Say It...President Bachmann...

[Demonaut]

Bachmann wins Iowa straw poll as Perry looms

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-iowa-straw-win-20110813,0,1231486.story

Michele Bachmann captured the famed Iowa straw poll in Ames Saturday, reaching a high-profile benchmark
in her meteoric rise to a top-tier presidential candidate.



what pops first in your mind?

mine is emigration

[IDemo]

1. Ich bin ein corndog?

[Iggo]

20. Ich bin ein delicious donut.

[spanone]

perhaps we are now, hands down, the dumbest fucking country in the world

[muffin1]

2. Mine is starting a movement to legalize Quaaludes again.

:-)

[madokie]

14. LOL

Best damn drug yet. So good the feds made them quite making them here. I understand they are still available in Europe but I've not seen a 714 in 25 maybe 30 years.

Take one and sleep like a baby for 10 maybe 12 hours but take a half and when you feel that half coming on take another half and on and on until you've got a couple or so in your system and then you could partee down for hours. best damn high of my youth.

[muffin1]

16. That was it - 714s - or rather, Lemon 714s.

I kept thinking "750" and that didn't seem right!

Reading your post is giving me a big old smile. Absolutely right, they were best high of my life, too.

We need a "wistful" smilie!

[madokie]

29. Before Lemmon they were Rorer 714

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone

The name change came late best I remember.

[Politicalboi]

30. Those were the daze

I remember taking some with friends, and they had room mates that they wanted them to move. We partied with 714 Lemons and woke up to find the room mates moved out as we were all crashed in the living room. We never heard them once. LOL! And we used to crush them up and sprinkle them in a bong with weed and smoke it.

[muffin1]

37. Oh, Jeebus...

we did that, too - the bong and lude thing! I fondly remember doing that and listening to Neil Young many, many times.

I MISS THEM!

[Demonaut]

55. "Can't speak a word when you're full of 'ludes"

Lynyrd Skynyrd "I hope Neil Young will remember a southern man don't need him around anyhow"

thread reminded me of these songs

[Webster Green]

36. Oh, I've been on that one for some time now...

Seriously...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1339993&mesg_id=1340469

[muffin1]

38. Keep up the good fight!

:fistbump:

[judgegblue]

3. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!??

[dkf]

4. I lol.

[Honeycombe8]

5. What pops first is...whoever wins the straw poll in IA, is eventually the loser.

Didn't Huckabee win the Straw Poll last time?

[GoCubsGo]

6. Why?

Because she won some bogus straw poll that polled a minute fraction of the population? Hucksterbee won it in 2007. Look how well that turned out.

[MineralMan]

7. Say my name! Say it!

I don't know what brought that to mind...truly...:rofl:

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Drinking a big glass of Drano.

The mere thought of her in charge of anything.............

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Iowa straw poll winners haven't been especially successful

in presidential elections. While it gives winners some advantage in winning the Iowa caucuses, that advantage does not seem to help them win the big one. Only George Bush (the younger) won the Iowa straw poll and eventually went on to "win" the presidential election. So don't buy your airline tickets just yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Straw_Poll

[kenny blankenship]

10. No matter how bad the economy is by Nov 2012, America will not vote for her

I feel quite safe in saying that. Notice how I didn't use insults about her bugged-out crazy eyes, her husband, and I didn't call her the Chicken Lady, or anything like that?

Bachmann is super scary, and just the thought of her as the actual nominee of one of the two parties is scary, but she will not be elected President no matter what happens between now and election day. Not a chance.

[Booster]

25. All of my diehard Republican family members are scared to

death of her. They may be Republicans, but they know batshit crazy when they see it. And I know they ain't gonna like that little act of Marcus.

[wizstars]

26. Adolf Hitler got elected...................... jus' sayin'............

[hayrow]

11. As I understand this, the president will be Marcus Bachmann

Michele, per her obedient and lesser gender, is running as a front for Marcus, right? Marcus will end hate crimes against the non-reproducing segments of the population by curing them all, and everyone will be happy.

[Thinkingabout]

44. Maybe Marcus can lay his hands

On her and get the brain dead side to work. We know the side
she is using doesn't work well. He would be able to file the
cost of treatment to the tax payers n

[malaise]

12. Will never happen n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Mitt won the last one...

Other winners include Pat Robertson and Phil Graham, famous Presidents. The only person to actually win the nom and the Presidency in the year he won this straw poll, GW Bush. This poll, it means zip.

[polichick]

15. Dark Ages.

[Cleita]

17. Well, if that happens, I will be in favor of the fifty

states seceding from Washington, D. C.. Oh yes and we will take our Constitution with us. Everything else will have to be reformed from scratch. She can then govern her own little city state any way she wants. Any Washingtonians who don't want to live there anymore are welcome in the New States of America.

btw For those who take everything literally, I am being ironic.

[Grandrose]

23. welcome in the New States of America.....Brilliant!

Love it...thanks for the LOL!:rofl:
I will still be vigilant and hope this does not come to pass.:scared:

[shanti]

18. oh come on

she is just failin palin redux. not gonna happen.

