Bachmann Fit to Be President?
A Daily Caller story reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann, by some polls the frontrunner in the Republican prez race, suffers from delibating migranes and advisers worry she might not be able to handle the presidency. Rival Tim Pawlenty pounces.
Bachmann Fit to Be President?
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
The surging Rep. Michele Bachmann, by some measures the frontrunner in the Republican presidential race, suffers from debilitating headaches that "incapacitate" her for days at a time, The Daily Caller news site reports Tuesday.
Bachmann moved quickly to address the concerns, saying that her migranes are controlled with medication and have not slowed her bruising campaign schedule.
The Daily Caller's story, based on anonymous former aides and advisers, says that the condition has landed Rep. Bachmann in the hospital on at least three occasions. Some who have worked with her are quoted as saying they wonder if she would able to withstand the stressful rigors of the Presidency.
"Let me be abundantly clear, my ability to function effectively has never been impeded by migraines and will not affect my ability to serve as commander in chief," Bachmann said in a statement.
Meanwhile, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told Iowans Tuesday that they should not blow the whole election for the GOP by choosing a candidate "who is not ready to run the country." He did not mention said candidate by name, but everyone knows he meant Bachmann, a fellow Minnesotan. (h/t TalkingPointsMemo.com).
The two are competing for the same conservative, evangelical base of voters in Iowa, which holds the first nomination votes in the nation. Pawlenty, who has remained mired in single digits in polls while Bachmann rises, has staked his campaign on a strong showing there. Translation: Big motive for hitting Bachmann.
Who cares about her headaches? She's a jerk, maybe she and her kids would be better off as slaves.— Ried- Obama is addicted to a dangerous drug which he has admitted to still using. Where were the calls for his health being an issue?— Ramon
- does anyone take this women seriously?— Old German
- I wonder what Daniel Tosh would say...— mccarte1
- This comment has been deleted.— BobinPa
- @ BobinPa: While your words may lack diplomacy, I must applaud their accuracy and honesty. The guy in there now is a spanked A**. He's right out of the Marxist playbook.....but he and his fellow Bolsheviks didn't get the message that the experiement failed....and the USSR, China and all of East Europe threw off the unworkable, failed tyrany of Marxism 20 years ago.
— Henry Howard Earl of Surrey - BobinPa is such a wack-job, he's the philly.com version of that crazy lady at the McCain rally who said Obama was a muslim. I just wanted to respond to one thing in his hateful rant.
MLK Sr (the dad) was a lifelong republican which was not out of the norm for southern blacks. If you learned history as Bob suggested you'd know many of the champions of Jim Crow laws were southern democrats like Robert Byrd & George Wallace. Influential blacks like King Sr often campaigned against local & state "Dixiecrats". In national elections MLK Sr & MLK Jr voted for and campaigned for John Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson. MLK Jr was an outspoken opponent of Barry Goldwater & the republican conservative movement. History shows Blacks have at times voted en mass for both parties(Lincoln was republican). They were not locked in to a party based on name alone typically they based their allegiance the parties' position on slavery, Jim Crow & civil rights.— mtairy1 - Already, the operatives of the DNC who also happen to work at the Inquirer are sewing the seeds of dirty politics by trying to imply that Ms. Bachman is unbalanced. Nice try. It's so sad that journalism has sunk to such a low level that they become agents for totally a totally incompetent and unfit Barry Soetoro....a guy steering our economy off a cliff, who wants to saddle the US with even greater debt. By the way.....Abraham Lincoln has many of the symptoms you mentioned such as migranes. In fact many famous and accomplished world statemen had health issues. Bachman with a headache is 1000X better than Soetoro on his best day.— Henry Howard Earl of Surrey
- "Henry Howard Earl of Surrey"?? Seriously??!! Get ye backe to yon roastede corne boothe at Ye Olde Renaissance Faire.
— 1980 - Boys,
Ms.Bachman is having those "headaches" because she is pre-MENOPAUSAL.— gogirltoday 
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- This is a flagrant violation of HIPPA. Ms Bachmann should employ a competent attorney and sue the reporter for his sources so they can be prosecuted.— fgomarty
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