Her national reputation sinking, Representative Michele Bachmann has returned as a guest of Olive Tree Ministries, part of her original base.
The Christian Post reports in Michele Bachmann: Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential Run Could Be Defeated If 'We Repent and Cry Out to God':
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's possible presidential run in 2016 could be defeated by a Republican candidate if "we repent" and "cry out to God," Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said in a radio interview Monday.
On her weekly radio program Olive Tree Ministries, evangelical radio host Jan Markell asked Bachmann, who represents Minnesota's sixth congressional district, if she is "one of those who just assumes" that Hillary Clinton will be "coronated" as president after the 2016 race.
"I don't at all because I look at the story of David and Goliath," Bachmann responded. "All David needed was one smooth stone to fell the giant. It wasn't the stone, it wasn't David, it was the strong right arm of a Holy God."
"I believe in some ways it's up to us. If we repent, if we cry out to God, we have no idea what the Lord God will do for us in 2016," Bachmann added. Bachmann then went on to clarify that she doesn't believe one candidate will "save" the Republican party, but rather the party needs a revamped message and advanced technology techniques to win the 2016 presidential election.
Bachmann's Long History of Olive Tree Ministry Cray
Although she has in the past denied them, Bachmann's ties to Jan Markell go way back. In June 2011, Salon reported in Michele Bachmann thinks the world is ending and the pope is the antichrist:
Mother Jones writes about Rep. Michele Bachmann’s, R-Minn., connections to Olive Tree Ministries, an evangelical Christian operation founded by a former Jew for Jesus and longtime friend of Bachmann’s named Jan Markell.
Olive Tree Ministries, based out of Maple Grove, Minn., produces a weekly radio show and a newsletter, and it is also obsessed with Israel because it believes we are living in the end times. Bachmann’s been on Markell’s radio show multiple times, attended an Olive Tree Ministries conference, and left a testimonial on its website. As MoJo says:
When Minneapolis’ City Pages first reported [6] on Bachmann’s relationship with Markell in 2005, the then-state senator denied any knowledge of Olive Tree Ministries. However, Markell tells Mother Jones that she’s known Bachmann off and on for 35 years, and says she spoke about Israel at Bachmann’s church in the late 1970s. “My hunch is that they misquoted her,” Markell says. “She’s been at my conference. Why she would have said [otherwise], I don’t know."
Calling for prayer to end Hillary is actually a moderation on Bachmann's part, as she isn't calling The Rapture, as in past appearances on air. Former Republican challenger Aubrey Immelman has more in a May 2009 post, Bachmann Bats for End Times:
Rep. Michele Bachmann returned to “Understanding the Times” with end-times pastor Jan Markell to talk about the “Criminalization of Christianity” last week. Bachmann has been a regular guest of Markell’s in the past, discussing a range of topics from homosexuality to Jesus’ return. This time, the topic was the labeling of Christians as terrorists.
None of the Republicans vying to take her place can possibly fill these shoes.
Photo: Bachmann on Election Day, 2006.
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My fondest hope is that Bachmann reverses her decision to bow out of politics and mounts a primary challenge.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Sep 13, 2013 at 03:11 PM
I'm not the most disinterested of observers but Bachmann's attempt to return to her "original base," as Sally Jo puts it, strikes me as something out of the "fool me once" category. Maybe some evangelicals will continue to buy what Bachmann has to say, I just can't tell. Having co-authored (ok, written the whole damn thing) "Bachmannistan," I know Peter Waldron has suffered a great deal of blowback for telling the truth. My fear, as I expressed in my introduction to the book, is that once out of office Bachmann will exercise as deleterious an influence on Minnesota (republican) politics as Vin Weber and Norm Coleman. Talk about water to a drowning man. Then again, the federal grand jury currently empanelled in DC may make my worries moot.
Posted by: Shabbosgoy | Sep 13, 2013 at 11:50 PM