Meet The Candidates: 2012 GOP Thread

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The wrong John Wayne - Washington Times

The only problem, as one eagle-eyed reader notes: Waterloo's John Wayne was not the beloved movie star, but rather John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer.

Mrs. Bachmann grew up in Waterloo, and used the town as the backdrop for her campaign announcement, where she told Fox News: "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too." (Someone has already posted the clip to YouTube under the name BachmannLovesGacy)

John Wayne, the movie legend, is in fact from Iowa and the John Wayne birthplace is a celebrated landmark — only it's in Winterset, which is a nearly three hour drive away from Waterloo.

You'd think that the woman would know which John Wayne came from her own home town. It's not so much the gaffe, but it's her own hometown and still doesn't even know.


If they are this stupid, would you want them having the finger on a nuclear button or making crucial economic/foreign policies? Is this all that America has to offer? This is sad.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

The wrong John Wayne - Washington Times





You'd think that the woman would know which John Wayne came from her own home town. It's not so much the gaffe, but it's her own hometown and still doesn't even know.


If they are this stupid, would you want them having the finger on a nuclear button or making crucial economic/foreign policies? Is this all that America has to offer? This is sad.

meh close enough

lol

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GOP might need to look into getting this guy to run.




This guy is a gold mine.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

The wrong John Wayne - Washington Times





You'd think that the woman would know which John Wayne came from her own home town. It's not so much the gaffe, but it's her own hometown and still doesn't even know.


If they are this stupid, would you want them having the finger on a nuclear button or making crucial economic/foreign policies? Is this all that America has to offer? This is sad.

You seemed to leave out the fact that John Waynes Parents are in fact from her home town so lets get the facts straight. It really does not matter because the people who make issues with this stuff are not going to even vote for a rep. in the first place.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by firstdown

You seemed to leave out the fact that John Waynes Parents are in fact from her home town so lets get the facts straight. It really does not matter because the people who make issues with this stuff are not going to even vote for a rep. in the first place.

She's the one that left that out.

She tends to leave a lot of things out apparently:

Among them could be some of Bachmann's historical gaffes, most notably her assertion that the country's founding fathers "worked tirelessly" to abolish slavery. In fact, several founding fathers possessed slaves, with Thomas Jefferson famously fathering children with one of his.


Slavery was not abolished until almost 100 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed.