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Subscribe to RSSCEDAR RAPIDS, IA -- Speaking to reporters this afternoon, presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann brushed aside her last-place finish in the Florida Straw Poll. And in a speech before that, she urged voters to consider her ahead of the race's two front-runners, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
“We can’t settle. We have to have a candidate who has it all,” Bachmann repeatedly said during her speech before a few dozen supporters who gathered at the Best Western Longbranch ballroom. The rhetoric, which appears to reference opponents Perry and Romney, was first used last week when the Minnesota Congresswoman was speaking at GOP events in the Sunshine State.
Asked by NBC to comment on the results of the straw poll -- in which she received just 1.5% of the vote out of eight candidates -- Bachmann said she made a decision to focus instead on last month's Ames Straw Poll, which she won. “We put our effort and our money and our time here in Iowa in the straw poll because this straw poll in Iowa was crucial."
Bachmann also said that she permitted her supporters to vote for other candidates. “We had let it be known early on, and we released our supporters in Florida because there are straw polls all across the country right now,” Bachmann added. “We told all of our supporters in Florida that they were free to vote for anyone else that we wanted because we weren't participating.”
But Bachmann has only spent nine days in Florida since she got into the 2012 race, and Florida GOP officials say she does not have a big ground operation in the state.
“The fact that I don't hear from the campaign means that they don't have any organized staffing from a campaign staff perspective,” Sarasota County GOP Chair Joe Gruters said. "The path to victory is even harder than it was a week ago, as a result of the Tea Party voters in Florida getting behind Herman Cain. But she's still in contention."
The statement released by the Bachmann campaign following her straw poll finish last weekend makes no reference to “releasing” delegates. Instead, the statement focuses on her win in Ames on Aug. 13.
The statement: "Florida is an important state in the presidential race, but we chose not to participate in the P5 Poll which is open to select delegates. We got into the presidential race late and dedicated our resources to the Iowa straw poll which is open to all Iowans with a valid ID; Michele won the Iowa poll with less time and money than the other candidates in the race."
Bachmann told reporters today she's happy where her campaign is now despite losing in Florida.
“We're positioned perfectly,” she said.
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Nice to see the MN wild ding bat still has the WOW factor...
Her next gathering will be in a phone booth @ a local Citgo!
Feisty, Just got home from work. LOL , a few dozen supports? A few dozen supporters in Iowa... she is fading fast.
do they still have phone booths in Iowa ?? Jody can answer that question. :)
She came in last and she says she is "positioned perfectly"? Well ok, if she thinks dead last is where she belongs who am I to argue.
Congresswoman Bachmann is the best candidate. If elected, she will reverse the way America is headed so we will not look like Illinois.
I bet if we knew more about that liberal from Illinois who took a unwarranted jab at her, we would find out she is a brain-washed "demon"crat.
Bachmann needs to make her campaign slogan "I reject your reality and substitute my own."
@Tim LOL!! This lady lives in an alternate reality.
“We had let it be known early on, and we released our supporters in Florida..." From servitude? From your wicked gaze? From your mind control? Seriously, WTF is this kook thinking?
I wouldn't give her that much of an audience. She, is an idiot, who simply wants a Fox job (Like the other idiot, Sarah) after the election. Why else would she still open her mouth with totally illiterate ramblings??
Typical Republican..Complaints, with no alternatives.
An idiot? You've never heard her speak other than news clips, have you? She's an experienced lawyer and public speaker. You cannot compare her to Palin (you're only doing that cause they're both women).
Complaints with no alternatives? She's offered plenty of them! I'll still take complaints with no alternatives rather than the current attempts at spending our way out of debt. That is trully idiotic.
Hey, Michele, don't go away mad. Just go away!
Does any of her 'dismissing' anything surprise? She also dismisses much of science which tends to work with empirical data! You know, that 'liberal agenda' conspiracy that is out to get her! (marked as cynical)
Goddamnit where are all the nut job loony teabaggers when you need them.
If only you psychos would keep voting for her long enough so she can't run the 6th anymore, we would be eternally grateful.
So come on you bunch of racist fascist homophobic ignorant rightie yahoo teabaggers, KEEP VOTING FOR BATSH-TCRAZY BACHMANN THRU NEXT SUMMER, so we here stuck in her district can get an actaul thinking human being to represent us in Washington, and not some frankenstein christer barbie doll.
I don't think she's going to win, but I understand her position. She opted out of the contest. Florida officials put her name and Romney's name on the ballot days before even though the two candidates did not register to do so. They made no efforts to campaign in the state and went elsewhere.
