Esme's Blog: Underestimating Michele Bachmann
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- There are many who have dismissed Rep. Michele Bachmann as the shrillest of the shrill voices on the far right. Even her own party dismissed her with a rebuff to her effort to join the leadership of the new Republican controlled Congress.
Two weeks after floating the idea she would run for president, she was in Iowa this week treated like a major contender.
But there is more.
Bachmann has announced that she will deliver her own State of the Union response online on the Tea Party Express website.
Rep. Michele Bachmann has not only figured out how to bypass her own party, but the national media as well. Rep. Michele Bachmann is someone who cannot be ignored, much less dismissed. Republicans and Democrats alike do it at their own peril.
