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[Rep. Michele Bachmann] and 2012 Republican presidential candidate told RealClearPolitics on Tuesday that she is considering a second White House run.
Bachmann made the revelation during an interview, in which she was asked for her view on whether any Republican women might seek the Oval Office in 2016.
“The only thing that the media has speculated on is that it’s going to be various men that are running,” she replied. “They haven’t speculated, for instance, that I’m going to run. What if I decide to run? And there’s a chance I could run.”
And why does she think that she's ready for 2016? Because:
“Like with anything else, practice makes perfect,” she said. “And I think if a person has gone through the process -- for instance, I had gone through 15 presidential debates -- it’s easy to see a person’s improvement going through that.”
Yeah, sure. We saw her improve all the way from being the 2012 frontrunner to being one of the first ones out. Just about the only thing she can really claim to have accomplished in that campaign is having knocked Tim Pawlenty out of the race. And yes, you're forgiven if you've already forgotten who T-Paw is.
Bachmann says her fundraising prowess should gain her more respect as a potential candidate, because she was, in her words, "one of the top—if not the top—fundraisers in the history of the United States Congress."
Except that while she was a prolific fundraiser in the House, she raised less for her 2012 presidential campaign than she did for her 2012 House campaign. And she wasn't the most prolific fundraiser in the House: Allen West raised about one-third more than she did, a statistic which really only proves one thing: You get a lot more crazy for the dollar in Minnesota than you do in Florida.