Former presidential candidate and current Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann criticized media for speculation of Republican male candidates, and ignoring her as a potential.

"The only thing that the media has speculated on is that it's going to be various men that are running," she told Real Clear Politics. "They haven't speculated, for instance, that I'm going to run. What if I decide to run? And there's a chance I could run."

Bachmann said she would retire from her post as Representative at the end of this year, but may pursue a 2016 presidential campaign.

She had announced her candidacy for the 2012 election in June 2011 and famously garnered support from the Tea Partiers.

But that wasn't enough to carry her through the race and she dropped out in January 2012 after ranking last among the six GOP candidates in the caucus in Iowa -- her birthplace and the starting point of her campaign, according to ABC.

Additionally, she incurred about $1 million debt by the end of the seven-month campaign run, according to the Huffington Post.

"Like with anything else, practice makes perfect," she said, according to Red Clear Politics. "And I think if a person has gone through the process -- for instance, I had gone through 15 presidential debates -- it's easy to see a person's improvement going through that."

But she has not yet decided about announcing her candidacy.

"I haven't made a decision one way or another if I'm going to run again, but I think the organization is probably the key," she said. "To have an organization and people who surround you who are loyal, who are highly competent, who know how to be able to run the ball down the field in state after state -- because now I think the primary process will be very different this time. It will tighten up; it will be a much shorter run than it was before."

Her comments about competent people are reminiscent of her 2012 run when campaign staffers left, claiming she was hard to work for, according to the Star Tribune.

She was also criticized for controversial claims and blunders, according to Red Clear Politics.

But the presidential campaign is just one option for Bachmann after she leaves Congress, she said.