Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), 03/15/2008: “The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.” Bachmann may run for another office

In her first interview since announcing she will not seek reelection in 2014, Rep. Michele Bachmann said that decision doesn’t mean she’s going anywhere.

Speaking with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Thursday night, Bachmann said she may even run for public office again.


“There’s just a time when you’ve served, and then it’s time to move on,” Bachmann said. “I’m not retiring, I’m not going silent, I’m not quitting my public involvement. In fact, I may run for another public office, that may happen, but for right now, I think I’m going to find another perch to weigh in on these matters.”

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The Minnesota Republican also left open the possibility for another presidential bid in 2016.

“I’m not taking anything off the table, but … that’s not my No. 1 item that I’m looking at right now, either. I’m in the game for the long haul,” Bachmann said.

Staying true to her firebrand style, the Tea Party Caucus leader had strong words for “the radical left” and Obama administration.

“They want to silence the African-Americans who are conservative, Latinos who are conservative, conservative women — they certainly want to silence our voice,” Bachmann said. “We are seeing serial lawlessness out of the Obama administration. … To watch the IRS abuse, in the way that it is, the political machinery of government directed as an attack machine against Americans based upon their political beliefs, that’s anathema to who we are.”

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