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Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday morning, Rep. Michele Bachmann said she is “seriously looking into” endorsing presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The remarks are the closest the former GOP presidential candidate and Minnesota congresswoman has come to making an endorsement since dropping out of the race on Jan. 4.
Citing the decision by Romney’s chief rival – former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum – to suspend his campaign last Tuesday, Bachmann said there is a “uniting and pulling together around our eventual nominee.”
“I have said that I want my voice to be one of uniting our party, the independents, the main stream, the conservatives, evangelicals, the tea party movement,” Bachmann continued, adding, “I’m waiting for our party to come together and help in that process.”
Bachmann’s ecumenical view was not as pronounced during her own run for the GOP nomination, which was marked by frequent shots at Romney over the health care program he launched in Massachusetts in 2006.
Sunday morning, jousting with New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Bachmann called Romney “smart” on job creation.
“Mitt Romney also understands how to turn around companies," she said. "The United States government needs to have a turnaround person who knows how to be successful."
Underlying the back-and-forth was the controversy that stoked hours of cable news coverage this week, when a Democratic strategist suggested that Romney’s wife, Ann, was unqualified to advise her husband on the economic struggles facing women because she had “never worked a day in her life.”
Bachmann called the remarks by the strategist, Hilary Rosen, “shocking and insulting.”
“When 92-percent of the people under Barack Obama’s failed economic policies are women who’ve lost jobs, that’s an unbelievably shocking number,” Bachmann added, reviving a statistic Romney himself used last week, which prompted a slew of fact check pieces.
(The statistic also came under fire minutes earlier on the broadcast, during an interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who called it “ridiculous and deeply misleading.”)
Facts, figures, and controversies aside, the exchange this morning seemed to underscore the degree to which both Republicans and Democrats view women’s votes as crucial in the upcoming general election.
“This election is not going to be about Ann Romney or Hillary’s remarks,” Gillibrand said. “What this election is going to be about is which candidate fights for America’s women.”
Bachmann didn't immediately respond but when she did, she said, "One thing that women are saying is that Mitt Romney is an extremely smart guy. He's been successful in creating jobs in the private economy, and that's something that Barack Obama has not been able to do."
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Oh God ! that is an endorsement that i am sure Romney just can't wait for ! it is good to see that the republicans have all there nuts on board for the election !
Bachmann who?
Oh yea her, is she still relevant in some way? Was she ever? She's a do nothing congressperson (I have one of those of my own, Mary Bono, don't need two) who just can't stay away from a TV camera.
And my sympathy for the governor you have.
She's waiting to cash her check from the pro-Romney PAC.
After all the hate and crap she sent at Romney during her failed attempt to run for President, how can she even think about endorsing Romney.
For her to endorse Romney is the most blatant political hypocracy I think I will have ever come across.
If I had a dime for every spewing liberal who misspells the term "hypocrisy".....
Liberals throw the term around like candy; they not only cant spell hyocrisy , they havent a clue what it really means.
Liberals throw the term around like candy;
The truth hurts doesn't it Bob?? Hypocrite and Republican are interchangeable terms and it's been that way since the mid 90s.
Bob, you might want to re-check you spelling. You just misspelled it. Are you one of those so called liberals you are ranting about.
So, if you can't prove them wrong, you attack their spelling, just like every other far rightie. That certainly proves that they are wrong.
Bob, also, "cant" has an apostrophe in it. Like this: can't.
Glass houses, Bob.
Bob, you misspelled it yourself. SHHHHhhhhhhh.
BTW: We know quite well what it means. Just watch the GOP. Figure it out for yourself.
Great Story!!........an idiot endorsing an idiot
Michelle Bachmann must have done a great job on Meet the Press, judging by the usual gang of moonbats here spewing their witless criticism and hatred on her...
You should watch her interview, it was horrible. She hit the same talking points as all the other GOP candidates.
I don't hate her, I just think she believes in a combination of bad politics and policies that don't belong in government hands.
She couldn't defend the Republican Party's anti-women policies, so she tried to connect how the price of gas hurts women. It sounded pathetic and unintelligent.
Bob,
I would once again like to extend to you an invitation to my home here in Charlottesville on the evening of November 6th. I'm dying to see the look on your face when the networks call Virginia for Obama for the second time!
It is time for all republicans and true Americans to get behind Romney and save this country.
What makes you think true Americans want to get behind flip flop Mitt? His rear stinks as bad as the rest of the pigbags. Why are you pigbags handing Obama his second term? That is what I would like to know. The best candidate you had was Huntsman.
You lost him, you lost almost all independent women voters, all the black and most of the Latino's votes. And yet, you don't think those people are true Americans? WTF is wrong with you?
I have no idea if you're trying to be funny or not
Which Romney are the going to get behind??
LOL
Ah the canard of the Republican/ Tea Party. If you don't agree with me, you're not a "true American". There is no room for different opinions among "true Americans", amirite?
