WASHINGTON (TheStreet) -- Michele Bachmann's been revered and reviled in the years leading up to her presidential candidacy, but she shouldn't be ignored.
A Republican Minnesota Congressswoman, tea party favorite and progressive punching bag, Bachmann's pre-campaign career has been bolstered by fiery blasts against the Obama administration and its health care and policies. Bachmann also has been buffeted by embarrassing gaffes, including mistakenly placing the battles of Lexington and Concord in New Hampshire during a trip there in March, eviscerating the AmeriCorps program while her son was a member of its Teach For America organization and, last week, signing a marriage pledge suggesting black couples were better off under slavery.
Michele Bachmann has experience and economic credentials that the GOP's presidential frontrunners lack.
Since announcing her intent to seek the Republican party's presidential nomination during a CNN debate last month, Bachmann has steered away from rhetorical improvisation and improved her message. She's already spent much of the summer making her case to straw-poll voters in Iowa and New Hampshire and making the economy the bedrock of her platform.
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