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NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 07:18 PM Feb 2014

Crazy Michele blabs again! "Americans 'aren’t ready' for a female president"

It’s been a while since Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said anything truly outrageous, and that’s a shame because 2014 is going to be her last year as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (unless we can convince her otherwise!), which means our time with her is in all likelihood running out.

What a relief, then, to find that Bachmann’s still got it. During an interview last week with the conservative pundit Cal Thomas — the guy who once said at CPAC that Rachel Maddow was a good argument for contraception — the 2012 GOP presidential candidate said that Americans “aren’t ready” for a woman president.

Her reasoning was admirably simple: Unlike President Barack Obama, who twice benefited from the “cachet about having an African-American president because of guilt,” a woman president would have no such advantage because “People don’t hold guilt for a woman.”


She goes on to give her "valuable" advise on how to deal with a Hillary Clinton candidacy, citing (of course) Benghazi and, strangely, calling her the "godmother of Obamacare."

Ah, how we all will miss Michele!

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Crazy Michele blabs again! "Americans 'aren’t ready' for a female president" (Original Post) NastyRiffraff Feb 2014 OP
What? Because they didn't elect HER? MADem Feb 2014 #1
Not ready for her, for sure. nt bemildred Feb 2014 #2
Well, then why did she run? The fact that this women has been elected repeatedly to Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2014 #3
I think she's making excuses for not succeeding in the repub primary... CTyankee Feb 2014 #9
Hey Ms Crazyeyes, Isoldeblue Feb 2014 #4
We're just never going to be ready for her to be President. Warren? I'm more than ready. marble falls Feb 2014 #5
Of course they are, because it's the "end times"! Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #6
Then why did you bother running in 2012, Michele? Arkana Feb 2014 #7
That's when she found out. libdem4life Feb 2014 #11
We'll find out in 2016 if the country is ready for a woman president. Beacool Feb 2014 #8
I quit listening to this wench years ago SmittynMo Feb 2014 #10

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. What? Because they didn't elect HER?
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 07:25 PM
Feb 2014


I think a lot of women hold "guilt" that they have to be "associated" with MB solely by virtue of sharing the same gender!

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
3. Well, then why did she run? The fact that this women has been elected repeatedly to
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 07:39 PM
Feb 2014

public office is a sad commentary on the electorate.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
9. I think she's making excuses for not succeeding in the repub primary...
Fri Feb 21, 2014, 10:42 AM
Feb 2014

she's in a party of friggin' sexists...what did you expect, Michele?

Isoldeblue

(1,135 posts)
4. Hey Ms Crazyeyes,
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 08:01 PM
Feb 2014

How are those ethics investigations going for ya and hubby, huh? Your own staff is testifying against you. Guess your goose is cooked.... Too bad, so sad. Buh-by

Beacool

(30,247 posts)
8. We'll find out in 2016 if the country is ready for a woman president.
Fri Feb 21, 2014, 10:36 AM
Feb 2014

What the country will never be ready for is total RW loons like Michele.

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