New Bachmann Ad: "I May Not Always Get My Words Right"
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has gone into damage-control mode, rolling out a new ad in which she subtly acknowledges that the controversy surrounding her McCarthyist rantings about Barack Obama, which have put her narrowly behind conservative Democrat El Tinklenberg in the polls in this Republican-leaning district:
"I may not always get my words right, but I know that my heart is right," Bachmann says. "Because my heart is for you, for your children, and for the blessings of liberty to remain for our great country."
Make no mistake -- Bachmann could still win this thing, as she has the luxury of running in a district that voted 57%-42% for George W. Bush in 2004. The key indication of this ad is that she's realized there is a serious problem here, and may stop some of her public buffoonery and focus on patching things up with offended constituents.
Let's hope she joins her colleagues being flushed down the tubes on election day.
October 24, 2008 7:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Conservative Democrat? So the readers of Daily Kos have donated to a conservative Democrat? What major difference does it make if the Democrats put up a conservative Democrat versus a conservative Republican?
If I had to vote on that race, I would abstain and vote for Obama and other offices.
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October 24, 2008 7:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I see your point, it is not like where in the Senate you need a certain numbr of votes to actually debate something, a simple majority wins in the house.
I honestly have know desire for one party rule for terribly long, just long enough to get the nature of the debate and the focus of the American people back on a healthy dose of reality.
Repugs have been peddling a utopian unchecked capitalist message for so long they think that is what they want....
Greenspan yesterday was pqathetic..."I though banks would look after their own self interest and that of the shareholders..."
When in history has that ever happened except when regulations forced them to do so!!
October 24, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen on Greenspan. He claims to be surprised that greed took over! Imagine that: greed on Wall Street. Why, it's unthinkable!
October 24, 2008 8:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
That has to be a fucking lie - Greenspan has to know history.
How can anyone who knows history not get that message from the Great Depression?
I swear to god I do not understand why anyone who knows history ever votes Repug.
October 24, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's the measure:
If they know history, they don't vote Republican't-balance-books.
If they do know history, they don't vote Republican't-tell-the-truth or third party.
October 25, 2008 1:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
There is quite the difference, because a conservative democrat is a moderate or close to center, where a conservative Republican is a far right Republican. A liberal Republican would have a lot in common with a conservative Democrat.
Bachmann is a fundamentalist zealot. Tinklenberg, the conservative Democrat, is the only chance for a Dem to get elected in his district.
October 24, 2008 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen, Jonze!
October 24, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
co-sign.
October 24, 2008 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Its not about supporting a conservative Democrat or a conservative Republican (although I could never ever imagine myself supporting the later). Its about ridding our politics of the hatred, animosity, and vileness that Bachmann represents.
October 24, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Duh: a conservative Democrat is not as conservative as a conservative Republican.
You'd leave this fruit loop there because you don't know the difference?
October 25, 2008 1:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
A Conservatie Democrat is a moderate Republican. There is a huge difference in the two. And you need more than a majority in the Senate to get anything done. 51 is not enough. You need 60+ to stop a fillibuster.
October 25, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
"I may not always get my words right, but I know that my heart is right..."
When she was on Hardball, her heart was there.
On this ad, she just saying sorry to get reelected.
October 24, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, we've seen her heart and it's right...
right UGLEEEEE!
October 24, 2008 10:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry Michele, this might have been the last straw for you. Your words of hate, if they aren't like me, they must be anti-American, show your true colors.
Its time for you to head up to Alaska and have a cuppa coffee with Sarah Palin and the caribou over by the coffee klatch next to the pipeline.
October 24, 2008 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Piss poor as far as apologies go.
October 24, 2008 7:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you really consider that an apology? To do so would mean that this incident is a part of the past. She doesn't explain how you can get on her "pro-American" side rather than the anti- one, how she feels about Democrats, or whether there's any hope for people who disagree with her (among others). To accept this as an "apology" would allow her to get on with her campaign and life, and I'm pretty sure she only deserves the latter.
This was just a commercial, a too-subtle reference of a reference of an anti-intellectual undertone ("I may not get all my words right, like those hoity-toitys in WASHINGTON DEE CEE").
Which, make no mistake pace the McCain-Palin campaign of late, they're scraping the bottom of the idiot barrel so this is probably as close to an apology as we'll see from her. The news- and blog-hounds will consider it to be an apology, argue whether it's adequate or not, and forget about it in a couple of days. My point is this: wondering whether it's a good apology or not begs the question: is it even an apology? I say no. Don't legitimize it by weighing the "apology"'s pluses and minuses because it doesn't even exist.
Tinklenberg needs to hit back hard on this one. The fact that she thinks it's OK to wonder on national TV whether a Presidential candidate is sufficiently nationalist starkly calls into question her judgement. Something like "She voted with Bush 90% of the time and she's a loose cannon. This year, elect someone who has more than their own interests in mind."
October 24, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, Michele, see... the problem is... How do you know your heart is "right"? I mean, what do you exactly mean by "right"? How can you be so sure of yourself? You see, you were on that program. One week ago. I saw you. And you were soooooooo sure of yourself. You were sooooooooo self-righteous and soooooo sure that Obama was somehow against America. And so, Michelle, that left me cold. I mean, stone cold. With regard to you, Michelle. Not only that, it left me really hot under the collar. It left me wanting to give, to give to your opponent. Who apparently knows how to speak.
And Michele, dear, if you have trouble with words, I feel for you. But in that case, you should not be in Congress, you see. Congress is for people like Al, your opponent, not for someone with a forked tongue, like you.
Bye, Michele....
October 24, 2008 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the 44 years since the 1964 campaign, these slogans have aged like fine wine:
"In her heart, she knows she's right.
In your guts, you know she's nuts."
Hmmm...what wine goes with crow?
October 24, 2008 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
She took a page from mcShame. And it was Lame.
October 24, 2008 7:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
bwahahahahahahaha
October 24, 2008 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't that (the new ad) the equivalent of getting caught cheating on your spouse and then saying "but I was thinking of you the whole time?"
October 24, 2008 7:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
And what about her dog Checkers?
October 24, 2008 8:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
What I've long found peculiar is that Nixon's dog was named "Checkers," apparently after Winston Churchill's estate "Checkers".
What do a dog and a mansion have in common?
October 25, 2008 2:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
??? IIRC, the Nixon daughters supposedly named the dog--not sure they'd be aware of an estate in England versus a game they probably played regularly. And anyway, the spelling is off--the estate is spelled "Chequers" (a corruption of "Exchequer"--and FWIW, it wasn't Churchill's own estate, it's the country house of the PM of Britain, analogous to Camp David here).
Ok, this is kinda funny/pathetic. As is my wont while I'm typing this, I wikied "Nixon Checkers" to make sure I wasn't making an idiot of myself and found this little tidbit...
"Mentioning the dog was a subtle way of attacking the Democratic party. During World War II, Republicans falsely charged that FDR had accidentally left his dog Fala behind on the Aleutian Islands while on tour there, and had sent a United States Navy destroyer to retrieve him at an exorbitant cost."
Republican Party....sing with me...."That's just the way it is/Some things will never change"
October 25, 2008 4:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
God she's awful! Pouring that syrupy, sweet bullshit over her poorly chosen accusations against Obama and democrats/liberals is sickening. How could anyone vote someone like tat in to office?
October 24, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
After she tried to spin her way out of it (if not out right lie her way out of it) for the first few days. Only when that wasn't working she tried this route...
(I bet it will work too)
October 24, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I saw that where she was blaming Matthews for putting words in her mouth. And how he was the manipulator that set up a trap for her to fall into. But the video doesn't lie when you see it from beginning to end without any interruption or cutting. I'm just wondering how much more rope she needs to hang herself with? She should have enough.
October 24, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look, if you're too stupid to fall into a "trap," then you should go down to defeat. Your constituents deserve better! Those who fall into verbal traps... should shut them.
Bye Michele.
October 24, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't let your cynicism become a habit :-)
C'mon, cheer up! Their whole house of cards is comin' down. Enjoy the prospect!
October 24, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
She thinks she's hot stuff doesn't she?
October 24, 2008 8:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
So does Palin.
October 24, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wink or whisper, take your pick...
October 24, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dudes - It's an informal club: Bimbos for Christ. And Katherine Harris is also a member.
October 24, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, and they could put together one helluva bordello for MILF lovers.
October 24, 2008 9:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
God I can see it - I wish you hadn't said that.
October 24, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Leave "God" out of it -- it'll be crowded enough without "Him" involved.
October 25, 2008 2:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
How pathetic. And now Joe the Plumber is talking about making a run for congress in 2010 (see link below). Seriously. The Republican Party is an absolute joke, though still dangerous given that it vipers still have venom left.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
October 24, 2008 8:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Vote Joe The Plumber - I'll ask the tough questions (Even if I lie about everything else).
October 24, 2008 8:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, he's aleady been vetted and he sounds like a real Republican. Unpaid taxes. Working with all that government regulation [a license!], divorced. Sure he's right so no need to discuss further. He was ready to debate Obama right there. He didn't even blink.
October 24, 2008 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
He could at least qualify as a stand-in for Palin. But you know, the more I watch video of the guy, he reminds me of that web-based call boy who was a fake conservative reporter lobbing softball questions to W during White House press conferences in about 2003.
October 24, 2008 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jeff Gannon.
October 25, 2008 12:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
That is the name, thank you.
October 25, 2008 11:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, Michelle, how about you take a few years off for now and figure out how to 'get your words right'?
You've had plenty of time to correct what you said, yet instead you whined to your rightwing buddies about how the media wronged you. You need to go away, NOW.
October 24, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
WTF? Did Sarah Palin write that script for her? Uh...um...Liberty!...uh...Patriotic!...uh...
What a moron.
http://pufferfish.typepad.com/
October 24, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maroon:
Using words such as "liberty" and "patriotism" is more important than actually living them.
October 25, 2008 2:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
One would think someone in Congress would have enough on the ball to be weary of reporters and the questions they ask. Specifically, when they ask leading questions using words that would disparage a select group of individuals.
I'm quite sure Bachmann would have quickly corrected Matthews if he had used terms like Nazi, Fascists, Anti-Jew. But she didn't hesitate a second when she heard Matthews paint democrats and liberals as anti-american...it was as if she relished the term and was hell-bent on making sure everything go a good coating of it before the interview was complete. One could almost see the little wheels spinning in her head thinking how she could use the term to her advantage in the final two weeks before the election.
October 24, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
And what came out was what happens when you've got a few screws loose.
Gears? Grind 'em if ya got 'em!
October 24, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even if she survives, she damaged with the party, which before this apparently thought she was hot shit and were grooming her for plum positions in Congress. I hope this means that doesn't happen, if she wins.
October 24, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep. GOP = FUBAR
October 24, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Co-sign.
October 24, 2008 11:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
And what Party would that be? I hear they're gonna have a real Come-To-Jesus meeting real soon to determine just what they stand for. Seems their charter as a conservative political institution is in question.
October 24, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok ok! You're right LOLOL!
There is no Repug party.
October 24, 2008 9:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is our rethuglican party.
And it has been, ever since Richard M. Nixon.
Can we kick them out of our house? At long last?
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October 24, 2008 9:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Man oh man oh man. Some of this crap has just become surreal. I mean, how can this race be as close as it is? This really is a culture war and goddammit, we're gonna win it this time, because we're right, and Obama is the man. Oh, I can't wait until November 5. Dancing in the streets. Bye bye to these hateful divisive assholes. Devil be gone!
October 24, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
What you really want is for the GOP to dissolve after this election...and it very well may. Note the Goldwater family and Goldwater republicans have left the building. Include Christopher Buckley and many of the well know 'Elite' conservative pundits and writers have written the Party off...it no longer represents the values that once held the party together as a serious political engine to govern the nation.
