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You Can’t Go Home Again

By Mahons On January 4th, 2012

Michele Bachmann has announced she is suspending her campaign and pulling out of the race for the nomination for the Republican Party Presidential Candidate.   It makes sense.  She has been in a free fall and would not be doing herself or her party any good if she remained in the race.  I would not have voted for her in a million years, but I will credit her for entering the race and making the attempt to secure the nomination.  It is much harder to be in the game than on the sidelines, and some respect is due to those who participate in the process.

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13 Responses to “You Can’t Go Home Again”

  1. Phantom, on January 4th, 2012 at 6:48 PM Said:

    I feel bad for her, though like you she’s not my cup of tea ( har har )

    And the others Huntsmann ( a sharp guy who sure never caught on ) and Rick Perry, who I have liked more and more over time. Perry had the gross misfortune to have a brain freeze when all were watching. Could have been me if I’d been up there I tell you that. He’ll be going home soon, and I wish him well.

    ” It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

    “Citizenship in a Republic,”
    Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

  2. pinky, on January 4th, 2012 at 6:56 PM Said:

    Good post Mahons.

    She was treated unfairly- especially that song that was played when she appeared on a late night show.

  3. Mahons, on January 4th, 2012 at 7:02 PM Said:

    Pinky, Yes, that was a truly disrespectful moment. If it had happened to a Female Democratic candidate the outcry would have been much greater.

    Phantom – Tha twas the quote I had in mind, but I didn’t want to be accused of citing a Rino (wink, nod).

  4. Phantom, on January 4th, 2012 at 7:14 PM Said:

    We could use a man like Teddy Roosevelt now. A true muscular progressive, before the word was debased for all time

  5. Ross, on January 4th, 2012 at 7:23 PM Said:

    I’m not sure why her campaign stalled so much. With the other flavour of the month candidates you could pinpoint reasons their support collapsed- Trump & the birth certificate, Cain and sexual harassment allegations, Perry brainfreeze, Gingrich counterattacked by Romney.

    Michelle Bachman though didn’t make any major mistakes after winning the straw poll that would have made former supporters become opponents.

  6. David Vance, on January 4th, 2012 at 7:48 PM Said:

    Well, I liked her and am sad to see her go but agree it is the right decision. I heard her comments announcing her withdrawal and thought she spoke well! Being gracious in electoral defeat is not easy, let’s face it, I know!!! ;-)

  7. Pete Moore, on January 4th, 2012 at 8:01 PM Said:

    God’s losing a packet this time round.

    He told both Cain and Bachmann to run and they’re out already! Or maybe He shorted Cain and Bachmann and is quids in?

    Mocking God? Me? Certainly not, but these hucksters and gangsters certainly mock God when they claim their candidacy is inspired by revelation.

  8. Phantom, on January 4th, 2012 at 8:05 PM Said:

    Bachmann has already served God and the country by slamming Paul’s foreign policy stances in the debates.

    I’m not sure what Cain did.

  9. kateyo, on January 4th, 2012 at 8:31 PM Said:

    The US – doing its politics like an X factor show..

    The poor woman hadn’t a hope in hell.

  10. Peter, on January 4th, 2012 at 9:07 PM Said:

    Or maybe He shorted Cain and Bachmann and is quids in?

    No, that was Goldmans. I hear they are long on Romney, with a hedge on Gingrich.

  11. Peter, on January 4th, 2012 at 9:09 PM Said:

    Gingrich counterattacked by Romney

    Ross (or anyone)

    Can you enlighten us on those attacks? It seems they were quite effective, the biter bit so to speak.

  12. Ross, on January 4th, 2012 at 9:49 PM Said:

    I’ve only seen Gingrich complaining about them tbh.

  13. Phantom, on January 4th, 2012 at 9:52 PM Said:

    A lot of what I saw excerpts of brutally honest and mocking points about the money he took from Fannie and Freddie and about the fact that he was censured by a Republican House of Representatives

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