# Bachmann announces she's running **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 14, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382 "2011-06-14T01:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/1 "2011-06-14T01:22:11Z")
“Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said Monday at the CNN debate that she had filed paperwork to enter the presidential race and said she plans to make a formal announcement of her candidacy “soon.”” I would think there would be a lot of overlap of those folk who want Bachman and Palin. ---
**Author:** ![JimH52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@JimH52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimH52)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/2 "2011-06-14T01:22:33Z")
[http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/13/rep-michele-bachmann-makes-presidential-run-official/?hpt=hp\_t1](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/13/rep-michele-bachmann-makes-presidential-run-official/?hpt=hp_t1) The GOP really has a Big Problem now. The Tea Baggers expect Batcrazy Bachmann to win…or else…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/3 "2011-06-14T01:23:53Z")
Merged threads. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/4 "2011-06-14T01:30:57Z")
It is cute when someone like her is so utterly clueless about the nature of reality that they think they have a shot at being President. I’d give her an over/under of the first actual primary. I think she’ll be gone before then, but you never know the depths of her delusions. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/5 "2011-06-14T01:35:44Z")
I think she’ll do well, if for no other reason then she’s really one of only three ‘real’ candidates, and the other two are similar to each other. Not that I think she’ll win, but I think she’ll win in Iowa, emerge as the the “anti-Romney” candidate and come in second (and shut out poor Pawlenty). ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/6 "2011-06-14T02:08:55Z")
Hmm, Michelle Bachmann wants to repeal the EPA. The immature part of me wants to go litter in her district since it’s so close. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/7 "2011-06-14T03:48:08Z")
You know the field is full of flakes when Ron Paul makes the most sense. He is actually 100% correct when he lays the blame for the financial messes in this country at the feet of the Fed. He also doesn’t speak in terms of Obama, but rather in terms of “the last ten years” of irresponsibility. Watching the debate this evening, it’s apparent that there has never been a politician who can answer a question as asked; they’re all too busy making platform speeches while the people who ask the questions look on in puzzlement. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/8 "2011-06-14T04:56:41Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > You know the field is full of flakes when Ron Paul makes the most sense. He is actually 100% correct when he lays the blame for the financial messes in this country at the feet of the Fed. He also doesn’t speak in terms of Obama, but rather in terms of “the last ten years” of irresponsibility. The frustrating thing here is Ron Paul is a really bright man with some incredibly screwy ideas. I’ve mentioned it before but, I grew up in his congressional district in Texas and went to college with Rand. They would both cut military spending and avoid overseas hijinks in ways that would please most liberals and, at this point, most Americans. BUT, pretty much all the other things they stand for are looney libertarian intellectual thought exercises that have little real world application. And yet, Dr. Paul still manages to sound like the most reasonable person on stage at times during these Republican events. That is actually the most telling thing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/9 "2011-06-14T05:02:14Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > It is cute when someone like her is so utterly clueless about the nature of reality that they think they have a shot at being President. > > I’d give her an over/under of the first actual primary. I think she’ll be gone before then, but you never know the depths of her delusions. Frighteningly, she’s actually in the mix. [She’s polling at 11%](http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2011/06/romney-leads-in-iowa-cain-surging.html) (and a Favorable/Unfavorable at **53/16**!!! :eek:). 11% puts her just 4% off of Palin and Cain tied for second place. Furthermore, should Palin not run as many expect, she would probably get a _very_ healthy share of her support. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/10 "2011-06-14T12:28:14Z")
Don’t start my morning by scaring the fuck out of me. Look, I want to vote Republican, I just can’t with their current philosophy. But if these clowns allow Bachmann to get within smelling range of the White House, then I have to swear them off completely until this psycho phase of theirs passes. Honestly, I look at the people on that platform last night and what they are expousing, and the lack of moderates, and have to ask (once again) what the fuck happened to the party. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/11 "2011-06-14T12:36:32Z")
I think Bachmann can get the nomination… if she’s prepared. _flees_ ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/12 "2011-06-14T13:03:28Z")
Bachmann is either going to win the nomination or finish in second place. If the nominee is someone besides Bachmann or Romney, I’ll be amazed. Look at this crew… Newt has no chance whatever, never did, never will. Santorum disappeared into the stage last night. Pawlenty disavowed the phrase “Obamney Care” that he coined himself days earlier. Paul is the modern day Harold Stassen. Cain showed himself to be a racist buffoon. I don’t know how Pawlenty or Santorum expect to raise any money based on last night’s performance, neither will survive past the Iowa caucuses. ---
**Author:** ![Profound\_Gibberish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Profound\_Gibberish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profound_Gibberish)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/13 "2011-06-14T13:42:09Z")
Can you say “Vice President Bachman?” She has far few coherent brain cells to be President, but VP? If Quayle could do it, anybody can! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/14 "2011-06-14T13:48:21Z")
> [@dbx820](#): > > Can you say “Vice President Bachman?” I guess, though it seems like it would be too similar in the publics eye to a Vice President Palin, which wasn’t exactly a winner last time around. I suspect Romney will pick some old Cheney-esque conservative warhorse to shore up both his lack of foreign policy cred and his perceived moderateness. Thats basically the strategy Bush and Obama (with a more liberal senator, obviously) used, and it seemed to pan out for them. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/15 "2011-06-14T14:05:33Z")
> [@dbx820](#): > > Can you say “Vice President Bachman?” > > She has far few coherent brain cells to be President, but VP? If Quayle could do it, anybody can! Bachmann makes Quayle look like Plato. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/16 "2011-06-14T15:11:38Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > Bachmann makes Quayle look like **Platoe**. Fixed that for you. ---
**Author:** ![Dostoyevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Dostoyevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dostoyevsky)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/17 "2011-06-14T15:17:53Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Cain showed himself to be a racist buffoon. I missed the debate… how’d he do this? ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/18 "2011-06-14T15:26:23Z")
> [@Dostoyevsky](#): > > I missed the debate… how’d he do this? He pretty much flubbed his response when asked to clarify why he said he would have an issue hiring a Muslim to his administration. Some quotes here: [Herman Cain Pressed on Muslim Loyalty Test in GOP Debate | Politics](http://www.christianpost.com/news/herman-cain-pressed-on-muslim-loyalty-test-in-gop-debate-51152/) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/19 "2011-06-14T15:30:29Z")
> [@Dostoyevsky](#): > > I missed the debate… how’d he do this? Cain clearly has some disturbing anti-Muslim prejudice. [A decent summary is here.](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/republicans-debate-muslim-loyalty-tests-and-sharia-courts-on-cnn/) I found him to come off very creepy indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/20 "2011-06-14T15:51:44Z")
I don’t know how that hurts him in the Republican primary, though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382.md?page=2)