I’m the one that has the momentum that’s shooting up the chart right now.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R – Minn.), explaining why she should not, as an Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats suggested, either dial down her candidacy to vice presidential levels or quit altogether. The latest Gallup poll of potential Republican voters shows Bachmann tied with Gov. Rick Perry (R – Tx.) at 7%. Other candidates have picked up support after Herman Cain dropped out and Newt Gingrich started falling, but Bachmann’s claim still seems optimistic.

f his wife Michele is elected president next year and he becomes America’s first male First Lady, Marcus “Jazzy Hands” Bachmann says he will not pursue a socialist cause like Michelle Obama’s campaign to improve childhood nutrition. Instead, perhaps not surprisingly, his cause will be preventing equal marriage rights for gays:
“I’ve decided my cause is [...]

[Michele Bachmann] came up to see me four times. She would call me and ask me for advice. She said if she wins, she would like to think about me for the vice presidency. Most importantly, I did a two-hour phone call for her with her people. … And after all that, she announced she was not going to do the debate. It’s called loyalty. How do you do that? It’s amazing to me.

- The Donald, explaining why he’s thinking of quitting as moderator of the December 27 GOP presidential debate hosted by birther website, Newsmax.

From the first moment he burst onto the public stage with his jazzy hands, high-pitched feminine voice and sibilant s’es, Marcus Bachmann has registered at about an 11 on a scale of one to 10 on gaydars across the nation.
dding fuel to rumors that he is closeted is the fact that he has made his [...]

ABC News:
In light of the British Foreign Ministry pulling all U.K. nationals out of the British embassy in Tehran after students stormed the building in protest, GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann told a crowd in Waverly, Iowa, today that she would close the U.S. embassy in Iran.
One small, tiny note: The U.S. hasn’t had an [...]

@questlove should apologize for Bachman [sic] song as soon as NASCAR fans do for booing the First Lady.

Neal Brennan, comedian, on Twitter, reacting to outrage over The Roots playing the song, “Lying Ass Bitch” on the Jimmy Fallon Show as guest Michelle Bachmann walked out. The idea was said to be that of drummer ?uestlove. Fallon himself tweeted, “@questlove is grounded.”

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Number of congressional votes Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has missed since announcing her presidential bid June 13, or only 54% of the time — missing every vote during the month of September, according to data compiled by Congressional Quarterly.In fact, the last time Bachmann voted was August 1 — a “no” vote on the debt ceiling deal.

A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds that support for the presidential campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is imploding:
The survey, taken Thursday through Sunday, charts a GOP field that seems headed toward a showdown between Perry, with 31 percent backing, and Romney, at 24 percent.
The only other candidate in double digits is Texas Rep. [...]

Reuters:
Physicians are bracing for more parents to refuse the HPV vaccine, which protects against the most common cause of cervical cancer, for their daughters.
They say the comments by the Republican candidate will only stoke growing and unfounded fears about a whole class of common immunizations needed to fight disease.
“There are people out there who, because [...]

I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, “Are you going to start listening to me here?” Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.

- Republican politician Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, campaigning at a megachurch in Florida, making the sort of ridiculous assertion that would have forced a serious presidential contender out of the race just a few years ago.