# 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:** 30
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/581 "2011-08-12T18:59:27Z")
One of my co-workers would love to see Michele as President - and since his hero Glenn Beck agrees, he knows he’s right. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/582 "2011-08-12T19:12:41Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > The problem with that article is that the roughly 30% of the nation goes down that list saying “yep, yep, yep, I agree, testify sister, uh huh, of course, right again, yup, well sure, I knew that, …” It might be more than 30%. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/583 "2011-08-13T02:09:21Z")
I just want to check in to say that the word “respect” does **not** mean the same thing as “submissive”. Stupid cow. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/584 "2011-08-13T13:42:28Z")
She didn’t answer the question, did she? We had to ask her what she meant by “submissive,” and now we have to ask her what she meant by “respect”. She just substituted one word for another, and we still don’t know what’s going on in that noggin of hers. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/585 "2011-08-13T14:37:49Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > She didn’t answer the question, did she? We had to ask her what she meant by “submissive,” and now we have to ask her what she meant by “respect”. She just substituted one word for another, and we still don’t know **what’s going on in that noggin of hers**. Best hiding places to spy on gay rights rallies … figuring out which camera to look into during TV appearances … what happened to the other “L” missing from her first name. Things like that. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/586 "2011-08-13T14:48:30Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > She didn’t answer the question, did she? We had to ask her what she meant by “submissive,” and now we have to ask her what she meant by “respect”. She just substituted one word for another, and we still don’t know what’s going on in that noggin of hers. Someone should have asked if that means her husband is submissive to her. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/587 "2011-08-13T14:58:58Z")
Who were the twits in the audience who booed the asking of a perfectly reasonable and sensible question, one which Bachmann’s own people had no problem with? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/588 "2011-08-13T18:11:48Z")
Which question was that? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/589 "2011-08-13T22:08:25Z")
About what she means by “submissive.” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/590 "2011-08-14T19:13:34Z")
She say submissive means respectful. That is not true. There is a strong religious connotation and she claims to be super religious. If she meant respectful of her husband, she could have said so. She was trying to cover and failed. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/591 "2011-10-22T17:00:36Z")
[Bachmann’s entire New Hampshire staff quits:](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20124047-503544/key-aide-leaves-bachmann-for-perry-in-mass-exodus-of-n.h-campaign-staff/) > [@](#): > > The entire paid New Hampshire staff for Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has resigned, in another blow to the Minnesota congresswoman’s foundering campaign. > > Jeff Chidester, Bachmann’s former New Hampshire campaign director, confirmed the mass exodus. “The New Hampshire team has quit,” he said. “We’ll issue a joint statement as to our reasons why.” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/592 "2011-10-22T18:42:44Z")
Was god having fun with her? Why did he ask her to run ? So she would lose and gain humility? So the country could see how crazy some politicians are? ---
**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:** [October 22, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/593 "2011-10-22T19:54:50Z")
I blame the homosekshulls. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/594 "2011-10-22T21:09:55Z")
A “joint statement” does sound pretty gay. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/595 "2011-10-23T21:56:04Z")
That link also led me to this one: [U.S. got “kicked out” of Iraq](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-20124360/michele-bachmann-u.s-got-kicked-out-of-iraq/?tag=re1.galleries) > [@](#): > > Bachmann also argued Sunday that Iraq had “disrespected” the U.S. in outlining its conditions for continued U.S. presence there, and urged Mr. Obama to “return to the negotiating table” with the Iraqi government and demand full reimbursement for the $700 billion America has spent on the war over the last eight years. > > “The problem is, we’ve put a lot of deposit into this situation with Iraq,” Bachmann told CBS’ Bob Schieffer. "To think that we are so disrespected and they have so little fear of the United States that there would be nothing that we would gain from this? That’s why I’ve called on President Obama to return to the negotiating table. > > “The Obama administration has said they’ve gotten everything they wanted. They got exactly nothing,” Bachmann said. “I believe that Iraq should reimburse the United States fully for the amount of money that we have spent to liberate these people. They’re not a poor country. They’re a wealthy country. I think that they need to do that, because what we will be leaving behind is a nation that is very fragile and will be subject to dominance by Iran and their influence in the region. That’s not good.” This is clearly the woman we want running our military and foreign policy. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/596 "2011-10-23T21:57:56Z")
“And how will sir be paying for this occupation?” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/597 "2011-10-23T22:02:56Z")
Shock and Owe ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/598 "2011-10-24T01:05:13Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > That link also led me to this one: [U.S. got “kicked out” of Iraq](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-20124360/michele-bachmann-u.s-got-kicked-out-of-iraq/?tag=re1.galleries)This is clearly the woman we want running our military and foreign policy. What a blithering idiot Bachmann is. I’d be worried if she had any chance at all of becoming president. Yes, the Iraqi people should compensate us for the privilege of allowing us to destroy their country, kill tens of thousands of their citizens, and displace hundreds of thousands. Why didn’t I think of that? Oh Michelle, why don’t you just go away and abuse some more kids by adopting and raising them in that religious asylum you call a home with your closet case of a husband, you bloody ignoramus. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/599 "2011-10-24T01:12:24Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Oh Michelle, why don’t you just go away and abuse some more kids by adopting and raising them in that religious asylum you call a home with your closet case of a husband, you bloody ignoramus. Some of those kids must be adults now; I wonder if anybody has tracked hem down to see if there are any that would tell tales out of school. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382/600 "2011-10-24T02:25:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Iraq should reimburse the United States fully for the amount of money that we have spent to liberate these people. … because what we will be leaving behind is a nation that is very fragile and will be subject to dominance by Iran and their influence in the region. These two things do not compute. Iraq should reimburse because they are fragile and subject to dominance by a third country? How will this help them? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachmann-announces-shes-running/585382.md?page=31)