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Eric Gay / AP
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, center, makes a campaign stop Friday at the Black Bear Diner in Sioux City, Iowa.
EARLY, Iowa – During a swing through a conservative pocket of the state Friday, with only four days before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucus, Michele Bachmann visited a local restaurant to discover only a handful of people waiting for her.
Bachmann was accompanied by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, the district's congressman and her close friend in Washington.
"You actually get your own private presidential candidate and member of Congress," Bachmann told one voter, before sitting with the woman for several minutes over coffee.
In the back of the room, near a wall decorated with several yard signs, a small area between tables had been cleared for a microphone stand, which stood unused.
The tiny crowd – which, at its height, numbered around 15 people – included two members of the restaurant’s wait staff, and three construction workers on their lunch break.
"We’re just eating lunch, working in the area," said Jim Olson, a worker from Marcus. He wore a campaign sticker an advance man had given him, and told NBC he planned to support Bachmann in the caucus.
Earlier Friday, at the Black Bear Diner in Sioux City, a similar scene played out, where staff and about 50 patrons were caught off guard during breakfast when Bachmann dropped by, moving table to table and signing autographs.
(Robert Byrne, the restaurant’s general manager, told NBC News he had been given about thirty minutes' notice, though he was "delighted" by the surprise.)
The scenes were a striking departure from Bachmann’s events during her 11-day bus tour of Iowa's 99 counties. That tour, which concluded Thursday, wound its way through several rural counties, and drew crowds of about 100 supporters and curious voters.
Speaking to reporters outside the Crossroads Restaurant here in Early, Bachmann said, of the low turnout, "This was something that was spontaneous, where we just dropped in."
The advisory sent to reporters Thursday evening, however, included the Early and Sioux City events, along with an afternoon event in Fort Dodge.
Reached for comment via telephone, campaign spokeswoman Alice Stewart pointed to a change in schedule earlier Thursday after plans to go pheasant hunting with King fell through, and added that in a scramble the campaign had passed a bad schedule to supporters.
"It by no means was an indication that we didn't have support to go see Michele," said Stewart.
"Calls were dropped [to supporters] for the wrong times."
But the stumble came at a bad time for the Bachmann campaign, which is fighting to move past unwelcome attention following the defection of its Iowa Campaign Chairman, State Sen. Kent Sorenson, to the Ron Paul campaign – and a new NBC/Marist poll that puts Bachmann last in the field in Iowa, at 6%.
Bachmann got a bit of friendly support from her colleague, King, who told reporters that Bachmann was "his great friend," though he stopped short of giving her an endorsement coveted by a number of Bachmann’s GOP competitors.
"I have not made a commitment on this presidential race, but I’ve made a commitment to this great friend," King said.
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On behalf of all Iowans I apologize for Steve King, crazy cousin to the Girl with the Faraway Eyes.
Then again IA-5 isn't Iowa so much as it's East Nebraska.
John,
Thanks for the geography lesson. It explains a lot.
And on behlf of all Minnesotans i apologize for Michele Bachmann .
i know there is a Mn/Iowa joke in here somewhere.;0)
No Mn/Iowa jokes from me. Mr. phinephancy likes the beer (MN) and I like corn (Iowa).
Me too. For the worst one of all - Scott Brown.
What better companion to have while we're all getting hammered/or recovering from getting hammered/or just some quiet relaxing time this weekend than The Twilight Zone? It just fits so well together for some reason. New Years & The Twilight Zone. haha
I can't remember if Boston still shows The Three Stooges every New Years. They were doing it for years.
But I think most of us have moved on to bigger and better things - Rod Serling.
Phine, are you tripping the light fantastic tonight?
What can I say, I have a two-fer, Mark Rubio and Rick Scott.
Ideology,
Indeed I am. Rough day. Better now, though.
Bachmann, Gingrich(some) and Perry votes are moving to Santorum ...
I would watch Perry. He still has lots of money. He just wants to hang on until South Carolina, where he hopes being a southerner and evangelical Christian will play well. The southern primaries could be tough on Willard.
