I have to find a new tag for Bachmann (R-Dumber than Dirt). She reaches
new levels of stupidity every day...... Rep. Michele Bachmann
(R-Dumber than Dirt) warned an audience of supporters in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa Monday that Hezbollah could build "missile sites" in Cuba. "Why
would you normalize trade with a country that sponsors terror?" said
Bachmann, in response to a supporter's question asking her to explain
her position on trading with Cuba..... Bachmann later opined how the
United States would soon be paying for China's military through debt
spending. "We're told by 2020, nine years from now, we'll be paying for
all of their army," she said. "We'll be paying for their military
weaponry." China's military spending is thought to be less than $100
billion, while the Pentagon budget for Fiscal Year 2011 was $549
billion.
Source
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Monday that it would be "foolish" to normalize trade with Cuba because Hezbollah could soon have "missile sites" there.
"Why would you normalize trade with a country that sponsors terror?" the candidate asked a crowd of supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "There is reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you are 90 miles offshore from Florida, you don't want to entertain the prospect of hosting bases or sites where Hezbollah could have training camps or perhaps have missile sites or weapons sites in Cuba. "
Bachmann was most likely basing her fear on an unsubstantiated report from the Italian publican Corriere della Sera, which was picked up by numerous conservative websites earlier this month (see here, here, here and here.)
Even if that report were true, it makes absolutely no mention of "missile sites."
Bachmann then pivoted to explain that Republicans didn't need to worry about picking the most electable nominee because the country had already decided not to re-elect President Barack Obama.
"I'm just here to tell you, Barack Obama will be a one-term president," she said. "The country has already made up it's decision. I am convinced of it. The issue is who will be our nominee? Will it be someone who understands these issues so they will go and fight for them or will we have a compromise candidate?"
"Because we have candidates that have said that when it comes to Obamacare that their plan is to issue an executive order or to issue a waiver. I'm here to tell you, I get this bill. I fought it. I am the chief author against it. I was called Barack Obama's chief critic. That's my badge of honor, to be his chief critic. Because I understand what some of the other candidates do not... We can't settle, and 2012 is it. We will have socialized medicine for ever and ever and ever in this country unless we get it out in 2012."
::facepalm::
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