Representative Michele Bachmann has numerous advantages heading into the 2012 Republican nomination battle: name recognition; high favorability and she loves to campaign, but all of those strengths fall well short of her primary disadvantage.
Lack of executive experience.
Her public record includes just three terms in both the Minnesota State Senate and the United States House of Representatives, neither of which involve passing significant legislation, or sitting on any vital committees.
Reminds you of someone?
Oh, then-Senator Obama's record during the 2008 election, which we hammered unmercifully because our country needed someone with either strong executive experience, or accomplished legislative experience. I don't have to remind anyone of Obama's incompetent and inexperienced governance these past 30 months.
All it will take is one Mitt Romney commercial or one Tim Pawlenty remark for the memo to reach primary voters: do we really want someone who has less experience than Barack Obama? I would hope not for the reasons that our party always selects results over rhetoric, and that experience is one of our strongest 2012 talking points.
What say you?
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