Michele Bachmann In Talks To Publish Book In September

WASHINGTON - Rep. Michele Bachmann met in New York with four or five major book publishers Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a source with knowledge of the meetings.

The Minnesota Republican talked in one meeting of launching a campaign for president soon. The publisher asked if she could deliver a manuscript by August, in time for a September publication. Bachmann was reportedly accompanied to the meeting by John Fund, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Fund has not responded to a request for comment.

Publishing a book to lay out one's political values is now an established rung on the ladder most politicians feel they must climb to make a serious run for president. It's a move Bachmann seems increasingly likely to take: Since March, the conservative firebrand has said that she might form a committee in June to explore seeking the GOP nomination, but Tuesday on Fox News she said that a decision could come sooner.

As the publishers in New York weight whether to move forward with Bachmann - a proposal first reported Tuesday by Ben Smith - one of their considerations will be whether she can deliver book sales anywhere close to the level of Sarah Palin. The fellow Tea Party favorite's first book, "Going Rogue," sold over 2 million hard cover copies.

Bachmann lacks the same high profile of the former Alaskan governor and GOP vice president nominee. The Minnesotan is, for example, not being represented by Washington super-agent Bob Barnett, who helped Palin secure her book deal.

But Bachmann still commands a large following among the conservative grassroots -- one which will likely be enlarged if she make a run for the White House.

Comments

[brokerallen]

04:50 PM on 06/04/2011

Bachmann is learning well from Palin. She'll be fabulously wealthy in no time.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

07:49 PM on 05/20/2011

So she is just 'in talks' now and it will be published in September?  Sounds like a real classic.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

07:25 AM on 05/20/2011

How can someone born in Canada be president?  I mean if Hawaii isn't good enough, Canada shouldn't be either.

[notadumbblonde]

04:39 PM on 05/20/2011

Bachmann was born in Iowa, unless I misunderstand your point.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

06:29 PM on 05/20/2011

You misunderstood. 

During the Correspondents' dinner, Obama made a joke about Bachman being born in Minnesota.  He then looked in her direction and said, "Michelle, this is how it gets started"  He totally pinned how the right gets their lies to be discussed by the media.  

Every once in a while you will see people reference the Canadian birth.  Personally, I think that giving them some of their own medicine is appropriate.  At least we admit that it is wrong, "just a joke"

[S-Man]

01:31 PM on 05/19/2011

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

[brokerallen]

12:28 PM on 05/19/2011

It's interesting to see that the people who use God to influence voters always have a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with God.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

06:30 PM on 05/20/2011

Fanned for your very true words.

[Ev3ryWord]

12:21 PM on 05/19/2011

She's self-deluded. The first thing she ought to do is to know her own limitations.

[SimianNation]

12:15 PM on 05/19/2011

First, Bachmann said she was waiting for a signal from god, to know if she should run for the White House. Now, Bachmann is waiting, not for god, but for her people to know if she has a shot and how else the GOP circus unfolds.

You have to love it when you can use god for your own ends.

[Ev3ryWord]

12:24 PM on 05/19/2011

She's a graduate of the school of Oral Roberts.

[tundra599]

12:03 PM on 05/19/2011

Ahhh, the party of love and reaching out and etc. President Obama tries to paint a picture, but the true color of the libs comes out in these comment sections where you all just hate anything you disagree with.

[TWhitley]

10:56 AM on 05/19/2011

Yes, that's a special moment. I remember when I bought my first book, too. Congratulations, Michele. [What, she's talking about WRITING a book? Now, that's funny!]

[leftyirishwoman]

10:53 AM on 05/19/2011

It is no surprise that Michele Bachmann is shopping a book around, the time is right for her soak her followers while she pretends she has a snowball's chance in he!! of getting the Republican nomination. Michele Bachmann and her family is good at getting money either directly from the government (farm subsidies, 23 female foster children, and medicaid for her husband's christianity mental health care for gays) or the donors in the political process (various PACS.)

WSJ writer John Fund is just doing the same thing. No one should expect Michele Bachmann to go to all the trouble of ordering her thoughts logically in order to use voice-recognition software, if such a product even exists that could decipher her higher octave shreiks. No, she needs a collaborative (and creative) writer to reinterpret her Faux News appearance, which are fueled by nearly overdose levels of Hormone Replacement Therapy and oxytocin from consistently being named homecoming queen at the Oral Roberts Uncredited Law School Reunions.

A very large part of Ms. Bachmann's book will concern her education credentials. Geography, American History, Evolutionary Biology, Climate Biology, Civics, World Economic Systems, and Blaming Gay People for Everything will be given the examined through her extraordinary lens.

[notadumbblonde]

04:51 PM on 05/20/2011

As homosexuality is not considered a mental health disorder, it is doubtful that Bachmann receives payment from Medicare for counseling services. Medicare requires a diagnostic code for payment.

You and I would write a book, too, if we knew it would be a best-seller by virtue of our controversial positions; it is evident you don't like Bachmann, and I'm trying to be fair to all.

[tedmore123]

10:37 AM on 05/19/2011

The 20 page pop up book features a section on how to make tinfoil 'anti-Democrat mind control' hats
and proof that the world is only 6000 years old and is indeed flat.

[leftyirishwoman]

10:55 AM on 05/19/2011

I had to take pop up book out of my posting because you got there before me. Without the pop up book, the Scratch'n'sniff reference is too out of context for Michele's audience, don't you think?

[edtheengineer]

11:32 AM on 05/19/2011

One whole chapter will be devoted to a description of the saddles and bridles The Flintstones used when riding their pet dinosaurs.

[Ev3ryWord]

10:30 AM on 05/19/2011

Teapublicans: Self-deluded, they always show their true colors, because they are their own Higher Power.

I hope she runs. Since Wisconsin, we've got eyes to see, and we're listening closely. She'll provide entertainment value until she crashes and burns.

[ldcbl]

10:26 AM on 05/19/2011

won't have a chance to read her book, my children are grown and no grandchildren yet to read picture books to.

[edtheengineer]

11:30 AM on 05/19/2011

If you do have grandchildren in the next few years, you might consider purchasing it along with an appropriate set of crayons. It would be good for keeping them quiet on long, rainy days.

[S-Man]

10:09 AM on 05/19/2011

I, Robot

[MMMMarilyn]

10:07 AM on 05/19/2011

"How to Succeed in Politics Without Really Thinking"