So to create an article about her poor showing is more than a little misleading
Last in the hanging chad state? Well, it's about time to pee on the fire and call in the dogs, her time is just about up.
She is an alcoholic and a pill popper too. Half the time she is so boozed up and doped up she dosen't know if she's coming or going. Its ok though, her husband knows for her. She's no Sarah Palin, thats for sure, Sarah has a great set of legs and a cute rump. I would like to see more Sarah in mini skirts, she should of thought of that when she was running for VP, she might of got my vote then. I'm a sucker for a nice looking leg on a women in a mini dress or skirt. I love you Sarah even if you are a bytch. The kid that knocked up her daughter has a good looking mom too, Sadie, short for Mercedes, very pretty lady. She was talking about Sarah in the last playboy issue and she has mental problems, whew, almost as bad as Michelle. I wonder where Sadie is. I love her.
'I love straw polls before I dismissed them'--Michelle Bachmonster
Even the Reps have found out she is the lunatic fringe, out of touch and out of her frikkin mind.
Thank God America will not elect someone as purely evil as she is.
And YES I have heard her speak, I have read the HATE she writes, I have seen the DIVISIVENESS she promotes and have seen her total inability to work with those on the opposite side, and even on her own side. She is a David Duke
Did she forget to have her little blimp flying over her head, ha she does better when she grills and serves hamburgers. Bachmann and Perry might not even get re-elected to their old jobs if they don't get off the stage soon.
Actually Rogue, I very much compare her to Palin. Extremist, pandering to the very extreme religious right, neither lets facts get in their way.... And yes, they're both women. Perceptive of you.
I thought the Left saw men and women as equals? Uhh... apparently they're only equal when the woman is liberal? I've never seen so much undeserved hate on a mainstream media's forum...
Except a penis Michelle. Where is your penis? To be a serious republikan candidate you need one of those.
Sorry. Here's your sign. Go stand over there. Bake brownies or sumpthin'...........
Hey,....is that Elvis?
A friend told me you can actually buy dildoes on Ebay (adult section). Anyone want to help me pay for a sex change for her.?
I know 3 or 4 people who had a sex change. They are perfectly nice and said it solved all kinds of depression problems even back in childhood. Maybe her hubby who claims to fix gays can fix her instead.
I know where Michelles penis is. Its in her goozie, yes sir reese. Her husband does it the guy to guy way with her if he does it at all and she already has a strap on for him. So theres your answers on where her penis is. Nobody's fixed here but what the heck they are having fun. Maybe she can go to work for him when she realizes that she dosen't have a chance to win the election, ever. Oh I bet that would be good if she tried to cure gays. I don't even want to think about how she would go about doing that but I'm sure its going to be good. I wish her the best in whatever she chooses to do after it hits her that she dosen't have a chance in h ell to win anything ever at all. She screwed herself up and will lose her seat now too because everyone knows she's nuts. Oh speaking of nuts, I don't she has any of those, unless you want to count her husband.
Stanley I AM APPALLED at your comment, She does not need a 'latex sexual device'
She can just use her hateful pseudo doctor husbands as he has no use for it. No need for more non-biodegradable waste.
LOL
As 'tacky' as it may seem to say 'Michele Bachmann' doesn't have a penis and that that is a big 'short-coming', there really IS some truth to that!
She is appealing to the rightwing, the simpletons and to women, which would make rightwing women her PERFECT audience... so it would seem! But many of the staunchly religious women are stuck in the middle ages; they believe a woman's place is in the kitchen and 'A MAN NEEDS TO RUN THE SHOW'. So cover your hair Michele and lower your voice and be obedient to your man, sure scripture and your hardcore fans demand that!... and nobody wants your (closeted?) husband to run this country.
Folks, let's dismiss the sex toy comments please. Yes, it is a good old boys network, we get that. To be honest, Hillary was the best candidate to come along, but I'd had my fill of Clinton's, so I'm hopeful that in 2016 we see serious women candidates - not of the ilk of Bachmann and Palin. It is time for a woman president, she certainly couldn't do any worse than the men to date.
We told our supports to vote for other candidates, there are more straw poll across America, Is this what she said? Why a stupid thing to say, Florida is one of the biggest states, straw poll wise, and she says it like it wasn't important enough to bother with.
Biggest state you say? All 2000 people that voted?
Yes make my opponents look better--thats what all candidates do.
L O O N
I'm not from Florida, but I think what the straw poll may have shown is that the Repuglican candidates are not very attractive.
The rearranging of words is juvenile.
The inability to appreciate the rearranging of words is juvenile you silly troll.