October 24, 2008 8:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice. It really is the decay and decline of the Republican brand. It's about time, it was hijacked by hateful neocons. The Republican party used to have some honor and still has some admirable leaders. But they were forced out. I have several Republican friends who have watched the party going into the mud but never thought it would go this far.
October 24, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
let's see if i can get MY words right:
FUCK YOU, MICHELLE, YOU BATSHIT CRAZY FREAKSHOW.
yep, came out right.
October 24, 2008 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Close!
Ya gotta use the syrupy, sugar-coated gooey wording to make it go down easier without her chucking it back up.
October 24, 2008 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Newsweek Poll: Obama 53% Mccain 41%
http://www.newsweek.com/id/165586
October 24, 2008 9:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uhm - am I the only one who's troubled by her saying that there's a choice between "government" on one hand and "freedom and liberty" on the other?
October 24, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
No you aren't... it always makes my head hurt; why can those people who declare government is not a solution but the problem possibly seek for the highest office of government? I guess only whacks and psychos can somehow reconcile this contradiction in their head. Hence the makeup of today's Repug party.
October 24, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greenspan has recanted, seen the light, and now knows govt is needed. And Bachmann still drinks the koolade?
October 24, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was thinking the exact same thing. This is not an apology at all. Rather, it is a doubling down of her sentiments expressed on Hardball.
She implies that those who think government might be a part of the solution are opposed to freedom. And of course it follows that those opposed to freedom are anti-American. Exact same thought as on Hardball, only not as direct.
October 24, 2008 10:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, I am troubled too by her false dichotomy between "liberty" and "government". If she hates "government" that much, she should refund her salary and get out of it. Now.
October 24, 2008 11:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lack of government = Mogadishu. Anything goes. Might makes right.
October 25, 2008 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
She scares me. Thank God she's not running for VP.
October 24, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
uh, don't look now, but she basically is. she just has nicer clothes.
October 24, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
O they are interchangeable.
Palin's dye and streak job is way better than Michelle's Miss Clairol Loving Care at home.
October 24, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
O they are interchangeable.
Exactly. That's what I meant.
October 24, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
PPP Ohio Poll: Obama 51 McCain 44
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_Ohio_1024938.pdf
October 24, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Woot!
October 24, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the most awful ad....... sickening in content and sincerity. Yuk, want to take a shower......
October 24, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, those pesky words! That why they hate Obama, he gets his words right! What an elitist.
October 24, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
'There words were smooth as honey, yet war was in their hearts.'
I read that in the Bible, somewhere in the Old Testament. Is that still in their Bible?
She's a total Zom-Bush! She's one of the un-thinking. I hope Minnesotans wake up.
October 24, 2008 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
"subtly acknowledges that the controversy surrounding her McCarthyist rantings about Barack Obama"?
Where was that? I must have missed it. Did she spell it out in her eye blinks? Maybe a secret signal with her hands? This is far, far from any acknowledgement of apology. She is scared and it shows.
October 24, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that what I said? What I meant to say was "friendly chit-chats" with Congresspeople to gauge their un-Americanness. That's totally different from what I said to Tweety!
October 24, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
The unctuous voice, the wacky stare: she is enough to make me fear for the safety of my grandchildren if they were to grow up in a country governed by the likes of her.
She didn't apologize. She just said she was incoherent.
October 24, 2008 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bachmann is history. So long bitch.
October 24, 2008 11:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pathetic....unconvincing BS....worse than Palin. That take skill.
October 24, 2008 11:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, bimbo. Your time is OVER. You pathetic scumbag. Take your McCarthy rants and stick it.
October 25, 2008 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
"I may not always get my words right..."
How recently did Michele Bachmann graduate from her ESL class?
Or is she implying she's developmentally disabled, and should be categorized with Sarah Palin's newfound interest (6 months) in "special needs" folks?
October 25, 2008 12:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Psycho-Hose-Beast.
