Bachmann wants to see Steve King run for president.
Bachmann wants to see Steve King run for president.
In August, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told WorldNetDaily that she would run for president only if she “felt that’s what the Lord was calling me to do.” In a recent interview with the Sioux City Journal, Bachmann was again asked about a potential run for the White House, and she responded that she’s “not considering anything like that.” She did, however, suggest another member of Congress whom she would like to see run:
Additionally, I asked Bachmann if she is being prodded to seek the 2012 presidency, given her growing national profile. She said she has no doubts the GOP will produce a good crop of presidential candidates, and threw out King as a name of interest.
“Steve King is mentioned as a potential nominee. I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office,” Bachmann said.
Bachmann, who shares King’s belief that President Obama is essentially “anti-American,” makes no mention of what platform she thinks King should run on. Perhaps, it would be his claim that same-sex marriage is “a purely socialist concept.” Or his proud stand against sending aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Or his belief that undocumented immigration is a “slow-moving terrorist attack.” (HT: Minnesota Independent)
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I think they should run together on the CLOWN Party.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:37 amWell, if Michelle wants us to vote for him, I suggest we don’t.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:37 amThe Lord is asking me to run. Who’s for me? (Besides the Lord).
October 21st, 2009 at 11:38 amHey Michelle! For once I agree with you! Let King run! All the bigoted, anti-gay rhetoric and delusional fears will come up to haunt him. You sure picked a winner!
October 21st, 2009 at 11:38 amThe lord is calling her, just not to run for office…
October 21st, 2009 at 11:39 amOT – Sarah Palin going on Oprah the day before her book comes out. I suspect Oprah will make Katie Couric look like an attack dog.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:40 amSteven King? Bachmann? Running Man?
She’s his BIGGEST fan.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:40 amSteve King for president? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
October 21st, 2009 at 11:41 amHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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If by some large miracle King ran for president in 2012 and actually won than I would start worrying about the Mayan 2012 calender.
SNORT!!!! King for Pres. Now that’s a hoot.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:41 amShayne: Ten bucks says Sarah will stand Oprah up. No show.
Republicans’ fantasies about who they want for President are so CUTE…!
October 21st, 2009 at 11:41 amWould he have time between novels?
Oh, you mean a different Stephen King?
October 21st, 2009 at 11:41 am“Bachmann wants to see Steve King run for president.”
Well there goes his chances of ever being elected.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:41 amBachmann wants to see Steve King run for president.
Well , I want to see this batshit crazy broad admitted into a mental institution ; and I’m pretty sure my idea has way more support than her off-the-wall suggestion does……….
October 21st, 2009 at 11:42 amPalin/Bachmann 2012. That’s the ticket. … snort …
October 21st, 2009 at 11:44 amKing would not evden carry his home state of Iowa under such a scenario, although Texas, Oklahoma and Idaho might be in the fold. Sheesh.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:44 amWTF? I thought Michele was going to slit her wrists?
October 21st, 2009 at 11:44 amBachmann wants to see Steve King run for president.
– - So do I. King needs to experience the accompanying crippling debt.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:44 amwill she slit her wrist for him?
will she fill out her census forms for him?
Hell i be happy if she would touch ground again and take off her tin foil hat, its leaving a green ring around her head.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:45 amI’m pretty sure in his first month as President, King would:
*Declare war on Mexico
October 21st, 2009 at 11:46 am*Declare war on homosexuality
*Abolish New Orleans
*Abolish social security and medicare
*Mandate each citizen buy and eat a dozen ears of a corn per week
*Launch a nuclear attack on Iran/Afghanistan/Pakistan/India (he was a little confused about the last one. all those south and central asian countries look alike, you know)
Shane@6, And I also heard Greta Van whatever her name is, is pissed. I guess she thought Sarah should have done an interview about her book with Greta first. After all, Faux News practically backed the woman! Especially Greta herself.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:47 amHasn’t history shown us that anytime someone is called to do something by “the lord” they are either insane or a megalomaniac. I think this bat sh*t crazy woman is wearing both of these shoes at once and they fit LIKE A GLOVE!!
October 21st, 2009 at 11:47 am“Steve King is mentioned as a potential nominee.”
Yeah, down at the local “John Deere & Beer” gin mill in West Liberty, IA, by people who think feed caps are a fashion statement.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:48 amBachmann would want to put King in any position she could wrestle him into!
October 21st, 2009 at 11:51 am“Steve King is mentioned as a potential nominee.”
Oh , wait ; I see Ms Bachmann actually has visited a mental institution recently ………….Mea Culpa
October 21st, 2009 at 11:51 amIn August, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told WorldNetDaily that she would run for president only if she “felt that’s what the Lord was calling me to do.”
Oh, this should be rich. The Lord has a wicked sense of humor. He told Pat Robertson to run for President…TWICE!
