Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Campaign 2012 Tidbits (12 of 16): Undelivered joke of Michelle Bachmann



From Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Double Down – Game Change 2012 (New York: Penguin Press, 2013), p. 171:

The manly Lone Star Stater [and now GOP primary contender Rick Perry] had been a “yell leader” in college at Texas A&M; [GOP primary contender Michelle] Bachmann had waved the pom-poms in high school.  So [Bachmann adviser Ed] Rollins crafted a playful but edgy greeting for his candidate to deliver [though she never did]: “From one former cheerleader to another, welcome to Iowa!”

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