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Michele Bachmann Confirms Report She Was Asked To Drop Out By Conservative Christian Group

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GOP candidate Michele Bachmann was a guest on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning, and confirmed reports that she had received a phone call from Evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, asking her to drop out and throw her support to either Rick Santorum or Rick Perry.

“I did receive a phone call,” Rep. Bachmann said. “[But] I’ve been polling above the Ricks. There would be no reason for me to drop out.”

Bachmann then rattled off a long list of Iowa supporters, including over 100 pastors and about 900 former Herman Cain supporters, who are on her side. “They can certainly ask,” she noted on the phone call to drop out, “but we’re not here to do that.”

Part of the reason Bachmann thinks she has a shot is her feeling that the momentum in Iowa after the Fox News debate “has completely shifted.” She believes that her campaign is surging, due mostly to her grassroots efforts and pledge to visit 99 Iowa counties before the caucus.

“We’re being very grassroots — ten stops a day in twenty different counties,” Bachmann said. “They want to look in my eyes and I want to look in theirs. This is positive, it’s relationship-building. That’s the way to go, bring people in. It’s a lot of work, but it’s the right thing to do.”

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  • Anonymous

    That’s strange, considering she’s polling better than Santorum. Maybe the Cons don’t really like female leadership. Interesting……….. 

  • Anonymous

    She’s deluded in regards to the support she’s getting. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Considering the source of this request, there is no doubt that there is a high, high degree of sexism involved.

  • Anonymous

    No, please do not drop out. I still have hopes for a Bachmann/Palin or Palin/Bachmann ticket. It would be known as Dumb and Dumber. The problem I have is who would receive top billing?

  • Anonymous

    After Plaats hung up with Bachmann he called Perry to drop out and support Bachmann then he called Santorum and asked him to support Perry.

    The fundies are desperate to get a teabagger in the run.
    Doesn’t matter which one, as long as they are crazy and hate Gays.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The gay hate thing doesn’t seem to be selling much better than a 1,000′ high electrified fence along the Rio Grande, does it? Tastes change, I suppose.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Looks like the fundies have  a twist in their undies….

  • Gloves V. Donahue

    Many people are calling on Barack Obama to drop out to save the Dem party from an embarrassing whomping. 

    When will Barry do the right thing?

    “Contrary to his promises, Obama has not brought forth hope, or any change for the better.

     He has not fostered a post-racial society, but rather, he is the author of economic despair, class warfare, a vision of America in decline, and the remaking of the U.S. according to the European welfare state model.  
    All this has led to dissatisfaction and a sense of betrayal about his presidency”.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/obamas_chance_at_a_two-term_presidency.html#ixzz1hBDV3Xml

  • 12voltman1

    “Many people are calling on Barack Obama to drop out to save the Dem party from an embarrassing whomping.”
     
    Many people?….Yeah the GOP.

  • Anonymous

    but you support blowing people

  • Anonymous

    go back to blowing barney frank and licking his ball sack

  • Anonymous

    but you still have your ass full of barney

  • Anonymous

    You sure do have a fixation on gay sex.

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes, the old “many are saying” tactic of yellow journalism. 

  • Anonymous

    I think the American people are asking Michele to drop out, speaking through poll numbers. 

  • Anonymous

    Your deluded if you think we buy the results of the skued polls that the msm supposedly takes from a balanced sample. I’m from Ia. & I can tell you Bachmann is the one to beat. Honesty is the #1 requirement here in the heartland & Bachmann is a truth teller & a patriot.

  • Anonymous

    Try to stay focused Gloves… stay on your side of the fence and worry about the Right Wing.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Please do not let Michelle Bachman get out of the race. She’s one of the best things going for Democrats since Bill Clinton Balanced the budget!

  • Anonymous

    Huh? Can you substantiate?  Nobody gives a crap about the heartland – Paul leading in Iowa?

