Analysis: Michele Bachmann Wins Tea Party Debate

It would have been nice for her to answer the question about the 30 year old coma patient, but she dodged it, just like the Libya question last debate. I disagree. I thought she was shrill and uninformed.

I agree with Robta….she came across to me as a candidate with no substance. Skimmed the edges of the debate and offered nothing deep and consistent. Wants the government to not interfere with individual rights, then mentioned nothing about why she would like them to step in and not allow abortions though. She sounded like a babbling baffoon. Can’t tell the gov’t to stay out of private lives one minute then interject them in another. Mitt owned this debate.

I tuned in tonight out of curiosity as I’m primarily left leaning. I was surprised by Ron Paul as I found his message very sincere, in that I agree with Micha. The others not only seemed fake, but scary and made me fear the Bush years were coming back. (Perry)

@Susan….what do you mean “the Bush years were coming back” They NEVER left….Obama is carrying the torch. You want it to end, you vote for the good Dr. Youll have to register Republican if your state has a closed primary though.

Wow, what a shock! Crazy lady won the debate about crazy ideas… I now have seen everything.

Bachman didn’t win anything! Ron Paul won. This media shut out is getting old. Do the media think that Americans are really that stupid?

Ron Paul was riight. Bachman and Miitt want to bring Perry down because they are bitter over losing ground in the polls. They never talked about the economy, jobs, or bring the soldiers back home from Iraq and Afghan. They jumped on Perry instead of getting to the issues. I would not vote for either of them. I am a Republican but I would vote Obama if it came to either Bachman or Mitt becoming the nominee. Neither one of them could run this country or talk to world leaders. Bachman has a big mouth to begin with and Mitt would be good as a VP.

Bachmann did great! She is fighting to win and turn this country around!

I`m with Cain or Trump…….these people are junior high students wanting to play college ball, none of which have really showed up for practice, people are really putting their fears into these front dressers, Trump doesn`t even dress like these people, he may be rich but he has a working mans heart and has a short patience for dragging talk out, time is money and Trump is business.
The opry isn`t over until the fat lady sings.

It takes a cold heart and a lack of conscious to allow somebody to die when you are able to help. I’m sure everybody heard some from the TP cheer at the at the prospect of “let him die”. I am going to be just as cold hearted when I state “I hope it happens to your loved ones so you can watch and feel the pain of helplessness.” (Actually I do not wish that on anybody, but you get the point.)

And these are the same people who espouse a “christian” nation? And there is no way you can tell me that the TP members are a responsible lot. If there is no concern for your fellow man, then you have no concern for life at all.

Forget about Health Care. Forget about education. Forget about civility. Forget about common decency. The TP is wants you to die.

I had some thoughts about Ron Paul, not anymore. Let him die.

I love it when they eat their own. They’re giving the Obama team plenty of campaign fodder for next year……….

The fact that Huntsman can’t connect with that group SHOULD make him the front runner of the Republican party. What a shame that it is being taken over by these poor folks who just seem angry and scared and can’t see a larger picture.

Michele Bachmann and the Seven Dwarfs: lol!!!! I Really Hope You American Voters Will Wake up and Smell the Coffee, Because (THE TRIPPING EIGHT DON’T HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT TO DO) their only Recourse Is To REPEAL Those Things the President of the United States has Already Put In Place, They Don’t Have Any New Ideas; Wait A Moment, Michele Bachmann and the Seven Dwarfs Don’t have Any Type of Plan To help This Country Out of It’s Current Situation.

So what the analysis showed is that of all the idiots in the room, the biggest idiot won? Wow, the GOP is really in trouble if a moronic, bigoted, intolerant, self centered, religious, rightwing nutjob wins.

Bachmann “won” a debate, huh? Wow! That must have been a real meeting of the minds! It boggles the mind (and scares the hell out of me for the future of our country) that ANYONE would take her seriously as a candidate. We need to look no further than her supporters as evidence of the failures of our education system to educate our citizenry.

I think Newt won, hands down.

Ron paul is an idiot, sorry he looked like a bumbling old man who all he can talk about is reducing our military presence and blaming 911 on us. How do you support someone so clueless???

