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mcar

(42,334 posts)
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 06:47 PM Jan 2018

Pierce: Please, Baby Jesus, Let This Happen

We are not yet two full days into 2018. That said, I cannot believe that baby Jesus is enough of my amigo as to begin the year in such a wonderful way. From CNN:

Bachmann, who was a member of Congress representing Minnesota until 2015, told "The Jim Bakker Show" in an interview that aired last week that she's mulling over whether she should run. Franken announced he would leave the Senate following accusations that he had groped several women, and his final day as a senator is Tuesday. "I've had people contact me and urge me to run for that Senate seat," Bachmann said. "The only reason I would run is for the ability to take these principles into the United States Senate," she said, later adding, "The question is should it be me? Should it be now? But there's also a price you pay. And the price is bigger than ever because the swamp is so toxic."


American politics has been a poorer place since the last winner of the Iowa Straw Poll took her participation ribbon and went home. And it’s good to see that her unique gift for political analysis remains as sharp as ever.

Bachmann has been accused of employing gay conversion therapy at her Counseling Care clinics over the years, and the clinics have been hit with health inspector violations in 2005, 2009 and 2017, according to NBC News. In her interview with Bakker, she referenced the clinics, claiming that false allegations had left her clinics nearly bankrupt twice. "My husband and I aren't money people," Bachmann said, suggesting that political candidates are now even larger targets for "frivolous lawsuits…If you're a billionaire, you can maybe defend yourself," she said, later adding, "If you're trying to go against the tide in DC, if you're trying to stand for biblical principles in DC and you stick your head up out of the hole ... the blades come whirring and they try to chop you off."
“The question is, ‘Am I being called to do this now?’ I don’t know.”


I talked to my amigo, baby Jesus. He subcontracted the job to me.

Run, Michele, run.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a14533493/michele-bachmann-senate-run-minnesota/
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Pierce: Please, Baby Jesus, Let This Happen (Original Post) mcar Jan 2018 OP
This was the first thing I thought about when I saw the headline. Bleacher Creature Jan 2018 #1
And that dinner table is identical to the Trump household on a nightly basis. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #3
Watch McConnell launch an all out effort to beat her with a sycophant with a brain. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #2
I said that about Trump riverwalker Jan 2018 #4
That is why I added the disclaimer. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #7
A no holds barred R primary battle would be nice mcar Jan 2018 #6
I recall . . . peggysue2 Jan 2018 #5
It should be easy enough in MN mcar Jan 2018 #8
Be careful what you wish for. I am convinced that NOBODY is too bat-shit crazy to win an smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #9
Please Man Baby tRump, endorse Bachmann! ProudLib72 Jan 2018 #10
You have got to be kidding. Ms. Toad Jan 2018 #11

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
3. And that dinner table is identical to the Trump household on a nightly basis.
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 06:56 PM
Jan 2018

Imagine having all of that stolen money, money laundered crime money, and having access to the best cuisine on the planet, and he never eats it, he eats big mac's.

He is the epitome of the ugly American.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
2. Watch McConnell launch an all out effort to beat her with a sycophant with a brain.
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 06:53 PM
Jan 2018

Michelle is a sycophant but hopefully un-electable.

I dont put anything past voters anymore though.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
7. That is why I added the disclaimer.
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 06:58 PM
Jan 2018

But I dont blame deplorables, they cant do better, it is not in their DNA, I blame the nose holding whiners who said the democratic candidate and the republican candidate were basically the same.

As I understand it the thing we CANT do here is discuss the PRIMARY but I am discussing the ELECTION and what I saw and heard as to these type of comments.

This was all entirely avoidable.

mcar

(42,334 posts)
6. A no holds barred R primary battle would be nice
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 06:57 PM
Jan 2018

While the soon to be former Lt Gov shows leadership.

peggysue2

(10,832 posts)
5. I recall . . .
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 06:57 PM
Jan 2018

lots of people chanting:

Run, Trump, Run.

And we all know how that turned out.

If Bachmann does run, she needs to be taken seriously, and then crushed (politically speaking) like a Roy Moore cockroach.

But no laughing allowed until we have Franken's former seat safe and sound, tied with a big red bow following the 2018 mid-terms.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
9. Be careful what you wish for. I am convinced that NOBODY is too bat-shit crazy to win an
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:31 PM
Jan 2018

election in today's America. We are living in the Twilight Zone.

Ms. Toad

(34,075 posts)
11. You have got to be kidding.
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 09:08 PM
Jan 2018

That is the same thing far too many Democrats (including my spouse) said about Trump: I hope he wins the Republican nomination - no way he'll win the White House!

Please learn from the recent past.

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