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Talk to the hand: Rep. Michele Bachmann hit back at former senior aide, who called her campaign a "mess."
DES MOINES, Iowa, and WASHINGTON -- Congresswoman Michele Bachmann swatted back at former campaign manager Ed Rollins, who has derided her presidential campaign as "a mess."
“There are some things I will never understand, put it that way,” the Minnesota congresswoman said during an appearance here on WHO Radio this morning after being asked about Rollins by host Jan Mickelson.
Bachmann quickly pivoted to why she is running for president -- building a border fence, getting rid of subsidies for illegal immigrants, making English the official language, cutting taxes, decreasing business regulations and repealing “Obamacare.”
That’s when Mickelson politely reminded her of his question, “I think the two words I asked was, Ed Rollins.”
Bachmann replied with a laugh, “You did!” The presidential hopeful then glanced over at her staff sitting in the studio and said, “I don’t understand that, but I do understand why I’m running.”
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"There are some things I will never understand, put it that way,”
We know Michelle......You don't understand MOST things!
Bat @!$%# crazy Bachmann (@@) makes Edith Bunker look like a Rhodes scholar!
She looks so inept and tiny on stage with the guys.....
I waited for her 'Repeal ObamaCare' and 'Make Obama a one term President' lines. lol
..in addition to talking about her 28 babies (5 natural and 23 foster).........
Super Mom!
Me either...
Starting with how is the MN wild ding bat still in the race?
I thought Edith was the brains of the gang. She just played dumb.
“I don’t understand that, but I do understand why I’m running.”
She's running because the underwear gnomes are chasing her and promising to sell her hair to Max the butcher for three spitting snakes and a brown cow...
Really, the woman is insane. The only thing more concerning than what she doesn't know is that which she thinks she knows but is absolutely back-assword about.
"there are some things I'll never understand. "
Like, "what the heck day is this?"
Has Michele ever mentioned who she expects will pay for her border fence? I would imagine something like that would be incredibly expensive. If she's going to abolish the tax system, then who will pay for the fence?
Ed Rollins said her campaign was a mess; that he urged her to move beyond the Tea Party speech about repealing ObamaCare and add substance to her message. Last weekend and this, in Iowa, she repeatedly said she was the "anti-Obama candidate", it was all about repealing ObamaCare, building a fence. That's about all she has ever said. There's no plan, no message beyond "red meat" tossing to the party's extreme.
Heartlight. I have yet to hear any of the fence builder candidates explain how they will or who will pay for it since they all cut or eliminate taxes. One wonders how it is voters buy what they're selling because it sure isn't free.
Bachmann: "There are some things I will never understand."
Hmmm. Too easy. I'll pass on that one.
If Ms followed the facts on border security, she would know this Administration has doubled and tripled down on everything possible and has surpassed all the agreements made with GOP twice or three times.
It seems GOP will always shift the goalposts and twice on Suday, but no other Administration has done more to address the border issues, or had anything close to its well-documented success.
Take out a map and look at the terrain on the border. It is not like fencing a football field! Or your granny's front yard! Give us strength !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some people are good a some things. Others at other things. Michelle may have been super mom. Anyone taking in 23 foster children would be in my book. I would probably trust her, not Marcus, with my children. However would I trust her with my country? Hell no!
building a border fence, getting rid of subsidies for illegal immigrants, making English the official language, cutting taxes, decreasing business regulations and repealing “Obamacare.”
In other words: I do not have a &^%$ CLUE how to do anything that will bring the economy back. All of my ideas are pure crap.
Has this country turned that insane or party loyal that they will vote for a chimpanzee representing their party before they will vote for a bonafide savior in the other party. I used to vote Republican (Reagan, Bush 1 the first time around) But I switched after the repubs were hijacked by the moral majority and kept going further right. You do know what the extreme right is don't you? That's right fascism, and some of these loons seem to be begging for that old time fascism to take root in our country. So please before you vote this next election ask yourself, who is really trying to make things better?
So true, but Rollins was disloyal and not that I respected him much before this but I really don't now. He chose to be involved in her campaign and when it was going nowhere he bailed and took no responsibility. As wacky as she is, she didn't deserve that.
I agree with Mav, she seems to not be a realistic candidate to alot of us, but she hasn't changed her tune from the begining. Why Ed Rollins hitched his wagon to her in the first place, only he can answer for that. But to leave her high and dry now, says so much more about him then her.
