...It’s that crazy Republican Congresswoman, & GOP Presidential candidate, Michele Bachmann
This article shows that there is only one individual that is qualified and that should be seriously considered by the GOP for 2012. And that one candidate doesn’t stand a chance in hell.
The following is being presented in order for everyone to fully understand the background and capabilities of those in the group that are to be chosen from, for becoming the political opponent to President Obama in November 2012.
#1: NEWT GINGRICH:
The “Christmas Grinch” himself, Newton Leroy Gingrich, is currently the “flavor-of-the-month” for the Republican Party. And it currently, being so close to the Iowa Caucuses, Newt could end up being the final flavor-of-choice for 2012 by default.
Newt has previously been a history professor, but has mainly been known for being the only Speaker of the House that was forced to leave his Speaker position by a Republican House of Representatives on ethics issues.
Following an investigation by the House Ethics Committee, Gingrich was sanctioned and fined $300,000. Gingrich acknowledged in January 1997 that "In my name and over my signature, inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee". The Committee concluded that inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented "intentional or ... reckless" disregard of House rules.
Special Counsel James M. Cole concluded that Gingrich violated federal tax law and he had lied to the ethics panel in an effort to force the committee to dismiss the complaints against him.
Gingrich left his position voluntarily in order to avoid a long and complicated hearing in the full House of Representatives.
Gingrich is also known for having a trigger temper and for driving President Clinton’s sex scandal investigation while at the same time having his own secret sexual affair. He made big news in Washington DC when he went to a hospital to visit his wife, who was having cancer treatments, as he was bringing her divorce papers.
Today, Newt is on his 3rd wife, a woman that he was previously having an affair with and who has a ½ million dollar credit line fetish with jewelry from Tiffany’s.
Gingrich is best known in gutter politics for his obstructionist tactics and the 1995 shut down of the US government that he implemented as the House Speaker. He has recently stated such outlandish comments such as “The president is the best American “food stamp president ever,” and that President Obama is, “fundamentally out of touch with how the world works”.
These statements are coming from a man that wants to get rid of child labor laws and that thinks that working children should replace their school janitors. Gingrich stated on FOX that in poor neighborhoods, “The young students could be paid to clean the toilets and scrub the floors.”
Newt also wants to get rid of “Obamacare” and to deny women seeking reproductive health care services.
#2: MITT ROMNEY:
Mr. “Flip-Flopper” himself, Willard Mitt Romney, has been unsuccessfully running for president since he left the Massachusetts’ governorship in 2007.
He is a life-time Mormon and a staunch supporter of corporate America. Virtually every large multinational corporation has donated to his PAC or election campaign. But even with all that money, along with his own personal wealth, he is not well-liked by the base of the conservative Republicans.
Having brought health care to the state of Massachusetts, and that health care program being the foundation for President Obama’s health care program, Mitt is looked at by his own party as being a traitor to conservatism and “way too moderate”.
And all that has nothing to do on the fact that Mitt has “flip-flopped” his position on everything from abortion, and climate change, to health care and Gay rights. He also wants to privatize Social Security and Medicare as we know it today.
#3: RICK PERRY:
Mr. “Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme” himself, James Richard Perry, Governor of Texas, still thinks that Social Security is unconstitutional. He is very proud that he has executed more Texas prisoners than any other US governor since the death penalty was reinstated.
He claims to have added more jobs than any other state, but they are mostly minimum wage jobs with the Texas oil companies (nothing he had to do with) and the other increases were by adding public state jobs.
He has broached the false idea that Texas can secede from the Union and he wants to repeal “Obamacare” while allowing Texas private health care companies to “ration” their health care. He also agrees to deny coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions. Under his watch, health care premium costs doubled in Texas.
In addition, most capable political observers consider Governor Rick Perry being “as dunb as a rock”.
#4: MICHELE BACHMANN:
Ms. “Dingbat Congresswoman” herself, Michele Marie Bachmann, by winning the Tea Party’s, Ames Straw Poll Caucus, and by founding the Congressional Tea Party Caucus, Ms. Bachmann catapulted herself to becoming one of the GOP presidential candidates. I call her a “Dingbat” because this is the woman that seriously believes the following:
>>> That the American Revolution’s “shot heard around the world” was fired in New Hampshire, not in Concord, Massachusetts.
>>> She thinks that John Quincy Adams was a “founding father” instead of his father, Presidaent John Adams.
>>> She thinks that the founding fathers were against slavery, even though most of them had slaves.
>>> She had publicly mistaken the movie icon John Wayne with serial killer, John Wayne Gacey.
