Michele Bachmann feels "calling" to run for president

Michele Bachmann speaks during a Tea Party rally at the State House, Monday, April 18, 2011 in Columbia, S.C.

/ Gerry Melendez,AP Photo/The State

Michele Bachmann on Friday said she felt a "calling" to run for president - a statement that seems to suggest she will follow through on her suggestion that she will announce a presidential bid in June.

The Associated Press reports that Bachmann, during the taping of a program for Iowa Public Television, said she "had this calling and tugging on [her] heart that this is the right thing to do.''

Bachmann's statement comes on the heels of announcement Thursday night that she will be holding a June event to make her presidential intentions clear. The Minnesota Republican has been openly weighing a bid for the GOP nomination for months and been traveling to and staffing up in early-primary states.

"We already have hired staff in South Carolina, in New Hampshire, in Iowa," Bachmann told reporters on a telephone news conference Thursday night. "We have people on the ground. We're doing every aspect that we need to be doing in this effort because our main goal is make sure we can turn the country around."

She said the June event would take place in Waterloo, Iowa, the city where she was born and lived through early childhood.

"The announcement will be made in Iowa, and it will be made in Waterloo," Bachmann said, adding that "being born in Iowa gives every advantage -- every advantage a girl would want to have."

Bachmann also said that her decision would be independent of whether or not former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin decided to jump into the race - a possibility that looks increasingly likely.

"My decision won't be dependent on the governor's decision or on anyone else's decision" Bachmann told CBS News' Jill Jackson this week.

"I have a lot of respect for the governor and for all of the candidates and so we don't know how long it will be -- people will continue to jump in the race - it could still be this fall," she added. "We don't know."

[RROT12]

Bachman and Palin are making a mockery of Women......very embarrassing

[KPeters_from_UK]

by justme2012 May 28, 2011 8:08 AM EDT
So, the socialists think they will win in 2012? LOL
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Isn't Cantor actually asking for a socialist fix to help Joplin? Cantor: Funds for tornado victims will be offset.

[justme2012]

No

[jd2408]

Palin feels a burning in her belly and Bachmann feels a calling. I am left with a strange feeling about the Republicans in this election.

[Lindag10]

Now I hear that Gov. Perry is "thinking about running", guess he heard the calling too. The clown show has just added a gunslinger.

[euge005]

She is just having hot flashes or constipation. Biggest threat of her in an election is that a real candidate might have the big one the day before the election and leave her on the ballot alone.

[justme2012]

Spoken like a true sexist democrat. We know how you really feel about women.

[myopinionpal]

Michele the calling you feel is a calling from Sarah Palin to bring her a glass of water so she can put out the fire in her belly!!!!

[Lindag10]

Al: It's "liberal code", don't worry about it.

[Lindag10]

by JV1970 May 27, 2011 7:10 PM EDT
Palin isn't too stupid to have acheived a goal that most of us have yet to make! She's a millionaire! In fact that's probably why you hate her so! You're jealous!


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Palin head cheerleader is back. JV money doesn't equal smart. Look at Paris Hilton and try and say that rich = smart. Then there's Arnie and his issues.....

[JV1970]

Paris Hilton didn't earn her money herself. She inherited it. Paris Hilton's great-grandfather is the one who made her money. Paris has never known anything else but riches. Sarah wasn't so blessed. Her father was a science teacher and her mother was a cafeteria worker. They had no money. Sarah earned and made her money herself.

[san850]

Ahhh, JV1970 again is demonstrating her worship of anyone with "money". She doesn't understand that money does not equal success. What a shame that Palin's money cannot buy her intelligence, morals, the ability or desire to be truthful, honesty, and tolerance.

[eiddam]

Remember the American Liberty League, 1933, and the wealthy that back the League were people like Prescott Bush, Fred Koch, Morgan, Chase, duPonts, to name a few, --good Christians who liken the Hitlerian policies, tried to Oust FDR, overthrow our government, implement the Hitlerian Policies, to stop FDR programs to help the poor, and break the Unions. Exactly what the Koch/Palin/Michele Tea Party intends to do wato do.

[eiddam]

Remember the American Liberty League, 1933, and the wealthy that back the League were people like Prescott Bush, Fred Koch, Morgan, Chase, duPonts, to name a few, --good Christians who liken the Hitlerian policies, tried to Oust FDR, overthrow our government, implement the Hitlerian Policies, to stop FDR programs to help the poor, and break the Unions. Exactly what the Koch/Palin/Michele Tea Party intends to do wato do.

[justme2012]

Hitler was a socialist, Obama is a socialist.

Coincidence? Not hardly. Obama's already laying the groundwork for his attack on Jews. But then, they voted for him, so what he does is on their own heads.

[KPeters_from_UK]

justme2012
You ignorant fool. Go back look in your WWII history. Please don't get confused with NAZI name.

[formrusmcsgt]

Man, some repubs must be real miffed, eh?

Their front runnrers are two totally airhead broads and a guy who believes in magic underwear.

Jeez........

[justme2012]

Two strong successful conservative women and a guy who has a soul.

Something democrats will never understand.

[Lindag10]

Just: Are you a Mormon and wear magic underwear too?