Oh, the places we could go with that line.
Yes--she sure left herself wide-open on that one! LOL
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
To be fair: Rollins took the paycheck without figuring out what the rest of us already know. That Bachmann is a grade A nutcase. To talk trash about her after he was happy to take the money is awfully petty.
Says a lot about Rollins. First, that he couldn't suss out what an incompetent airhead Michelle is, and then to behave in such a tacky way afterward.
newday is correct. This doesn't reflect well on Rollins. My understanding is that Rollins has a history of blabbing though, so it isn't exactly a surprise.
Normally I'd say Rollins' behavior might make him toxic to future campaigns, but in this case I'm not so sure. Most of the more establishment portions of the GOP are, no doubt, routing for Bachmann to leave the race and stop embarrassing the GOP. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Rollins was told talking about Bachmann was for the good of the party.
NDD, good point about Rollins taking the paycheck. I think he should have kept quiet and stayed off TV until she leaves the campaign. The fact that he has been so critical makes me wonder about his loyalty; makes him seem shallow and petty. I did hear him say recently that he should have quit for good after his last campaign.
nisl, good point as well. He was involved with the Bush 43 campaign so he's one of Karl Rove's guys and Rove is determined to get the TPers off stage--it's why I think he's behind the Cain stuff.
Ah, First Read, did you enjoy your brief detour into real journalism, with the post about Jon Corzine?
Now back to the regularly scheduled 'National Enquirer-for leftists' snarky story on GOP candidates.
Bob,
For God's sake man, she can't even answer a direct question, ever!
Bob-1887910
"building a border fence, getting rid of subsidies for illegal immigrants, making English the official language, cutting taxes, decreasing business regulations and repealing “Obamacare.”
How does this bla bla from the Lady of the Right Wing Nut but forsaken by him own people, TP, help us out of the mess Bush dumped on us?
Bob, you on the right just make it so easy how can they pass it up. Comon even you have to admit she is just a few cards short of a full deck, elevator goes to the top floor but the doors don't open. She needs to step aside. She is not helping the Right look like anything but a pack of loons.
Bob, you on the right just make it so easy how can they pass it up. Comon even you have to admit she is just a few cards short of a full deck, elevator goes to the top floor but the doors don't open. She needs to step aside. She is not helping the Right look like anything but a pack of loons.
Bob's right. It is totally unfair for First Read to report on what the candidates for the Republican nomination are saying. snark/
Bob, if you don't like it here, why are you here?
[Bob, if you don't like it here, why are you here?]
Because, like Spanky, Raab from MA, american lotsa numbers, nojo and smiffy, booby is gonna "make the libbies" see the light...
...LoL...
Bob, perhaps the light has blinded you...
Like she also doesn't understand that building that fence will cost tens of billions.
Cost Billions and ACCOMPLISH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. What is wrong with this woman? At 1% support from RePOOPlicans who are about 20% of all voters in the US, she has roughly .02% of support from all voters--WHY IS SHE RUNNING??? You can't win an election for Dog Catcher with those numbers---Opps sorry, I accidently interjected a note of reality into her world!
Didn't you know, spending on Republican pork is okay and reality has no place in Micheleville.
You can't fix a crazy person who doesn't want to be fixed.
And yet there's people who ACTUALLY SENT HER MONEY!!!
Given that she's good for at least one gaffe/lie every single week (sometimes daily) since she started this campaign, she'll be missed for a minute. But Rick Perry seems to be perfectly capable of providing plenty of gaffes, lies, etc....
1) Perry gets caught with the Nygg3r Head rock in his back yard
2) Cain is the sterotypical black man out oggling white women
3) Romney is even more plastic than Perry
and the pull-the-wool-over-your-eyes-publicans have limited options, I dont think even the idiotic Christian right will fall for the wolf in sheeps clothing regarding Romney and the Mormon factor.
Let's pull John McCain out for aqnother try!!!!!
Were they white women? I never saw their race mentioned anywhere.
If they were, he's really screwed... This ain't Blazin' Saddles!
I think on Broadway this would be called a Farce in Three Acts.
Rollins took $99K from MB and did very little for her. He repays her with a stab in the back, just so he can lick the boots of the Team Obama media whores.
Rollins has about as much influence on Republican primary voters as the Dalai Lama or Team Obama media like MSNBC, for that matter, i.e., zero influence.
Rollins is a whore. Do you think he cares what you have to say? Robert your a very small man. We pray for you.
