{"id":3923,"date":"2011-01-24T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2011-01-24T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:45:23","slug":"is-bachmann-the-heir-to-insanitea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/is-bachmann-the-heir-to-insanitea\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bachmann the Heir to InsaniTEA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah \u201cBlood Libel\u201d Palin is plummet to her nadir.  She\u2019s down in the polls.  She is the candidate that nobody on the right, excluding her employer, wants to discuss.  She is looking less and less viable as a candidate for President in 2012.  Now please don\u2019t think me misogynous, because I\u2019m observing that the Republican party has a penchant for promoting extreme female candidates that happen to be quite insane.  Consider doing Sharon Angle, and Christine O\u2019Donnell.  That said, it would be a miracle, if some female Republican, bat-shit crazy herself, were not to enter the fray.  It appears that Michelle Bachmann is doing exactly that.  Frankly, I\u2019m hoping that Palin can make a sufficient comeback in Republican circles for these two to run on a unified ticket.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"24palin_bachmann\"This is the winter of Sarah Palin’s discontent. Her "don’t retreat, reload" rhetoric blew up on her when Americans started fretting about heated political talk after an Arizona gunman shot a congresswoman and killed a federal judge. Then she added insult to injury by trying to claim she was the real victim, of a "blood libel." Her poll numbers now are lower than at any time since she came on the national scene, and when New Hampshire Republicans voted in a presidential straw poll at their annual meeting, only 7 percent picked Palin.<\/p>\n

A new Public Policy Polling survey suggests that, were the GOP to nominate Palin in 2012, Democrat Barack Obama could win even solidly Republican states<\/strong>. "Obama with a chance in Texas… but only against Palin," read the headline on the PPP report.<\/p>\n

For Palin, it seems to be all bad news. And that is good news for Michele Bachmann. As the shine goes off Palin, the constantly controversial congresswoman from Minnesota is doing everything she can to make herself the new star of the Republican right<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While Sarah Palin scrambles to explain herself, the more competent if perhaps a bit more wide-eyed and wild-worded Michele Bachmann is scrambling around the country — trying to position herself as the presidential candidate that Palin may not be.<\/p>\n

She stormed through the first Republican caucus state of Iowa over the weekend<\/strong>, telling large and enthusiastic conservative crowds that: "We repealed ‘Obamacare’ in the House of Representatives this week, but in order to be able to get rid of it, we have to be able to have a different president\u2026"<\/p>\n

The congresswoman has announced that she return to the caucus state in the spring, if not sooner. Bachmann says it is not "personal ambition" that propels her to position herself as a possible candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nod. However\u2026 if any Iowa Republican would like to slap a "Bachmann for President" sticker in that spot on the truck bumper that had been reserved for a Palin sticker, well, the congresswoman will not object.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party has shown a penchant for women candidates in recent years, as long as they are aligned with the Tea Party movement and proud to evidence extremism of the sort that William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater used to condemn<\/font><\/strong>. Nikki Haley, Jan Brewer, Sharon Angle, Linda McMahon, Christine O’Donnell and a host of others worked the angle in 2010. That’s hardly surprising; against a field of generally bland and predictable white men, women and people of color are more palatable advocates for the warmed-over conservative talking points that pass for a "fresh" Republican agenda<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There’s no question that Palin drew the template for this new politics of the right, with her 2006 campaign for governor of Alaska and her 2008 campaign for vice president. But with Palin looking less and less presidential, Bachmann sees an opening. And she’s seizing it\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The only question is which is more representative of the Republican mantra of hate, racism and greed: Bachmann\/Palin or Palin\/Bachmann.  As I see it, the ticket would have a real chance of getting the Republican nomination.  Republicans have invested so much effort and corporate cash into promoting InsaniTEA, they can\u2019t get through the primaries without it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah \u201cBlood Libel\u201d Palin is plummet to her nadir.  She\u2019s down in the polls.  She is the candidate that nobody on the right, excluding her employer, wants to discuss.  She is looking less and less viable as a candidate for President in 2012.  Now please don\u2019t think me misogynous, because I\u2019m observing that the Republican […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}