lonely fight, but is also impossible (too uncompromising, which reflects well on his solid principles, but will not generate enough votes).
    Gingrich is very smart, have good ideas, and experience from the Clinton years. But what has he done recently? Not a chance.
    The rest: not a chance.
    Best bet to beat Obama at this point: Perry & a “moderate” but unspoiled VP candidate.

  24. Why can’t people say maybe their ideas have changed a bit towards something?
    The gay question and family was a defining one that might hurt her.
    While I struggle with the thought of a gay ‘family’ I cannot abandon the thought that possibly it might be allowable.
    If I was her, I would have said “I’m still of conviction that a man a woman make a family, but I am open to corresponding views.”
    That would have made a lot more pronounced view rather than boxing herself in, as one can tell she was stuttering near the end to answer.
    If anything, you’d think she’d have a clear cut answer that doesn’t peg her as narrow minded by now, having been in the electorate race.

  25. Here’s another irony.
    Try contacting her. She only responds to emails from Minnisota’s 6th district.
    Both her gov and house websites.

  26. You can talk about the flyover states being refreshed by Bachman’s stance on gays/marriage/whatever. It doesn’t matter. The flyover states are going to vote for ANY republican vs Obama. It’s independants in swing states you want to convince, and with disgusting sounding quotes like Bachman’s on record it’s just not gunna happen.
    She will turn enough people off that it’ll be 4 more years of Obama. Is it worth that, to run and lose with a social conservative, when the economy is about to implode? Because you will get almost all swing voters and a bunch of dems voting for a fiscal conservative. Allow the MSM to make this all about social opinions like hers and you will lose. It’s time for Libertarians and Conservatives to work together and get Obama out, stop the spending, get people back to work, etc not exclude half your base right off the bat with a social conservative.

  27. John Chittick:
    I like your comments here.
    Esp. your use of the phrase “citizen legislator”.
    Exactly right. This is why she’s my first choice. Also your point about the gay activists’ anti-liberty agenda in forcing churches to “marry” gays.
    She should adopt the libertarian view: the state should get out of the marriage business and merely register civil unions, personal partnerships so that “breakups” can be handled in some predictable legal manner.
    I thought she handled the smearaview very effectively. I see growth here! It’s very early in the game.
    What a beauty she is in the full rounded sense of the word.

  28. Sorry, Bachmann is not the ticket. Neither is Perry: I smell RINO, maybe not pure bred like Romney is but Perry is no doubt an “establishment”, career politician…If he is liked by the MSM, that will confirm he is one of the same.
    Ron Paul could possibly be, but the media is too corrupt and the electorate too stupid for this to happen. The MSM barely mentioned Paul this weekend even though he came in a very close second, so close in fact that it is a barometer of the mood of the citizens:
    2 TEA party favorites vertually tied in first place. A Christian Conservative and a Libertarian Conservative (or Right wing Libertarian for the purists).
    Palin, which I doubt will run for POTUS (I think she might jump on the VP ticket again though) is still a formidable force that will have a huge impact on the election…Again, she could secure the win by going VP for the yet to be determined candidate.
    The rest is just more of the same and will go nowhere.
    The mood is different now. Much different than before the last election.
    Get the popcorn ready, it’s going to be a blockbuster of a show.

  29. @ John CHittick: I agree. State out of marriage completely. (Easier said than done, thousands of laws involving marriage but it could be done.) That being said, the majority of americans who favor allowing same sex marriage do not want to force churches to do that job if they don’t want to recognizing that also is an affront to liberty. It is only a fringe who want that.
    She’s alienating a large number of independent voters that decide who the president is going to be. Steven Burton is correct, she should have said my heart still favors traditional marriage but my sense of liberty favors freedom for all.
    @ Right Honorable Terry : I have been wondering the same thing, not much of a peep out of the MSM about Ron Paul’s excellent showing.

  30. For the record, there has never been any suggestion that churches be forced to perform gay weddings. That’s simply a fantasy which anti-gay bigots have concocted as a reason to oppose gay marriage. We’ve legalized it here in Canada, and churches are free to refuse to perform any wedding which they do not wish to perform.

  31. ALEX
    How many times do we the religious people have to tell you that we don’t want “faggot’s and athiest’s” to burn in hell you stil don’t understand you have a one world view i have told you before we as christian do not want any harm done to any “faggot” or “athiest” we don’t agree with tere actions we we hate the sin not the sinner alex stop tring to fuel your hatred of christians with the false accusations and assumptions you have about christians .
    Bachmann would be a great Vice President So would Palin , But in this world we live in the second and thrid world countries unfortunatley don’t see any substance in a woman in general there is exceptions of course but
    the u.s. needs a strong male present’s to project it’s abilities to the resto f the world not becasue i feel that way but people around the world as stated above don’t take women seriously especially as a president …i do know that that is changing there is a woman running for president in iran, and there is a south american not sure witch country but she is the president so it is changing but for now i think the u.s. needs a strong regan like or perhaps de-mint or hemran cain type of person in charge. JMO

  32. GreenNeck @11:08 – Bachmann didn’t write those words. Someone else did, in a book she recommended. If you gave me a list of 10 non-fiction books you like I could find some outrageous quote in at least one of them. Finding a book interesting doesn’t entail agreeing with every word in it.

  33. Langmann,
    One of the things that makes Bachmann stand out (along with Palin) is the discomfort one feels when she stays true to her beliefs. In a Politician that is extremely rare. Voters see that, whether or not they agree with her on peripheral issues (to most) like gay marriage, abortion, etc. Ron Paul has that character trait as well. Pathological liars like Obama or reach-across-the-aisle squishes like Bush, McCain, and Romney suffer far less from such issues (political class versus citizen legislators).
    Canada is more secular than the US. That character trait of being true to one’s beliefs which was toxic (people living with dinosaurs quote) to Stockwell Day’s leadership chances, may not resonate in the US. After spending 10 million trying to defeat Bachmann last November, if the media/Democrats had dug-up a quote that rich, they would have used it against her by now.

  34. [quote]I also consider her illogical in some of her opinions, e,g, her answer to the illegals is: deport them all. Wow – Israel had a terrible time moving 9,000 odd settlers from the Gaza strip – and does she think the US could actually do the same with 12 million illegals in the US????[/quote] ET
    That is the dumbest statement you have ever made. It is obscene to compare the US to Israel
    She is running for the Presidency of the USA, not a freaking communitty activist with a shopped opinion on every issue…
    The President of the US must, as a matter of constitution law, deport all illegal aliens found in the USA. It’s a prime objective of every sovereign state
    The process of how that is BEST accomplished is left for the little minds like yourself… (ET) or the Munchkins in Obama’s administration

  35. Homosexuals are of course allowed to marry in every state, langmann. The problem is with homosexual couples who aren’t married, but want to be treated as if they were. If you don’t understand something that basic, you need to shut up.

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