Tea party is buying into Santorum from what I've read today ... The DeMoines? poll should say a lot tomorrow. He's been playing the Sarah card.
Yes, but Santorum is A: a yankee and B: Catholic. Catholics (as I well know) are only tolerated here. We are one step above Mormons. And being a Yankee? Well, as they say in New York, "Forgettaboutit" So, if Perry finishes in the top 5 and hangs on until South Carolina and the southern swing of primaries, he has a small shot at it.
I wonder how many of them lost their lunch when they were caught off guard.
Gingrich played the same card also ... said Sarah would make a fine Sec. of Energy. Something about old style light bulbs you Yanks don't want to give up on.
I sent you a note today, you have set quite the year for yourself. Keep it up.
I plan on it. You will be proud.
And Sarah would be mad, I switched to the new bulbs as soon as they came out!
RedDev
Wonder if they paid the folks to be there?
Bachmann, the neocon wolf dressed in sheeps clothing. Russia and China are the new axis of evil, according to it. She's hell bent on serving her Masters wishes, just as Bush, Clinton, and Obama do: Do what you're told. Wake Up. The POTUS doesn't take a sht unless he is TOLD to. Isn't it time we all brought a little DIGNITY back to the White House?
Dr. Ron Paul, for LIBERTY!
Hookers and Heroin for everyone!!! Dr. Ron "If it feels good, do it" Paul 2012
could someone please explain to bachmann that driving through county's is not the same as touring the iowa county's! she drove through My county did not stop to speak or press flesh! do not get Me wrong I am glad she did not but I am tired of seeing her saying she is doing something she is not GOD THIS WOMANS A PAIN AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Phine - if they paid them it apparently wasn't enough to encourage a turnout. As the article pointed out, the total in the cafe in Early was 15. Hardly a spectacular turn-out.
Unless, of course, you believe that everyone should have the same liberties.
Like Bachmann and King, Ron Paul believes straight people deserve special rights denied to gays.
Obama/Bush were hookers and heroin for everyone. You can get them anywhere. So much for government enforced morality.
Ron Paul just wants to quit wasting tax payer dollars on a pipe dream which really only keeps prices artificially high like prohibition in the early 20th century.
Of course that would suck if you have a stake in a drug cartel.
Apparently he's not too wild about people of other races either.
Anyone who thinks he would make a good leader...or that he has a chance of winning in a general election...is dreaming.
It looks like Iowa GOP voters have decided they couldn’t risk having a crazy woman with her finger on the nuclear trigger…..Ohhh Michele, it’s time to come home, nurse Ratchet is calling.
She still wasting her constituent money? Is she the only one to figure out she is not going to make it? Why are we still giving her air time? Is it for political humor sake?
Then again IA-5 isn't Iowa so much as it's East Nebraska.
I am from East Nebraska. We have enough problems here without you dumping your garbage on us. He is yours.
Unfortunately, as with the likes of Joe Wilson, he is ours. Just another whiny, bigoted, flash-in-the-pan Ron Paul TeaWannabe.
Educated Voters that wisely research candidates on the internet know the scoop ! They know that M. Bachmann and Husband ( Wife?) have Ignorant views on homosexuals and are aware that R. Santorum shares those views as well ! That is why they have the Evangelical support ! The Bachmann's are more vocal and transparent about this ,where R. Santorum wisely chooses to remain cloacked on the matter. That is why the Evangelical vote has shifted to Santorum and Bachmann has dropped off. Today, there is more awareness ,understanding, simpathy,and support for equality towards Gay rights ( I am not Gay by the way ) . Todays extreme evangelical ( Homophobic ) views actually hurt todays conservative republicans and makes them in general, appear backwards and not with the Times ! Separation between church and state ? The evangelical support now appears as a Special Interest Group not welcomed in today's politics! Ron Paul 2012 !!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"Bachmann you are finish, "GO" home"<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Ummmm.......you might want to learn a little more about Ron Paul. He fully supports DOMA, supported DADT until very recently, wrote the anti-gay "Marriage Protection Act", and wrote the theocratic "We the People Act" (which he originally wrote primarily in response to Lawrence v Texas).
