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President Michele Bachmann? Obama must be smiling, GOP establishment distraught

Posted on Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 11:20 AM

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President Michele Bachmann? Better get used to it.

After the Iowa straw vote the Minnesota congresswoman is not going away you know -- all the way through the nominating process next year.

On the morning shows on Sunday she stated confidently that she can win the White House.

One can only imagine the shudders going through the Republican establishment who have long believed she is impossible to elect.

In politics these days perception is reality and Bachmann has built up enough momentum after a single straw poll to stay in the race through the primaries.

It means that Mitt Romney has another person to worry about in addition to Rick Perry who just announced from Texas-- and that Obama can breathe a little easier,

Romney finished behind the write-in vote for Perry in Iowa, a sure sign that red meat Republicans care little for his economic pitch and want real Tea Party stuff.

That is the massive problem that Republicans have this year -- to win the nomination the candidate is going to have to drift so far right that it seems impossible for them to come back to center where the Amerian presidency is won.

Which is why Barack Obama must be smiling after Bachmann's easy win in Iowa.

It makes him far less worried abotu Romney who his people know is the best candidate against him in November 2012.

Instead, there is now a real chance that Michelle Bachmann will be that nominee.

No wonder Obama is smiling.

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Ratslayer | Aug 15, 2011, 04:24 PM EDT

Bachmann/Romney ticket?? Bring it on! Yeah, the Kook Ticket is gonna take America. LOL! Let's see: An unstable Catholic-hater and wife of a self-loathing closet case joins forces with Mr. Magical Underwear who thinks psychopathic corporations are people too! But unlike us little people, they don't have to pay taxes! Boy, this is gonna be a winning combination!

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DannyMcGinn | Aug 15, 2011, 11:54 AM EDT

Romney is the lesser of the candidates because of his views on socialized medicine...he approves of it. Your stance that he is smiling about Bachmann is ill-informed and short sighted. Bachmann appeals to socially and spending conservatives in the country, and Romney rightfully so speaks to the business and financial conservatives. And due to the great system we have in America you could be looking at a Bachmann/Romney ticket. Would he and the rest of his lefty buddies be smiling then?

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jamieLM | Aug 15, 2011, 10:43 AM EDT

Bachman has not won the GOP nomination. Both Obama and the GOP nominee are going to have to work hard to get elected/re-elected. It's a long road to Nov. 2012 and a lot can happen bwetween now and then. No matter who the GOP nominates, if I were the POTUS, I wouldn't take for granted that I was going to be re-elected. It might not be quite the slam-dunk you think it's going to be, Bachman or not. You know the old saying, "don't count your chickens before they're hatched."

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cmart16 | Aug 14, 2011, 03:43 PM EDT

At the Ames Iowa debate, Congresswoman Bachmann remained the little lady with a spine of titanium, whose unshakable principles supported her despite the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Patrick Roberts is typical of the Demented Left blogosphere and the hostile media, who have have done their utmost to bring her down, but to no avail. She has emerged unscathed, smiling triumphantly, seemingly frail but in fact fearless, and with an almost martial strength, so that she is match for all her political foes--on the Right as well as on the Left.

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