October 21st, 2009 at 11:52 amP.D., that’s awesome Sarah snubbed Greta. This just keeps getting better and better.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:52 amAh, Michelle… Your craziness is always worth a chuckle. By all means, endorse King. I always thought you were a train-wreck, but I think maybe King is even nuttier than you.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:53 amThat Stephen King would have a better chance.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:54 amI’m sorry, but the Burger King would be a more favorable nominee than Steve King.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:55 amBachmann wants to see Steve King run for president.
Wow!! Me, too!
Heh…
October 21st, 2009 at 11:55 amI adore the repubs… they are a never ending source of entertainment and buffoonery!!!!!! How many more crackpots are they going to tote out???
October 21st, 2009 at 11:55 amNoMoreBush says:
King would not evden carry his home state of Iowa under such a scenario, although Texas, Oklahoma and Idaho might be in the fold. Sheesh.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:44 am
I can promise delivery of Idaho for the idiot King. All they need to see is the R.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:58 amThey’d make a fine repugniscum ticket. Their party would become so small, they’d disappear from the scene and let normal people run the government.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:58 amPalin snubbed Greta for Oprah — no surprise there; of course you’d stab your biggest fan in her back when you can get a much bigger audience on Oprah’s show. It’s all about publicity and the money that follows.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:01 pmGood and she can be his VP pick. Two hateful loons running for the highest offices in our country. The Democrats wouldn’t even need to campaign to win.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:03 pmOT, I’ve got these nude golf ball tees from a GOP fundraising tournament last year. I’m putting them on E-Bay if anyone here’s interested.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:04 pmLet him run. Put a nice, big, fat, bolded (R) next to his name, too, so that every one of his whack-job theories and statements can be directly linked to the Repugnicons.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:06 pmI guess this is the insane yang for Al Frankens lucid Ying
October 21st, 2009 at 12:12 pmI think that unless they both immediately resign their current responsibilites (following Sarah Palin’s illustrious example) and run full-time for the Republican nomination as a King-Bachmann ticket, then their devotion to their ideals is lacking and they are cowards to boot.
snark off.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:19 pmI just can’t wait until the Republican candidates start announcing they are going to run for President. The Dems can sit back and watch the Republicans implode. When opinion polls show the lack of support for the hard right, the party will be stuck with a candidate who will be unable to attract independents. Then the blame game and blood letting will begin again.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:21 pmIf the GOP nominated King for President, this would be a gift to the Democrats, delivered with a giant bow on top.
Personally, I wish the Republican Party would pull themselves together and behave like a responsible member of a two-party system. If all they’re going to do is act silly, outrageous, and obstructive, the Dems will only grow fat and lazy because their jobs are being made too easy for them.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:23 pmI would suggest that both Bachmann and King run for the nearest exit – into full retirement.
They are useless dead weights.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:28 pmshe would run for president only if she “felt that’s what the Lord was calling me to do.
This statement alone should disqualify any candidate.
Superstition is not the way a country needs to run, what need the alignment of the stars?
And King, good golly, what a sick fcuk that one is, totally should not be anywhere near the Red Button.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:30 pmTalk about getting an endorsement that you don’t want. An endorsement so bad that it is radioactive.
Kind of like being nominated by Genghis Khan as humanitarian of the year.
OTOH – if we get a King/Bachmann ticket for 2012, they can loose, and since they will have removed themselved from their Congressional seats, the good people of Minesotta have a chance to redeeem themselves.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:50 pmAre you kidding me? Now I know she has really crossed into lalaland. In a way, it would be hysterical to see this ticket…..can you imagine the debates?? However, there is no way that they could raise the money necessary for a campaign of that magnitude.
Seriously, last night around 11;15 pm, I was up in our study doing some work and I ran downstairs and put the tv on…I happened to scroll by C-Span and there was King talking to an empty chamber. As I said over at Atrios last night, I thought I was witnessing a psychotic break occuring. This guy King is so racist and vile, he was screaming about voter registration and blacks (which he doesn’t even attempt to hide is hatred for) and then he started railing against Kevin Jenniings and his job at the education department. He hates and fears gays….what a bigot and a loser he is.
I cannot for the life of me imagine the people who send people like Bachmann and King to DC…..are they as bad as these 2 are?
October 21st, 2009 at 12:50 pmme too.
ha-HA!
October 21st, 2009 at 12:53 pmWhat was the name of that British film where the lunatics take over the asylum? I thought it was funny on the screen. I am not so sure I would like it here in real life, though. Aren’t there committment papers made out for these people somewhere?
October 21st, 2009 at 1:01 pmPurple State says:
I’m sorry, but the Burger King would be a more favorable nominee than Steve King.
I can see it now in a live press conference on the Food Network the Bruger King and Ronald McDonald say they are setting their differnces aside for the good of the nation.
Burger King/McDonald 2012!!!