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    You guys are all too hard on Bachman.  Her name has become synonomous with terms like “bat-sht crazy” “pants on fire” “the reason Factcheck.org has had to hire twice as many staffers” “A christian who hates gays, blacks, poor people, and kittens from Palestine” “More clueless then Sarah Palin” and my favorite, “cross-eyed crazy bachman”.

    So to celebrate her final inevidable demise please enjoy the following Bachman’s top ten words of wisdom:

    1.”I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.” –Rep. Michele Bachmann, suggesting at a presidential campaign event in Florida that the 2011 East Coast earthquake and hurricane was a message from God (Aug. 2011)2. “Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too” -Rep. Michele Bachmann, getting her John Waynes mixed up during an interview after launching her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, where she grew up. The beloved movie star John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, three hours away. The John Wayne that Waterloo was home to is John Wayne Gacy, a notorious serial killer. (June 2011)3. “I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.” –Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), on the HPV vaccine, Fox News interview, Sept. 12, 20114. “Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, ‘Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands.” -Rep. Michele Bachmann, recalling in a 2006 speech at a Megachurch in Minneapolis that pursuing tax law wasn’t her choice, but she did so at the urging of her husband because she was certain God was speaking through him5. “I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?” -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a new McCarthyism, Oct. 20086. “I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.” -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 20097. “Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.” -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, April, 20098. “If we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.” -Michele Bachmann, Jan. 20059. “But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. … I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly — men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.” -Rep. Michele Bachmann, botching American history while speaking at an Iowan’s for Tax Relief event in January 2011. The Founding Fathers did not work to end slavery, and John Quincy Adams was not one of the Founding Fathers.10. “Before we get started, let’s all say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Elvis Presley today.” -Rep. Michele Bachmann, while campaigning for president in South Carolina on what was actually the anniversary of Elvis’s death, Aug. 16, 2011 (Elvis was born on January 8) 

  • Hugo Daun

    One of FNC’s favorite methods of manufacturing “news”.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYA9ufivbDw

  • Shari McRae

    How can Christians support anyone other than Ron Paul? He is the only one who actually follows the doctrine of Jesus. Remember Jesus? Wake up guys… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAvDtPz33w0

  • Anonymous

    Drop out ?

    I am begging Cain and Palin to jump back in .

    You can’t get a ticket to this kind of comedy .

  • Anonymous

    I think that Vander Plaats has a problem with a woman
    being the nominee and ultimately President. If Bachmann were a man, Vander
    Plaats perhaps would have endorsed her. The implication of his endorsement of
    Santorum is clear. Santorum has always trailed in the polls and compromised his
    conservatism to support moderate Arlen Spector’s presidential candidacy. Vander
    Plaats had more reason to support a fellow evangelical and “consistent
    conservative” in Bachmann.  She not only won the Iowa Straw Poll but
    was the first to sign his Marriage Pledge, and even poured water publicly for
    all the candidates at The Family Leader Thanksgiving debate forum.  His
    endorsement  really “makes no sense” except that he must have a problem with a woman in the White House. The fact that Bachmann has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to conservative values as well as an increasing skill as a debater and campaigner is slowly
    starting to win over evangelicals that may have been hesitant for the same
    reason as Vander Plaats, if my theory is correct. Being a woman candidate and the only
    Republican candidate holding a currently elected office in D. C. who also sits
    on the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and is a proven
    “consistent conservative” is going to be a distinct advantage over
    the other candidates in selecting a Republican Presidential nominee.  Maybe
    it is going to take a woman to clean up the mess in Washington D. C. and the
    White House.

  • Anonymous

    “We’re being very grassroots — ten stops a day in twenty different counties,” Bachmann said.

    Mathematically speaking, how does one do that? Make 10 stops in 20 counties. I can see making 20 stops in 10 counties… but not the other way around.

    Unless she means that she’s making 10 stops in EACH of the 20 different counties. Which would add up to 200 stops a day. If that’s the case, then she’s a hard worker, I’ll give her that. (I just won’t give her a $5.00 bill and ask her to make change.)

  • Anonymous

    You’ll be laughing out of the other side of your face next November.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not sexism, it’s submission enforcement.  The church elders (male-christian cowards) are simply asking the little lady to act a bit more churchly. 