Jack must be an alcoholic crying for Michelle not winning. Sorry Jack she's done, and she won't even get her seat back now, but I hear if you write her husband the gay fixer-upper guy he will send you a pair of her soiled undies that you can do anythng you want with them. I guess they have a nice big stain running down the back of them from when she thought she had a chance of winning, I guess somone must of blew some smoke up there for her and that come out in the undies that you can buy. Good for you Jack you can put them on and take them off as you like, but just make sure they aren't her husbands. Ahh whats the difference as long as your happy.
Herman Caine would not agree with you...
I'm not a supporter of Michelle Bachman, nor am I a supporter of the rest of the field either. No need for a diatraibe against Bachman, you fool, I don't like her either. However, I am a supporter of actual humor. Let's try intelligent discourse on politics and not look like a bunch of third graders. Maybe you're the alcoholic...no trade backs.
I think straw votes R USELESS
Buddy yes, but the only thing more useless is Bachman herself
“We can’t settle. We have to have a candidate who has it all,” Bachmann repeatedly said"
Soooo.......she thinks she has it all? Wow there's only one bigger moron than this chick......and that's the twit from Alaska!
The twit from Alaska is done too,
"the parties over,
its time to call it a day,
you can't screw black men and think its ok,
The barreltop is clean now,
its past time to wipe your nose,
instead of straw, next time try using a hose".
I'm not sure, it could be a tie....
James 316--You can't screw black men??? Why not???? Oops I guess I missed that meeting,(maybe I was screwing a black man on the day of that FYI) or was that email sent out around the time that I changed my IPS???? Damnit, someone shoulda told me that, that one is important enough for a damn call or front- door visit!!!! LOL I guess I'll be damned then!!!! I feel betrayed.....left out.......James why didn't you call me and let me know beforehand?????
It's funny how Michelle dismissed the last place finish in the Flordia straw poll when she won in Iowa she was jumping all over the place talking about she's the best to take on Obama. Listen folks this race is going to come down to this, Perry/Obama...with Romeny/Biden at the bottom of the ticket. Perry will prevail in the General election even tho most Americans are going to be somewhat skeptical about electing another religious texan.
Well.....no matter who gets in next year, we're all in big trouble......it's just a matter of how much worse things can get before the US goes completely belly up! The bozos in Washington prefer to win the battle and lose the war! What the hell.....they're all wealthy bastards....and therein lies the problem! They have no concept of the working class struggle in this country! Hell's waiting for them!!!
hey have a little respect for the twit from Alaska, she dosen't have bad legs at least. Ok, I'm sorry and understand where your coming from with your comment but I just have a thing for her. Now this Michelle dosen't show any leg so I don't know what she got going on down there, she might have a lot of junk in her trunk. Maybe thats where her husband will run his business from once she is done with this fantasy of hers to become president. Poor guy didn't have the guts to tell her she didn't have a chance, I can't say I blame him, she would of killed him if he told her the truth. Lol. What a crew these repubes and teanuts are. Full blowin idiots, the whole lot of them.
Perry dosen't have a chance. He's a liar and a alcoholic and a homosexual thats hiding in the closet because of him cheating on his wife with some hobo homo. If he wins I'm moving to Canada or Mexico. I don't care where I go as long as I get out of this country. If people are so crazy as to vote Perry in I'm out of here big time. He'll put the finishing touch on what GW started and almost finished himself if elected. People would sincerely be idiots to vote him or anyone of the candidates the repubes have to offer right now with exception to Ron Paul and maybe the other guy too Hutchenson or whatever his name is. I'm voting for the lesser of the two evils and I think the majority of the country will do the same and then when the teanuts lose their seats and dems take over this country will come around again. Obama can fix the country even now too but the teanuts keep blocking him. I don't know what they are thinking, total complete idiots. The whole lot of them. Alcoholic dope addicts, thats all they are. Full blowin idiots each and everyone of them and the same goes for the people that even consider voting for Michelle Bauchman. Numbskull. Poopy butt Michelle. Numbnuts between her ears. Coo Coo, Crazy, Nuts. What a bunch of clowns the repubes got. Except for Ron Paul and he's too old now but he might be good and the other one, is his name Hutchenson or something like that, he might be half good. Other than that its a disgrace to even have the rest act like they are running for president of the country. Totally disgusting.
