Michele Bachmann on Charles Manson

"Hey - thank you for saying that." - Michele Bachmann, when a caller to a radio show said he'd vote for Charlie Manson over President Obama (The Los Angeles Times)


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Michele Bachmann on Vaccines

"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." - Michele Bachmann (International Business Times)


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Michele Bachmann on LensCrafters

"The executive director of Planned Parenthood in Illinois said they want to become the LensCrafters of big abortion in Illinois." - Michele Bachmann (NY Daily News)
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Michele Bachmann on BBQs

"If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent." - Michele Bachmann (PolitiFact)


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Michele Bachmann on Functioning Effectively

"My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief." - Michele Bachmann (NBC News)


Michele Bachmann is an idiot.




Thank you, Robin Lionheart, for pointing this one out!

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Michele Bachmann on Melissa Etheridge

"Unfortunately she is now suffering from breast cancer, so keep her in your prayers... This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian."
- Michele Bachmann (to EdWatch, a Christian education group; from Mother Jones)










Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an Idiot.

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Michele Bachmann on the Similarities between Iraq and the Mall of America

"[T]here’s a commonality with the Mall of America, in that it’s on that proportion. There’s marble everywhere. The other thing I remarked about was there is water everywhere." - Michele Bachmann (yes, she was comparing Iraq to the Mall of America)
(from the StarTribune)




Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an Idiot.

Michele Bachmann on Hawaii

"Last Friday a couple from Hawaii decided the time was so short they needed to get on a plane, come to Washington, to beg their representative to vote no — from Hawaii. What sacrifices freedom-loving Americans are making to get their government’s attention. And how big our government has gotten. They brought me this beautiful, precious lei and I’m reminded that the one who created this lei also created our freedom." - Michele Bachmann (The Minnesota Independent)


Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an Idiot.

Michele Bachmann on Sex Curriculum

"The sex curriculum will be essentially taught by the local gay community."

- Michele Bachmann on a radio program called "Prophetic Views behind the News" in 2004 (Philly2Philly)

Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an Idiot.

Michele Bachmann on Sexual Dysfunction

"Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders." - Michele Bachmann (The Daily Mail)


Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an Idiot.

Michele Bachmann on Gayness and Child Abuse

"You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says 'Mom!  What’s gayness?  We had a teacher talking about this today.'   The mother says, 'Well, that’s when a man likes other men, and they don’t like girls.'  The boy’s eight.  He’s thinking, 'Hmm. I don’t like girls. I like boys. Maybe I’m gay.'  And you think, 'Oh, that’s, that’s way out there. The kid isn’t gonna think that.'  Are you kidding?  That happens all the time.  You don’t think that this is intentional, the message that’s being given to these kids?  That’s child abuse.” - Michele Bachmann at the EdWatch National Education Conference in 2004 (The New Civil Rights Movement)


Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an Idiot.

Michele Bachmann on Gay Bondage

"If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement." - Michele Bachmann (The Guardian)


Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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Michele Bachmann on Evolution

"No one that I know disagrees with natural selection — that you can take various breeds of dogs ...breed them, you get different kinds of dogs.  It's just a fact of life. ...Where there's controversy is (at the question) 'Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being?' 


There’s a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species. That's where it's difficult to prove."
- Michele Bachmann (The Stillwater Gazette)


Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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Michele Bachmann on Language Proficiency

"We need one strong hombre or hombre-ette, and I'm the hombre-ette to go and stand for you in Washington DC."
- Michele Bachmann (CBS News)

(Unfortunately, 'mujer' is the word for woman in Spanish.)


Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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Michele Bachmann on John Quincy Adams

"Well if you look at one of our Founding Fathers, John Quincy Adams, that’s absolutely true. He was a very young boy when he was with his father serving essentially as his father’s secretary. 


He tirelessly worked throughout his life to make sure that we did in fact one day eradicate slavery... Well, John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy but he was actively involved." - Michele Bachmann


Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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Michele Bachmann on the Middle East

"Iran is the trouble maker, trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now because they want America to pull out. And do you know why? It’s because they’ve already decided that they’re going to partition Iraq.

And half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is going to be called…. the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. 

And I’m sorry, I don’t have the official name, but it’s meant to be the training ground for the terrorists. There’s already an agreement made.
They are going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone where they can go ahead and bring about more terrorist attacks in the Middle East region and then to come against the United States because we are their avowed enemy." - Michele Bachmann

Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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Michele Bachmann on New Hampshire... err, Massachusetts.

"You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord." 
- Michele Bachmann


Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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Michele Bachmann on Oil

"It's ironic and sad that the president released all of the oil from the strategic oil reserve. ...There's only a limited amount of oil that we have in the strategic oil reserve. It's there for emergencies." 
- Michele Bachmann


Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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Michele Bachmann on Farming

"The farm is my father-in-law's farm.  It's not my husband and my farm.  It's my father-in-law's farm.  And my husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm." - Michele Bachmann (except her share is worth between $100,000 and $250,000.  Oops.)

Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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Michele Bachmann on Elvis Presley

"Before we get started, let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today." - Michele Bachmann on the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death

Case in point: Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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