Michele Bachmann Democratic Equivalent?

[Progressive]

Say John McCain won in 2008 and liberal/progressive voters wanted a very liberal person to run. Who do you think would be the equivalent of Michele Bachmann (a non-establishment firebrand member of the House)?

[Zarn]

Bachmann is establishment...

[Odysseus]

Kucinich, I guess.

[Grumps]

A shrill nasty bug-eyed biatch?  Easy.



(edited because Mr. Morden is even more of a prude than Inks.   )

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Alan Grayson

[King]

+1 to Gramps.  I had a google tab open to retrieve a Wasserman Schultz photo and everything.

[Former Moderate]

Say John McCain won in 2008 and liberal/progressive voters wanted a very liberal person to run. Who do you think would be the equivalent of Michele Bachmann (a non-establishment firebrand member of the House)?

I concur with the suggestion of Alan Grayson.

Though he's not a member of the U.S. House, I also see some similarities between Bachmann and Howard Dean.

[Mr. Taft Republican]

Kucinich, I guess.

Nah, it needs to be someone who took all of Kucinich's ideas and claims to be their orignator. Grayson fits the bill, but I'll say Pete Stark, just to go against the grain.

[Yelnoc]

Weiner, assuming he can keep it in his pants.

[Governor NVGonzalez]

Alan Grayson

[ChairmanSanchez]

Alan Grayson for sure, with Schultz in a close 2nd...

A shrill nasty bug-eyed biatch?  Easy.



(edited because Mr. Morden is even more of a prude than Inks.   )

Fun fact---she is my friends sisters sister-in-law...yea, they still havent gotten the Thanksgiving invite yet. I understand why, they hate Schultz more then Allen West and myself combined.

[Old Europe]

The Democratic Bachmann? Mhmm.

Sheila Jackson Lee.

Michael Moore (alright, not an office-holder ).

[King]

This actually reminds a bit of the 2004 Dem Primaries.  Clearly, the closest the Republicans can come is with the boring bland Massachusetts guy.  But loud base ralliers in Southern man Rick Edwards and the ever ineloquent Michelle Dean are making a push.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Comparing a nutcase like Bachmann to a successful and popular multi-term governor and DNC chairman like Dean is very insulting to Dean.

[nhmagic]

Bachmann is establishment...

See, I find it funny that you say that.  She is not well liked by the establishment of the party and she sides with the Paul wing far more often than she does the establishment.   The establishment wouldn't even let her serve as a committee chair because they found her economic views further right than they wanted.

Secondly, to the topic of the post.  There is no democratic equivalent unless you put her next to Hillary Clinton (maybe even Bill for that matter because her style is much like his).  She is the first major female candidate running on the republican ticket that has a chance at the nomination.  I actually think she'd win the general against Obama (then there'd be no real democrat equivalent to compare her to.

[Zarn]

Bachmann is establishment...

See, I find it funny that you say that.  She is not well liked by the establishment of the party and she sides with the Paul wing far more often than she does the establishment.   The establishment wouldn't even let her serve as a committee chair because they found her economic views further right than they wanted.

Secondly, to the topic of the post.  There is no democratic equivalent unless you put her next to Hillary Clinton (maybe even Bill for that matter because her style is much like his).  She is the first major female candidate running on the republican ticket that has a chance at the nomination.  I actually think she'd win the general against Obama (then there'd be no real democrat equivalent to compare her to.

I don't. She in in line for the most part. Pretending she is Paul on rhetoric (Gingrich does the same thing) doesn't make her anti-establishment. Even her show-off style Christianity is establishment friendly.