Renee Love, why whould you screw a black man for? I don't get it at all. In the end your the one thats going to get screwed. I haven't seen one relationship work in a mixed relationship yet, unless your ok with him screwing other women and well I bet you know the rest and how it goes. Hey sure I know they will be on here now telling me I'm wrong and I'm a racist but I'm not. I know black people and I will have a drink with one, we're friends for a long time. He tells me himself everytime he gets himself some new tail, well we're friends. So he has a wife and 3 children at home and he's tapping other women. Ok, it makes him feel good I guess, I don't agree with him and I know he lies to me too but not always, so thats why were friends, he is one of the most truthful black men I have known and with everything I just said about him here you do the math on how truthful he is. Then him being half way truthful with me dosen't mean he'll be truthful to you too. I guess now days women have really lowered their standards on who they want to be with. Can you see the big picture here, people don't care who they vote for and people like you don't care who they sleep with, nobody cares about anything anymore. Look whats happened to the world. Its wrong. If you can't get a good white guy then at least try to get yourself the best black man you can and good luck to you. You won't be able to get a good white guy after sleeping with a black guy, so why ruin your life like this. Good luck to you and I hope things work out for you.
Michelle is not a contender.
The denial of reality is a highly revered art amongst Conservatives. In their quest for a candidate who "has it all" they are going to end up living with a President who will have none of it. Whatever it is.
No matter how the Establishment Repubs treat her she'll have my solid support and vote come election. Those TEA Partiers better do their homework regarding Cain. He's in the Federal Reserves pocket if you do your homework. We don't need anyone like this running the White House for those mega bankers after we get rid of the Obomination that presently resides there.
Really, the silly rearranging of letters to make a new word is juvenile. I quit doing that in elementary school. Stick to the topic.
Maverick,
You and Michelle will make the great party of two....well, maybe three. There's always her God fearing hubby you'll have to contned with. But, then, I've heard that in her erotic dreams, there's always room for a third party.
The GOP has eight good, qualified people, any of which would be better than the one in the White House now.
Only one will get the nomination, which means that seven others will go home and wait for at least four more years. It could be Michelle who drops out first, or she might stick around long enough to be the #1 or #2.
"The GOP has eight good, qualified people"
And none of them are named Michelle Bachmann.
That's the spirit mavie, keep the flame alive so the batsh-crzy bimbo can't run in the 6th district next year.
KEEP THE MADNESS GOING , at least until june or july, then I couldn't grive a runny crap what happens to her.
Jack Dulloser...no it isn't it is wit.
Hey you deserved that
Your party is the party of Odumbo, Sambo, Etc.
Or did you complain to your fellow Tea Reps when they post that crap?
No, it isn't wit. Wit is supposed to be funny. You are not.
Is this dingbat still around, snorting up a few votes from off the ground? Ms. Hynotized should be home, spending more of her government welfare. That Newsweek cover was so right on!
She still has fanboys smilin' at their erotic dreams of her, I guess.
She's pathetic...!
Hey! Don't bash Michelle and her erotic dreams...It's all she has left, that and the medicare chaecks.
we should dismiss her from our consciousness--just as she dismisses the results of this poll. she's living in la la land.
Ms. Bachman has NO chance of ever being our Prez...NONE at all...Cain or Paul either...Where are the business leaders of our great country who possess the experience and judgement to lead this country...Oh I forgot...stealing from all of us perched high above Wall Street.
Businessmen make really lousey politicians, they tend to be too honest, too intelligent, and way too impatient.
Business People Honest...now that is true la la land. How about creating a paper economy that is based on bundling poor assets and saying they are AAA ratings. Wall street knew what they were peddling and have brought the entire world economy to its knees. Yep...real honesty with our business folks... How about those honest businessmen that pollute or extort humans for slave labour. You have to love all that honesty.
Not all Businessmen are dishonest but they have to revert to dishonest practices to meet wall streets quarterly expectations.
As far as Bachman...she is as loony as they come. She would never win a general election unless she spikes the nations water supply with a special variant of her Koolaid.
So glad Cain won straw poll Fla. Cain and Bachmann all the way.
WOW!!! You are as delusional as she is!
Too funny ,she was crowing like a rooster when she was first in Iowa, she is flakier than a french pastry
You are flakier than dandruff. Straw Polls do matter. Cain and Bachmann have American ideals
Hey, I'm an American and they don't have my ideals. Most Americans are not religious bigots. Speak for yourself and not for me.
@ Carlene: I already have Bachmann, Palin and the Tea Party trying to speak for me. Don't presume that YOU -or any political power junkie- know MY American ideals.
Oh yeah- -Bachmann's "ideals" include praying away gay; women should be subservient to their husbands, and HER husband is deeply entrenched into a religion which approves of bigamy. Those are some great "ideals" alright.
carlene,did you even bother to read the article?
So glad Cain won straw poll Fla. Cain and Bachmann all the way.
