Meet The Candidates: 2012 GOP Thread

[NC_Skins]

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

[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.

[12thMan]

I actually had to read that twice - I'm not so quick these days

[SmootSmack]

This campaign can't last much longer...can it?

Newt Gingrich’s Campaign Finance Team Quits - The Note

[12thMan]

Stick a fork in a Newt, what a disaster.

I predict Bachmann will win Iowa and shake things up in S.C. So far she's run a pretty decent campaign. I seriously doubt Trump would have done this well without any drama.

[saden1]

When americans get to know her they'll wish she hadn't run:

Michele Bachmann's Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by saden1

When americans get to know her they'll wish she hadn't run:

Michele Bachmann's Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics

That's a great non bias sorce your using. People actually read Rolling Stone mag?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by saden1

When americans get to know her they'll wish she hadn't run:

Michele Bachmann's Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics

She's the kind of religious wacko the tea baggers and zealots on the right love. So just by that, she'll have a shot.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by saden1

When americans get to know her they'll wish she hadn't run:

Michele Bachmann's Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics

This is the type of sh*t that scares me from her:

"She even told the congregation that she and hubby Marcus — who by then had opened a Christian counseling center — had been united not by love but by a unique series of divine visions experienced by three people simultaneously.

Bachmann claimed that back in her college days, she was up one night praying with a female friend of hers when "the Lord gave each one of us the same, exact vision... It was a picture of me, marrying this man, in the valley where his parents have a farm in western Wisconsin." Meanwhile, miles away, Marcus "was repairing a fence on the farm where he worked, and the Lord showed him in a vision that he was supposed to marry me." According to Bachmann, Marcus initially complained to God that he wanted to see the world first, and only later relented."




Ummmm i cant have this person in charge of the military or nuclear weapons. No way in hell

[saden1]

Is he telling the audience I was bs'ing you and playing the race card? Wow Herm...you Cained yourself:

[12thMan]

So Jon Huntsman is officially in, but honestly I just don't see him defeating Mitt Romney in any of the early states, much less winning a general election. There's something very manufactured about him. It's still very early, we'll see. His roll out was very blah.

Rick Perry still might jump in. I'm sure they're doing some internal polling right now testing the waters. My gut says he won't, but the longer he drags it out the more difficult it will be to organize a serious field team, tap big donors, and get some traction in Iowa and N.H.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

So Jon Huntsman is officially in, but honestly I just don't see him defeating Mitt Romney in any of the early states, much less winning a general election. There's something very manufactured about him. It's still very early, we'll see. His roll out was very blah.

Rick Perry still might jump in. I'm sure they're doing some internal polling right now testing the waters. My gut says he won't, but the longer he drags it out the more difficult it will be to organize a serious field team, tap big donors, and get some traction in Iowa and N.H.

I'm not sure about that. Huntsman is the second coming of Ronald Reagan and Republicans don't even know it.

Honestly, there's nothing special about Romney and if there's anyone that's manufactured I would pick him out of the lineup.

[SmootSmack]

Good read on Huntsman here

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/ma...m.html?_r=1&hp

[MTK]

Didn't W say God talked to him? Just saying.