Michele Bachmann Said What!?

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— By Tim Murphy

Mon Jun. 6, 2011 3:00 AM PDT
Sometime this month, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is expected to travel to Waterloo, Iowa to officially announce her presidential candidacy. Her odds, while firmly in Hail Mary territory, are still better than you might think: With Republicans less than thrilled with the primary field, Bachmann stands at least a fighter's chance in socially conservative states like Iowa and South Carolina.

Now in just her third term in Congress, Bachmann, the leader of the House tea party caucus, has earned a reputation as one of the lower chamber's leading bomb-throwers, lobbing overheated rhetoric at Democrats and needling establishment Republicans. Her Minnesota colleague, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison once accused her of "psycho talk"; in an interview with Politico, a Pawlenty aide was just as blunt: "She's a real pain in the ass." Former state senator Dean Johnson, who was the Republican minority leader during Bachmann's stint in St. Paul, has said, "I don't think I ever served with anybody who I mistrusted more, from either side of the aisle."

Ouch. Bachmann also has a tendency to stretch the truth, or simply sidestep it altogether. Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact, recently told Minnesota Public Radio that he has never researched a Bachmann quote and found it to be true (the only major politician for which that's the case).

Here's an incomplete guide to Bachmann's greatest hits:

2003: Bachmann, then a state senator, explains why she doesn't agree with the theory of evolution: "Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There’s a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species. That's where it's difficult to prove." Don't even get her started on how a bill becomes a law.

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/michele-bachmann-greatest-hits

[Ohio Joe]

1. Amazing how one person could be so stupid

And still get elected over and over.

[madmax]

4. I hear that!!! WTF

My reasoning tell me it's T&A and she's easy on the eyes. I'm female - that's what I think.

[indepat]

6. And does not Target make political contributions to Madame Bachmann?

:mad: :patriot:

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[queenjaneapprox]

3. Now wait a minute.

Don't you dare call women bitches.

And why call names at all? You really hate her for being stoopid?

[madmax]

5. Defination of a Bitch

From my friend a DU member:

B Broad
I In
T Total
C Control of
H Herself

I personally like it... but, then I'm a bit off the wall as I get older. When I was younger I would freak out when someone called a woman a bitch. Now, not so much but, it does matter the context and the conversation. :hi:

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. It's most amusing that she doesn't get the irony inherent...

in kicking off her campaign in someplace called "Waterloo".

[Urban Prairie]

8. Bachmann is definitely crazy, but she isn't completely stupid

She knows how to dog-whistle to those like-minded extreme rightwinger individuals and groups (teabaggers) whom together comprise her core constituency and who are her meal ticket.

[ThomWV]

10. I've seen it implied that you can not win Iowa without really groveling to the Christian Right

[JAnthony]

9. I have to believe that the voters in her district just don't care about

politics, and just elect her because she's somewhat attractive and has been around for a while.

[DAMANgoldberg]

11. Somewhat attractive...

Yes she is not a bad looking 50ish woman, but she is not Sarah Palin in that department or even Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). She will flame out before Super Tuesday.

[scarletwoman]

13. She gets the suburban mega-church vote.

[sakabatou]

12. Bachmann, evolution isn't like Pokemon. Stop confusing the two.