I entered the appropriate search terms in google images and this was the first closeup.

Have you seen her in real life? Don’t assume that she’s not insane looking most of the time. She is. That is not to say one couldn’t pick out a non-crazy looking image, but why bother? She is a) crazy and b) crazy looking. NMP!

You are probably right bout her district. I’d like to know what people have done in the past… I’m pretty sure Senators rarely step aside to run for president, Governors may have done, but again, rarely. Perhaps members of the house do more often because they have short terms…. so if they run for president it’s hard to justify why they are in office in the house to begin with. But it would be nice to have some data.

might negatively affect her in Minnesota.

Well, it will. But not so much in her district.

I imagine that it’s darn hard to run for the House of Representatives and President/Senator/Governor at the same time* — at least a Senator or Governor has a chance to run for President in a year she isn’t up for reelection.

Of course, it could be that Rep. Bachmann figures her district is the sort where all she needs is that R by her name to get reelected and that the local Republicans won’t try to mount a serious congressional primary campaign against a seated Congressperson and Presidential hopeful unless she’s seriously in the party’s bad graces.

(I wish they would — Rep. Bachmann is sufficiently far from my own political opinions that I’m likely to find any replacement more palatable even if her replacement is Representative Log.)

* For that matter, it seems like it’s darn hard to be a seated politician and run for President. Neither Obama nor McCain had particularly stellar attendance records in the Senate in ’08.