What sort of a president would Michele Bachmann be?

Oh god.

The demands and pressures on a president places the effectiveness of a president on the selection of appointee and advisers and his/her judgment of seeking this advise a consul and resulting decisions made. As a republican, I would expect I would feel comfortable with most of her decisions.

She won’t bring Mr.Pawlenty along as VP….

As a life long moderate republican who wouldn’t vote for a democrat for dog catcher, I am not a fan of Michelle Bachman.

She is too extreme on the social issues and, to some extent, like obama, she can give a great speech but when it comes to substance, she is a bag of wind.

I am sure the far left free loading democrats who love to see her win the nomination as it would be another four years of obama.

Similar to George McGovern in 1972, Bachman has no chance to win the general election.

I hope, like Palin, she fades away, lured by the big bucks on the lecture circuit.

Let us hope we don’t have to find out.

Didn’t we have a nightmare like that involving Sarah Palin?

I’d rather not consider the possibility.

She would be a terrible, uninformed ruler. U-Tube is full of videos that should be embarrassing to her. Specifically:

Her stance on abortion makes her both destructive to life and anti-choice. Data are emerging that contrary to gut-level instincts, strong education programs, pre-natal counseling and keeping government out of the reproductive decision making process actually reduces abortion rates. Her pronouncements that Planned parenthood offers abortions in shopping malls and therefore should be shut down is uninformed.

Her stances on energy policy are wrong-headed. We need to move away from our dependence on oil, both domestic and foreign. This is not just because of global warming issues (watch her video talking to the house of representatives on this — she must have no science advisors on her team) but would enhance our energy independence and be both innovative and create jobs. Nuclear power is dangerous, creates difficult to process waste (we still do not have a permanent repository setup) and burns nearly as much fossil fuel over the lifetime of a reactor as just burning oil would do.

Her fiscal policies are too regimental and again wrong headed. Conservatives accuse the democrats of being ‘tax and spend’, but history has shown time and again that conservatives are ‘reduce taxes but spend anyway’. We need someone who is capable of weighing all options and acting accordingly. Bush’s policy of reducing taxes, but then mounting two major war efforts without raising revenue again created one of the biggest deficits since Reagan (largest peace-time deficit in american history at that time) and led to one of the worst economic collapses since the depression.

No thanks, I need a decision maker with a clearer head.

Michele Bachmann would be the most anti-rational, anti-intellectual, delusional, demented, hyperbolic, theocratic, demagogic, divisive, inept, rabid, inflammatory, propagandist president this nation has ever seen.

I can not imagine “President” and “Bachmann” in the same breath.

If I were the managing director of a hedge fund, I’d short the world.

It would be great! An anti-government republican who ahs earned $1,000,000 in foster care subsidies? Someone who uses apocalyptic christian code-phrases in everyday speech? A lawyer who worked for the IRS yet who wants to abolish taxes? It would be alot of fun to see her and her sheep-like followers become a world-wide joke. I may just buy a TV so I can watch it happen…. oh wait, too late.

I am thrilled she is making T-Paw so miserable. I can’t believe the rest of the country could support her and will work like the dickens fto defeat her.

Vote for Pedro.

It would be a wet dream for right-wing loonies and humorists, a nightmare for the sane and the serious.

I think she would be the sort of president who is in WAY over her head.

In short, a really, really bad one.

Can a women who sounds exactly like, Rocket J. Squirrel from the Bullwinkle cartoon, get elected Prez? I think not.

@Forrest

Please don’t label all evangelicals in the same camp as this nut case. We don’t all believe in the Left Behind sort of prophecy that she ascribes to.

She’d make “W” look like Einstein.

Steve the Cynic – “Foster parenting is not a profit-making venture”.

What a sweet sentiment. Careful, or you might have to change your epithet to Pollyanna the Naive.

She is more intelligent than she lets on to be,

I suspect that if she gets the nomination, she will eventually say something accurate and truthful.

Until then she will continue to be an embarrassment to many of us that are both Christians and Minnesotans.

She simply makes stuff up. She tells lies. She spews cliche’ “American” stuff that sounds like it came from Joseph McCarthy speeches of the 50s.

She will make a wonderful president. My pastor shared with me that he firmly believes that a Constitutional amendment declaring this nation to be a Christian nation will pass if she is elected. Moreover, I believe we will pass other amendments outlawing the practices of socialism and declaring this country to operate under an unregulated free-market economy. Social Security, Medicare and ObamaCare would end. The powers of theFederal government would be returned to the states where they belong. Nearly all of the Federal departments with the exception of some parts of the Department of Homeland Security, Defense, and State would either be eliminated or severely cut. We would cut the size of our military and once again rely on our National Guard for the national defense. And the national debt would be likely erased by the end of her second year in office. We would return to the path of being a free people in a free nation once again.

