Bachmann is in the race. She announced that she is filing her campaign papers during the debate. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...nn-makes-presidential-run-official/?hpt=hp_t1 Rep. Michele Bachmann makes presidential run official (CNN) – Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said Monday at the CNN debate that she had filed paperwork to enter the presidential race and said she plans to make a formal announcement of her candidacy "soon." Bachmann is the only participant at Monday's debate who has not formally declared her candidacy. The three-term congresswoman is a darling of the tea party movement and a founding member of the 50-member House Tea Party Caucus. She flirted with a bid for the White House for much of the Spring and now plans to make an official announcement in her home state of Iowa this month. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, are born-again Christians, and it was God, she says, who encouraged her to run for higher office. She has since become a champion of conservative values, particularly the vision that government should be limited to only what is in the Constitution.
This is bad news for everyone since she has such an annoying accent. Do most people from Minnesota sound so bad?
If this were the case she wouldn't be allowed to run for president (or even vote). :grin: Nope! Don't see any of these people beating Mr Obama.
I don't think she ever made the claim that Constitutional amendments beyond the Bill of Rights were invalid.
Sounds like Huntsman is going to jump in. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43395934/ns/politics-decision_2012 Huntsman to make 2012 bid official on June 21 NBC confirms that the event will take place at Liberty State Park in N.J. More at link.
I've defended the Koch brothers on here before, because I've worked for one of their companies, and it was the most ethical corporation I've ever worked for. I've also worked for the Huntsmans, and the opposite is true. To be fair, Jon Huntsman, Jr., has been in public life for a long time, and hasn't had that much to do with his family's company. That being said, the Huntsmans established a culture where willful disobedience of environmental regulations had plant managers imprisoned. They were so bad at managing money that none of our suppliers would give us credit, and we had to buy feedstock with cash. Their culture of "run it till it breaks" almost killed a co-worker of mine. Jon Huntsman, Sr., and especially Peter Huntsman are scum. Jon Huntsman, Jr., is at least an enabler of that.
May deserve its own thread eventually but..... Romney: "I am also unemployed." http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theti...cket/mitt-romney-to-voters-im-also-unemployed It's a line that's sure to come back to haunt Mitt Romney. At a campaign event in Florida today, the 2012 Republican frontrunner met with a group of unemployed workers who talked about their challenges looking for jobs in the struggling economy. After they concluded, the former Massachusetts governor suggested he should tell his own "story," according to the New York Times' Jeff Zeleny. "I'm also unemployed," Romney replied, with a smile. The comment was clearly meant to hint jokingly at Romney's bid for the presidency, but it was also an odd statement coming from a candidate whose financial situation is so far removed from his audience's. A former head of Bain Capital, Romney is said to be worth at least $200 million--wealth that has enabled him to concentrate on running for president full time for the better part of the last five years. But Romney's audience was in on the joke. According to Zeleny, the group "chuckled" along with Romney, with one man asking, "Are you on LinkedIn?" The former governor replied, "I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job."
Mitt Romney's stupid joke doesn't deserve any criticism or attention at all. I can't believe he's catching grief for that.
maybe it's not funny, but it's not something that should be used against him. it's not like he's that rep from wisconsin who said he has a hard time making ends meet on his congressional salary.
I don't think Romney's joke will amount to much though I can see a GOP rival or two perhaps trying to criticize him over it.
No it isn't funny. That's why I called the joke stupid. But it isn't really important at all. No candidate should catch grief for telling a stupid joke like that. He wasn't making fun of people, and it wasn't mean spirited. Tactless perhaps, but other than that it was nothing.
this douchebag is the king of saying stupid, ignorant, out-of-touch stuff. "who let the dogs out" "looks like you got some bling-bling there" "my 5 healthy fighting-age sons are helping america by working on my campaign instead of joining the military"
