The GOP’s Fort Sumter: Republican Insiders Launch All Out Smear of Michelle Bachmann

Filed in National by on July 19, 2011

The fact that GOP insider’s think that Michelle Bachmann is going to win the GOP nomination and give Obama an easy shot at a second term makes me happy. The additional fact that they have used Tucker’s Carlson’s rag to launch a down and dirty smear campaign makes me elated.

The extreme teabaggers can only have one reaction to this… and we all know that their reaction will include shrieking, feces throwing and the brandishing of firearms. RINOS and Republicans with RINO sympathies will be given no quarter.

Mark this day my fellow Americans. Lightning has flashed across the sky and the thunder has boomed. The winds are tearing Reagan’s tent and the rain is about to come lashing down.

When the Bachmann campaign is finally brought down by jittery GOP DC insiders, will there be a GOP in any real sense?

Who knows and who cares.

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  1. Unstable Isotope says:
    July 19, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    Here’s the reason for the panic. Bachmann is #1 in the newest national poll. The top 4 are Bachmann at 21%, Romney at 20%, Perry at 12% and Cain at 11%.

  2. Unstable Isotope says:
    July 19, 2011 at 7:15 pm

    Wow. Bachmann does an unforced error.

    That’s when things got interesting. Ross dashed after Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking area behind the stage. Her aides grew alarmed. When Ross made a beeline for the white SUV waiting to carry Bachmann away, two Bachmann men pounced on him, grabbing and pushing him multiple times with what looked to me like unusual force. In fact, I have never seen a reporter treated so roughly at a campaign event, especially not a presidential one. Ross was finally able to break away and lob his question at Bachmann one more time, but she continued to ignore him.

    Afterward, I asked Ross — a hard-nosed pro who nevertheless seemed slightly shaken — whether he had ever been treated so roughly. “A few times,” he told me. “Mostly by Mafia people.”

    To zoom out for a minute, what’s most interesting here isn’t Bachmann’s headaches. She’s still a long way from the nuclear football, and unless the story takes some darker turn, I don’t see why a seemingly manageable battle with migraines would be a game changer for her candidacy.

    The more pertinent question may have to do with Bachmann’s preparedness for the campaign circus. Running for President, at least in its early retail stage, requires a willingness to answer inconvenient questions in settings more chaotic and unpredictable than the cable-television interviews to which she is accustomed. The trail is a messy place where reporters will swarm you. It’s definitely not always fun — and can be enough to give even a seasoned candidate a migraine. The question raised this afternoon is whether Bachmann is ready for it.

    I guess Bachmann didn’t learn from Miller in Alaska. Wasn’t he the one who handcuffed a reporter at a campaign event. Reporters have cameras and audiences.

  3. Crunchy says:
    July 20, 2011 at 6:28 am

    The link wasn’t working, UI. Here is a link that’s working for now:
    http://swampland.time.com/2011/07/19/reporter-accosted-after-bachmann-comments-on-migraines/

  4. Jason330 says:
    July 20, 2011 at 8:14 am

    President Bachmann is having her goons rough up reporters already? Well, you have to admit that Republicans don’t go around pretending that they are not a-holes.

  5. Jason330 says:
    July 20, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    Rove Twists the knife by egging on Bachmann to produce a Doctors note.

    Rove suggested, “It’s going to be important for her to get her doctors out there quickly to provide medical records and to provide the reassurance that people are going to want to have that this is not a serious issue.”

  6. puck says:
    July 20, 2011 at 3:24 pm

    I thought right away that the migraine thing sounded like a Rove operation.

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