Bachmann Buzz In Iowa Shows She’s Real Deal

August 12, 2011 05:33


[W]hat Bachmann is offering is not so much rhetoric — her language couldn’t be more plain — but empathy, empathy for people who seek not pity, but self-respect. – IBD

Michael Barone at Investor’s.com


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In Iowa, they’re focused on the state Republicans’ presidential straw poll in Ames next Saturday.

And in Wisconsin, they just got through counting the votes in a recall election that has great national significance.

In Iowa, most of the focus has been on Rep. Michele Bachmann.

But the buzz is that she has a serious chance to come in first in the straw poll — and far ahead of her Minnesota neighbor, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who several months ago seemed to be destined to carry Iowa.

She has a gift for making abstract issues concrete.

Rather than cite the amount of the stimulus package, she notes that before it passed, there was one person in the Department of Transportation making more than $170,000 a year and afterward there were 1,690 doing so.

And she gives her listeners the sense that she believes that each of them is somebody, too.

Bachmann’s campaign, I’m told, is using social media brilliantly to network with like-minded people and to get them to the straw poll in Ames.

But what Bachmann is offering is not so much rhetoric — her language couldn’t be more plain — but empathy, empathy for people who seek not pity, but self-respect.

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