GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann: ‘God, I’m a Loser’

[big_dog]

Source: http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-rep-michele-bac

arah Palin may have been the central figure in Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s 2008 presidential campaign chronicle Game Change. But it’s Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) who gets prominent coverage in the duo’s new book Double Down about 2012. And in an excerpt posted on The Huffington Post Friday, the authors share a window into Bachmann’s psyche after a devastating Iowa Caucus defeat.


Apparently, getting just 5% of the vote after winning that state’s influential straw poll the previous year, was too much for Bachmann to bear:

Sitting in her campaign bus, in the same seat where she cried with joy in August, she now sobbed over her drubbing. “God, I’m a loser,” Bachmann said. “God, I turn people off.” With two debates ahead in New Hampshire, some of her advisers thought she should consider staying in the race. Bachmann wanted no part of it. Let’s draft a withdrawal speech for tomorrow, she said.
Bachmann withdrew from the race the following day, telling her followers, ““Last night, the people of Iowa spoke with a very clear voice, so I have decided to stand aside.”



Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-rep-michele-bachmann-god-im-a-loser/

[notadmblnd]

1. Isn't that like the first thing she's ever been right about?

[DeSwiss]

32. She was also right about the corndog.

[pkdu]

2. Even a blind squirrel.....

Make that a batshit crazy blind squirrel...

[trusty elf]

3. God:

"Tell me about it!"

[proReality]

4. This is the first time I've agreed with anything she's said. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Did she finally figure out what this means?...

Yes, Michelle, they weren't saying "You're #1"

[yuiyoshida]

6. She is just finding this out now?

Has she been asleep at the wheel all these years?

[Fearless]

7. She turns people off...

Never a truer statement has been uttered.

[Arkana]

8. Ha. Haha. Ahahahaha. AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Seriously, it took her till the Iowa caucus to figure this out? That being a dead-eyed crazy stalker who hates gays and black people and whines about lightbulbs might be "off-putting"?

[graywarrior]

9. I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me

[Cal Carpenter]

38. Now I'm hearing that lyric in Dylan's voice in my mind

it's weird

[graywarrior]

41. You know it's a Beck song, right?

[Cal Carpenter]

42. Sure, but your signature picture, and my twisted brain,

and suddenly it had that characteristic Dylan intonation. Aaaa'm ah LOOOser *insert harmonica riff*

LOL.

[graywarrior]

44. I love you for that!

[Cal Carpenter]

45. Aw, I've always loved your sig pic

(even the duck )

[graywarrior]

46. The Bobster should write a song about the duck

[nomorenomore08]

50. On the one hand, I'm glad he never "stooped" to covering Beck.

On the other hand, I'd be intrigued to hear the result of something like that.

[Gore1FL]

10. I never knew she was capable of self-insight.

I would have thought "God" telling her to run in the first place or some other excuse would have driven her on.

[IkeRepublican]

11. Yeah, well...

I'm taking the claim with a grain of salt because she's now ten times the amount of bonkers compared to when this supposedly took place. Such a "touching moment" would have initiated her to learn from her mistakes and reel it back in instead of what she's done since then - removing the gas tank and replacing it with a nuclear reactor.

Or, if this did indeed take place, she lost it because she got caught. That's probably the likely scenario. Thunderc**ts like her are only concerned with getting caught and nothing else.

[ourfuneral]

12. LBN?

Just wondering.....

[Enrique]

23. free advertising for Politico's latest book

expect more of it. They will release some snippets for the Freepers as well.

[Stuart G]

13. A clock that is totally broken, is correct twice a day...nt

[olddad56]

14. I guess even arrogant idiots can have a rare moment of clarity.

doesn't mean that she will have another one though.

[AndyA]

15. Yes, Michele Bachmann, you ARE a loser and you DO turn people off

Apparently that revelation hasn't bothered you enough to step down from your seat so that your constituents can actually have something other than bat shit crazy representation, much less change your crazy talking points or just shut the hell up.

Most of America thinks you're a joke. Totally crazy. No one with any intelligence at all pays any attention to what you say.

I know you're not running for office again (thankfully), but you really should just step down now because you are part of the problem. As such, you are only making things worse. Resign. Immediately. It will be the first American/humane/responsible thing you've done in office.

[QuestForSense]

16. I don't know about the 'loser' part.

But she definitely had a moment of uncharacteristic, self-reflective clarity with “God, I turn people off.” I find that surprising.

[dlwickham]

28. maybe her meds kicked in

and gave her a moment of lucidity

[SDjack]

17. Darn -- Looks like she wont get into the next clown car. nt

[ZRT2209]

18. no sympathy

[ForgoTheConsequence]

19. You are a loser Michelle.

But that's not all!

You're a...

Bigotted
Hateful
Lying
Self centered
hypocritical

Loser.

[Fumesucker]

20. Self knowledge is the first step to wisdom, Grasshopper

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.

[NastyRiffraff]

21. Finally..

A glimmer of self-knowledge from this, well, loser. Baby steps, Michelle. Baby steps.

[Bosso 63]

22. More self-insight that I would have guessed.

[arely staircase]

24. that is step one of twelve nt

[truthisfreedom]

25. Ahem.

We've been saying.

[Historic NY]

26. Yup, God wanted it that way.

[Quantess]

27. No kidding. You know, maybe if she were more humble and

declared "God is trying to teach me a lesson" instead of imagining that she's somehow God's model citizen who can judge others... but no.

[Scootaloo]

29. Maybe she'll examine WHY

But since she's a batshit Republican, the answer she finds would probably be "I'm not conservative enough!"

[bvar22]

30. Michele Bachmann under investigation for campaign finance violations

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/michele-bachmann-investigation-campaign-finance-89289.html


This is the REAL reason why she is running from the campaign.
The DA should get her to turn over her passport and not leave the state.

[grantcart]

31. OK I can't wait to see this movie, lol.

[lordcommander]

33. OMG did I just see a pig with wings flying above my house nt.

[Tom Ripley]

34. “God, I turn people off.”...and all of this time she thought she only had that effect on Marcus

Epiphany is a bitch

[tofuandbeer]

35. ...and Palin has yet to have the same realization?

...prolly' not.

[bemildred]

36. Cheer up Michelle, you are smarter than Palin now.

The first step towards widsdom is realizing how dumb we all are.

[adirondacker]

51. Nice! nt

[on point]

37. Delusional fool leaves protective bubble and crashes into wall of reality

[Beacool]

39. I don't like the woman, but that was a very human reaction.

It must feel awful to lose so resoundingly when you thought that you were popular in that state with the base. The only decent candidate they had in 2012 was Huntsman and he had Obama cooties, having been his ambassador to China.

[IronLionZion]

40. She's smarter than Sarah Palin

and more dangerous. We don't get as many dumb soundbites from Bachmann but I sometimes wonder what would have happened if they hadn't anointed that rich Mormon twit so early on. Teahadists did not like Mitt very much but they love Michele.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

43. God to Michelle

beat it

[sakabatou]

47. You don't say, Michele?

[Ash_F]

48. Leadership is not about you. /nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

49. What took her so long?????

She's mean, petty, hateful and shallow. Maybe she looked in a mirror?

How she became a lawyer I just cannot figure out. This applies to her and Ted Cruz and various other crazy politicians who got through law school and passed the bar exam and ---none of that stuff about the civil rights in the Constitution, or basic legal concepts, soaked in.

[SummerSnow]

52. lol

[dflprincess]

53. A rare moment of self honesty

I'm sure it passed quickly.