UNLIMITED MICHELLE BACHMANN APPRECIATION THREAD

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

[Disco Pickle]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/13/iowa.straw.poll/index.html

well, the bitch won the Iowa straw poll, not that that means anything.

I've often wondered over the last 10 years or so why the fuck Iowa's opinion should matter so much, and why they get to vote first.  Perhaps any Iowans on the board could help me understand this? 

Also, why I hate having to sometimes use the word "that" followed by another "that" to complete a sentence.

I really don't like that bitch at all, and I'm still registered Republican.

[Cain]

Obviously not Iowan here, but I wondered about the same thing back in 2008, so I consulted some political science papers to find out way.

As far as I could figure, Iowa is important because the media believe it is important.  And because the media believe it is important, the politicians flock there to court media attention for their campaigns.

It's retarded, but sounds plausible.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/13/iowa.straw.poll/index.html

well, the bitch won the Iowa straw poll, not that that means anything.

I've often wondered over the last 10 years or so why the fuck Iowa's opinion should matter so much, and why they get to vote first.  Perhaps any Iowans on the board could help me understand this? 

Also, why I hate having to sometimes use the word "that" followed by another "that" to complete a sentence.

I really don't like that bitch at all, and I'm still registered Republican.

I think it's pronounced "not thet that means anything". At least down here it is. And probably in Iowa.

[Cain]

BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.

[BabylonHoruv]

Iowa is important because they vote first.  Any other state could choose to go even earlier, if they wanted to, but they'd incur the wrath of Iowa.

[Kai]

No offense, guys, the presidential candidacy is a farce "race". /Every/ candidate is "four more years".

[Cain]

The major interesting thing for me in this race is seeing if the unemployment rate "iron law" of political science (that states anything above a 7.8% unemployment rate = certain doom for the incumbent) will be overturned.  It has been disproven twice in the past, by FDR and Reagan, but of course, the booters of this "law" (on both sides of the partisan divide") insist it applies always and in all circumstances, for forever.  Just like real science!

[Doktor Howl]

No offense, guys, the presidential candidacy is a farce "race". /Every/ candidate is "four more years".

Um, gonna disagree this time.

Look up "Christian reconstructionism".  Perry's a big fan.

[Cain]

No offense, guys, the presidential candidacy is a farce "race". /Every/ candidate is "four more years".

Um, gonna disagree this time.

Look up "Christian reconstructionism".  Perry's a big fan.

He's compensating, trying to build social conservative credibility.  He's viewed with some suspicion by the religious right, because he was Guiliani's man in 2008, so naturally he's gone for the most batshit social conservatives he can find to prove them wrong.

Sadly, it will probably work.

[Doktor Howl]

No offense, guys, the presidential candidacy is a farce "race". /Every/ candidate is "four more years".

Um, gonna disagree this time.

Look up "Christian reconstructionism".  Perry's a big fan.

He's compensating, trying to build social conservative credibility.  He's viewed with some suspicion by the religious right, because he was Guiliani's man in 2008, so naturally he's gone for the most batshit social conservatives he can find to prove them wrong.

Sadly, it will probably work.

But what I said.

Not all candidates are equal.

Dok,
Knows the difference between "abysmal" and "worse".  The second one is funnier.

[Elder Iptuous]

BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.

So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?

[Cain]

It really only seems to be a matter of speed.  Obama = the "go slow" of political evil.  Republicans = political evil on crack

[Cain]

BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.

So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?

Yeah, although the religious right do seem to be softening, to a degree, on Mormonism in general.  They'd probably have more specific issues with Romney's politics, especially as he's trying to regain the centre.

[Doktor Howl]

BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.

So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?

Not gonna happen.

It's going to be Perry and Bachmann, in one order or another.