Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the national Tea Party movement star who is considering a run for president, is doing some serious reading before she makes her final decision — namely, cautionary tales about presidential candidates who destroyed themselves.
As MinnPost reports, Bachmann has read Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, and The Politician by former John Edwards aide Andrew Young. And she’s taken some lessons from them:
“‘Game Change’ is a book that is very difficult to put down, at least I found it difficult to put down, and it gives a person pause,” Bachmann said. “But the other thing that it does, I think, is it informed me of what I don’t want to do.
“I’m still a human being, and I still have the values that I stand for, and it tells me that the pursuit of a brass ring, the pursuit of an office, is not worth losing your health, losing your marriage, losing your integrity. That I’m not willing to do.”
