With GOP ‘brand’ unpopular, Bachmann emphasizes ‘conservative’ movement
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 at 3:58 pm
The GOP brand, writes Pollster’s Brendan Nyhan, is “in worse shape than any opposition party in recent memory,” and this dismal public perception is something Rep. Michelle Bachmann addressed in Washington today. At a Heritage Foundation briefing, she seemed to have a solution: emphasize “conservative” over Republican.
“‘Republican’ still isn’t a popular brand name for people but ‘conservative’ is,” Bachmann said, adding that a conservative movement “under that banner coalition of respecting the constitution [...] is a winning formula going forward.”
As Lazar Backovic at the Washington Independent reports, she then offered a three-point plan:
“Number one, we have to defeat [the Democratic] leadership. We’ll have that opportunity next year to do exactly that.” Second, “defund the left. … The American people believe that Congress wastes 50 percent — 50 cents or 50 percent of every dollar it spends. God love the American people. They get it.” Finally, she wants to pass “repealer bill[s]” to dismantle the work of the Democratic Congress.
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10 Comments
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 5:27 pm
Ms. Bachmann’s behavior and public comments have and are contributing to the unpopular perception of the repubs brand. Of course she can’t compete with the likes of Limbaugh, Beck, and the cohort of spiteful idiots that have coarsened public discourse and turned every idea into a political football. Public be damned the right wingnuts have obliterated years of image building and reduced the repubs to an angry reactionary mob. Who needs them?
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 7:22 pm
Bachmann is very adept at manipulating the public, especially those in her district as I am. Her “message” may work, which is a shame. “Waste 50%”? Ask T-Paw: He couldn’t cut 2% without hitting bone. That’s the truth that the public “gets”. The Republicans lie, we get it. They are willing to lie and do anything to get elected. What we’d appreciate is effective leadership. We had six years of total Republican “leadership”. I don’t think we’ll be making that mistake again.
Using the Conservative ID, that’s what the Tea Partiers are doing. Glenn Beck does not self-identify as a Republican.
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
Good grief, Michelle Bachmann decrying the unpopularity of the Republican Party is like a cat complaining that the litter box stinks. Does she think her own crazed rhetoric and actions have not contributed to the situation?
It would be very interesting to see a real “conservative” movement in this country. For instance, preservation of the national forests against mining and other destructive access should be a top priority (“conservation” is a prime factor of “conservatism,” isn’t it?). Getting the government out from between doctors and their patients (abortion, anyone?) should also be at the top of their list. I eagerly await a true conservatism, though I fear what we’re going to be offered instead is more pseudo-GOP wingnuttery with a “NEW and IMPROVED!!!” sticker on the box.
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 10:25 pm
Michele Bachmann is a disgrace to the USA, MN, and the 6th. If you’re interested in getting rid of Bachmann, support democratic candidate Dr. Maureen Reed! You can learn more about Maureen, and donate, at:
http://maureenreedforcongress.com/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Reed
Comment posted October 7, 2009 @ 8:40 am
The Republicans trashed the “GOP Brand” because their actions clearly demonstrate that GOP stands for GreedOverPrinciples.
Pay attention to the Kevin Ring trial (the case is now in jury deliberations), demonstrating – once again – how corruption permeated the GOP to the highest levels in W.D.C. — and watch for the upcoming Tom Petters trial – that one may demonstrate some connections to Bachmann and the GreedOverPrinciples party here in Minnesota.
Comment posted October 7, 2009 @ 8:57 am
Now that the liberals have said what they always say lets talk the facts. Congresswoman Bachmann is not a disgrace to Minnesota. She speaks articulately for her district and the State of MN. She exercises common sense and family values which may be foreign to the DFL and liberals in this state. Responsibility for a persons actions are what is needed in this state. You don’t make poor people rich by taking from the rich. You make them rich by education and learning to be responsible for your actions. The mantra of the left is spend, spend and spend without accountability. The perfect example is the recent stimulus (porkulus) bill. It is nothing more than a payoff to liberal supporters. Who ever heard on a stimulus package that spent billions ten years from its inception. The one passed this year does. To all you liberals. clean up your own house before you come to trash mine. God Bless!
Comment posted October 7, 2009 @ 9:06 am
True enough about the alleged unpopularity of the Republican party, but the Democratic-Liberal Nanny State, Bleeding heart, EnviroNazi, Cretins and Collectivist Intellectual Pygmies are faring no better as more voters and taxpayers wake up to the pervasive rape of thier hard earnings by the Jackass controlled Leviathan. Wing nuts indeed! Let the Bachman critics expatriate to the Socialist Utopia of Scandenavia to have them actually EARN a Living!
Comment posted October 7, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
RE: peter zidek
“the Democratic-Liberal Nanny State, Bleeding heart, EnviroNazi, Cretins and Collectivist Intellectual Pygmies”
You left out “supercalifragilistic sado-psychodelic”
Comment posted October 7, 2009 @ 9:47 pm
Hmm, the recent stimulus bill? Which “recent” one are we talking about? Surely not the ones that George Bush signed in 2008:
Under President George Bush’s administration, the Federal government gave
* $29 billion to bail out Bear Stearns,
* $178 billion to American taxpayers in the form of economic stimulus checks,
* $300 billion to bail out American homeowners,
* $200 billion to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
* $150 billion to bailout AIG, and
* $700 billion to bail out banks (TARP).
Total Bush Administration Bailout – $1.557 trillion dollars ( i.e. 1 trillion, 557 billion dollars)
Source: http://www.stimuluspackagedetails.com/bush.html
Or is “stimulus” somehow a Good Thing when a Republican does it, and a Bad Thing when a Democrat signs it? Oh wait, never mind answering that, we already know it’s the sole yardstick used by what remains of the GOP.
Comment posted October 8, 2009 @ 8:57 am
A stimulus bill may be appropriate when it actually stimulates the economy. None of Obama’s bill will be repaid to the taxpayers. A great deal of the money in Bush’s bill may will be paid back and some already has been paid back. Giving money for your buddies pork projects is not stimulus. Spending money 10 years from now to stimulate the country is not stimulating the economy today. it is just pork.
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