Since I think the entire Tea Party is crazy this is like saying Michelle is the winner of cluster crazy. So is the new campaign mantra off the right going to be anti-government all the way here? Gee, this makes sense since most of them grew it big time during Bush. They should just say “vote for me, so I can make sure we privatize every piece of government I can get my hands on so my friends can make more profits off your tax money.”

Your article title is eye catching. It was not a ‘Tea Party debate’. It was a Republican debate sponsored by CNN and the Tea Party Express.

Republican Rick Perry
Republican Mitt Romney
Republican Ron Paul
Republican Michele Bachmann
Republican Rick Santorum
Republican Newt Gingrich
Republican Herman Cain
Republican Jon Huntsman

The debate is being called a ‘Tea Party debate’ all over the web and TV.

I wonder why???

That’s funny. Bachmann will be out by year’s end.

I think Michelle Bachman probably accomplished what she hoped to accomplish – so its a personal victory for her campaign managers. Ultimately though, unless the media starts up the Bachman hype machine again – she doesn’t really have much of a core base of support.

That could change quickly if she gets Palin’s endorsement.
Palin isn’t going to run. Palin’s coyness is only to keep her eventual endorsement at the highest possible value.

Palin will want to be perceived as anointing the winner.

So it’ll come late, but not so late as its already decided. I’d say there is zero chance Romney is getting that endorsement. Palin would love to endorse Bachman, but she has to stay in contention.

Palin, like most american women – is sexist, and will undoubtedly place a high premium on endorsing another female candidate – but not at the cost of supporting someone that can’t win.

If Bachman’s too far out of it, look for Palin to endorse Perry or someone like that. Right now Bachman is too far out. But, Bachman’s strategy is to edge closer – and hope for Palin to save her.

Frankly I don’t care what Palin thinks, Palin is a moron – I’m supporting Ron Paul early – and sticking with support of Ron Paul throughout.

In other words, the white rabbit won the debate at the Mad Hatters Tea Party.

“Palin, like most american women – is sexist”———Sounds like your working definition of ‘sexist’ happens to be ‘is female.” How cute. Care to back up your claim with some hard evidence?

Amy, you must love BO very much, keep pushing the repubs in the wrong direction, BO will be proud.

I’ve only read three comments so far, and two out of three are from Ron Paul supporters. I find it strangely comedic that one of these commenters credits Paul with not going by polls and saying what the pundits tell him to say, when Paul supporters are famous for spamming polls and comments pages.Make no mistake. Ron Paul is not the “Father of The Tea Party”, nor is he hts Grandfather or Godfather. If anything, Paul is the Crazy Uncle Of The Tea Party who we just cant quite seem to be able to keep locked in the attic. He, and they, are an embarrassment of monumental proportions. 9/11 Truthers and Stormfront neo-Nazis do not make for true republican principles, whether that be big R Republican or small r republican. When you have a candidate who is supported by the likes of these nuts, and who conducts half his campaign on the Alex Jones Show, Houston we have a problem.

I agree with the writer of the post. Bachman won, and she won handily at that. In fact, it wasn’t really even a contest.

Yeah right. Bachmann was horrible and dodged the important questions. We covered the vaccine issue last debate and yet she USED the 12 year olds as much as Perry did by trying to get the american public to side with her because she was standing for the 12 year olds. Pathetic !!. When asked about Bernanke, she turned coward and didnt answer. She is crap and you’re an idiot if you think she won the debate..lol

I thought Michelle Bachmann definitely won the debate. Rick perry was knocked down a few pegs, but will probably stay in the lead for now. Mitt Romney badly misread the pulse of the Tea Party by trying to resort to class warfare like a democrat. Rick Santorum continues to be too focused on social issues when right now it is all about the economy. Ron Paul refuses to discuss anything without retreating to military isolationism. We all want peace and want our troops home, but we also see that wanting that and doing it are very different things. He has some good ideas but he refuses to put any of them forward without a full retreat. We can discuss responsible ways to end the wars and reduce our foreign commitments, but this all or nothing approach makes him completely unreasonable. John Huntsman continues to look like a democrat. Herman Cain had a good night and reminded a lot of people why they like him. But Bachmann definitely had the best night. She has to prove that she is electable and she took a lot of steps toward that goal. If she fails to ignite the passion of the voters, Sarah Palin may need to step in.

Newt came off like he knew all the problems, but his resolve wasn’t established. Romney and Perry, I see nothing but the same old politics we want to get away from. They talked the talk, but it seems both were talking to someone else rather than the room they were in. Bachmann has some firm belief and may be correct on some issues, but without speaking up when Perry and Romney were playing tennis at their podium with words attacking each others book, she sort of stumbled without adding her 2 cents worth. Ron Paul sort of said some good things, but like a fire cracker ready to go off, he just fizzed out wondering if it will explode or not toward the end. Bachmann in my eyes had some quality answers, but it seems she didn’t want to rebuttal with any other player. If I had to chose right this minute, I would go with Newt because he knew the problems and if he became president, the country itself can put him on the spot to fix those waste-less areas. But then again, if a president can’t have a country come together behind him or her, our politics will just stay a fiasco, as it has been as of late. The rest on stage didn’t say enough to catch my interest. And what they did say was to slam everything and establish nothing in particular. with all the problems and solutions they all tend to agree on, it was a pretty mild night.

I have to admit. Their are some really funny comments in here. Most of them, of course, against the crazy extremist Tea Party Lovers.
USA Rocks!!

Were we watching the same debate? She didn’t “win” anything and certainly lost my support by dodging questions.

It’s sad that Ron Paul can explain his points so clearly yet so many sheep on this board still don’t have half a brain to understand it. Our country cannot keep murdering people, bribing dictators, rigging elections, and weaseling corporate interests onto other countries through force and not expect to be attacked. Other countries will fight for their freedom from our crimes. No one wants to live under a dictatorship, and they will fight us for their freedom just as our founders fought for theirs. If we keep supporting murder and borrowing and printing money to do it, then this country is screwed.

I just love the fact that the Republicans are so united…
They can’t lose….lol…
And they care so much about the American people….My hats off to them…..If it could afford a hat on a teachers salary.

LOL….LOL….so it is come to this …huh? In order to keep this empty, airhead (who dodges all relevant substantive questions) relevant to the GOP primary contest we have to say she “won the tea partyn audience portion”. LOL…LOL….The very extreme element that is destroying the GOP. LOL….LOL What a ‘spin’ that one is. It doesn’t matter. They cannot win on the national stage.

Sounds like a bunch of Obama supporters on this site! Go criticize your own party you dips!
Just look what your “Hope & Change” has brought. Any one of these candidates could do better than Obama! I say Bachmann is the only real honest person running 2012. She’s spot on with the core of true American values and has the guts to take on the phonies and take back this country from the liberals before it too late. If you think she’s CRAZY, honey you aint seen noth’n yet!

Michelle Backmann kicked Rick Perry’s butt last night and so did Ron Paul. He is going down in flames. (No pun intended to the 3.5 million acres of forest fires in Texas.) I am a 3rd generation white male in Texas (56 yeas old) and I will never vote for Rick Perry.

I thought Bachmann was the clear winner, with Gingrich–and I’m no fan of Gingrich–a close second. Most importantly, and something nobody is talking about, is how she clearly exposed Romney’s states’ rights/executive order fallacy. That is where she hit a grand slam homerun. Bachmann and Gingrich both got the biggest and most enthusiastic cheers from the audience. Paul was a foreign policy trainwreck. Romney and Huntsman were Fake and Faker. Santorum, despite having a snowball’s chance, was admiringly passionate and effectively exposed Paul’s Achilles’ heel. Perry was just there, completely unimpressive, and frankly, boring. Cain was refreshing and appeared in better command of the facts than in past debates.

Thank you Michele! Keep defending our freedoms & liberty! Your voting record shows you are fiscally & socially conservative & strong on National Defense. Americans love your honesty & boldness.

Michelle Bachmann definitely won the debate last night! In all the times I have watched her, I have NEVER disagreed with her!!! I love her passion and commitment to the U.S. Constitution especially how she never wanted to raise the debt ceiling and stuck to her guns, even when ridiculed about it, but Michele was Right! It just ended up giving Obama a blank check for more spending! She’s right about the Vaccines too! I really am impressed with Michele Bachmann and I believe she won the debate!!!