Ron Paul doesn't seem to understand or agree with the civil rights to due process and equal protection of the law, and he clearly thinks the states can return to being theocracies and override federal civil rights.
Seriously, all this "Ron Paul supports the constitution" and "Ron Paul is a libertarian" is just self-proclaimed. It doesn't withstand the laugh test in reality.
It's like wrestlemania, and Kent Sorensen was the skinny guy in the corner who just held Bachman's leg so Ron Paul could hit her over the head with a folding chair. Loving every minute of this circus.
REPLY: Wow, what a bummer. I'll bet those two members of the wait staff were PLENTY UPSET to have all of their customers run off by the prospect of Rep. Bachmann being on premises. At least the two construction workers got a free 'freak show' (and some laughs to share) for their dining dollar!
Poor Michelle. She hasn't pocketed nearly enough fools money yet. How will she ever make it four years until her idiots around America bus tour? Maybe she and Dumbsh!t Sara can split a bus next time?
I do believe Ms. Bachmann's time in the sun is over. I think it is time for to say good night.
Yes phinephancy, she's at the end of the road it appears.
Good night Michele. See you in 4 years. And then 4 years after that.
This is every bit as bad as not getting on the ballot in Virginia, Her campaign is seriously disorganized and discombobulated. Those defections and her lies about it really hurt her credibility.
Like I said last week she won't make it out of Iowa, she should be the next one to quit.
Egilman,
She will be. All her staff if leaving her. And I would bet she is out of money.
Momma Bear in Alaska must be purring. She would have hated no longer being the queen.
Tis true, Ideology. She might have had to "jump" into the race to save everyone from forgetting her and making money, I mean - oops, save the tea party. (I get the money making and good of the tea party mixed up when it comes to Lady Sarah)
phine
I'm steering clear of the language debate on the other thread. My country went through that for too many years and it has dulled my senses. All the kids are mostly bi-lingual and like kids who go to multiracial schools they are doing just fine in a multicultural soup.
I just don't get the "speak Engilsh" thing. Most citizens of other countries speak several languages yet we Americans are so arrogant that we feel (not me, personally) everyone should speak "American" Part of that project I was telling you about includes learning another language. Probably Spanish as it would help out when we retire to that Caribbean island! (But I love Italian & French, too)
Some people grow old and continuously look to the past and others look to the future. It shows up in American's relationship to the Constitution. For me, the best part of that document is the ability to amend it. The Founding Fathers were not slouches when it came to this. They looked forward, were progressives.
They were indeed (and most were bi-lingual, French, I do believe). But, alas, today's American is becoming more and more closed minded. Odd. You would think with the way the world has become open to everyone we would want to be able to "speak their language"
Goodnight Phine, I hope you can see the stars tonight.
Good night, dear friend. Tis late, I am for bed.
Phine - I've always felt American English should be our first language and Mexican Spanish should be our second. What do you think?
Andrea google Austro-Hungarian Empire and see what happens to multiple language countries. English is the one international language economicaly and politically. Spanish isn't spoken outside the former Spanish Empire.
Are you telling us that multiple language countries are bound to be defeated in WWI?
I think we're safe from that.
There isn't one person in that picture that isn't uncomfortable. Awkward!
I like Michele , she tries hard , she has allot of good ideas......strong gal...
not to be mean or anything but have you been eating paint chips! she only does things her hubby and god tell her too she also spent her campaign money recklessly and went broke while campaigning about over spending look at her campaign over this last 6 months she is crap on a cracker
Unless her handlers write something for her to say she has the stage presence of an organ grinder monkey. When she is on her own she is always putting her hoof in her mouth.
BigBen - been chewing hard on that Sarah jerky again...
Bachmann, The woman is a hate mongering idiot....
Reminds me of the idiot girl who tries to convince her friends she's dating a "straight" guy. Lol.