[wizstars]

27. Michelle Bachmann--"A Whiter Shade of Palin"

[Awsi Dooger]

19. I can't see the GOP nominating a woman

Too many of the "insider" books on conservative politics are flooded with anecdotes regarding hatred of women in high office. By all accounts, the right wing magazines sell highest when a woman is mocked on the cover.

They used Palin for VP but I don't think the consensus within their party is that she was a benefit to McCain. Plus last year two of their embarrassments were Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle.

Last week during the Wisconsin recall elections I took note that 5 of our 6 nominees were women. That's a difference between the two parties. The GOP would never have fielded a slate like that.

[Raine]

21. "what pops into my mind?" Bwahahaha Bachmann takes out Palin, then

Perry will take out Bachmann. Perry will be taken out by someone else and Romney will end up with the nomination and probably run with Perry.

edit: typo

[stevedeshazer]

22. Corndog.

Crazyeyes.

Facepalm.

Word association.

[Old and In the Way]

24. Democrats for Bachmann

Because we need her to be the face of the Teapublican Party.

[Thinkingabout]

45. Does fourth world come to anyone

It would create some action on lazy dem voters to get out and
vote. 

[Old and In the Way]

46. Speak English please

Jesus, I hate trying to figure Republispeak.

[WinkyDink]

28. As long as you brought it up.... She has two of the strongest sounds to us: B and K.

K--Ike (def. Stevenson twice)
K(K)--Kennedy (Jack)/JFK (def. Nixon)
B--LBJ (def. Goldwater)
K(K)--Nixon (Dick) (def. Humphrey, McGovern)
(Ford, appointed)
K--Carter (def. Ford)
(Reagan, who benefitted by a double consonant, also powerful, though it didn't help the hapless Hubert Humphrey; def. Carter, Mondale)
B--Bush (def. Dukakis) (Height played a role here)
K(B)--Clinton (Bill) (def. Bush, Dole)
B--Bush (def. Gore, Kerry)
B(B,K)--Obama (Barack) (def. McCain)

[Politicalboi]

31. How is she going to hide her

Flaming husband? LOL!

[a simple pattern]

56. She could hide him in the closet!

no phobo

[NNN0LHI]

32. Ralph was right!

[Pavlo]

33. Bachman

She is nice to look at and some of her ideas are out there

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. She is not nice to look at, and her ideas are more than "out there."

[Historic NY]

41. I've never seen someone go down on a corn dog...then again

were dealing with crazy here.

[Frank Cannon]

53. If by "out there", you mean somewhere just west of Pluto...

and by "nice to look at", you mean having Charles Manson's good looks... then yes, I agree.

[BlueMTexpat]

34. Nice try ...

but no cigar.

[Yavin4]

35. Geneva, Switzerland

[Webster Green]

40. I'll be in Mexico.

On the beach, fishing, eating mushrooms, drinking mescal.

[nevergiveup]

42. chronic diarrhea

[ThatsMyBarack]

43. Lemme think...Well I better not!

Cuz THESE are what come to MY mind!

:puke: :nuke: :yoiks: :hide: :mad:

[struggle4progress]

47. lol!

:rofl:

not
a
chance

[LeftishBrit]

48. No, I'd really rather not say those words!

Even the thought of being in a Special Relationship with such a creature makes my blood run cold. Let alone actually having someone like that running your country! I hope you can prevent her getting anywhere near power.

[grahamhgreen]

49. At least we'll be united against her!

[Penguin31]

50. I'd rather be a Romanian tenant farmer

Trăiască România!

[Cannikin]

51. Pretty to look at, delightful to hold

but if she's elected
this country will fold.

[donna123]

52. It is scary that it's even possible that 30% of Americans

would vote for her. I really do not understand some people in this country. What has to happen to enlighten some people? A great depression? Bad times though only breed more ignorance, hate, fear, and extremism. I really cannot understand it. I cannot understand how 80-90% of people cannot see what the tea party is and cannot see that they will drag this country further downhill. I sometimes wish these tea partiers would all flock to South Carolina and possibly a few other states and secede and we could be well rid of them.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

54. not that it will happen but, President Bachmann can kiss my ass.

[krabigirl]

57. I will most definitely leave if Bachmann or perry are elected.

Have been thinking about it for years anyway. Not too happy with Obama either, but he is better than these fundie freaks. No way in hell.

[sofa king]

60. You may have to ask nicely to leave, too.

I will not be surprised to learn that regular posting on DU won many of us inclusion on the exponentially-growing no-fly list. Telling the truth or questioning the official lie are probably the two largest-represented "offenses" on that list.

And then there's the problem of finding a place to go. Who wants to take in the ignorant, indifferent people who failed to defend their democracy and therefore condemned the entire world to collapse?

[sofa king]

58. I believe the proper pronunciation of "President Bachmann" is...

"Blood-tinged frog rain from the bowels of Hell."

[Morning Dew]

59. Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, President Bachmann.