Cain/Bachman - "When smarts don't matter."
Don, lol. That's the thing with Republicans: they find pride is being stupid. And, Carlene, I'm also an American and she couldn't be further away from sharing my ideals.
Fool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Book deal is looking more and more doubtful!
And that is all she is really running for
Who is taking this lunatic serious any more? After the dumb comments that makes every time that she opens her mouth. If she had any dignity she should jus resign and say that she was SORRY that she ever thought that she could be president with her attitude and knowledge of things.
Here we see the golden rule, she is being put down by her party, and nobody CARES
"Who is taking this lunatic serious any more? After the dumb comments..."
No one is taking the radical failure Obama seriously any more, you are right..
Hey, Bob,
If you don't want Obama for another four years, suggest you work to convince your republicans to come up with a new list of candidates. The current crop ranges from Ignorant to Lunatic. Just look at how the prime candidate keeps changing. As flaky as Palin is, she is starting to look like the best that the republican can muster.
Well, tune up your trombone. You'll need it for another four years of blowing your hatred for Obama.
Ms. Bachman should go finish her job in Congress, her political career is just fading away.
For those who hope to vote for her, you will have to wait until she runs for dog catcher.
Michelle Bachman - "I wanted to finish last".... and I'm perfectly positioned? For what, last? What an air head...
Maverick- you're as delusional as Michelle. She makes Palin look like a Rhodes Scholar!
Sure,what else can she say? Boo hoo,Florida republicans are idiots!? Most tea party members are like that fellow depicted in last night's story in 60 Minutes, by Leslie Stahl about this out of work plumber from Riverside,Ca. that out of frustration became a member of a NAZI movement(pathetic) because he couldn't get a job,the economy went sour,and for three years he did nothing to improve his chances by learning another skill,diversifying maybe get a commercial driver's license,there are plenty of truck driving jobs out there!
Sometimes I wonder if the Repubs / tea party were rooting for the second great repub depression. Depserate people do desperate things.
The collapse of the world economy was a key factor in bringing the worlds worst pscyhopath to power in Germany in 1933. He wasnt a dictator, he was elected. 55 million dead later, he committed suicide.
BTW BachmaNN note the spelling. Who knows if there's a connection
Wow Stanley that's a stretch! But hey I'm sure you think four more years of Obama would be great for this country ;)
Well Matt with the teabaggers out of the congress and senate then yeah I do believe that Obama can do a good job. Its going to take a little work and yeah they should be doing it right now but you sissy idiot teanuts won't raise the taxes. Sure lets keep the temorary tax breaks for the rich forever. There job in them there tax breaks, its a trikle down effect, come stand below me as I releave myself on you and you got the trickle. So yeah quit blocking him with everything he's trying to do and get it done already. Screw the teanuts and the repubes, they are a waste. Unless your rich then thats different. Everytime someone wins a straw poll the teanuts are behind him a 100% how come none of the teanuts are behind this guy, hey he won in fla. Lol I'll tell you why no teanuts are behind this guy, because he's black and the exact same reason you pricks won't support Obama.
but if she goes away, i will have to find someone new to laugh at. luckily there are many runners-up available.
Unfortunately, it's not that funny when clowns like this actually get people to vote for them.
teabagger bachmann, was there voters taking that mess serious ?????
slicky ricky is anybody taking that mess serious ?????
willard mitt is it, " WOW " that is some real good choices there.
Hey President Obama get ready for somemore gray hair four more years for you.
GOD BLESS AMERICA ! ! !
BAchmann - Palinism on steroids. Need I say more, other then she and her "fix the gays" would turn America into a christian saudi arabia. Where only the politically favored women could vote or drive.
No one, repeat no one would be safe. Next I expect we'll see torchlight parades. (reference to what happened in a christian country in the 1930s in Europe before WWII.
I think they are all a joke. None of them are sincere...I would believe a car sales-person first. If I want to watch a Reality show, I will watch the housewives of hell or some other such nonsense...I have watched this one, oh yes, this is a debate...oops...bachmann is the saddest joke of all, living off of money she received from being a foster mother...go back to the kitchen my dear, but please don't allow Sarah Palin to be your mentor...that is another train wreck right there...and to the men...put your big boy pants on and get down to business or get the hell out of dodge.
The GOP and joke go hand in hand....
When she does well (Iowa straw poll) it's the most important poll in the universe. When she does bad (everywhere except Iowa), those polls don't mean anything. She sure knows how to spend other people's money though (supporter's AND her government pay and subsidies), all the while spouting how the government needs to cut back...
You can't have it both ways Shelly, now go iron my shirt.