Really, who cares, he got on the raft before the ship sank, he is not the first nor the last. Besides can you imagine working for her and trying to understand what she can't like "You can't win, stop please"
Ed Rollins is a smart man...perhaps the congresswoman should have listened to him.
There's no one on this planet that can do anything to make that dingbat appear to be a viable presidential candidate for any amount of money.
If Ed Rollins is so smart he would have never joined her campaign in the first place. Besides, Rollins is an old line republican and considered a moderate - he's extinct as far as today's GOP is concerned.
“There are some things I will never understand"
Which is why you will NEVER be president!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am continually amazed that she, and some other candidates, are apparently still able to drum up contributions for their campaigns. What are these donors thinking? I can understand that the candidates might delude themselves into thinking they have a chance at the nomination, but what motivates their financial supporters?
She wore the same jacket twice. What is this world coming to?
Her 'straight jacket' was soooo successful the first time she wore it! lol
Good one, thetotas. I tell you, you are becoming more like one of us! Watch out! ; )
newday,
I hope all is well with you, and your family/critters.
I am pretty set in my ways, but keeping an open mind, cant hurt. Also, that dam factcheck.org puts me in check every time.
Good for you thetotas. Hope all is well with you and your family, as well as your critters too.
lol Oh, that was pretty funny Rep. Bachmann - good sense of humor and just good sense. :)
Ed Rollins needs to really retire...
There's one thing the majority of Americans understand
Bachmann will NEVER be President
And that's all that matters
Love the photo..."STOP...in the name of love!"
If this silly bitch cannot realize her husband is probably a flaming queen who runs a scam just to entice innocent youth, then what can she understand? Frankly from her recent responses she it either ill equipped to be on a podium or is more wacko than the mad hatter.
I vote for more wacko than the Mad Hatter! (Snark-o-meter on high!)
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
What is wrong with this woman? At 1% support from RePOOPlicans who are about 20% of all voters in the US, she has roughly .02% of support from all voters--WHY IS SHE RUNNING??? You can't win an election for Dog Catcher with those numbers---Opps sorry, I accidently interjected a note of reality into her world!
Well there is one good thing coming out of this, she may be stupid but at least she is spending lots of money and doing her best to stimulate the economy.
Thankfully Bachmann's campaign is a mess and she will lose. Just need to get rid of Cain and Perry now. At least with Romney, we'd get a Republican who's not so extreme. My fear, however, is that he'll be in too weak a position to not kowtow to the Tea Party, and that he's a weak leader. He can't control or lead these Tea Party types. No one can.
But at least he will do his best to be as moderate as he can, with those constraints. It's the best we can hope for in case Obama doesn't win reelection.
I hope Obama wins and then in 2016 the GOP can get solid, moderate candidates in there to control this Tea Party BS. To protect us from one of these lunatics actually becoming president.
There are somethings I will never understand, one of them is why this nut job is still running for POTUS? The other is how the good people of Minnesota could possibly elected this nitwit 3 times to represent them? Is is too cold out there to go vote? Are the lakes frozen all year round and this is the best representation you could come up with?
Amazing. Even the normal right wing posters aren't giving this woman any slack. Not one single person has come on here to support her, tell us how intelligent she is, or that she could beat President Obama.
Has anyone checked the temperature of he11, recently?
Things Cruella de Vapid will never understand...
...evolution,math,basic reality,history,gravity,on/off switches,righty-tighty/lefty-loosey,"Push to Enter"(conversely she also struggles with Pull to Enter",go figure),how to make ice,the "damn walky stairs thingees"(we call them escalators),etc.
The full quote: "There are some things I will never understand, put it that way. Like facts. I mean, what's up with those things? Am I right?"
will some one give her the bird,,,,,,i dont mean the turkey
WELL I have to say Michele understands more than most who have made comments on here ,
FIRST SHE POLITELY DECLINED TO COMMENT ON THE QUESTION ,which is her right as it is between her and him
SECOND she said she did not understand ,WHY HE QUITE or said what he said , THE SIMPLE STATEMENT that there were some things she just did not understand relating to the question , pretty much sums it up
I am reasonable certain that most intelligent Americans understood the answer quite plainly , BUT THERE ARE THOSE who you have to spell it out ,B COMES BEFORE C AND AFTER A etc,
And from your grammar, and spelling, Darrel, it is no wonder you think this woman is an intelligent woman.