“We did this together,” an elated Michele Bachmann told supporters gathered around her bus after the Ames results were announced. “Thank you everyone for coming today. This is very first step for taking the White House in 2012. We just sent a message to Barack Obama.”
“Thank you,” she gushed. “God bless you guys. God bless America. We love you. God bless you. God bless you, every one.”
“Now we start onto all 50 states,” Bachmann added.
UPDATE: Michele Bachmann’s formal statement:
I want to thank the people of Iowa for this tremendous victory. Together we sent a message that we intend to make President Obama a one-term president. The Iowa Straw Poll was a important first step in what will be a long race for the presidency. Now we turn our attention toward winning the Iowa Caucuses and taking our message of reining in wasteful spending, keeping taxes low, growing our economy and creating jobs to the people of New Hampshire, South Carolina and all 50 states.
The sound you now hear is that of lefty heads exploding all over this once-great land.
I plan to vote for Perry - the Texas media has a murderous hatred for him, which can only help him - but I will enjoy lefty discomfiture at the mere thought of a woman in the White House who is not down on all fours giving, ahem, "service" to President Democrat.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOnly think of Hillary's fury if she actually won. Fun to think about.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNo lamp in America would be safe...
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI sense a little snarkiness when I read "thank you" she gushed LOL
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDo you really not know how to punctuate?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSorry - but the sound you now hear is lefties cheering.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseConsidering she paid for everyone's vote and provided chairs in her air-conditioned tent and free food, it's not much of a victory, especially when you consider the competition. The big surprise is that the deep fried butter sticks didn't come in second - at least THEY have a chance of being popular nationwide.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGod Bless Michele Bachmann. She may not be able to win the general, or the nomination for that matter, but she is authentic and really cares about the country. She is comfortable with who she is, and has the strength of her convictions. I wish she were more conservative, but she could govern rings around the incumbent.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseShe plans to campaign in seven less states than Obama?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCongratulations to Mrs. Bachmann.
Thankfully she squeaked by Mr. Paul.
If the straw poll becomes the National pattern, we are in deep trouble.
Both Bachmann and Paul have no serious CEO experience and come from the House in Washington. Both tend to offer some unrealistic fantasies to placate a following. Ron Paul is very extreme in this sense, often providing the most irrational foreign policy denial.
Mrs. Bachmann had such substance prior to the run, but she has ventured into a very stereotypical offering since the first Debate she participated in. Her offering on the Debt Ceiling was just as absurd as Ron Paul's nutty isolationism.
If the Primary turned into Race between these two, it would venture into O'Donnell - Delaware sophistry. A Race like this would make the GOP/Conservative offering a joke in surreal terms. We would see enormous potential for major gains in the Senate and the White House turn to further enabling of the disastrous Democratic Party.
Perry and Romney better be the real competition, or we will be making just as big of a mistake as having the Maverick as Our Nominee. We cannot empower the nightmare of Obama and his Party.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSaying over and over again that Representative Bachmann is not a serious candidate does not make it true. You may not like her politics, but I do; and all of the evidence I see tells me that her politics enjoy majority support among the GOP electorate. Further, she is from the region of the country that will be decisive in determining the winner of the 2012 presidential election.
Please explain what she has done that would make her unelectable in a general election?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat is the point - she has not done anything. She has never run anything - she has no accomplishments in congress - she didn't even have enough support amongst her peers to be elected to a leadership position - no executive experience - a flat, preachy style of speaking - no articulated plans to solve the country's problems - odd social beliefs which she seems to be trying now to hide.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat is the point - she has not done anything. She has never run anything - she has no accomplishments in congress - she didn't even have enough support amongst her peers to be elected to a leadership position - no executive experience - a flat, preachy style of speaking - no articulated plans to solve the country's problems - odd social beliefs which she seems to be trying now to hide.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Please explain what she has done that would make her unelectable in a general election?"
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"Carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas, it is a harmless gas. Carbon dioxide is natural; it is not harmful.... We're being told we have to reduce this natural substance to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in the earth." -Michele Bachmann
The fact of the matter is, most non-ideologically minded people will not vote for someone they think is less intelligent than they are. The carbon dioxide comment is so off the mark on the global warming argument it's practically non-sequitur; it would be like arguing that we shouldn't fear dying from a flood because water occurs naturally and is actually essential for life. There are so many other rational arguments that can be made against global warming that it's absolutely absurd to say something so ridiculous.
Personally, I have trouble respecting anyone who lies with such ease; no matter how much I may agree with their politics. Conservatives, make your arguments based in fact and reason, otherwise shut the heck up.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWow, that link was singularly unimpressive, as was the carbon dioxide quotation, if you intended to dam* Bachmann. Surely you can do better. I mean, all politicians misspeak, make mistakes, say an occasional dumb thing. Back to the drawing board for you.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePersonally, I have trouble respecting anyone using Politifact as the Grand Arbiter of Truth.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI don't take Politifact as the "Grand Arbiter of Truth". I disagree with much of their analysis, some of it I think is flat out wrong. My point in linking to it was that it does show several bald faced lies made by Bachmann and it was the only site that I know of that aggregates that sort of thing.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusemaybe you haven't heard - man-made global warming is a joke
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePerhaps you overlooked this sentence.
"There are so many other rational arguments that can be made against global warming that it's absolutely absurd to say something so ridiculous."
I don't buy the global warming hoax.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseFurther, if an issue is such a joke then you have all the more reason to stick to rational arguments and the facts. Making irrational, almost incoherent statements about the 'joke' issue only works to delegitimize your position on the issue. In other words, calling it a joke isn't enough; you need to actually persuade people to your way of thinking no matter how ludicrous you think the argument is.
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