  • Anonymous

    Dick Hertz???  That’s funny.  I’ll bet it wouldn’t hurt so much if you kept it out of your  dog’s asshole.  

  • Anonymous

    In the latest Rasmussen poll ie, Fox Poll, shows Bachmann with 4% approval. Whose deluded? Truthyness, honesty, and Patriotism is taking a back seat to Romney who has/had a double digit lead over the Newt.

  • Anonymous

    Does this comment mean that you will not be voting for her?

  • Anonymous

    That fellow “Guest” has all of his comments purged from this thread.  He should change his user name to “Comment Removed”! 

  • Anonymous

    By the time I reviewed this thread today, Guests comments had been removed. Please tell us what he said.  Is he for gay sex or against it?

  • Anonymous

    I’m interested in who threatened Bob Van der Plaats.

    one erstwhile friend and culture warrior has threatened to, quote, burn
    Bob’s body, drag it through the street and hang it from a bridge,
    unquote, if Bob doesn’t endorse who that person wants him to endorse,”Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/20/iowa-christian-group-divided-over-gop-endorsement/#content#ixzz1hCaoOf5QIt is very telling and should be investigated more deeply, in light of the widespread evangelical claim of first right to designate who’s Christian and who’s not. In my opinion, no sect is 100% populated with Christians, and therefore all religious leaders should be vary careful when it comes to pointing out motes in the eyes of others.
     

  • Anonymous

    It is most of the regular commenters on this thread who are afraid of strong conservative women. The cons like their women aggressive and to take the initiative, especially in bed.  I wonder if the mothers of the regulars on this thread spanked them too much when they were little and they spew venom at Michele so that they do not have to feel guilty about thir anger toward “mom”?

  • 12voltman1

    .Good Riddance!

  • Anonymous

    “Onward Christian Soldiers….”

  • Anonymous

    You are a poet, and you don’t even know it!

  • shonangreg

    If there were only one fundie in the race, then he or she would have about 30% of the vote. That would put them in first place currently. Wasn’t pandering to the blindly power hungry fundies was what killed Bush Sr.’s second term? I think they basically took over the Republican convention.

  • shonangreg

    (Car) was apparently trying to talk some sense into millionm100, the one who called Bachmann a “truth teller”.

    You know, a guy came up to me after watching Bachmann on the TV and said she gave him an aneurysm. I’m just relating what I heard. Can I be President now?

  • Anonymous

    Sure, why not!  Declare your candidacy.  Will you be challenging President Obama in the Democraic Primaries?

  • http://twitter.com/RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley

    If he’s a Con then that dog is his wife.

  • Anonymous

    Why do you guys back the losers? Her own “fake christians” don’t even want her around, not because she isn’t a good zealot! It’s the bat crazy, made up numbers, lack of facts and misquote

  • Anonymous

    Is it just possible that they realize what we’ve known all along? That she’s an imbecile, Nah, probably not.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, that’s it. You’re the mentally stable ones here.

  • Anonymous

    No, the dog is his husband.

  • Anonymous

    Well, if YOU can tell us, then that changes everything.
    Why didn’t you say so before?
    Here I was, going along thinking she was batshit crazy, and NOW you tell me she’s everything we need.
    So lucky that our paths crossed.

  • Anonymous

    She may or may not be electable, but I think we can all agree that Marcus is De-lectable.

  • Anonymous

    Many people, huh?
    There’s a name for those people; they’re called republicans.

  • Anonymous

    Interesting that you got that f word in. I just tried to quote it with a cut and paste and was censored. By Disqus. Are you using them?

  • Anonymous

    If you say so.

  • Anonymous

    “I think that Vander Plaats has a problem with a womanbeing the nominee and ultimately President”

    Well, if he didn’t have that problem, and chose to support her, then he’d have another problem when she got trounced at the polls.

  • Anonymous

    She’s just being consistent. As in consistently ridiculous.
    Be honest, would you want her any other way?

