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Michelle Bachman Will Not Run For Reelection

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PsychoRaven said:
Oh god no. NO NO NO NO NO. You know what this means don't you? Don't you? Another presidential run is in her future.
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And that's a bad thing? It's not like she would even win the primary, let alone the election.
 
Fantastic. But since so many of the nuttiest congressmen got ousted last election, who do we get to make fun of now?
 
Writing was on the wall, with all those money, she barely won last election, next time the Dems will be backing Jim fully. Make more sense to leave and become Fox contributor.
 
lenovox1 said:
Palin was a news anchor for a hot second, right? So I guess that means she could handle the job.

Is Michelle Bachmann stable enough to handle FOX News. I, mean, they even fired Glenn Beck.
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They just hired Allen West. I think they're reloading on the crazy to get ready to go against America One.
 
I don't care if she goes away mad, I just want her to go away.

What I can't figure out is why. I don't think she was worried all that much about reelection, so it might be either moving to greener pastures or there might be some teeth to the allegations of improper payments during her failed presidential campaign.
 
Fox News job screaming about random shit into a camera, I assume.
 
I'm afraid of who will take her place.

And I'm going to miss her crazy ass quotes. I seriously hope she bids for a run for the Presidency. Comedy that good can't write itself.
 
nemss said:
I'm afraid of who will take her place.

And I'm going to miss her crazy ass quotes. I seriously hope she bids for a run for the Presidency. Comedy that good can't write itself.
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Don't worry, there's always Louie Gohmert. Just be sure not to cast aspersions on his asparagus.
 
Good. She's a fucking idiot. Perhaps someone more intelligent, moderate and reasonable can rise from her ashes and help the Republican party obtain some form of sanity and relevancy.
 
Will her replacement repub be more electable in her district?

Mammoth Jones said:
Good. She's a fucking idiot. Perhaps someone more intelligent, moderate and reasonable can rise from her ashes and help the Republican party obtain some form of sanity and relevancy.
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That put me in good spirits this morning. Woooo ... what a laugh.
 
Finally she's leaving. It's weird though because the past week or so I've been seeing an ad made by her proclaiming how she was the champion of the people and that her bill to repeal ObamaCare has passed in the House (:lol). It sounded like a campaign ad if I've ever seen one, but it's way too early for that isn't it? I guess she's just trying to burn up all of the dirty money her campaign built up during her short presidential stint or something.
 
A lot more gets done by conservative media than by conservative officeholders.

Hannity/Rush/O'Reilly are all more influential than any single Republican congressperson. It's probably why Demint went to Heritage.

Being in a polarized, deadlocked congress is no fun by comparison.
 
That's a shame. I'd rather see her run and lose than just give up. We need to see these people get stepped on time and time again.

Mammoth Jones said:
Good. She's a fucking idiot. Perhaps someone more intelligent, moderate and reasonable can rise from her ashes and help the Republican party obtain some form of sanity and relevancy.
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The GOP won't change and I don't want them to.
 
Deified Data said:
That's a shame. I'd rather see her run and lose than just give up. We need to see these people get stepped on time and time again.



The GOP won't change and I don't want them to.
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Shortsighted partisan nonsense. Nothing would be worse for America than a 1 party political system.

The Republicans will modernize in time. Now if that time will be 2016 or 2116 is anyone's guess....
 
As a Minnesotan, I feel we need a translation here. Don't worry, I speak Minnesotan middle class bitch:

I will continue to work overtime for the next 18 months in Congress defending the same Constitutional Conservative values
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translated:

Fuck all of you, I'm still going to be around for a year and a half and I'm going to make you miserable the entire. fucking. time. you liberal *censored*
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I hope I helped clear the air.
 
Good gravy, just think: Fox News has already proven they learned NOTHING from the last election by bringing Asshat Supreme Allen West on board. And now they can add Bachmann? Yes, yes, yes. Fox, PLEASE keep the crazy - bolster it, even.
 
Thank God for guys like Louie Gohmert, Paul Broun, Steve Stockman, and Steve King, all of whom will continue to provide entertainment for the foreseeable future...
 
She crazy.


Polls showed Bachmann leading the GOP field early in the summer of 2011 and she won the Iowa straw poll, an important organizational test for candidates in the kickoff caucus state. But her candidacy ultimately flamed out amid questions about her grasp of facts. And the positions she espoused on the presidential campaign stage only helped cement the impression of a Republican party out of touch with a diversifying electorate.

She had the image of someone determined, disciplined and, in some sense, gutsy," Ruth Mandel of the Center for Women and Politics at Rutgers University, told Yahoo News. "But there was always the question of who is her constituency, and what is her credibility?"
As a presidential hopeful, Bachmann made a strong impression—the only woman in the field and a fierce, unapologetic partisan unafraid of blunt rhetoric. “I will not rest until Obamacare is repealed," she declared at a debate in New Hampshire. "It’s a promise, take it to the bank, cash the check.”

But Bachmann also spoke of "anchor babies" on the campaign trail when asked about her views on immigration reform. She opposed vaccinating girls against the sexually transmitted Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), claiming the vaccine, Gardasil, caused a friend's daughter to become mentally retarded. She compared the U.S. tax burden to the Holocaust. And she repeatedly reaffirmed her opposition to same-sex marriage, the issue that had launched her political activism in Minnesota.

Bachmann was narrowly re-elected to her House seat in 2012, and has retained a relatively high profile on cable television, regularly laying into Obama over issues including the fatal attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Her address at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting in March, drew roars of approval where she accused Obama and his family of a lavish taxpayer-supported lifestyle including a dedicated White House dog walker. The speech was later savaged by fact checkers.

Bachmann also drew a rebuke from Republican Sen. John McCain and others for sending a letter to the State Department suggesting that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Recently, Bachmann said she was "disappointed" with Minnesota over the state's legalization of gay marriage, saying it "denies religious liberty to people who believe in traditional marriage and who do not want to be forced to violate their conscience and sincerely held religious beliefs."
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bachmann-rise-fall-says-gop-182631349.html


This is so sad considering she just won an award for her performance in Congress.
 
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