As Rep. Michele Bachmann continues her coy flirtation with the idea of running for president next year, she's inspired an online petition drive, uging her to do just that.
The "We Need Michele" website, apparently developed by conservative activists who pushed last year for her to run for Speaker of the House, was recently launched, breathlessly describing her as "a presidential candidate with courage and conviction, who will fight against Barack Obama's socialist agenda; an outsider who isn't part of the establishment."
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Bachmann isn't the only one being coy here: The site's operators have shrouded their identities from Internet searchers and don't give a running tally of the number of signatures they've gathered, which is standard procedure for online petition drives.
Not everyone is sold on the idea, if tweets displayed on the website are any indication. On the one hand, folks have written:
