Bachmann declares husband off limits in campaign

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From Talking Points Memo

Michele Bachmann isn’t happy with the attention her husband, Marcus Bachmann, has been getting in the press lately over allegations his clinic practices gay conversion therapy. In fact, she thinks he should be kept out of the campaign entirely.

“I am extremely proud of my husband, I have tremendous respect for for him,” Bachmann said at a luncheon in DC on Thursday. “I am running for the presidency of the United States. My husband is not running for the presidency. Neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.”

But Bachmann has a very different take when it comes to other candidates’ spouses: She’s repeatedly attacked Michelle Obama in the harshest terms and specifically challenged the press to join in on her condemnations.

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