We Won't Have Michelle Bachmann To Kick Around Anymore?

In a fittingly bizarre video (released at 3:00 a.m., complete with background music!), Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn) announced that she will not seek reelection in 2014.  She gave no real reason for her decision, but said it was not fear of being defeated (she was barely reelected in 2012 and currently trails her opponent in the polls) and it was not the fact that her improper use of campaign contributions is under federal investigation.  Bullshit, and double bullshit.

Mad Michelle was a legislator with little interest in legislating.  Her career as an elected official, including her brief dance in the GOP presidential primaries, was never about doing the job -- it was about the public platform which the job offered.  From there, she could broadcast her beliefs:  Intelligent design, not evolution.  You can pray away the gay.  The HPV vaccine causes mental illness.  We should eliminate the minimum wage and the federal income tax.  And many other crazoid nuggets too numerous to list here.

So, come 2014, will the wild-eyed Tea Bagger just quietly slip back into private life?  Are you kiddin'?  Bachmann's an attention junkie.  I'm sure they're keeping a chair warm for her at Fox News.