NASHUA, N.H. — Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota stood before New Hampshire Republicans with a tea bag clutched in her hand Saturday, but her grasp on Revolutionary War geography wasn’t quite as tight.
Before headlining a GOP fundraiser, the possible presidential hopeful told students and conservative activists in Manchester, “You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord,” according to video posted online by WMUR-TV.
But those first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired in Concord, Mass., not Concord, N.H. Her mistake was striking given her roots in the Tea Party movement, which takes its name from the dumping of tea into Boston Harbor by American colonists in December 1773, 16 months before the Battle of Lexington Green.
About 30 miles to the north, Bachmann asked the crowd, “How about a United States president that gets what the American people want in 2012?” and later said, “Are you in for 2012? I’m in!”
She later clarified that she is committed to denying President Barack Obama a second term, not necessarily running herself.
