2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBachman: the conservative movement is the movement of "care and compassion."
Introduced as a speaker who both bravely opposed Obamacare and supported the effort to court global economic calamity by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, Michele Bachmann received one of the warmest welcomes from the Saturday morning CPAC crowd. Her address was themed around the conservative movement being the movement of "care and compassion."
It was a message, that at times, sounded as if she was being sarcastic. It didn't help that the speech began with Bachmann welcoming attendees to "Washington, the epicenter of care and compassion." Primed with speeches that railed against Washington, and "government dependence" the crowd greeted the remarks with a mocking laughter, anticipating that Bachmann was railing against nannyism. Eventually, everyone figured out that Bachmann was trying to be sincere.
From there, Bachmann launched into outrage over the attacks on the consulate in Benghazi. "A war was raging in Benghazi for hours, and all we know is that our president went A.W.O.L.," she shouted, as the crowd booed lustily.
At CPAC, Bachmann is truly in her element, and she worked the crowd like a red-meat slinging virtuoso -- a contrast to her often halting and hesitant performances in the 2012 primary campaign. Bachmann very effortlessly shifted from the Benghazi outrage, to touch briefly on the effort to curb gun violence, to Obamacare's "war on the young" to a criticism of sequester politics.
"Why are we paying for someone to walk the White House dog when we can't even get a veteran in for a White House tour."
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(11,785 posts)is what you use when you don't have GPS.
alp227
(32,016 posts)Care and compassion = quack, insulting therapy for teh gayfolk!
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Forced me to light a match... Not sure what the heck I ate..
Blue Owl
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(297,138 posts)bile!? Raging hater.
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(42,146 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)if you're rich, white, straight, and Christian.
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(50,949 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)... and she will achieve the immortality she so richly deserves.
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(12,325 posts)santamargarita
(3,170 posts)we can do it
(12,181 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)I'm just saying
we can do it
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(28,627 posts)talkingmime
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(32,886 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Not one of those 'all girls' foster kids will stand by temp.-Mommys or Daddys side and say how it was to live in their home and have to get 'treatments' in foster-Daddys pray-away medical clinics.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)for Bachmann's political career.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Republican = LIAR!
Teabag republican = A LIAR'S LIAR!
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)n/t
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