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    Bachmann: It ‘Makes No Sense’ For Me to Step Down

    GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., isn’t perturbed by a call from Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, who endorsed Rick Santorum, in which he asked her to quit the race for the GOP presidential nomination.

    “It didn’t make sense because my numbers have always been above Senator Santorum’s,” Bachmann said on CBS’s Early Show on Wednesday, confirming that the call, reported yesterday by Politico, took place.

    Vander Plaats separately denied on Wednesday morning that any such call took place.

    "I talked to a few candidates and I said I’m not saying what you should do. I’m not telling you to drop out or anything of that nature," he said.

    "There's several good pro-family candidates in this race and it'd make the decision a lot easier if a couple of them would team up and basically form a team—we believe that would be a winning strategy... because right now we’re fragmenting our support between really four really good candidates," he said.

    “I have the most support here in Iowa,” Bachmann said in her appearance, as she and other candidates ready themselves for the Iowa caucus.

    “I'm the only one that has actually won anything in this state,” she said on Fox and Friends on Wednesday, adding that she had the support of over 100 evangelical pastors.

    “We're surging and we're very excited. We think we're going to be exactly where we need to be on January 3,” she said on Fox and Friends.

     
    • LamSonVet  •  5 mths ago
      All she has to do in drop out, bleach her hair blond and get a job with FOXNews and will make millions being their new darling.
      • dale 5 mths ago
        those blonds on fox news are smarter than you on your best day and their worst
      • Ubetcha 5 mths ago
        FOAD
      • joe 5 mths ago
        hahahahahaa nice.
    • Old Geezer  •  5 mths ago
      In Michelle's mind the wheel is still turning, but the Hampster is Dead!
      • fishfinder 5 mths ago
        you made my day with that comment, you Old Geezer, you.
      • wjw 5 mths ago
        Old Geezer,

        That's the kind of comment we need. Awesome.
      • Capt. Thunderpants 5 mths ago
        That explains that squeaking sound I hear when she speaks.
    • William  •  Blackfoot, Idaho  •  5 mths ago
      What an embarrasment on our election process and the republican party. I am switching to independant these clowns have convinced me the republican party I once knew that stood for principle is no longer there.
      • AmericanVeteran 5 mths ago
        To be truly independent you must realize that even though no candidate is perfect for either party there is one that makes a little more sense. At least look into Ron Paul's track record on voting. He has some good ideas on getting us out of debt so we can move forward. I believe it would take a person of his nature to truly want that to be his central goal of a presidency. Primarily he would also restore war powers back to the Legislative branch along with placing the role of the presidency closer to the founder's intent.
      • Ubetcha 5 mths ago
        You dont make sense...as Independent ...who ya goin to vote for...a DEm?
      • barbara B 5 mths ago
        William yeah I hear you, loud and clear, Iwas republican too .After watching them I will admit you need to enlarge the asylum at Blackfoot for 6 more rooms
    • Brandon  •  Parkersburg, West Virginia  •  5 mths ago
      Delusional.
    • THX-1138  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  5 mths ago
      What do you think that the Nation could do with the Millions that Bachman will waste on her failed bid at running for President?
      • WYZ1 5 mths ago
        There is been enough money thrown away on the stupidity of hopeful candidates to buy the world. This money could have been spent on creating jobs and the people spending it might even have gained from it.
    • LeoS  •  5 mths ago
      Nothing makes sense to Bachman....
    • Rich W  •  5 mths ago
      It also doesn't make sense for you to stay and it didn't make sense for you to run in the first place.
    • twinkies  •  Minneapolis, Minnesota  •  5 mths ago
      Bachmann is a hater, a bigot, and a stupis person generally. She is helping the coming re-take of the US House by Democrats, though, so have at it, you stupid fool. What an emabrrassment to my home state. Oh, and now look at republican Amy Koch #$%$) bounced from her Speaker position at the MN Senate because she was schtupping a subordinate! Yes, this need to make the National news, come on folks!
    • Gary  •  5 mths ago
      I can't believe anyone would think that Bachmann was an honest person. This woman is so dishonest she is a joke and also a clown.
    • the7W8b5X  •  5 mths ago
      Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for attacking the most helpless and vulnerable citizens in our society: the ultra-wealthy. What immoral coward could possibly be so cruel as to want to mildly increase the taxes of these pitifully helpless uber-wealthy citizens by a meager 3%. Most of America's filthy rich just might possibly be forced to suffer the privations of enduring a night without caviar and champaign. These drastic cuts could even mean that these most desperate scions of industry might have to settle for ungilded toilets and sinks in their luxury yachts and the outrage doesn't just stop here. Why... nearly all of the delicate and precarious lives of these titans of wealth could face the horrible deprivation of household help. Just think...in some of the most heart-wrenching cases, it could involve the loss of a maid, butler, and yardsman out of the essential hundred servants that such delicate and sensitive wealthy persons desperately need and wholly deserve. These wretched wealthy aristocrats might even have to serve their own coffee on the weekends. This is nothing but a Shakesperian tragedy that must be told. Those who would deny these precious uber-wealthy souls these basic and essential luxuries...are just plain evil and inhumane....Please support the GOP so that "our" deserving vulnerable ultra-wealthy "needy" will somehow begin to believe that America will help those with the deepest and most deperate needs. Thank goodness for the GOP!...Now these anxious, worrying minds will be able to to concentrate on limitless Christmas shopping for their most necessary "luxuriant' needs. Indeed....that "GOP Jesus" does look out for the helpless! What would America's most "helpless", the super-rich, ever do without this ever-vigilant protection by the GOP? Those Democrats are just the meanest #$%$s.
    • zorro  •  Redwood Falls, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Well she is an expert on "making no sense"
    • James  •  5 mths ago
      YES it does make sense for her to step down! She is unelectable just like ,Newt, Perry, Mitt and Santorum!
    • mikem  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  5 mths ago
      Fair enough answer as it made no sense for her to get into the race for the nomination to begin with.
    • summit  •  Champaign, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Actually, Michele, it makes no sense for you to run, but since you have, hang in there. All your crazy talk is doing democrats a world of good.
    • Dennis B  •  5 mths ago
      “It didn’t make sense because my numbers have always been above Senator Santorum’s,” Um is their anyones numbers that are not above Santorum's ? Come on Sarah I mean Michele cash it in the parties over.
    • WYZ1  •  Austin, Texas  •  5 mths ago
      It made no sense for her to step up.
    • barbara B  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  5 mths ago
      Taking an extra clown out now would ruin the show.
    • Dave D  •  5 mths ago
      I just checked with Politico Factchecker and she is wrong on this one too...
    • M  •  Phoenix, United States  •  5 mths ago
      please step away. you're a dangerous warhawk
    • Johnny  •  Charlotte, United States  •  5 mths ago
      She'd make a very good president...of Crazy Town.
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