October 21st, 2009 at 1:01 pmWow. This moron has many skeltons in his closet….
And his bigotry…. Here’s what he said about Obama….
“I don’t want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name – whatever their religion their father might have been,” I’ll just say this: When you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States — I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam? I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror. Additionally, his middle name (Hussein) does matter. It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world. That has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They will be dancing in the streets because of who his father was and because of his posture that says: Pull out of the Middle East and pull out of this conflict. There are implications that have to do with who he is and the position that he’s taken. If he were strong on national defense and said ‘I’m going to go over there and we’re going to fight and we’re going to win, we’ll come home with a victory,’ that’s different. But that’s not what he said. They will be dancing in the streets if he’s elected president. That has a chilling aspect on how difficult it will be to ever win this Global War on Terror.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King#Controversies
October 21st, 2009 at 1:17 pmEven the trolls know that this woman is a nut job. I posted a comment about Al Franken and in two minutes it had been voted down 10 times. My comment has been up for two hours on this thread and only two people voted it down. To me that speaks tremendously about how many people (even republican paid trolls) feel about this woman and her ideas.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:19 pmPretty goofy, Shelley. Steve King wouldn’t be a suitable hire for your local sewage plant, or any other position that puts him in charge of anything more than his own shit.
Allowing him to interact with other people is a big mistake.
And Michelle, honey, you’ve taken the bat-shit act to the level where you should seek professional counseling and care in an institutional setting.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:35 pmI can’t wait till health care passes.
Then hopefully we can get all of these republicans some help for there Mental Health issues.
The GOP might be on to something with those internment camps.
I would call them psychiatric wards if we can’t rehabilitate them. Oh well.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:39 pm#3 Norm Coleman says:
The Lord is asking me to run. Who’s for me? (Besides the Lord).
Well, if you’re a Christianist Republican, like Michelle Bachmann, the Lord is all you need. With supremely hackable electronic voting machines, where reasonable people would see an impossible overvote and conclude election fraud, The Christianist Republican looks at those figures and sees divine providence.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:40 pmKing/Bachman
McCain/Palin redux
Let’s roll!
October 21st, 2009 at 1:45 pmShe doesn’t care about the platform, because these wingnuts don’t believe in governing. They want totemic leaders who will stay out of the way of big business, and raise money for the party.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:52 pmI whole-heartedly encourage batsh*t insane Bachmann to run for president.
I’d encourage anyone that batsh*t insane Bachmann backed to run for president too.
It’s chocked full of win!
October 21st, 2009 at 1:54 pmSo help me God I do love it so! Steve King for President, Michele Bachman for VP. Clearly, somewhere there is a cave missing it’s batshit.
October 21st, 2009 at 2:04 pmSchwing for King! Bloody Bill and company are all sad.
October 21st, 2009 at 2:12 pmLord – Michele?
October 21st, 2009 at 5:49 pmMichele – Yes, Lawrd!
Lord – Bend over at the waist.
Michele – Yes!
Lord – Grab your ankles.
Michele – Yes! Yes!
Lord – WHACK! Ya dumbass!
Michele – Owwwweee!
Lord – Now repeat after me – Thank you Lord! May I have another?
Michele – Whimper! Whimper! Thank you Lord! May I have another?
Imagine if King/Bachmann were to be elected president/VP.
Then moving to Canada or Mexico would suddenly look like the best move one could ever make. The Doomsday Clock for this nation would have to be set at 0.2 seconds.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:29 pmPlease, Lord, plezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,
Let this be true, plezzzzzzzzzzzz
plezzzzz
October 21st, 2009 at 8:59 pmTo Zooey and everyone else,
Wouldn’t that be a hoot?! I think the GOP would probably face its worst defeat yet. Yeah, let them waste millions on such a ticket!
30.Zooey says:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:27 amBachmann wants to see Steve King run for president.
Wow!! Me, too!
To COProgressive,
Although I gave you a Vote Up, I think you shouldn’t insult clowns, who have real talent, unlike these GOP nutcases who make us laugh inadvertently. Maybe the NUTCASE Party of the BATSHIT Party?
COProgressive says:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:31 amI think they should run together on the CLOWN Party.
Steve King is the WORST among them.. he’s in the area of Glenda Beck.. He want’s a big electric fence running across the Mexico border.. he’s one of the major starters of ACORN conspiracy theory.. He’s one of the nuttiest of the nutty.. so of course Bachmann loves him.. He’s one of those ‘I know I probably shouldn’t say it.. but I’m gonna say it.. (insert random racist/sexist/fringe radical sentiment here)’ guys.
When Steve King talks.. I come close to ruining a perfectly good television set.. and he talks on cspan continually
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:01 amComments by Bachmann give me a range of emotions from, almost having a stroke to, almost pissing myself laughing. This one is in the “latter category”!
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October 28th, 2009 at 4:44 am