So Bachmann is looking like the Conservative option.

The question is does everything Palin went through clear the way for Bachmann.

If they start saying the same things about her people will look foolish.

The issue isnt if Bachmann would be a good president.

The issue is will all the flack Palin took make it easier for Bachman. The media cannot do it to another Conservative female and claim an impartial stance.

Posted by swamphawk22 on 6/27/2011 5:13:00 AM (view original):
The issue isnt if Bachmann would be a good president.

The issue is will all the flack Palin took make it easier for Bachman. The media cannot do it to another Conservative female and claim an impartial stance.

So if she is crazier than a shithouse rat she gets a free pass?

Posted by moosep on 6/27/2011 5:22:00 AM (view original):

Posted by swamphawk22 on 6/27/2011 5:13:00 AM (view original):
The issue isnt if Bachmann would be a good president.

The issue is will all the flack Palin took make it easier for Bachman. The media cannot do it to another Conservative female and claim an impartial stance.

So if she is crazier than a shithouse rat she gets a free pass?

If she were actually insane she wouldnt get a pass.

Issues dealing with her religion seem off the table now. Anything that might appear to be attacking her looks or small town ways is off limits.

Picking anything out of a longer interview and trying to blow it up is now a "Palin" and cannot be done to Bachmann.

I think the more flack Palin takes, the more she clears the way for Bachmann.

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was surely confused Monday when she suggested she had the "spirit" of a serial killer.

"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," she told Fox News prior to the official announcement of her candidacy in Waterloo.

Conservative newspaper The Washington Times was first to point out that the presidential hopeful had picked the wrong John Wayne.

"Waterloo's John Wayne was not the beloved movie star, but rather John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer," Stephen Dinan wrote.

This is the kind of stuff we are talking about.

She shoots from the hip. She doesnt have 12 guys look over ever word she speaks to make sure that she stays on message. She is a real person, and sometimes real people confuse heros with serial killers.

Bob Schieffer interviewed Rep. Michele Bachmann on Face The Nation yesterday and actually tried to pin her down on her many and numerous outright lies, as PolitiFact recently examined in some detail.

And as usual, she did her usual blob-of-mercury routine:

SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about something else. A lot of your critics say you have been very fast and loose with the truth. You know, the po-- PolitiFact, which is a website that won a Pulitzer, did an analysis of twenty-three statements that you made recently. Of these twenty-three, only one they said was completely true. Seven they call pants on fire kind of falsehoods. Four were barely true and two were half truths. How do you answer that criticism? Because here’s one of them, you know, you said on the record there had been only one offshore oil drilling permit during the Obama administration and, in fact at that time they had been two hundred and seventy. How do you explain that?

BACHMANN: Well, you know, I think that what is clear more than anything is the fact that President Obama does -- has not been issuing the permits, that he should have been issuing on offshore drilling that’s--

SCHIEFFER: Well, it’s more than three hundred now.

BACHMANN: Well --

SCHIEFFER: At-- at that time there had been two hundred and something. And you said there had been only one.

BACHMANN: But as far as drilling goes, we hadn’t been drilling what we need to-- that’s why we just this week--

SCHIEFFER (overlapping): But that’s different, isn’t it?

BACHMANN: Well, that’s why this week it’s-- it’s ironic and sad that the President released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve because the President doesn’t have an energy policy.

SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Do you think that was a good move?

BACHMANN: He has a politically correct environmental policy.

SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Was that a good thing?

BACHMANN: It was a very bad move. It put-- it has made the United States more vulnerable. There’s only a limited amount of oil that we have in the Strategic Oil Reserve. It’s there for emergencies. We do not-- the emergency that we have is the fact that -- the fact that-- the President of the United States has failed to give the American people an energy policy. Here’s the good news that a lot of Americans don’t even realize. We are the number one energy resource rich nation in the world according to the Congressional Research Service. But the President of the United States has unfortunately put American energy resources off limits.

SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Did--

BACHMANN: We need to open those up so we can bring down the price of gasoline at the pump. The President has it exactly wrong when it comes to energy.

SCHIEFFER Just quickly though, the-- the original question I asked you is all of these statements that you have made that have later proven to be sort of true or-- or totally false in some cases, what is your answer when people say that to you? Do you feel you have misled people?

BACHMANN: No, I haven’t misled people at all. I think the question would be asked of President Obama. When you told the American people that if we borrow a trillion dollars from other countries and spend it on a stimulus that we won’t have unemployment go above eight percent and today as we are sitting here, it’s 9.1 percent and the economy is tanking. That is what’s serious. That’s a very serious statement that the President made. Did he mislead the American people? Not only did he mislead the American people, he’s caused our economy to go down to--

SCHIEFFER (overlapping): All right.

BACHMANN: --depths that we haven’t seen. That’s what’s serious.

SCHIEFFER: Again, I have to say congresswoman, I asked you a question and you-- you, to my knowledge I don’t believe you answered it, but I want to thank you.

Indeed, Bachmann simply would not answer any of Schieffer's points about her mounting record of falsehoods, trying instead to "pivot" the interview and make it about Obama's supposed misleading statements. It's like trying to talk to a trained robot, programmed never to admit to anything like lying -- so of course, it lies in order to do so.

She clearly pushed it when she said one.

There needs to be more drilling and she supports that. If she missed the specific amount does that matter?

It always amazes me that the media is always willing to go over anything a Conservative says with a laser beam focus, but things that the Actual President says are never questioned. No one ever analyzes his stimulus.

So when you are calling someone, not on the main point of their statement, but on some specific numbers, we see a hostile media.

Or as Palin calls it...The Lame Stream Media!

Holy hannah! Are you joking?If she missed the specific amount does it matter? Wow! You really do look at her statements through rose colored glasses.

It does matter when there is such a big miss like 1 and 270+.

When you can't get a specific fact correct, and miss it by a wide margin, it looks to everyone, well everyone with an ounce of sense, that you are misleading the public.  At that point your facts and how you came about them is the story.  Pretty easy to get your message out, do your research and get your facts straight, then you won't have such a "hostile" media.

This is the kind of stuff we are talking about.

She shoots from the hip. She doesnt have 12 guys look over ever word she speaks to make sure that she stays on message. She is a real person, and sometimes real people confuse heros with serial killers.

It's obvious she needs at least one.

And real people don't confuse heroes with serial killers. Ever.