Why did it take a week for Bachmann to figure it out?

The obvious answer is that she was just plain lying. She is a politician, after all. This seems like an incredibly stupid lie to tell, however, so I think we need a different explanation. I suppose that Bachmann’s ignorance of the New Hampshire staff leaving her campaign is just proof of the complaint that led them to quit in the first place: that they were largely ignored and relegated to second-class status relative to the national campaign staff. So the reason it took her a week to figure it out is because she—and her handlers—just never paid them much attention in the first place.

Alternatively, it is possible that Bachmann’s campaign—much like her wardrobe—is actually under the control of her husband and that she only gets information on a need-to-know basis. So maybe he just failed to inform her in a timely manner.

I doubt many candidates know the people who staff their campaign cells. Her reaction could have been more a reflex, if she didn’t know the answer but took the gamble she was unlikely to have been abandoned.

She was either unaware of it (her campaign manager didn’t tell her), or she lied about it (an entire staff quitting is a sign that a campaign is in trouble).
Either way, she is an idiot.

Does anyone else think it is funny that the five staffers quit because they felt ignored by Bachman’s national campaign staff? Apparently, the NH staffers couldn’t even get the national campaigners to notice that they were quitting.

http://www.wmur.com/new-hampshire-primary-extended-coverage/29572133/detail.html

Considering just how bad a candidate she is, she could have been lying about it (lying does seem to come easily to her), or she simply had no clue (being clueless, for her, follows close behind her tendency to lie). She & her campaign have been a disaster, dictated by her totally obtuse opinions & poor grasp of history.

@bkcunningham LOL! That is pretty funny! I guess they were right. :-) Now I’m picturing the NH staffers stomping out of their campaign headquarters, full of fury and righteous indignation, thinking “Enough is enough! We don’t have take this; this’ll teach ‘em to ignore us!” And then no one even noticing they were gone. That’s pretty sad! LOL.

Maybe Bachmann isn’t lying. Maybe she really didn’t even notice they quit.

Ha! Great answers all. I can’t imagine what a far flung presidential administration with all the departments and bureaucracy the office manages if the president was clueless about who was even still working for them, and who had walked off the job.

@ETpro Bachmann isn’t presidential material, plain and simple. I can’t imagine a U.S. President visiting areas of the country that have been hit by natural disasters, which is one of the things sitting presidents do, and her telling the locals that the disaster was God’s way of sending us all a message about fiscal and economic policy.

@lillycoyote Amen to that. If God wants to send me a message, he ought to know I speak English. What message am I supposed to gather from a hurricane or tornado? Buy home insurance?

@ETpro Well, it would be good for the economy.