She's done, the Minnesota tax payers are paying her to rep. Minnesota, Go represent Minnesota and quit wasting our time.
Say goodnight Michelle....
Can we all say "stump stupid?" That is what she is...I am a proud VOTING democrat. Bachmann is too dumb for words. I like LG's comments..."Say goodnight Michelle."
Big, I hear you but that's why you have to be careful with folks like her, i.e. other evangelicals and religious nuts. They all look so shiney and nice on the outside but inside they are terribly bigoted against one kind of a human or another (gays for Michele, for instance). And once they are up on their pious religious platform, directing which people are better and more holy than who, they begin to be very much like the Nazis saying "who goes to the right, and who goes to the left". Take a look at that nice "shiney" boy at catholicscomehome on the internet and remember under the shine: 1) women are lesser people than men and can't be priests, 2)gays are sinners and are going to Hell for their activities, and 3) they have not changed one damn thing about the structure of their set-up which lead to all of the molestations...i.e. history is doomed to repeat itself and they seem to be OK with that. Watch out for these "fine, upstanding, god-fearin' folks"..they'll walk on your face, or a kids face, or a gays face, if they think it will get them to heaven. Dangerous, dangerous people.
Well put Tim.. I would add that out of one side of their mouth they scream "keep government out of our lives", while out of the other they are anxious to make laws that will stifle, isolate or down right control ones life. When they come out an actually say: "1. The amount of money you have and the color of your skin will dictate the priorities of this nation, and 2. We don't like any taxes unless it furthers the cause of Number 1.", I will at least not think them hypocites. Yes, these people are very dangerous people. I agree with Ron Paul on some important issues, but he's so whacked out on others I couldn't come close to supporting him.
Johns you are so right, the waitress is thinking I have a job to do here, the guys are thinking sheesh 30 minutes for lunch and this weird woman is wasting half of it.
Leering on as she looms like a cheesy coat rack.
Michele needs to turn one of those old-time light bulbs she's fond of lamenting and read the writing on the wall - especially the sign that says "Exit". Read and heed, Michele.
False report by msnbc but that's not unusual for them to take advantage of ignorance. The only reason the turn out was low was because it was an impromptu visit after an early finish of her 99 county tour. The pizza parlor wasn't aware of her coming until the last minute. Michele doesn't need apology. There is nothing to apologize for about her. She is a woman of highest integrity who is smart, deserving, disciplined and principled who doesn't deserve the remarks and comments that people who lack discernment and integrity make about her. They don't even know her! Their lack of understanding is reflected in the things they say which are further born out of pure cynicism and guile.
And you're eating paint chips too Gail.
Did you miss the part where the Bachman campaign gave the press their schedule showing their planned stops at those restaurants? After they planned them, and showed up for them...and no one else did...then they suddenly became "impromptu".
True...there was one that only had 30 minutes warning....but that only speaks to the total disorganization of the campaign.
Most of us don't "know" any of the candidates....but we are still required to learn what we can about them, and form a judgment, so that we can vote for the one we feel will make the best leader. There have been inummerable stories about Bigoted Bachman's Blunders. Two wars, an economic meltdown, health care crisis, and her contributions include such gems as bills to retain outmoded, energy sucking incandescents and to open our national forests to shale oil exploration (to fuel those light bulbs, perhaps?)
She isn't fit to lead a girl scout troop.
She is a woman of highest integrity? Are you kidding me? Smartest?
The following are just some of Michele's dumbest quotes:
1."I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending." –Rep. Michele Bachmann, suggesting at a presidential campaign event in Florida that the 2011 East Coast earthquake and hurricane was a message from God (Aug. 2011)
2. "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too" -Rep. Michele Bachmann, getting her John Waynes mixed up during an interview after launching her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, where she grew up. The beloved movie star John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, three hours away. The John Wayne that Waterloo was home to is John Wayne Gacy, a notorious serial killer. (June 2011)
3. "I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter." –Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), on the HPV vaccine, Fox News interview, Sept. 12, 2011
4. "Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, recalling in a 2006 speech at a Megachurch in Minneapolis that pursuing tax law wasn't her choice, but she did so at the urging of her husband because she was certain God was speaking through him
5. "I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?" -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a new McCarthyism, Oct. 2008
6. "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 2009
7. "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, April, 2009
8. "If we took away the minimum wage -- if conceivably it was gone -- we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level." -Michele Bachmann, Jan. 2005
9. "But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, botching American history while speaking at an Iowan's for Tax Relief event in January 2011. The Founding Fathers did not work to end slavery, and John Quincy Adams was not one of the Founding Fathers.
