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And it isn't just the men in the news media that think Bachmann and Palin is an either/or choice.
Why is Sarah Palin mentioned when Bachmann is being discussed so much? Can they not compare Palin to other governors running or not yet declared? Can they not compare Bachmann to Congressman Ron Paul or former Senator Rick Santorum, for example? Does it have to be either Bachmann or Palin to fill some news media "girl slot" in the list of candidates? Can't they both run?
I thought O'Reilly's Palin vs Bachmann poll was stupid but the analysts do it, too, and not just on Fox News.
Palin and Bachmann are both after the exact same group of voters. Those TEA party members who hate everything about the current administration.
Ron Paul isn't a TEA party favorite, he does enjoy support from some, but not the same base that Palin/Bachmann are after.
Essentially, there are one or two candidates per group in the Republican part, Palin and Bachmann are both after the same voters, the other people running are not.
I suppose Cain could be seen as going after the Bachmann/Palin group, but he is irrelevant.
I don't think the media is pushing the idea that Palin and Bachmann are interchangable. I think they see them as competing for the same demographic (Christian Conservatives), and thus as potential rivals.
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Isn't that the same group Rick Santorum, for example, is going for? I don't hear his name every time either Bachmann or Palin are mentioned.
Palin and Bachmann are both after the exact same group of voters. Those TEA party members who hate everything about the current administration.
Ron Paul isn't a TEA party favorite, he does enjoy support from some, but not the same base that Palin/Bachmann are after.
Essentially, there are one or two candidates per group in the Republican part, Palin and Bachmann are both after the same voters, the other people running are not.
I suppose Cain could be seen as going after the Bachmann/Palin group, but he is irrelevant.
C'mon, the media, including the females in the media, are sexist. It doesn't even occur to them to throw Sarah Palin's name in when they compare all the governors or even compare Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Michelle Bachmann, all who lack governing experience. Palin (who is not in yet), Bachmann, Santorum and Rick Perry and maybe even Herman Cain are all after the evangelical vote (and Gingrich is stabbing at it) but do you ever see Bachmann and Santorum, for example, compared or Bachmann to Rick Perry? No, it's always Bachmann and Palin.
And I suppose Romney is always compared to T.Paw because the media is racist against white men?
That's exactly my point. Those two (Romney/Pawlenty) are rightly compared to each other for having the same kind of experience. Michele Bachmann should be compared to the candidates that come from Capitol Hill. Or, candidates should be compared based on the vote they are going for. Bachmann and Palin may be going for the same vote but so is Rick Santorum, for example. I never hear Bachmann compared to Santorum.
There is a MAJOR difference between them which I haven't seen discussed.
Bachmann is SERIOUS, Palin is on the lecture circuit.
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The Left Wing TV media thinks Bachman and Palin are interchangeable because both are conservatives and both have Tea Party support. Simple as that.
By "left-wing TV media" you're not referring to the mainstream corporate-owned media are you? We've been hearing this from Limbaugh etal for years. Corporations wish to install socialism in America by pumping out left-wing propaganda? The right has ever explained this, maybe you can be the first.
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These two "girls" have way too much in common....their hatred of the middle class, Obama, America, their hysteria, their efforts to divide Americans,,their whackadoodleness!....they WILL be compared....
---- They occupy an all-too-common upper class myopic bubble. The notion that things should revert to earlier, less complicated, "better" times. Wall Street malfeasance, for instance, is off their radar - it doesn't exist.
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They're also conservative. Any conservative woman is a traitor, in their mind.
And they are correct. The wish for an end to democracy & the lower class vote, in favor of corporate rule, IS traitorous.
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-- They occupy an all-too-common upper class myopic bubble. The notion that things should revert to earlier, less complicated, "better" times. Wall Street malfeasance, for instance, is off their radar - it doesn't exist.
