Report: GOP Leadership Worried About Damage To GOP's Reputation From Bachmann

Oh yeah, she's the one hurting the GOP's reputation. If Bachmann were gone the GOP would be restored to glory because eveyone else in the parties leadership is so sane.

There is no doubt in my mind she is a gold mine for the Dems and it is actually in the Dems best interest NOT to pick up her seat. The more you can in the mind of the average voter make her the face of the GOP the better it is for the Dems.

They're kidding, right?

So, yelling out "You lie!" at the president on the House floor while he's speaking is all good. But, Bachmann's crossed the line?

Can somebody show me that line? I just can't figure out where the hell it is.

Lie down with dogs and get up with fleas.

Are Boehner and Cantor starting to itch?

"On the one hand, the base loves her and she's frequently invited on television."
Does the base love, perhaps, because she's frequently on television?
Putting her wingnut plotics aside for sec, my additional concern is that 99% of the time her "claims" or "points" are FACTUALLY wrong. Nonetheless, she punches above her weight class in MSM appearances. This is even more dangerous than her views because she's being given credence.
The last thing we need is an increase in the misinformed populace!

Maybe it's time for the GOP to get a new base?

The real problem they have with Michele Bachmann is that she says overtly what they try to say using the dog whistle, and that just makes it harder to obscure just how crazy these ideas are.

The GOP leaders are either idiots or cowards or both for not having the intelligence or guts to stand up to the wacko fringe of their party. Obviously I think it's a bit of both but I'm especially sick of the GOP officials who really do know better but are too big of cowards to say anything.

Could it be something she's eating? As long as Obama is taking personal charge of everyone's diet, http://www.mnprogressiveproject.com/diary/4048/bachmann-on-both-worlds-worst-and-crazy-talk-on-the-same-day, he should start with her and detoxify her.

My concern is that they only consider Bachmann a worry. There are several of them they should be worried about

What to do? How about repudiate her, ignore the rabid lunatics that are part of your base, and attempt to build a majority party with people who are actually sane?

Radical, I know.

Hey, is there a site for exposing Bachman like the one the Kansas Dems just put together for Lynn Jenkins?

http://www.jenkinsfail.com/

Well, yup, just did an easy google and here it is!

http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/

Maybe all these foot-in-mouthers reality web sites should get together and make a linked navigation bar?

There could be a Republican men's bar and a Republican women's bar.

So, who else belongs on this list?

Palin-Bachmann 2012. With Steele as the Campaign Manager, Rush as the Communications Director, and Glenn Beck as the Head of Corporate Fundraising. Power to the (crazy) people!

a wise party builds its house upon a rock.
the foolish party builds its house upon the shifting, fickle sands made of the shards of truth -

I read something about that somewhere - Oh, where could that have been?

no implication, mind you, that the dems are in anyway THE party built on a rock - BUT the Reps surely do seem to be the ones at this point who are finding it hard to get a firm footing on the sand they call a BASE.

If Bachmann were to put on glasses, would she then be Sarah Palin?

Or is the fact that she apparently combs her hair before appearing in public expose her as being, well, Bachmann?

What reputation?

Let's not play along here, OK?

Cantor and Boehner obviously contacted Politico and gave them this story as part of their remake-the-Republican-Party-image-before-2010 campaign and Politico obliged them as expected. By the general election in 2010 the Republicans will be acting like they never heard of teabaggers/birthers/tenthers and will become indignant if you say they did.

Boehner and Cantor are more responsible for their party going off its rocker than Bachmann. They lead the party and haven't said diddly since they became leaders. They all quake before the altar of Rush and Beck.

Politico is simply helping them with the 2010 campaign, something that will be quite common in the months to come. Sadly, the MSM and even the left will help them play this game by getting all excited as they remake their image. Same group of radicals, they won't change just talk different as Luntz directs them. A new fake image and the public, after hearing it constantly, will fall for it.

The day, no, after Boehner and Cantor go on about 50 news shows and admit that they were wrong, call Bachmann is a freak, and admit they have personally led the nation astray with lies and misinformation, then I will just start to think they mean it.

This was the act of a couple conmen in cahoots with a propaganda outlet. Every time someone posts this kind of thing without context, they will be helping them by pushing the idea that there are "sane" Republicans who matter in their party.

When is Boener going to reign in Boener? Not one of these so-called leaders takes credit for anything. Cantor is a mini-me to Boener, so you just get a scaled down version of Boeners uselessness. Bachmans' one of their value added candidates isn't she? The damage was done in the bush years, these holdouts are just the after effect, including Boeners weak minority position.