  • Anonymous

    Definitely not. (You read my mind!)

  • Anonymous

    You have the hots for Marcus? 

  • Anonymous

    No, lame-ass, I just enjoy dumping on him, her, and the rest of them, which includes wrong-wingers on this site, too.
    But you knew that, you just couldn’t resist trying to be cute.
    It’s part of your pixie-like charm.

  • Anonymous

    Michele was just on Hannity (12/21/11) and confirmed once again that Mr. Van der Plats had asked her to drop out in favor of Rick Santorum.  Since Rick Santorum is the only Roman Catholic in the race, could this all be evidence of a Papal conspiracy orchestrated by the Vatican?  Everybody knows that if we have a Roman Catholic President, he will have to take his orders from Pope Benedict VI!  That certainly was the case when we elected JFK and Pope John XXIII solved the Cuban Missile Crisis. We should send in the Marines to invade the Vatican!

  • Anonymous

    Was that really necessary? Just couldn’t keep it to yourself? Did your teachers say that you lacked impulse control?

  • Anonymous

    Bachman is a right wing pseudo christian, married to a gay pseudo christian.This woman is a bat shit crazy loon.How does someone like this get elected to any public office?

  • Anonymous

    That pretty much tells you all you need to know about this phony POS.

  • Anonymous

    When gop-tv starts with SOME PEOPLE SAY you can bet what follows is pure bs.

  • Anonymous

    Trouncing at the polls remains to be seen.  That’s what everybody thinks but polls don’t necessarily reflect what’s going on in the grass roots organizations and especially whose committed enough to go out to caucus in the middle of a cold winter storm.  Poll watching isn’t the end all indication of what an actual outcome could be.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think ron paul understands mathew:25,like most pseudo christians.

  • Anonymous

    By “trounced at the polls”, I thought that it was clear that I was referring to the vote itself.
    In other words, she hasn’t a chance of defeating Obama. Or of being nominated, for that matter. And it’s glaringly obvious.
    So, while a sexist attitude is always a bad thing, in this case, I can’t see how it came into play.

  • Anonymous

    Beg to differ on “defeating Obama.”  She is quite underrated and many only think they have her pegged from what the liberal media portrays her to be.  I happen to know her personally so I know things about her you wouldn’t.  Very definitely think she can pull a substantial amount of the woman vote out from under Obama. She’s a lot sharper, smarter and more determined.  One doesn’t sit on the U.S. House Committee for Intelligence by being what the liberal media paints her to be.

  • Michael T.

    Michele, Michele, Michele.

    Why the outright lie? You were doing so well with the media since the Fox News debate.

    The buzz was not about you taking on Ron Paul. The buzz was about how you took Newt Gingrich to task for his connections with Freddie Mac.

    Just how stupid do you think the voting public is? You were so obvious in replacing Gingrich’s name with the Fox News pundit’s bogeyman Ron Paul.

  • Pit Boss

    It’s ok Michele. Your so-called “friends” will turn their back on you despite all you’ve done for them. But I would never do that to you. I will always be here waiting for you when your campaign fizzles out and your husband leaves you for an 18 year old asian boy.

  • Anonymous

    Uppity female.  Daring to poll above those worthy men.  She should sit down and shut up.  And if she has any questions, wait until she gets home and ask her husband.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Who the heck is Marcus?

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    I could give you a long explanation but basically, Michelle Bachman’s campaign is designed to sway and ultimately steal your voting power through lies, munipulation, mistruths, pandering to your fears, and embracing your guilty thoughts of biggotry and hate.

    The fact that she has 5 seconds of airtime in itself is an abomination to our political process and we should all be ashamed of ourselves that we are so easily munipulated into thinking she represents anything else other then voter fraud.

    I think John Huntsman and Ron Paul actually called this out as well.

  • Anonymous

    “…what the liberal media paints her to be.”
     
    By showing her making insane statements? By quoting her verbatim?
    Gimme a break.
    You don’t have to beg to differ, but someone should beg you to come to your senses.
    Or is being close to her blinding you to reality?

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