10. "Before we get started, let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, while campaigning for president in South Carolina on what was actually the anniversary of Elvis's death, Aug. 16, 2011 (Elvis was born on January 8)
She is a woman of highest integrity
Are you kidding me Gail?? Highest integrity?? She lies constantly. She makes up her version of what's true as she goes along. The only Republican with less integrity is Newt Gingrich.
I have read some really ridiculous posts on FR over the years, but I do believe that Gail deserves some sort of prize.
Hands down Gail wins the prize.................
If only Sarah Palin would jump back in................
i THINK S.P received some write ins
When the primary campaign is mercifully over and this glassy-eyed idiot returns to her native near-arctic haunts, she ought to call the guys who clean the dog hair, mold and dust mites from my air conditioning ducts to do the inside of her skull. Then she can start fresh.
Well Said, Sir!
Dr. Ron Paul, for LIBERTY!
^ Ron Paul is a creepy cult leader.
For a decade he built his following by cultivating paranoid racist and anti-Semitic extremists with his "newsletter".
He made 1 million dollars off of it.
Yet now he claims that he didn't write it, and he doesn't know who did.
Mister integrity my foot. He's a racist coward.
And a homophobe.
And a whiny little weasel...
You are a Dumb ass uneducated voter!
Ron Paul promotes the same party as it's founder/leader Lyndon Larouche, who in 1988 or 92', don't remember exactly the year, bought a 1/2 hour time slot in primetime on all the free media to promote his libertarian agenda. Which included, in all seriousness, to populate the Moon and deposit all ghetto people and their offspring. This is no joke. An incredible 30 minutes. Included were poster boards of how it would be done. I hate throwing around the word "nazi" because it minimizes their atrocities, but this group is one whacked out collection. I believe in a couple of his "soundbites", but don't fool yourself, this guy is out there.
Brand x, brand y. It doesn't seem to make too much difference for the vast majority of us.
the vast majority of 'wingnuts', you mean.
Adios Michele and not too soon. What a pain.
Surprising no one but Bachmann, and maybe not even her.
Creepy cult leader? I guess that makes you an idiot.
Rather, just observant...
Totally delusional!!!!
Duh? Go Figure....Now there's a presidential candidate for you, arriving at her presidential stop, as always greeting the crowd with that insipid grin and vacuous stare, although the crowd has finally sought its true level, which is a couple of red necks, in some hay seed diner, in podunk Iowa...Sadly, this is the way it should have been from the start for this dunce, not just the end.....How in god's name does a person like this ever become elected to public office, or any office??? Now, the next positive step for this country is to get her lame ass out of congress...
along with King.
The picture is funny. Both patrons are totally ignoring her and placing their order.
Hadn't noticed the picture before. Only ones paying less attention are the two wooden bears out front.
All of the commenters who stress how dumb Bachmann is (and I'm not sure I don't agree with thgem) must surely have low esteem for the voters in her district in Minnesota who sent her to Congress. Do those commenters include the Bachmann voters in their appraisal of her intelligence?
I've always thought her utterances smacked of a dyed-in-the-wool Nazi's ideology.
Whomever be the GOP candidate, I'll be voting for him/her.
I hoped for a real Independant or Libitarian, but that couldn'd cut the mustard in the two party USofA world. Looks like the Liberal Left Wing Wackos may get their 2nd year of INEPT.
Yall need to learn how to pull up your own boot straps and take care of yourself. YOUR OWN! PERIOD!
