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Subscribe to RSSCOLUMBIA, S.C. -- Michele Bachmann’s campaign may soon have a new addition to its South Carolina team.
Republican consultant Wesley Donehue said Bachmann’s senior South Carolina adviser Ron Thomas asked him to join the campaign to help with communications and strategy here.
Donehue added that he would help the campaign this weekend as a trial run before any firm decision is made regarding his position with the campaign.
“I have promised to help them Friday and Saturday," he said. "And that is as far as it has gone."
Bachmann’s husband Marcus will be here today and tomorrow and will submit his wife’s filing papers at the South Carolina Republican Party headquarters this afternoon. Tomorrow, he will address the South Carolina Federation of Republican Women’s annual convention, while Bachmann will speak to the group via Skype.
Donehue runs Columbia-based political Internet firm Donehue Direct, whose clients have included South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint and Rep. Joe Wilson. Donehue also leads political and communications strategy for the South Carolina Senate Republican Caucus.
Donehue is a former colleague of Republican consultants Warren Tompkins and Terry Sullivan (now Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s chief of staff) who led Mitt Romney’s 2008 South Carolina campaign.
The Bachmann team also made staffing changes in Iowa this week, naming Republican operative Eric Woolson campaign manager. Woolson served that role for Mike Huckabee’s campaign in 2008.
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Why don't she just give it up....oh I forgot she wants to be the next Sarah Failin'.
By now she has a huge balance on that Visa. It's time to quit!
I hear Faux Noose pays really well... Losing her bid for the GOTP nomination should be pretty lucrative for her. Just ask the Mad Trapper she quit her day job as the Governor of Alaska for those perks.
Hey- way off topic, but all this Cain and Bawkmann talk is getting me down.
Let's change the subject for a few minutes.....
Reading about this proposition26 in Mississippi about abortion, and an ovum being a human once sperm and egg are untied, I make the following 2 observations:
1) If ‘it’ fails to attach to a uterine wall, and is ‘rejected’, doesn't ‘it’ have to be documented via a birth certificate or at least some certificate recording it’s existence and demise. ‘It’ must be properly disposed of, too? Casket? Cremation?? (by the way- does ‘it’ have a gender?)
2) Also, if ‘it’s’ environment was altered intentionally to prevent ‘it’s’ being nurtured and being allowed to continue to enjoy 'life’, and that constitutes a crime, then something tells me the EPA is going to be around a long, long, long, long time.
Now, who on the right wants to argue or comment?
Why is this doorknob still haning around, and why is she not home representing her constituents?
Why are you loser mooonbats still hanging around First Read, snarking at GOP Presidential candidates?
Maybe you are afraid that any one of them would beat your failure of a President in the election.
DBO, so Marcus is sent to speak SC GOP women convention.
As any mature woman will say ," we know what is in your heart Marcus....:0)"
So says the idiot who bitches day in & day out about how much he hates First Read!
Here's an 'illogical' sammich booby!
Booby - you are the POSTER child for masochism!
I have officially gotten under Fiesty's thin skin.
Fiesty needs to attend a seminar on being nice to those with whom she disagrees. But George Soros doesnt fund those seminars, does he?
You wish! lmao
Not in your wildest dreams there little booby!
Just pointing out that for someone who despises First Read the way you do, you can't seem to get enough of it! ;o)
Fascinating...
XOXO
Your #1 Moon-bat!
Bob-1887910
"Why are you loser mooonbats still hanging around First Read, snarking at GOP Presidential candidates?"
Because we don't have 'constituents' that have hired, and pay us to, represent them in stead of getting on here and posting comments and opinions?
Y' think, Einstein??
"Fiesty needs to attend a seminar on being nice to those with whom she disagrees...
Does she also need ot attend a seminar on being nice to those who are just plain, f**ing stupid, Bob?
Marcus Bachmann on the loose at a women's convention? Oh, lordy, I want to see a tape of this.
@ bob 188 --
Hi, Bobby, how's it going? The Moonbats miss you. ;-)
Last time I checked, big Bob numbers, FR is still available to any and all who choose to come and the right to an opinion still exists--at least until the GOP takes away those rights. If you don't like what liberals have to say, then don't come here or stop whining about it.
Bob1887901,
If you can't stand the sight of people having fun, don't go to the county fair.
...and quite possibly his mouth.
devie
...and quite possibly his mouth."
Alright, Devie- leave the bald-headed champion out of this....
"hanging'. I meant, 'hanging'. Appropriate, considering....
If only the general election could be held in Iowa alone - then Bachmann might have a snowball's chance in hell! These people seem to have more money than sense, but considering Donehue's promise for just Friday and Saturday - maybe there's not that much money either.
Nope, she's long lost Iowa repubs. The Ames straw poll vote is bought and paid for by the candidates.
Why, they'll just quit.
