Bachmann bid for GOP leadership gets cool reaction

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Ah I'll do something very unusual and agree with Jmfcst on this one. He makes a lot of good points here. A lot of times a politician's character and behaviour is esential to how well they're able to sell their ideas to voters. If a politician acts rude, behaves badly, or acts ignorant, voters aren't going to be as accepting to them as they would be to a person with the exact same views but who acts in a better manner. There are several politicians, historic and current ones, who don't refelect my views at all but who I still like and who I still loves to listen to. The comparasion with the forum is actually very good too. Take Al for example, his political views are way off compared to mine, but he's still very intelligent, witty, respectful, and likable, so I still listen to him and what he has to say and trust his judgement. The same goes for Inks who's way to the right of me, especially on social issues. Now compare Al to Change08, and Inks to East Coast Republican, similar views, but if you were to vote for one of them admit that you'd be a lot more likly to vote for Al than Change, and a lot more likly to vote for Inks than ECR.