October 25, 2008 12:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
this ad is really kind of sad and pathetic
that is, until you remember she is the spawn of satan and would happily send every reader of this site to the gas chambers if she thought she could get away with it
October 25, 2008 12:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Too late for you, dearie. I'd start freshening up my resume.
October 25, 2008 1:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Approve what message? There isn't a message there...just some bad acting
October 25, 2008 1:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
False choice anti-gum'mintism --
According to our founding documents, We the people are the gov't. Gov't is US.
One either lives within that paradigm, that system of laws, or one is its enemy. Bachaman is one of the far-right anti-gum'mint loons who must label their anti-Amricanism "patriotism" because it isn't that -- except as D. Johnson defined it:
The last refuge of scoundrels.
And she's probably paper-thin to the left of the "Independence Party".
October 25, 2008 2:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Freedoms and Liberty??? When will Republicans realize that will need more sustenance than empty ideology terms.
October 25, 2008 5:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Indeed. She said exactly nothing in 30 seconds. There's nothing in that pretty little head of hers. Reminds one of the McCain campaign -- she's not offering anything of substance, just empty faux patriotic rhetoric. Surely more than 50% of Minnesota's 6th District will be even more offended after seeing this rather large container of fail. Are any republicans anywhere talking about what they actually plan to do instead of speaking as though they're running for student council? Even without all the crazy she's just a poor candidate. She needs to be retired so she can go back to helping her husband pray the gay away.
October 25, 2008 6:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
with all due respect Congresswoman, you always get your words right.
- voted against SCHIP, against New GI Bill, Against increasing funds for Combat Traumatic Brain Injury, we know all about that heart of yours
October 25, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gimme a break. There are only a limited number of rational explanations for a situation in which a Republican EOL (English-only speaker) like Bachmann claims she cannot speak the language. Mendacity, mental deficiency, or both. Michele's "defense" of her previous indefensible statements is itself indefensible.
What Alfred E Newman rationales are left for voting for this woman if you actually care about this country? Maybe we'll see a top ten on Letterman.
October 25, 2008 9:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Of course, saying that her "heart is right" is Christian-dog-whistle speak. It's important that your heart be right with god if you're going to be a bleeding-heart fundagelical. So, Michele's just reaffirming to all the fear-based boys and girls that she's still right there with them and with god. Same bs, different ad.
October 25, 2008 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
With this kind of stupid things I don't see how the GOP can avoid 60 democratic seats at the Senate. Not even I would vote for her.
October 25, 2008 11:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ideologically, she and Palin are identical twins.
October 25, 2008 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ms. Bachmann seems to have been talked down by her staff, family and friends or to have taken some meds since her Anti-American rant. In the rant her speech was pressured and she hardly was taking time to breathe. In her later "somewhat" apology, she was softer, calmer and measured. The change was dramatic. While I do hope she is better, it is still not acceptable for an elected official to go "off the deep end" regardless of circumstances. Her rant was a comment on her character and reliability and should be a concern of her constituents. Do you really want someone as erratic as Ms. Bachmann to represent you?
October 25, 2008 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
remain???
Does she mean that, if reelected, she will protect only those liberties we have left?!?!?!?
October 25, 2008 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's not mince words Rep Bachmann: F@#K YOU!
We are so sick of GOP CRAP!
October 25, 2008 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
A poster named Don Saunders posted the following on Politico:
I love this idea. Fuck Bachmann and her oily, sanctimonious drivel..
October 25, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Michelle, please don't touch me, I wouldn't want to die of sugar poisoning. Oh, and Michelle, now that you've got your gas bag filled, why don't you just blow away?
October 25, 2008 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't cry for me Argentina...
What a pathetic excuse of a human being. I hope she ends up on the pavement after this election.
October 25, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really hope she loses.
October 25, 2008 11:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
False dichotomy, Michelle. It's not a choice between government on the one side and freedom/liberty on the other. Again you show your divisive thinking. I hope your constituents see through your shallow apology.
October 26, 2008 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink