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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:33 PM
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Michele Bachmann has gone scorched earth on her GOP rivals
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2011/11/15/michele-bachmann-nukes-gop-field-in-powerful-new-ad-video/

Michele Bachmann nukes GOP field in powerful new ad (VIDEO)

Oh, it is ON now. Michele Bachmann just dropped a web ad featuring the hardest — and widest— array of gut punches thrown thus far in the campaign. (In the Republican-on-Republican division.) One-by-one Bachmann fires a series of roundhouse kicks on the rest of the Republican field that would have made Billy Jack proud.

Called “No Surprises” (as in, given Michele’s consistent conservatism, there won’t be any), she deals on Mitt’s flip-flops on abortion, Ron Paul’s laissez-faire ‘tude on Iran’s nuclear capabilities, Newt’s eco-hug with Nancy Pelosi and his support for the individual mandate, Herman Cain’s ignorance on China, and Rick Perry’s, well, Rick Perry moment.

Why go nuclear with 49 days until the Iowa caucus? Maybe because Bachmann woke up Tuesday and saw a Bloomberg poll showing a four-way tie in Iowa — and Bachman, the native Iowan, wasn’t among them. (It was Cain, Romney, Newt and Paul.) She’s SIXTH with five percent. Hard to blame that dismal showing on the lamestream media, but we’re sure she’ll try.

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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:35 PM
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1. It is that LIBRUL corporate owned MEdia I tell ya. A Kristian gal can't get a fair shake
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:38 PM
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2. Circular firing squad,
TEN HUT! Fire when ready!
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:41 PM
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4. Nice to see THEM doing it for a change.
Usually the circular firing squad is the hallmark of the left.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:41 PM
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3. But no one will say she went down without a fight.
To the teahadists on the repubican right, fighting is 95% of the job.
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:44 PM
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5. Too bad the Left's (Failure of) Leadership doesn't share some of that attitude
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:50 PM
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8. I just know she is going to bring up planet Kolob before this is all over and then ...
... the shit is going to really hit the fan.

Wham-mo!

Don
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 03:11 PM
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20. I'd expect someone more fundy to make that attack on the mormons
in the race.

If you accept that someone was raised from the dead and hears the prayers of everyone, what's wrong with God living on Kolob?

I don't see that either one of those things is better positioned relative to empirical proof.
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lillypaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:48 PM
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6. Personally, I'm ready for Michele to move up
in the polls. I'm tired of the other morons. She's good for some laughs.
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:50 PM
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7. So she's not planning on the VP nomination, then.
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:52 PM
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10. Crossing My Fingers That She'll Run Indy When She Loses.
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 01:04 PM
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13. That would be great
At the beginning, I was hoping for a Palin-Bachmann ticket. Maybe that could still happen, assuming Bachmann would take second place to anybody.
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:52 PM
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9. Obama Shouldn't Spend One Cent On Campaigning
He's got the Republican field to do it for him. Wow, that's an outright hit piece that doesn't even try to be subtle.
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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:58 PM
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12. But he should spend it on get out the vote efforts
Because the only way the repubs are going to win is by stealing this/voter suppression.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:54 PM
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11. Excellent. (nt)
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 01:56 PM
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14. "Gut punches"? "Roundhouse kicks"?
The attacks cited sound like business as usual for Bachmann: the same bullshit she traffics in every day of every year.

She needs attention, yet can't stand scrutiny, so this behavior is the only tactic she has. She's trying desperately not to be over yet, though the writing is on the wall. She knows that if she can do well in a primary, it'll keep her campaign alive for a few more months. She'll flail about in familiar ways until Iowa ends her run.
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 01:57 PM
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15. Lucky for them she's only armed with a bic lighter.
:crazy:
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 02:02 PM
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16. I almost feel like sending her a donation
Please feel free to go as loony-tunes as your heart desires, Michelle, as long as it involves tearing down fellow asylum inmates.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 02:19 PM
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17. the four-way tie for the lead in the GOP means that, for at least some of the "electorate",
the more they know about the GOP candidates, the less they like ...
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 03:05 PM
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18. She thinks Herman Cain is ignorant on China after her comments last week?
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 03:07 PM
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19. OM NOM NOM NOM
Let them consume each other.
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