Michele Bachmann: Let's 'Get The Primary Over With Now'

MINNEAPOLIS -- Fresh off of the June 13 GOP debate, presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann said she was confident in her chances of winning the White House, telling a crowd Saturday at the conservative Right Online conference that "maybe we could just take a vote right here and get the primary over with now."

"Who is that leader?" the Minnesota congresswoman asked the crowd, as some yelled "You!"

"Oh, you have a suggestion," she said.

"All we want to do is see this country work again, and it is going to happen," Bachmann said. "Make no mistake about it, Barack Obama will be a one-term president."

The Tea Party favorite drew huge applause from the crowd at Right Online, the right's counterpart to the progressive Netroots Nation conference. After a standing ovation when she entered the room to Katy Perry's "Firework," Bachmann said she plans to continue to fight to repeal Obama's health care law, the Affordable Care Act.

"It basically says 'Let's repeal this sucker,'" she said of her repeal bill. "As president of the United States, I will not rest until we repeal Obamacare."

More immediately, Bachmann said she plans to vote against raising the debt ceiling, which Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said must be done by Aug. 2 to avoid forcing the U.S. government to default on its loans.

Bachmann took out a dollar bill, folded it nearly in half, and reminded the crowd the government has $0.42 "in borrowed money" for every dollar it spends. The government cannot and should not go further into debt, she said.

If the congresswoman were elected president, she promised to "finally get our budget to balance, so we never have to raise the debt ceiling again."

Bachmann went on to hit a number of conservative talking points, including her support for a bill that would allow choice to use inefficient light bulbs. She said environmental regulations are unnecessary, calling the Environmental Protection Agency the "job-killing agency."

"I'm not convinced of the science that human activity is the cause of global warming," she said to thunderous applause.

Bachmann later touched on Israel, rebuking Obama for saying the country should return to its 1967 borders. "I stand with Israel."

Bachmann also talked up her 2012 campaign, saying the Tea Party will help decide the presidential election and must be allowed in the conservative "tent," along with social and fiscal conservatives.

"This group is just getting steamed," she said. "They're going to be present in 2012."

View this Storify coverage of the speech by HuffPost's Mandy Jenkins.

Comments

[azou]

04:00 PM on 06/20/2011

In other Words" Please let's get this over with before sister Sarah joins the race"

[annie4439]

10:28 PM on 06/19/2011

Boy, would I like to see organized religion REALLY be separate from politics.

[prlabella]

02:31 PM on 06/19/2011

I was willing to listen to Bachmann until she said her biggest step would be to repeal the health care plan. Jobs, jobs, jobs is the only thought these candidates should be talking about. There will not be enough strength to repeal the health care law even if the Republicans win the white house.

[ocrmom59]

01:33 PM on 06/19/2011

All summer and half way into fall we will listen to all these candidates down talk the president and it will get it dirtier. Because they will be trying to outdo each other and then they will be falling flat on their faces.

This will begin the end of the republicans and teaparties for years to come. This will start to get better, more people will back to work and spending money, so that means econmic will be picking up.


Then the beginning of the new year, the president will begin to make his move and clean up the mess that republicans governors have made and the republicans will try to come up with worst plans than before to get rid of the president and it will backfire in their face. This will make the american people so angry that they will vote the republicans and teaparties out all over the country and closed their future down for years to come. Pass the popcorn please.

[madisonhack]

11:10 AM on 06/19/2011

The biggest problem for Michelle Bachmann in the Oval Office would be that her time would be consumed in trying to find the corners.

[boboberg]

03:10 AM on 06/19/2011

Michele Bachmann is a Republican. The Republicans don't believe in science, equal rights for gay citizens, immigrants, hispanics, blacks, the middle class and the poor, they are intent on killing Social Security and Medicare and they don't believe that a woman should have the ultimate say over her own body. So why is anybody surprised that Michele Bachmann hates gays? Mark Montgomery NYC, NY

[Nec V20]

12:09 AM on 06/19/2011

Personally I hope that the Democrats vote "Present" when the debt ceiling vote comes around. If the debt ceiling is not raised the dollar will lose approximately one third of its value immediately.

The US Chamber of Commerce realises this and has been hitting the Republicans hard not to make raising the debt ceiling an issue. Bachmann will vote yes on raising the debt ceiling because if she votes no, then her corporate backers will cut her funding and her Presidential run will end overnight.

[madisonhack]

11:15 AM on 06/19/2011

 Correct analysis. Reid making statements chiding the Republicans to make responsible votes is simply that Democrats don't want to take the politics to that level.

[jdcapshew]

11:25 PM on 06/18/2011

All Michele Bachmann needs book-wise is to occasionally read her Bible and then she can make up all kinds of stuff from there.

[Hobsonschoice]

11:02 PM on 06/18/2011

I keep waiting for one of the 23 foster children to come forward, either to endorse her, or not. And I'd like the media to focus on the fact that she was only in the foster farm, er, care business for a grand total of 7 years, and since she could only have, at most, 3 children at a time, that means that she couldn't possibly have RAISED them all. At the very most, she MIGHT have had 2 children for 7 years, but then again, she said that she only took in teenage girls, so even that wouldn't have been possible. It just annoys me that she keeps bragging about this, when I know it can't be true. She's just another politician trolling for that evangelical vote.

[still hopeful at 55]

08:45 PM on 06/18/2011

katy perry-please don't let her use your songs!!! she doesn't like girls that kiss girls and you are way too cool to hang with tbags!

[madisonhack]

11:16 AM on 06/19/2011

Apparently not that cool.

[still hopeful at 55]

11:27 AM on 06/19/2011

i know, my only hope is that she didn't authorize it.

[foreverdemocrat]

07:56 PM on 06/18/2011

All talk, this woman. Not a SHRED of substance. Just a more 'eloquently spoken' Sarah Palin.

Nothing new, here.

[DJE12857]

07:50 PM on 06/18/2011

There is one place you will never see a lightbulb. Over Bachmann's head which would indicate she had a bright idea.

[blackkatya]

07:34 PM on 06/18/2011

For someone who claims to be a Christian, Michele Bachmann sure displays a lot of hubris.

[doe58]

07:40 PM on 06/18/2011

blacktaya...and, she sure displays a lot of untruthfulness! And, she gets tons of money to continue operating in that fashion.

[blackkatya]

07:42 PM on 06/18/2011

The fact that this woman receives farm subsidies is one of the reasons I have so many problems with that program.

[DJE12857]

07:51 PM on 06/18/2011

Fanned and cute cat!

[blackkatya]

07:54 PM on 06/18/2011

Thanks! Piper is a definite princess. :)

Fanned back.

[Buhe]

07:34 PM on 06/18/2011

Another reason why people would want Obama to win and no doubt the most enjoyable when it happens.

This woman is despicable.

[Rakesh Keshaw]

07:32 PM on 06/18/2011

"I'm not convinced of the science that human activity is the cause of global warming," she said to thunderous applause >>>>> For someone that wants to be a leader of the free world...this is about as dumb as it gets.

[gjwarnock]

10:11 PM on 06/18/2011

And the thunderous applauders right their with her.
Scary!