Bachmann would engender an even more divided, mean-spirited America dedicated to dismantling all government institutions, hell bent on taking down anyone and everyone who does not subscribe to a Libertarian political agenda, who does not persecute gays and lesbians, who does not attack those receiving any type of public assistance and every aspect of government…she will be a formidable candidate as the Tea Party activists take over state caucus after state caucus to put her on the ballot. There is no one more skilled at working the media and milking the news cycle.

// We would return to the path of being a free people in a free nation once again.

Yes, a much smaller one due to the milions and millions of deaths because of the shifting of wealth power. But an ideal society where there are fewer to watch, therefore, fewer to control.

While I would love to see a female President, it should not be this woman. She is the epitome of Republican polarization, fear-mongering and negativity, tearing down the current administration instead of supporting its efforts at change and healing. She is such a social conservative that she would undoubtedly reverse civil rights progress that took years to achieve. Also, Bachmann has repeatedly been shown to misstate facts while speaking out on issues, proving that getting her opinion out there and riling people up is more important than taking the time to actually learn the truth about the issues at hand. I would enthusiastically support an intelligent, well-spoken and QUALIFIED female candidate like Hillary Clinton or Condoleeza Rice, but the idea of Bachmann as President scares me to the core. I’d move to Canada.

Jim Shapiro – None of the folks I know who do foster care are getting rich from it. They all have to keep their day jobs. They couldn’t do it if it weren’t for the government payments, but wouldn’t do it if they didn’t care about the kids.

Be skeptical of the skeptics, too.

Steve:

“Thanks for the reminder that the left wing can twist facts, too”

Oops, you’re right, it was $1 mill house and $250,000 in foster care bennies.

“My bad,” as the kids say.

J

Floyd (posting at 10:11am), do you actually believe that post-digestive cattle feed, or is it satire? That comment is so whacky, I have to wonder if “Floyd” is not the pseudonym of a left-winger posing as a right-winger to make the right wing look even more ridiculous than it is.

All ideology is bullshit.

Unmitigated disaster.

Steve the Cynic –

It’s heartening to know that you know of some foster care providers whose primary motivation is the welfare of children.

Ask some foster kids, past or present. Sadly, the exception proves the rule.

Bachmann may very well have been a compassionate foster care provider.

Just so long as none of the children showed any tendency towards same gender attraction.

She would be an excellent Republican candidate…. for the Democrats. Pawlenty is probably the most electable of the Republican field, so it says something that the party seems to be abandoning him.

I am appalled at all the negative comments on this question while none offer up any facts to support their name calling. The radical attacks against a family woman-Congressman. is uncalled for.

Look at one comment: ” Her stance on abortion makes her both destructive to life and anti-choice. ”

It doesn’t take a college grad to see that comment re: abortion is irrational. How is anti-abortion and /or not_ using gov. funding to sponsor abortions somehow ANTI-Life? Abortion is simply killing a baby because it is inconvenient to the mother. Ever hear a 7 mo. pregnant woman say she is having a ” fetus shower” to invite friends to? Nope_ dehumanize a near term baby somehow makes it easier to say Abortion is a choice and not killing an innocent human being. Compared to 30 years a go, today a 5 month premie can survive and grow to be a productive successful person__

CHOICE is good_ a woman __ chooses to have unprotected sex,..well, that is her choice to play the odds..but abortion is NOT a choice one human being can take to be used against a helpless baby. With that CHOICE of a woman logic, would we think it just for a spouse who financially contributes the most could say he/ she doesn’t want to carry their spouse anymore and so can kill?

Back to support of Bachmann: The Liberal – far left can only name call to demean what they fear. Did you know that George Soros donated a lot of money to try to shut down the whistle blower reporter against ACORN this past month? Did you ever think that a man with no job experience, 134 days in Congress and didn’t vote 99% of the time, who had no accountability to others to create jobs and had sat in a racist Black Liberation Theology (Marxist style) church for 20 years could ever become President? That’s like expecting someone who sat in David Duke’s church with a congregation of all KKK nuts could be President!

Bachmann dares to tell the truth while many in Congress hide from their actions. She should be praised for speaking out on how Congress and the President do not tell the truth!

HOPE and CHANGE? Sure, fundamentally change America to what? Spend TARP2 money and the stimulus [promise that unemployment won’;t exceed 8%? Three years later it is over 9% with blacks at near 23%..Hope and change that?

How about how many jobs were saved or created in the past two years? White house numbers don’t add up but if they did and if we really did create or save ( measure that saved part?) then we see that the stimulus cost over $334,000 per each job created!!! while we have the data that shows 2.5 million are unemployed compared to just 22 months a go. Obama raised our national debt over 3 times . Gasoline went up over $1.05 since he took office. HOPE and CHANGE for that?

At this current rate with a DFL Senate and progressive President, we are approaching the status as seen in the collapse of the economy in Greece .

