Is the Minnesota Crazy Bus destined for the Senate?

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from the Minnesota Independent:



Bachmann for Senate?
By Andy Birkey 6/14/10 5:00 AM Digg Tweet

Users signing up for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s congressional campaign website got a surprise this weekend: the website thanked them for signing up for “Bachmann for Senate.” Martiga Lohn, state capitol reporter for the Associated Press found the typo and tweeted the image on Saturday. The Bachmann campaign said the “Bachmann for Senate” address was a typo.

There’s been a lot of speculation among Tea Partiers and conservatives that Bachmann is seeking higher office. In several interviews, Bachmann has sidestepped a direct “no” answer to the question, instead saying she’s focusing on her 2010 campaign.

“You know it’s not what I’m doing right now. I’m one of Speaker Pelosi’s top targets this fall, so all I’m focused on this fall for 2010 is making sure that I win,” she told a conservative radio host last week.

It’s the same answer she gave in 2004 when as a state senator, many people speculated she would run for Congress in 2006. “My plans are to get through to 2006. This is my only plan right now, to get this (gay-marriage issue) on the ballot,” she told the Star Tribune at the time.


http://minnesotaindependent.com/60082/bachmann-for-senate

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Minnesota deserves a hell of a lot better than that!!!!

[LynneSin]

6. Dead Cockroaches would be a better choice over Michelle Bachman

seriously!

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Gotta agree with you there...

:thumbsup:

[Staph]

2. So who is she planning to take on?

Amy Klobuchar in 2012 or Al Franken in 2016?

[Blue Owl]

3. How is it that this short bus

has been the most longstanding, never-ending embarrassment for the state of Minnesota?

[Love Bug]

4. That photo of her makes me think of this:

[MineralMan]

5. I had the same thought.

Bachmann would stand no chance in a statewide race. She can barely carry her Congressional district, and may well not carry it in November, if those of us working to defeat her and elect Tarryl Clark have anything to do with it.

Tarryl Clark isn't a wonderfully progressive Democrat, but such a person couldn't get elected in that district. Bachmann would be dreaming if she thinks she could win a Senate race. I'd love to have her run, though. It'd be tons of fun.

[emulatorloo]

10. Agreed - the entire state is not crazy.

The only way she could win a Senate race is by stealing it.

[Blue Owl]

8. Ah yes, the batshit child

that would be Michele Bachmann!

[DefenseLawyer]

9. She may find the state's voters a little different than in her gerrymandered nutcase district.

Of course, Jesse Ventura might disagree with my assessment

[SoCalDem]

11. Will her son be part of the campaign?

[Angry Dragon]

12. I have read where her son does not agree with her politics....