{"id":4934,"date":"2011-10-02T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2011-10-02T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T03:16:10","slug":"bachmanns-political-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/bachmanns-political-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann’s Political Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Michele<\/a>
Michele Bachmann in New Hampshire in June (Jason Claffey)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is possible that Michele Bachmann could become the next President of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

OK, that made me throw up a little in my mouth. <\/p>\n

But more and more people are talking about her campaign crashing, even though she seems to have plans to go to New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

From AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Congress is too small for Michele,” said Jack Tomczak, a former political director for Bachmann’s congressional campaign. “Leadership has never given her the opportunity to do much. So I think she’s going to be looking for other avenues where she can be more successful.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe. But she does seem to be pressing forward<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nThe Minnesota Congresswoman will be in the Granite State from Oct. 9-12, including stops in Nashua, North Conway, Moultonborough, Henniker and then Hanover for the Oct. 11 debate at Dartmouth College, said Jeff Chidester, the candidate’s senior campaign adviser for New Hampshire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My strong preference is that she stays in the presidential race long enough to not be able to run for Congress, embarrasses herself and her Tea Party a whole bunch, then fizzles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is possible that Michele Bachmann could become the next President of the United States of America. OK, that made me throw up a little in my mouth. But more and more people are talking about her campaign crashing, even though she seems to have plans to go to New Hampshire. From AP: “Congress is … Continue reading Bachmann’s Political Future?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[366,341,883,284,497],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1hA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}