Michele Bachmann Still Planning On Doing Some President Stuff, Probably

Since the end of the 2010 election cycle, Michele Bachmann -- whose homeland may have been destroyed by capitalism -- has been exploring all available avenues to keep her profile high. Originally, she had hoped to take a leadership role in the House GOP, but when that didn't pan out, she adopted the Tea Party as her personal cause, forming a caucus under the Tea Party banner and giving an eyes-askance State of the Union response on their behalf.

But how are all the cool kids in the GOP staying in the news? They're all running for president, you say? Fine, Michele Bachmann will also make some presidential noises, for the teevee cameras. And today, CNN has some exclusive news pertaining to Bachmann's presidential bid:

CNN has exclusively learned that Rep. Michele Bachmann will form a presidential exploratory committee. The Minnesota Republican plans to file papers for the committee in early June, with an announcement likely around that same time.

But a source close to the congresswoman said that Bachmann could form the exploratory committee even earlier than June so that she could participate in early Republican presidential debates.

Bachmann is said to be staffing up in Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina, which is something else you are supposed to do when you "test the waters" of a presidential bid. But this comes hard on the heels of an ABC News report in which Bachmann herself explains what she's doing:

"I'm in for 2012 in that I want to be a part of the conversation in making sure that President Obama only serves one term, not two, because I want to make sure that we get someone who's going to be making the country work again. That's what I'm in for," Bachmann said.

"But I haven't made a decision yet to announce, obviously, if I'm a candidate or not, but I'm in for the conversation."

Here Bachmann essentially gives away the game, suggesting that she's more interested in staying "in the conversation" -- that is, in boosting her own profile. In terms of a personal branding strategy, it's a pretty good one. Whether or not we should take this seriously as anything more than a vanity run for office, however, is another matter entirely.

But whatever, breaking: At some point, June will come, and Michele Bachmann will be there, doing things, unless she does them even earlier.

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Comments

[AlPal3]

04:47 PM on 03/26/2011

Ah Michelle, where were you when the rest of us were attending history class?

[voodoo8]

01:33 PM on 03/26/2011

What an exploding diaper the GOP race will be

[chazmanr]

02:34 PM on 03/25/2011

The GOP debates are going to be FUN!

[chrisreadabook]

07:02 PM on 03/25/2011

Problem is, debates aren't debates anymore, just a chance to stand a puff and spew. A REAL debate between President Obama and Michelle Bachmann, high school forensics rules, would be sensational!!

[chrisreadabook]

07:24 PM on 03/25/2011

stand AND puff and spew. Sorry

[lindabear]

01:49 PM on 03/25/2011

Oh, please, please, please run Michelle!

[barkingcat]

10:06 AM on 03/25/2011

We should all form presidential exploratory committees.

Everyone else is.

[BJHenton]

08:50 AM on 03/25/2011

This woman should be on the comedy page. Bachmann for President? LOL!!!

[harbormick]

08:34 AM on 03/25/2011

We have a new Lady Bla Bla

[rgilley]

07:50 AM on 03/25/2011

Get your bumber sticker today! "Crazy Bachman For President"

[dmsdzinr]

07:40 AM on 03/25/2011

Wouldn't it be just PERFECT if American Law stated that IF you run for the Presidency and LOSE you also lose the office you were in? Then I would absolutely advocate for MIchelle Bachman to run and Sarah Palin too, OH WAIT she already QUIT her office.

[Decipherer]

07:12 AM on 03/25/2011

I guess there are too few photos of this harpie available that do not show her with her massive pie-hole agape or filled with a thousand pearly-white chicklets.

Bachmann Turnoff Overhype

[John Moran]

05:51 AM on 03/25/2011

She's never going to run. She'll be shooting her mouth off ad naseum about birth certificates and the debt and everything we expect. They'll distance from her eventually, just like they have Palin, and she'll say it's because of the 'leftist' media.

In a few more years, Palin and Bachmann will be as relevant to the conversation as Anita Bryant. It's just a shame that main-stream media has put this type of person on public display for their own ratings. It is affecting the national debate, but has zero to do with actual issues. So sad, America now. Money driven enterprises almost always create nonsense. It has the substance of 50cent or a reality show.

[Decipherer]

07:13 AM on 03/25/2011

"Nauseam" -- close enough, I guess.

[cyndeewi]

05:48 AM on 03/25/2011

She is following Sarah Palin!

[havana62]

03:26 AM on 03/25/2011

The caption photo above was taken from a rally where she was in the middle of singing Patsy Klein's Crazy.

[Decipherer]

07:14 AM on 03/25/2011

Why insult the memory of the great Patsy CLINE, anyway, by misspelling her name AND referring to her in the same sentence with Bachmanndinnejad?

[havana62]

03:21 AM on 03/25/2011

There is such a high level of insanity in her eyes and total lack of substance in her rhetoric its amazing that this woman can get two people to listen to her......oh yeah, I forgot about all those TEABAGGERS.

[rgilley]

07:54 AM on 03/25/2011

Teabagger Republicans vote their emotions only as the last election clearly shows.
However, most sincere teabaggers are being manipulated by a few well placed Koch brothers antagonist who pay for their rallies and advertizements.
"Stupid is as stupid does" (Forrest)