The Polarizing of America: Rep. Michele Bachmann wins Iowa Straw Poll

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  • darthfader
    darthfader

    http://news.yahoo.com/bachmann-wins-gop-2012-test-vote-224544660.html

    Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won a test vote of Iowans on Saturday, a show of strength five months before the state's caucuses kick off the GOP presidential nominating season.

    The result is the first indication of what Iowans think of the field of Republicans competing for the chance to challenge President Barack Obama next fall. But it's hardly predictive of who will win the winter Iowa contest, much less the party nod or the White House.

    Well... there goes the neighborhood...

  • Terry
    Terry

    Our political system is like one of those old Ox Wheels. You hitch up the Ox and it pushes forward turning a grinding wheel. The effort is circular.

    So it is with whom we elect to office. It is the next Ox destined by the oxwheel itself to go around in circles no matter how hard the effort or strong the new Ox.

    Where you begin is where you end. Where you end is right where you were when you began.

    We can compare Oxes for strength and size, color and form all we want, but, that wheel is a circle and nothing will change it.

    We are fooled if we think politics is about politicians. It isn't. It is the SYSTEM.

    Effort doesn't count.

    Integrity doesn't count.

    The SYSTEM is self-sustaining. It is rigged.

    So, I don't care if Bachman or Rand Paul of Ronald McDonald wins. Once you strap them in their harness the same circle will be trod!

    Democrat or Republican? One goes clockwise and the other goes counter-clockwise. It is the SAME DAMNED CIRCLE either way.

  • No Room For George
    No Room For George
    Democrat or Republican? One goes clockwise and the other goes counter-clockwise. It is the SAME DAMNED CIRCLE either way.

    Classic!!

  • designs
    designs

    It took a Black Democratic President to expose the mean underbelly of the Elected Officials. Imagine the job Congresswoman Bachmann would do as President with a Senate and Congress filled to the brim with Tea Party second termers.

    How long before it will be 1965 in the Streets of our cities again.

  • No Room For George
    No Room For George

    It took a Black Democratic President to expose the mean underbelly of the Elected Officials. Imagine the job Congresswoman Bachmann would do as President with a Senate and Congress filled to the brim with Tea Party second termers.

    How long before it will be 1965 in the Streets of our cities again.

    It'd be chaos man. Scary thought, but I think enough conservatives in this country are reasonable and rational enough to not do something irresponsible like voting for her. She's dangerous.

  • designs
    designs

    No Room-

    Maybe if George Bush and Dick Cheney endorsed her we'd have a chance of her not being elected. The GOP contenders will be thinned to 4 in the next 4 months and then to 2 by the Primaries. Mitt should make it to the primaries if he keeps his mouth shut, the second will be either Perry or Bachmann, then they can choose from Newt, Ron Paul or Rudy as the VP.

    I would still like to hear about Job Creation without stimulus and or Tax Credits. Catepillar is building a new facotry in the US and can't get enough skilled workers to fill all of the positions, a new Football Field size Pipe factory is being built in the Mid-West. AONE Battery just signed a big deal with GM. Lots of good stuff that rarely makes the News.

    The President should just dawn his Hard Hat and start visiting all of the new businesses opening up and hiring.

  • Juan Viejo2
    Juan Viejo2

    Terry,

    Excellent observation and the treadmill was a great analogy. More importantly, you are absolutely accurate in your observation.

    Republicans in every election accuse the Democrats of being spenders, and yet every Republican administration has outspent its Democratic controlled predessor.

    Republicans always talk about not increasing taxes, and yet the effective tax rates tend to be higher AFTER the Republicans leave office.

    The Democrats accuse the Republicans of being "warmongers," and yet the four most expensive wars with the greatest loss of life in the 20th century were authorized by Democrats: Wilson (WW1), Franklin Roosevelt (WW2), Harry Truman (Korea), and John Kennedy along with Lyndon Johnson (Viet Nam).

    Obama complains that Dubya entered into two wars without paying for them for the benefit of multi-billionaire defense contractors (using off ledger budget entries). Lyndon Johnson kept military contractors busy billionaires during the Viet Nam war, while promoting his "guns and butter" approach to the budgets he approved.

    I'm not saying that what any of theses presidents and their administrations did was wrong. World War 1, Korea, and Viet Nam might have been ill-advised adventures, but World War 2? I'm glad that Roosevelt fought Republican opposition and committed the nation whole-heartedly to that fight.

    So Terry, you are right on the mark. As citizens all we have is one vote and then we have to go along with the ride. But the direction of that ride is always in the same direction, no matter who is in charge.

    JV

  • designs
    designs

    JV

    I think the direction of the two main Parties does show a divergence similar to the different visions of Johnson and Goldwater had. Through a carefully crafted decimation of the Middle Class during the past 30 years and a horrendous devaluing of the Dollar we can now produce and export competitively with other nations.

    Keynesian vs Hamilton economics.

  • Sam Whiskey
    Sam Whiskey

    The President HAS been visiting businesses, shaking hands and handing out compliments. It takes more than a little celebrity action to create jobs. What happened to all the "shovel ready" jobs the President talked so many months ago?

    "It took a Black Democratic President to expose the mean underbelly of the Elected Officials. Imagine the job Congresswoman Bachmann would do as President with a Senate and Congress filled to the brim with Tea Party second termers.

    How long before it will be 1965 in the Streets of our cities again."

    LOL..Dems, allllllways gotta pull out the race card. Why? Are you scared? Or maybe Dems live in fear that their socialist agendas will come to a grinding halt.... It will only be 1965 in our cities again if Liberals are successful at creating the dissension that they seek. Pulling the "race card" at every corner will stir the pot if they that's what they want.

    There is NO proof that the Tea Party'ers are anti color of ANY sort.

  • darth frosty
    darth frosty

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