Whatever the comeout, I'll be comfy in the country hunting. All yall are welcome, just bring the right attitude.
No belly aching saying you need anybody to do ANY THING for you. I may let you use the privy.
I aint wiping anybodys ass. Take care of yourself, live long and prosper, get enough sleep, and smile.
You're a goofball. We all rely on each other. It's called society. If everyone hunted there would be no game left for you or anyone else to hunt. Get a clue, get an education, and drop the tough-guy Texan act. Citizens from other states don't buy it. They just think you're nuts.
Well, at least I'm a comfy Goofball. I rely on a bunch of folks, too bad many more rely on my pitance.
I have an education, Mba UT Austin. I'v learned self sufficiency and how to care for family and freinds.
Actually, hunting and thining the heard is good for the envirnment.
As for others that don't BUY TEXAS and think we're podunct, I wish they would stop moving here, it litters the land.
All others are welcome.
By the way, I'm not nuts.
All Ya'll have a HAPPY NEW YEAR, HOPING FOR REAL CHANGE!
and a big ol' dose of Newty for you, too!
btw, it's 'defunct', not podunct...
Okay, I GOTTA step in here..
TexasTom:
I have an education, Mba UT Austin. I'v learned self sufficiency and how to care for family and freinds.
Actually, hunting and thining the heard is good for the envirnment.
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Wow, just wow.. You said you have an education that includes an MBA and yet you misspelled "friend", "thinning", "herd", and "environment."
Seriously, you really should get a ghost writer if you're going to lie like this cause you're as believable as Bachmann right now and that is NOT a good thing.
Turnabout
Degree is from UT Austin, another dumbass Texan. Just what we need in white house again.
Emil
...and I've. Gotta love it when the trolls try to adopt a persona they aren't qualified to imitate, know what I mean?
referring to menglish as the official language of the U.S.A...I read the other day where the fastest growing segment of the population is of spanish families, How are these people going to feel when all of these Latin people turn it around and want to make Spanish the official language.
I think they call it "spanglish".
All those folks know my dialect. I can't understand half of them much less "outsourced" customer service provided by "the system".
I thought english was a requirement for citizenship.
Learn or leave.
Take care, have a great life, learn to work with others (on your own terms) and give em a pat on the back. That's all they'al get from me.
Sad but hopefully not true outcome, thanks matt.
Michele Bachmann will always have someone in the audience ready to step up and make noise for her.
*chirp*
optimist
I don't quite get your point.
With your cat picture and the word "chirp", I guess that means "when the cats away, the mice will play"? or the birds will get another day to live?
I'd be happier than hell to get the current POTUS out of the house. I've taken care of two rats with traps the last 2 days in my own home, but I can't promise taking care of the rat in the white house, just doing my part.
That only takes persiverance, ideology, smarts, and help from others who can only help themselves, I donate plenty to those in true need.
Godspeed and Honor.
HAPPY NEW YEAR and looking forward to REAL hope and change!
It's the people that are away... and crickets will chirp, not mice.
Rats in yer home kinda sez it all, y'all.
Michele, The Ash-heap of History awaits you!
People aren't buying Dog Whistle Politics anymore.
They wised up...
Pretty funny, Bachmann threw a political campaign and no one turned out! Hope it cost her an arm and a leg. Did she really think she'd be nominated with her anti-everything attitude? Romney will take Iowa and then move on to New Hampshire and win there as well. Perry, Bachmann and Paul are just clinging to his coat-tails in hopes of someone remembering their names in the voting booths. Of course Newt has repented his sins so he can't lose, except in the eyes of the voters. Wah! wah! wah! my poor mama! You know he hates women the way he treats them. Come on Newt, stop crying for 'crying out loud'!
If you are simply trying to pick a horse that you think stands the best chance at beating Obama, you are dead wrong ! He has a Geeky, Gitty, Hyper-Nerd way about him and would be Destroyed BY OBAMA, no question. He will beat him much worst than he beat Mc Cain !! Ron Paul is the only one that can beat him!!