Intro: "Presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann says she has the highest endorsement she can get: an endorsement from above. The Minnesota congresswoman said she received a 'calling' to enter the 2012 presidential race."
Rep. Michele Bachmann speaks at the Conservative Political Action conference in Washington, DC, 02/10/11. (photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Michele Bachmann: "God Calling on Me to Run"
01 June 11
residential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann says she has the highest endorsement she can get: an endorsement from above.
The Minnesota congresswoman said she received a "calling" to enter the 2012 presidential race. She spoke in an interview with Iowa Public Television on Friday.
"Well, every decision that I make, I pray about, as does my husband, and I can tell you, yes, I've had that calling and that tugging on my heart that this is the right thing to do," Bachmann said.
Bachmann says she experienced a similar type of spiritual guidance in 2006 when she ran for Congress from Minnesota.
"God then called me to run for the United States Congress. And I thought, what in the world would that be for? And my husband said, "You need to do this," Bachmann said at The Living Word Christian Center, a megachurch in Minnesota, during her campaign.
Though the Tea Party darling will not announce whether she'll make a run for the Oval Office until a rally in Waterloo, Iowa, in June, Bachmann went on a media blitz this week, sparking further speculation that she is gearing up for the 2012 race.
Bachmann said she is running for President "because we need a person who is going to stand up to Obamacare" at a GOP event in New Hampshire on Monday night, as reported by the Washington Post.
She also asserted that there is room for her in the race during an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday.
Reiterating her comments from last week, she said that she views former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has yet to make a decision, as a "friend," not a "competitor."
"I compare myself to Barack Obama, not any other of the Republican candidates," she said.
Despite Bachmann's "calling," a CNN poll shows that she is not exactly a top contender. Only 7% of those polled said they would support Bachmann for the Republican nomination.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Palin topped the list.
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Palin, a top three contender wit Mitt und Rudy?
We descend into a Hunter Thompsonesque "Fear and Loathing" on the 2012 campaign trail of hallucinatory faux democracy.
The circus may have come to town, but it sure seems like a side show.
The question is: How are they so sure this is their Judeo/Christian God and not that angel he cast out of heaven?
Michele Bachmann
Baby Bush was totally God driven. I guess Bachmann will be the same.
Americans get the politicians they deserve. I guess they deserve Bachmann.
That's what George Bush said, and we all know how that turned out!
That happened a few weeks ago, so anyone left on this planet really has no business acting holier than thou around the rest of us. bachmann will have to face the same tribulation the rest of us will. Maybe her REAL "calling" wasn't from above, but below. The rapture already happened, so maybe she's one of the 4 horsewomen of the appocalypse. Personally, I think she's the red one who brings war. I would have thought it was george the second, but he left office BEFORE the rapture a few weeks ago, so it COULDN'T have been him.
Seems her "god" is only concerned about Michelle Bachmann.
I agree with all that you say. But, we do
not know the gender of God. God could be a
woman for all we know.
never did hear the text of what God told
him to do. Now, M. Bachmann has admitted
to receiving a "Calling". I wish she would
divulge in what form the calling came. Of
course she is being very politically savvy.
There are lots of kooks out there that will take her as being divinely inspired
In reality, she is feeding on the dumb superstitious brain-washed right wing Christians.
And it works only in the USA. It has become a nation of stupid ignorant arrogant superstitious Christian fools!
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