{"id":10266,"date":"2011-06-29T17:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2011-06-29T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:39:13","slug":"meeting-bachmann-beating-a-stereotype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10266\/meeting-bachmann-beating-a-stereotype\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Bachmann, Beating a Stereotype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/06\/28\/michele-bachmann-for-president-2012-don-t-call-her-a-feminist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kirsten Powers<\/a> to the list of political professionals who have a deeper appreciation of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) after meeting the GOP presidential candidate in person.\u00a0 According to Powers, Bachmann is a much more substantive person than her critics imagine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In person, Bachmann seems eerily disconnected from the TV caricature. She is bright, quick, charming, and thoughtful. She will civilly and gamely debate any issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One might expect those qualities in a person who made a living as a tax attorney, raised more than a score of children (5 of her own, 23 through foster care), <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10134\/a-very-good-start-for-michele-bachmann\/ \" target=\"_blank\">snagged<\/a> <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> columnist John Fund as a co-author, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10134\/a-very-good-start-for-michele-bachmann\/ \" target=\"_blank\">convinced<\/a> several high profile campaign operatives to sign on.<\/p>\n<p>As her performance at the CNN debate showed, Bachmann is a serious campaigner willing to put in the work to win.\u00a0 If she continues to get out her message in person to voters in Iowa and other early voting states, she\u2019ll quickly move past Tim Pawlenty and make this a two-horse race with Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Kirsten Powers to the list of political professionals who have a deeper appreciation of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) after meeting the GOP presidential candidate in person.\u00a0 According to Powers, Bachmann is a much more substantive person than her critics imagine. In person, Bachmann seems eerily disconnected from the TV caricature. She is bright, quick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,1530,2815,2066,160,1096],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-john-fund","tag-kirsten-powers","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-mitt-romney","tag-tim-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10270,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}