Bye, bye, Bachmann!

[maxomai]

Quoting WSJ:

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a conservative firebrand and a favorite of tea party Republicans, said Wednesday that she would not run for another term in the U.S. House.

Ms. Bachmann, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination last year, announced her decision in a video on her website.

Well, that settles all the questions about her electability:

"My decision was not influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected," Ms. Bachmann said. She narrowly won a fourth term in 2012 over Democrat Jim Graves, a hotel chain founder who is running again in 2014.

Not to mention her ethics:

Ms. Bachmann also said, "This decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign."

In January, a former aide to Ms. Bachmann filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, claiming the candidate made improper payments to an Iowa state senator who was the state chairman of her 2012 presidential run. The aide, Peter Waldron, also accused Ms. Bachmann of other FEC violations.

Doesn't it?

I suppose I shouldn't be too hard on her. Running for office is, after all, a very difficult and harrowing process, and a lot of people pass up good opportunities because they'd rather not deal with the additional stress and scrutiny. And nobody wants to leave under a cloud of scandal.

On the other hand, after she said stuff like this:

"[Gay marriage] is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that."

"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."

"I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?"

"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."

Maybe I should just go ahead and gloat. :)

Comments

[arkham4269.livejournal.com]

Looks like she not only went to the Sarah Palin school of Crazy but the "Get out of the Kitchen when it gets warm" school of thought as well.

[empresspatti.livejournal.com]

I'm going to miss her. She was such an upside down backwards crazy pants, pure comic gold every time she opened her ignorant mouth. However - there is always Donald Trump, so the cranium-rectum disease is still active.

[maxomai.livejournal.com]

Trump, yes, and others. Bachmann is not the last word in batshitterie.

[takwish]

We still have Louie Gohmert...