# President Bachmann. **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 15, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795 "2011-08-15T17:13:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/61 "2011-08-17T16:42:27Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > Can you provide an example where she makes a statement glorifying slavery, condemning the north for the civil war, or promoting racism? Because if not, youre just doing what Obama’s detractors did with rev. Wright. I’ll won’t condemn her for John Eidsmoe - I have family, friends, and co-workers who hold some bizarre beliefs and I don’t consider myself responsible for them. But Steve Wilkins is on Bachmann. She posted his book on her recommended reading list and that, to me, is an official endorsement of Wilkins’ views. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/62 "2011-08-19T05:31:44Z")
Today Bachmann says she took a job at the IRS in order to “know her enemy”. She worked there for 4 years after she went to school to become a tax attorney. She took 2 1/2 years off for pregnancies and birth. So she took big advantage of the generous benefit package. Good grief does she lie a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/63 "2011-08-19T07:21:05Z")
Has she stated her policy yet on farm supports? Collecting government subsidies was the family business when she was growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/64 "2011-08-19T07:28:59Z")
Maybe she just needs to put a positive spin on her past: "Hello, I’m Michele Bachman. I was raised on government money that my family collected. I was educated in public schools by government money. I became a lawyer at a college funded by government money. I worked as a professional bureaucrat for government money. I am a professional politician who manages government money. I stand here before you as living proof of how government money is misspent." ---
**Author:** ![The\_Doughnut\_Thief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Doughnut\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Doughnut_Thief)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/65 "2011-08-19T08:23:35Z")
More than likely she would skip anything to help the economy and focus on DADT and abortion. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/66 "2011-08-19T13:40:11Z")
Did anyone else see that she is promising $2/gallon gas if she is elected? :rolleyes: I have to wonder how she thinks she could possibly fulfill this promise (obviously, being a politician she probably doesn’t plan to worry about it). -XT ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/67 "2011-08-19T13:45:05Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Did anyone else see that she is promising $2/gallon gas if she is elected? :rolleyes: I have to wonder how she thinks she could possibly fulfill this promise (obviously, being a politician she probably doesn’t plan to worry about it). > > -XT She’ll go down to the neighborhood free market and tell them to drop the price, just like George Washington would have. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/68 "2011-08-19T16:22:10Z")
Maybe she’ll use the Donald Trump “Listen, you motherfuckers…” method. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/69 "2011-08-19T17:28:10Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Did anyone else see that she is promising $2/gallon gas if she is elected? :rolleyes: I have to wonder how she thinks she could possibly fulfill this promise (obviously, being a politician she probably doesn’t plan to worry about it). She probably believes the story about how there’s more oil in Alaska than there is in Saudi Arabia. So she’s probably figuring that all she’ll have to do is abolish the silly environmental rules against drilling in the ANWR and cheap American oil will flood the market. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/70 "2011-08-19T17:51:10Z")
Bachmann defends her sordid past as an IRS tax attorney. Not, “I was young, I needed the money . . .” No, [she was infiltrating them to learn to beat them.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/bachmann-on-why-she-worked-for-irs-first-rule-of-war-is-know-your-enemy/2011/03/03/gIQAmVD6NJ_blog.html) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/71 "2011-08-19T18:20:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Bachmann defends her sordid past as an IRS tax attorney. Not, “I was young, I needed the money . . .” No, [she was infiltrating them to learn to beat them.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/bachmann-on-why-she-worked-for-irs-first-rule-of-war-is-know-your-enemy/2011/03/03/gIQAmVD6NJ_blog.html) She’s probably just laying the groundwork for when those lesbian videos become public. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Doughnut\_Thief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Doughnut\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Doughnut_Thief)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/72 "2011-08-22T18:13:03Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Hey! Give her a break! > What was she SUPPOSED to say? > > Happy Deathday to Elvis Presley? > > 😉 Happy Unbirthday ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/73 "2011-08-22T18:37:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > those lesbian videos Speaking of which, I haven’t checked myself, has anyone spotted some faux-Bachmann porn videos yet? Seems to me at a comparable point in Palin’s rise to fame, there were several circulating. Is Michele less pornable? Less famous? Or am I not looking in the right places? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/74 "2011-08-22T20:12:45Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Speaking of which, I haven’t checked myself, has anyone spotted some faux-Bachmann porn videos yet? Seems to me at a comparable point in Palin’s rise to fame, there were several circulating. > > Is Michele less pornable? Less famous? Or am I not looking in the right places? I don’t think Bachmann has quite reached Palin levels yet. Palin pretty much came onto the national scene when she was named as a Vice Presidential candidate. Bachmann at this point is still only seeking the Presidential nomination. Porn producers don’t want to get burned like all those guys who were stuck with Fred Thompson porn last time. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/75 "2011-08-22T20:19:32Z")
They need to find an actor to play her husband, then a nice cuckold fantasy where an Obama look alike does them both. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/76 "2011-08-26T04:26:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Porn producers don’t want to get burned like all those guys who were stuck with Fred Thompson porn last time. Well, surely I wasn’t the only one who bought a copy of _The Hunt for Red Suck-Toe-Ber_. ---
**Author:** ![Rekd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Rekd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rekd)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/77 "2011-08-26T04:49:45Z")
> [@The\_Doughnut\_Thief](#): > > Happy Unbirthday It’s not my unbirthday today. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/78 "2011-08-26T08:07:43Z")
Okay, so far on all the Bachmann threads on this board, I do not remember any poster pointing out one good quality about this political wretch. Economy? Unemployment? Equal rights? I expect any female candidate to support the constitution more than any man ever would. To me, she’s more inclined to bring back her version of “Pleasantville”'or “Bachmannville” simply because that’s the version of (television) life she prefers. This woman is not a candidate for any American person, female or male. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/79 "2011-08-26T08:59:13Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Repeal Obamacare, and cut spending to reduce the deficit. [Cite.](http://www.michelebachmann.com/issues/) Would she be able to do that? I know it works well for her to say she wants to cut spending to reduce the deficit when she’s in opposition. In the same way it works well for small dogs to lunge ferociously at large dogs safe in the knowledge that there is a fence that prevents them from achieving anything. If she got into office, how could she make meaningful cuts without causing an outcry amongst her own base? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795/80 "2011-08-26T16:49:12Z")
The question is how obedient the house and senate would be about carrying out her loony policies. They want to save their jobs too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bachmann/592795.md?page=3)