For those that question Ron Paul’s view on foreign policy, consider this. Imagine that you are 20 something male in Saudi Arabia or Yemen or Afghanistan or wherever. You have not made much of your life and you are feeling disenchanted. The United States military has troops in your country or the next country and many of your friends have died or been injured because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two recruiters approach you. The first recruiter wants you to join a jihad against Canada. The second recruiter wants you to join a jihad against the United States. Which do you choose?

The major organizers of various organizations throughout the world may have some beef with the “way of life” in the United States. but the only way they can survive is to find followers that have been wronged. No one joins an organization because of what is happening on the other side of the world. They join because of what is happening in their own neighborhood.

Do you want to feel safer? If you do, you’ll support leaders who understand that intervention by our government in the affairs of other countries does not “promote freedom..” It just breeds resentment. And of all of the candidates on the stage last nite, only Ron Paul understands that.

Have Ron Paul and Gov. Perry been drinking from the same water source? Those two are getting very scarey with their comments lately?.

What? Bachmann had 7% of the vote at the end of the debate so exactly how is that winning? not to mention Bachmann a broken record she must have said Obamacare no less than 40 times! This woman is a joke in her 8 plus years in office she done nada but pass one little bill, ” The lightbulb act” big whoopie! also might add does she ever do any work in Minn? why they elect her whwn she spends 90% of her time in other states running for president! we wont even start on her whacked religious views and statements not to mention her 10.000 so called gaffs that looks more like sheer stupidity!

“Just Say Yes”… The President speaks out today in the Carolinas. President Obama says infrastructure jobs that have no shelve life ready for construction. These Jobs are Empty Jobs they do nothing to help create a growth industry other than a temporary wave of government sponsored jobs with no place to go after the bridge is built or the highway has been repaired. It costs the average job seeker that’s willing to latch on to these Dead End Jobs the cost of purchasing Boots, of a Hardhat, work Gloves, of Union Dues, and a place at the back of the line waiting for approval for unemployment benefits that might not be available after being gainfully employed for this window of opportunity to say you’ve got a Job… a job with drawbacks and plenty of uncertainty as the winter months take their toll on the economy across America. This isn’t a vote for stability, this is another crap shoot building an infrastructure that could wait until the need arises for commerce itself to generate the impetus for those better roads and bridges to fairy our products to market… not the other way round. This is the same exact storyline associated with the last Stimulus proposition… the Wagon belongs at the back of the Horse, not the other way round. Imagine this situation for all it details… you buy the necessities required by the job… out of pocket, you pay for the transportation fuel to and from the jobsite… out of pocket, you pay for ChildCare, sounds like ObamaCare, and than you pay Local, State, and Federal Taxes, Employment Insurances, and than you realize you’re making less than you were making drawing Unemployment Benefits. You’re tired; you’ve spent twice as much for food where you no longer qualify for Food Stamps, or Energy Assistance… whose really getting jerked off again! Now’s the time to insist this Jobs Bill gets overhauled before you do! Insist on applying these funds into non-governmental infrastructure projects that will almost surely guarantee a permanent solution for a jobs opportunity locally for you and your family that will still be around in the years to come… if we invest wisely!!! There’s a Great Opportunity to repair this nations economy if we elect to ignore and postpone these so-called infrastructure projects the President is selling to the American people in a manner that makes him look like a used car sales person… don’t fall for this rhetoric, insist on homegrown projects being developed that address those basic building blocks we all require to manage our Health and Nutritional needs, don’t Buy this Clunker Sales pitch, demand a community appraisal be done on devastated areas of your economy and the usage of local and state lands to invest in areas that have a high probability once developed will create a steady stream of Revenue for future generations, this will make Social Security solvent, this is render the issue of Healthcare back to reliable hands… you need to trust in yourselves and do the right thing here… Just Say Yes is a disaster waiting to happen, don’t do it. If you have doubts about this proposal, side with caution, do your homework. Need hints on developing employment ideas, just call someone that’s been silenced in all this debate on the best way to attack this problem. We got so much waste land available for production, for redevelopment and use… the government needs to release these lands and water-ways for repair and long-term usage, they need to relinquish their ties to these properties in a manner that vaporizes any and all taxation for the next Century or until these venture capitalists realize a net gain in their business operations. It’s slow growth, but it’s positive growth in Every Respect!