Bachmann imploding

[howardroark]

I should run for President. My econ plan: eliminate payroll & corporate tax, drastically reduce regulatory state, tell Fed to keep stable money supply, cut all non-security related and non-SS/Medicare spending.  

Corporate tax rates and corporate tax havens are two different issues.

If you want to become a tax have, then you need to cut taxes, amirite? 

[Dos Equis]

I do agree with you that she's right about the economy. But she's wrong about everything else. And, incidentally, she gets her economic ideas from Ron Paul.

She's right about the size and scope of government.  She's right about preserving traditional marriage, foreign policy, the environment, etc.  

[howardroark]

She's right about the size and scope of government.  She's right about preserving traditional marriage, foreign policy, the environment, etc.  

She's absolutely wrong on the whole social conservatism thing... but she's a good candidate on foreign policy issues if you're an Israeli bureaucrat or a Saudi royal.

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More Bad News For Michele Bachmann As Super PAC Throws Her Under The Bus

The Daily - A political action committee which had planned to support Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign has very quietly defected to Mitt Romney - and it's spending big on his behalf. Citizens for a Working America, the so-called Super PAC which aired TV ads against a Democratic congressional candidate last year, had indicated earlier this year that it was backing the Minnesota congresswoman in the GOP nominating contest. But the group instead made a $475,000 Iowa ad buy on Christmas Eve in support of Romney, according to Federal Election Commission data published today.

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Bachmann on radio now claiming Kent Sorensen "said it was a great deal of money" Paul offered him to switch.

http://twitter.com/#!/daveweigel/status/152407631779209218


7:42 AM PT: And now another Bachmann adviser—Wes Enos, her Iowa political director—is defending Sorenson from Bachmann's allegations:
 
Wes Enos, Bachmann’s Iowa political director, released a statement Thursday defending Sorenson from Bachmann’s accusation that Paul offered him money to switch allegiances.
 In a statement distributed by Sorenson, Enos stated “unequivocally” that Sorenson’s decision was “in no way financially motivated.”
 
“His decision had more to do with the fact that the Ron Paul supporters have been something of a family to him since he was first elected in 2008 and here in the end, as it becomes more and more apparent that the caucus cycle is coming to an end, Kent believed that he needed to be with them as they stand on the cusp of a potential caucus upset,” Enos said in the statement.

[Emmortal]

I should run for President. My econ plan: eliminate payroll & corporate tax, drastically reduce regulatory state, tell Fed to keep stable money supply, cut all non-security related and non-SS/Medicare spending.  

If you want to become a tax have, then you need to cut taxes, amirite? 

Again, they are two very different issues.  A repatriation tax haven/holiday waives some or all of the residual U.S. tax owed on the income earned abroad at some point in the past by U.S. companies’ foreign subsidiaries. Under a system known as “worldwide taxation” this income is subject to tax first in the foreign jurisdiction and again in the United States if and when the earnings are returned via a dividend payment from the foreign subsidiary to the U.S. parent company. U.S. rules on international taxes are highly complex, but the essential issue is that additional U.S. tax is due on these repatriated earnings if the tax levied abroad is less than the tax levied in the United States.

[Dos Equis]

She's absolutely wrong on the whole social conservatism thing...

Not really.  The majority of the country is right of center both fiscally and socially. 

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Not really.  The majority of the country is right of center both fiscally and socially. 

why did they elect a person who was way left - both fiscally and socially - in 2008?

And how come they keep voting down the super conservative anti-abortion laws?

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It's not looking good.  Who will she endorse if she falls to 5th or 7th in iowa?  Mitt, in case he chooses her for VP?



Bachmann campaign loses second key staffer in Ron Paul flap

3 hours ago

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's campaign lost another high-ranking staff member on Thursday after that staffer defended another former Bachmann official's defection to a rival campaign.

Wes Enos, Bachmann's political director, has left the campaign, spokeswoman Alice Stewart confirmed to NBC News on Thursday evening.

The resignation comes on the heels of last night's announcement by Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson, who had served as Bachmann's Iowa chairman, that he had stepped down from that position to support Texas Rep. Ron Paul's campaign instead.

[outby43]

I expect an announcement of her dropping on Wednesday.

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I expect an announcement of her dropping on Wednesday.

oh, the day after iowa?  Possible.

It's be interesting to see to which candidate her delegates defect.

If you stuck with MBachmann all this time, why did you?  not because you really saw her winning - you must have believed bigtime in her small govt beliefs?  If so, despite her battles with rpaul on iran, will the supporters of MB vote RP?

Surely they won't say "I loved bachman's small govt beleif, so a guy like mitt really matches my beliefs!"  Same with mitt.

As much as they did battle - ron paul may benefit most from her 4 or 6% of delegates giving up on her.

[outby43]

oh, the day after iowa?  Possible.

It's be interesting to see to which candidate her delegates defect.

If you stuck with MBachmann all this time, why did you?  not because you really saw her winning - you must have believed bigtime in her small govt beliefs?  If so, despite her battles with rpaul on iran, will the supporters of MB vote RP?

Surely they won't say "I loved bachman's small govt beleif, so a guy like mitt really matches my beliefs!"  Same with mitt.

As much as they did battle - ron paul may benefit most from her 4 or 6% of delegates giving up on her.

I agree.  Her supporters "should" have nothing in common with Romney unless she fear mongered them on Pauls Iran stance.

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