# Michele Bachmann Not To Run For Reelection **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 29, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613 "2013-05-29T09:11:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/41 "2013-05-31T01:52:42Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > “and this decision had nothing to do with marcus’s arrest for lewd behavior at the conoco truck stop over in forest lake last weekend, either…” LOL! 😃 Poor Michele is probably trying to flee the state because she’s afraid she has to get gay-married now. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/42 "2013-05-31T04:43:15Z")
Once is enough, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/43 "2013-05-31T17:37:50Z")
Her 2012 opponent, Jim Graves, announced he will not run for the seat, claiming his goal of getting Bachmann out of Congress has been achieved. A link at [Democratic candidate drops out](http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/268683/group/homepage/) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/44 "2013-05-31T20:57:09Z")
She’s tired of her opposition assaulting her with facts. So, she’s going Sarah Palin, who had the same problem. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/45 "2013-06-01T12:23:14Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > She’ll never get anywhere near either. As a conservative, I’d rather have her throwing rhetorical bombs from outside Congress rather than within it. There’s a place for ill informed radicals: as a guest on a talk show. Do you really think that helps the conservative cause? ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/46 "2013-06-01T12:25:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No, I think there was probably criminality involved. I just don’t think Bachmann was brought in on it. > > I think some political crooks just chose Bachmann to be their front because she’s a charismatic dimwit who could get elected and would do what she was told without asking questions. So the guys in the back room ran things, collected whatever money a Congressional office can gather, told Bachmann how to vote, and saw no reason to cut her in on their action. Oh, please. That’s not how things work at all. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/47 "2013-06-01T12:29:05Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I’m sorry, but there are no wonderful people in the sixth district of Minnesota. They sent her to congress 4 times?!?! About 173,000 of them voted for her opponent. In fact, she only won by about 3,000 votes. So let’s not paint them all with the same brush. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/48 "2013-06-01T14:41:32Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Do you really think that helps the conservative cause? It doesn’t hurt or help probably. I don’t think people cast their votes based on talk show hosts or pundits saying weird things. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/49 "2013-06-01T17:13:55Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > It doesn’t hurt or help probably. I don’t think people cast their votes based on talk show hosts or pundits saying weird things. Oh, I definitely think that some people are turned off by talk radio and associate certain strains of ideology of certain candidates with it. It’s the whole Republican “brand” thing. It’s all lumped together. But most people probably would vote against those extreme Republicans anyway, without talk radio. And it’s not the “weird” things they say, it’s the outrageous, slanderous, racist, sexist things. Which they do often. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/50 "2013-06-01T17:55:47Z")
Why do I have a nagging feeling that now that Graves is out, Michelle might have an epiphany/revelation and “re-evaluate” her decision? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/51 "2013-06-01T20:13:39Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > LOL! 😃 > > Poor Michele is probably trying to flee the state because she’s afraid she has to get gay-married now. She is gay married. Oh, you mean…Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/52 "2013-06-01T21:00:12Z")
Why would she make this announcement so early? ---
**Author:** ![babygoat666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@babygoat666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/babygoat666)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/53 "2013-06-02T15:07:52Z")
Because her presidential campaign is being investigated for ethics violations. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/54 "2013-06-03T15:43:29Z")
Deleted. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/55 "2013-06-03T16:08:11Z")
Well, no, she wasn’t “deleted” in any discernible way, she just bailed out. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/56 "2013-06-03T18:11:13Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Why would she make this announcement so early? So Fox News can get a head start on arranging its Fall lineup. ---
**Author:** ![RadioActiveRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@RadioActiveRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioActiveRich)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/57 "2013-06-16T12:32:59Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Why would she make this announcement so early? Because she’s trying to place her own stories in the news cycle and they keep getting over shadowed by pieces about her candidacy - past and present. Also, potential candidates have a hard time garnering cooperation from people on the other side of the aisle who don’t want to arm potential electoral adversaries. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/58 "2013-06-18T04:17:47Z")
> [@RadioActiveRich](#): > > Also, potential candidates have a hard time garnering cooperation from people on the other side of the aisle who don’t want to arm potential electoral adversaries. You think Michele Bachmann wants to garner cooperation? From Democrats? ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613/59 "2013-06-18T04:22:21Z")
Well, sure. She’d love for Democrats to cooperate with her. She just won’t cooperate with them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michele-bachmann-not-to-run-for-reelection/659613.md?page=2)