>>> She had publicly mistaken Elvis Presley’s birthday anniversary with the anniversary of his death.
>>> On MSNBC, Ms. Bachmann called for the US Justice Department to investigate all US congresspersons to determine which of them were un-American.
>>> Ms. Bachmann and her husband believe that being Gay is a choice and that it can be “prayed away”.
>>> Michele is a serious evangelical that believes that the US was originally formed based on Christianity.
As president, Ms. Bachmann swears that she would write a presidential executive order to repeal “Obamacare”. (Executive orders cannot repeal laws enacted by Congress.)
She voted to end Medicare as we know it and she stated that as president she would “wean” Americans off of Social Security.
Ms. Bachmann says she would bring back “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell” in the military, which a president can’t do.
And even though she rails against government spending, her family’s farm and her husband’s medical company have received hundreds of thousands of government subsidy dollars to date.
#5: RICK SANTORUM:
Mr. “Intelligent Design vs Evolution” himself, Richard John Santorum, was a Republican Pennsylvania Senator until 2006.
Mr. Santorum is a very religious evangelical, and a staunch right-wing politician. When he lost his senatorial race, he lost, with 41% of the vote to his opponent’s 59%, the largest margin of defeat ever for an incumbent Republican Senator.
He is known for his stances against homosexuality and the high-profile case of not allowing Ms. Terri Schiavo’s husband to turn off her life support system after 15 years of being in a coma. (Ms. Schiavo was proven to have been brain dead for years before she was eventually allowed to officially die.)
Santorum has been a firm supporter of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, intelligent design over evolution, and Social Security privatization.
In a bizarre episode, Mr. Santorum and his wife brought their miscarried deceased male child home from the hospital to introduce it to their seven other children before returning the baby's body to the hospital the next day.
Santorum has been serving as a Senior Fellow with the right-wing Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and was a long-time Republican contributor to the mis-information FOX so-called News Channel.
#6: RON PAUL:
Mr. “just let him die”, himself, Ronald Ernest Paul, is an American physician, author and United States Congressman from Texas who is seeking to be the Republican presidential candidate.
The “just let him die” reference is because it was yelled out in a recent primary TV debate. At the time, Mr. Paul, who doesn’t agree with providing any Americans health care, or unemployment insurance or Social Security, was explaining that we should not provide health care for someone that was terminally ill. Someone from the debate audience obviously agreed with Mr. Paul as they yelled out, “just let him die.”
Ron Paul regularly votes against almost all proposals for new government spending, initiatives, or taxes, regardless of what they would benefit the public. He cast two thirds of all the lone negative votes in the House during a 1995–1997 period. He has pledged to the right-wing lobbyist, Grover Norquist, to never to raise taxes and states he has never voted to approve a budget deficit.
Paul believes that the country could abolish the individual income tax by scaling back federal spending to its fiscal year 2000 levels. Financing government operations would be primarily by excise taxes and non-protectionist tariffs. Unfortunately, that would not provide the necessary tax revenues.
Mr. Paul endorses eliminating most all federal government agencies, terming them “unnecessary bureaucracies”. He also advocates for the gradual elimination of the Federal Reserve System.
#7: JON HUNTSMAN:
Mr. “motocross”, himself. Jon Meade Huntsman Jr., is a long-time Mormon, an American politician and diplomat who served as the 16th Governor of Utah.
He also served in the administrations of four United States presidents and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
The “motocross” reference is from an early TV ad that the Huntsman’s campaign ran where a helmeted motocross rider was screaming across the desert. The motorcycle rider was supposed to be the candidate. However, there were no political comments or statements and you never saw the face of the rider. Quite a bizarre TV ad .
Huntsman inherited a multi-million dollar corporation and he has served as the CEO of his family's Huntsman Corporation.
He was elected Governor of Utah in April, 2004 and won re-election in 2008 with nearly 78% of the vote. While governor, he also served as chairman of the Western Governors Association and as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Governors Association.
In 2009, he resigned as governor to accept an appointment from President Obama as the United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. He also speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese.
Jon Huntsman would probably be the most intelligent and capable candidate that the Republicans could offer in 2012. But Mr. Huntsman is much too moderate for the current Republican Party and the Tea Party members. He was also an ambassador for President Obama, and for the GOP, that is being a traitor, even if it was for the benefit of a “supposed” bipartisan country.
So here you have a condensed version of what the Republicans have to choose from for their 2012 candidate. For whomever receives the nod from the voters to be the eventual GOP candidate, all I can say is, “I wish you no luck in the 2012 campaign”.
Copyright G.Ater 2011
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