Why don't she quit while she still has money left. She's gonna end up broke.
Well, if she does end up broke, that would not be a bad thing.
It would be bad for all the foster kids she will take in for the money from guvernment.
Have to get another farm subsidy and government handout in medi-caid for the pray gay away clinic.
Whatever she does it will cost us. She is a replican/t-bagger!!!
This South Carlina guyis good-if she can keep him. Thebachmann staff hasbeena revovoing door-hardly a sign of stibilty the countr yseeks, If she can't keep her own house inorder,how can shehope to run the coutry?
If she is going to win she is going to have to take on Herman Cain and talk about his racially charged comments oaboutsocial secirty and "elderly white women". She can also make in roads with Cains comments about "braiwashed balcks" and distance her self from thel ikes of that. Michelle has never been aperson to talk about race. So challenging Cain wil lbe a big thing for her-her district in M innesota is lilly white and she never has had toreach out to blacks or others.
The realcurical thin gis goingto be areblack going to re-register as republican to vote for Cain-because this is closed primary wher eindiepents cannot cross over, And race plays a big part in South Carlina politics. Geoge Bush won because of phonecalls claiming McCCain had fathered a black child-which were totally unture. McCainlater won the South Carlina primary against Romney because themedia remeinded everyone of south Carlina's dirty history of mudslinging.
Whatever happens it will be a broadening experice for her.
Bachmann is so bat @!$%# crazy even the teabaggers told her to quit the race. Now that's crazy!!
It's over ding bat
Go check out your poll numbers......Way at the Bottom
Single digits...that's you sweety!!!
Bachmann Hires Loser on Trial Basis to Help Her Campaign
The results were a last place finish for Romney...
You've got two days, buddy...two days to make Michele Bachmann into a winner........do the words silk purse and sow's ear have any relevance? LOL.
the only strategy that will win it for Bachmann in the South is to declare herself the Virgin Mary and that all of her kids, including the ones that she adopted, were conceived via immacculate conception.
You never know, it just might work in the South!
Only thing that works in the south or blacks and mexicans.
Unless you call the illegal production of marijuana work.
Rod,
Not likely to work. The only religion that believes in the Virgin Mary and Immaculate Conception is Catholicism. Not many of those in the South.
Plus Bachmann better not have any minority foster kids. Remember what they tried to do with McCain's Indian adopted daughter in SC? Bush's people tried to pass her off as a black love child right before primary day, so the candidate didn't even have time to respond.
who the hell in their right mind would do the jobs of illegal immgrunts, when there are stills to operate and marijuana plants to harvest?
it was jack abramhoff who came up with the strategy of trashing McCain the way they did.
Putting Pain McCain out in public was trashing enough.
Telling the truth of his life was way too much.
I volunteer and all I want to be paid is to watch her suck a corn-dog everyday.
If I tape it and put it on the internet she will get more votes and a decrease in Viagra sells each day.
I got to disagree with you on this one - it's Marcus who sucks a mean corn-dog! ;o)
I know you are correct but her doing it appeals to me.
I do not want to watch Marcus do anything but pay back the government all the money he stole and the miisus too.
LOL
Excellent point!
Will Marcus lovingly fondle the corn dog, or just gobble that baby up?
I thought the Cain Train had already laid down the tracks in SC, when the "Bachmann Gravy Train" hits the "Cain Train" it could get messy, be on the lookout for a black male train and a white female train to become a possible political train wreck or derailment for the republican railroad.
are you suggesting that Bachmann would pull a Cain train?
I bet she can if it looks like a corn-dog!!
No I did not mean anything like that, I thought they both layed claim to the tea party.
I saw a report that she has a book coming out in a month. She probably needs to stay in the race so that the book will do well, spread her ideology, and make some bucks.
Her supporters can not read. The only word they recognize is Abortion and their agin it. Red-neck language agin it
It's a pop up book of all her knowledge.
You can read it in 6 minutes and it's interesting if you can keep your crayons between the lines.
Doesn't Joan Baez say "you can't raise a Cain again.." somewhere in the 'Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'?
Recently on internet radio show Center Stage the topic: The 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates, was discussed. The top six front runners which included Buchann, Cain, Romney, Perry, Paul and Gingrich were all covered. Their voting records, experience and personal histories were all laid out. It would be wise for everyone to look closely at who these people are before going into the voting booth in 2012. This is by far the most important election of our lifetime. If you have NOT done your research on these candidates this is the cheat sheet of all cheat sheets. You may be surprised by some of what is revealed. Take a listen to this must hear podcast if you wanna know who worked for the federal reserves but thinks they should NEVER be audited, who has ownership in a clinic that makes claims to cure gay people from homosexuality, who once had a hunting lease on a property called Ni**erhead, who had multiple affairs while spear heading an investigation into Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and so much more.