President’s adviser George Soros( visited the WH over 6 times) collapsed the UK economy in the late ’80’s made a fortune with his hedge fund group and created the Open Society and the 100 some so called 504 groups to bash any dissent of the progressives radical views..yes, they are radical views; e.g. _ kill babies by a mother’s choice ( do it before birth and then you aren’t called a Casey Anthony sideshow, Gore speaks of controlling population just as China does, Obama appointed radicals with no real life experience running business or creating jobs, he appointed radicals like Van Jones ( creator of STORM_ a self professed communist and who has professed that 9-11 was an inside government job!) Obama appointed radical Eric Holder and Holdren ( you recall_ the guy who wrote about how we should sterilize people through drinking water?) and Chu , the energy czar (the one who went on tape to say ” …have to get fuel prices to European prices of $7-8.00/ gallon so we can push green alternatives. Obama said in early 2008, ” under my plan, electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket.” Who is hurt the most by rising fuel and electricity prices? Yup_ the poor and middle class.

How is that for HOPE and CHANGE? Ever notice for the most part, Obama NEVER said what he would change except for rising energy costs and reducing troop levels. Records and polls show he has been the MOST divisive President..contrary to his talk of bringing DFL and GOP together_ the rift is even larger today.

Bachmann doesn’t call for an end to the US dollar as the global standard, she doesn’t call for raising taxes, she doesn’t call for more regulations to slow business growth…and she is not a hypocrite. Hypocrits are like Mrs. Obama doing massive $350,000 vacations on our dime. and WH monthly parties while Barack is out golphing while our troops are dying.

So ask yourself this: Ever see the poor create a business and create new jobs? Nope_

Does the progressive movement which was started by the American Communist party back in the early 1920’s create jobs with forced unions? Nope_

Has a failing company ever been turned over to the unions and then succeeded? nope_

What is the biggest internal cause of private business’ failing ( such as GM and Chrylser) ?

You guessed it_ Unions manipulating private owners… do your own research and see for yourself why Progressive ideology is counter American freedoms and cares little about preserving the Republic.

Simply put_ Progressives attack those who seek to preserve our Republic and it’s guaranteed freedoms using name calling and verbal attacks. When that doesn’t work, which group has been the violent group across time? Yes, the progressives, the radical left that embody the likes of the Underground Weathermen and SDS…famed leaders such as Obama’s friend, Bill Ayers and Anita Dunn.

Bachmann may just be our last hope to save America from the Open Society radical Marxist like order that Soros promotes. Compare her resume with Obama’s…….she ran a business and created jobs, she raised others children and knows that Choice is made when one first lays down_ not when one gets tired of being pregnant.

BTW, where is code Pink and N.O.W. to complain about how badly women are treated in the Middle east or when Soros’ groups attacked Palin or the comedians that called her the C word? ? Where is their outrage of how the Liberals are attacking Palin and Bachmann as women? Odd they have been so silent..Hmmm..

Here we go again>> the far left making themselves look so biased..all slander with no hint of facts.

Then one says: ” She has little or no executive leadership experience. That in itself should disqualify her and several other self-nominated candidates from consideration for the hardest executive leadership position in the world.

Posted by Neil | June 27, 2011 10:39 AM ”

How much experience did Barack have???? None_ a little community organizing that has no responsibility to anyone else, no responsibility to make pay roll or provide for day to day operations. His policies have now shown just how incompetent he is with business and jobs and appointments.. Good lord, his own confidant, Ben Bernake said last week, ” that the economy isn’t improving _ baffles me.””

So if you don’t want to appear stupid, before negating Bachmann….list your facts so others can read for themselves, but not some biased opinion from some political pundit on MNBC or CNN. BTW

Absent…. Wasn’t she just elected Senator and since November hasn’t she been flitting around with presidential ambition? Didn’t she just run a questionable campaign against an equally ill prepared candidate where the issues were not the primary message?

Hasn’t she been absent from her post as Senator with either the job responsibilities not getting done, or sub delegated to no named individuals?

The country would be worse off with that type of intellectual and work effort at the helm.

Yes, the Bachmans run a mental institution in Stillwater, MN. She’s not only an owner, she’s a client!

I am fearful. Bachman states so many untruths (see any independent fact checking organizations) and her supporters are either unaware or dont care. even if I wasnt in disagreement of 75% of the things BAchman stands for and find many of her comments to be ignorant or hateful, I would be uncomfartable with this woman as president. I find her to be dishonest and devisive and regardless of the party, these are not qualities I respect.

Listening to her announcement speech, I couldn’t get over the irony of her rhetorical use of “together” so profligately in her closing lines, while espousing an anti-togetherness ideology of libertarianism (except with regard to sexuality) and free-market everyone-for-oneself-ism. She opposes “big government” and extols togetherness, revealing her lack of understanding that government is how we do things together. She apparently agrees with Jesus that it’s admirable to lay down one’s life for one’s friends, but not to pay taxes for them.

Oh, and the fact that it seemed appropriate to her to deny that her campaign was an ego-driven vanity thing leads me to wonder if, at some level, she realizes it is.

Michelle Bachman as president would be a victory for Fascism ruling America. It scares me to the core.

No, Anne, not fascism. Plutocracy, maybe, but not fascism. Fighting inflamatory rhetoric with more more inflamatory rhetoric from the other side is counter-productive.