Bachmann will endorse Romney when he agrees to pay off her campaign debt.
boy some of you would believe in fairy dust and bat @!$%#. Jesus there are some people just to dumb to figure when some one is @!$%#ed in the head.. amazing.....
oh by the way.. good luck with that endorsement , that one will really help ya....:P
Mitt has flip flopped on every issue.
He makes money from Limbaugh's brand of bigotry and chauvinism because Limbaugh works for a company owned by Bain.
He presided over tax increases, low job creation, pro choice, gay marriage, RomneyCare and the $15 Billion earmark (in today's money) for The Big Dig as Governor of MA.
He used a private hotmail account for state business, like Sarah Palin and destroyed records on his way out, like Mike Leavitt when they were governors.
Decries TARP, but benefited from debt forgiveness from the FDIC take over of a failed bank, looted pensions and had the feds step in and shore up pension shortfalls.
Look who his money bundlers are... Wayne Berman!?!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/two-top-mccain-officials_n_126089.html
Romney has paid direct mail company 'Arena' over $10M for glossy hate mail against his opponents. Arena is owned by Romney's Campaign Finance Chairman, Frank Vandersloot, a MLM billionaire and a rabid gay hating Mormon.
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/17/billionaire_romney_donor_uses_threats_to_silence_critics/singleton/
Thanks for the moonbat talking points...
Romney is a flip flopper..how original !
What's the point of a Bachman endorsement? What voter block does she deliver? What voter block does she take away from Obama?
I watched as much as I could take of it .She is still as crazy as she looks.
I can't stand this anymore!! I am not going to watch this show when they let Bachman the liar on without introducing her as "Fact check after Michelle" David Gregory is soooo weak and Hildi did not do much better. I guess meet the press condones political liars and has no problem providing the platform. Really diminished show credibility.
Bachman and Santorum like all the other teaparty phonies will timidly endorse Romney cause in the end it's all about beating Obama. All that she and he have said about him goes out the window. They alone with their teaparty followers will vote for the moderate, Mormon Mitt Romney. She has no credibility and neither do her teaparty fans. This entire republican race has been nothing in the end but a circus with the main event of Romney on stage in the end pretending at being severely conservative. Total bs!!
But will mr etch-a-sketch become a liberal like how he was in massachusetts. It just goes to show that michele isn't any more a true conservative than romeny is. No. No. They all march to mr grover's drummer until they are forced to do something else. And the worst part is that romeny will transform again if he becomes president. Just like the bushman did a 100% uturn. Saying he would control co2 like al gore before the election, then saying we must invade iraq for its oil the day he took office.
wow. the cat in the hat
wow.....momentous.....
“I have said that I want my voice to be one of uniting our party, the independents, the main stream, the conservatives, evangelicals, the tea party movement,”
I'm sorry, princess. But YOU only represent the evangelicals and douche baggers.
You need to work on, "Praying away the douche baggery". You have absolutely no chance with independents, or the main stream (isn't that supposed to be "lame stream?).
Now you run along and go play with your gay "husband" and his latest "client".
U R History.
Do we need a sign from God to tell her?
HaHa - and they wonder why we don't respect 'em!!?? Bachman's "Newt-Romney" attacks during the debates are still ringing in my ears yet she is a fan or Romney now? Do these people have any actual friends? I can't imagine wanting to socialize with someone whose words clearly mean nothing.
did y'all watch Palin last night on Fox..she was like a lost puppy..
"Failed Policies" the current emotion attracting cry of Republicans. Any objective and rational analysis shows that once again they seek to use ridiculous claims to stir emotions and con the people in order to manipulate public opinion. For eight years Bush-Cheney placated and patronized the very wealthy and ignored their responsibilities to the majority, taking the people for granted, totally proving the "trickle down" theory to be a complete fraud only making the wealthy wealthier and soliciting political support. That is what the Republican / Tea Party advocates as their solution and what they want to return to as evidenced in their constantly protecting the interests of the few, their consistently blocking and faulting all efforts, their never offering bipartisan cooperation or even compromise and their aggressive intimidation of their own to assure unity behind the interests of "the money" who strongly support them. Who really has the "failed policies" and the nerve to want the people to support "more of the same" Bush-Cheney style? Totally ridiculous!
what sad is working people believe them..they voted in walker..and are now mad but we warn them.but they just keep doing it
I cant wait to see her sponsors put her picture on the front of fruit loops..box of cereal. did i get that right
So, her statement was that Mitt could save the economy because he is a businessman. Yeah, buying, bankrupting and selling companies and thowing people out of work. How would putting people out of work help the US. BTW, the recession was started and encouraged by an MBA President.
Last I heard, private employment has increased enough to outweigh all the public sector jobs cut by Republican Governors. Can you imagine where it would be if they had actually passed bills in Congress to keep firfighters, police officers and teachers on the job??? But the Republicans shot that down and continue to give tax breaks to the wealthy. They even want to increase those tax breaks and balance it by taking away from the middle class and poor.
Anyone who votes Republican and is not wealthy is voting to bankrupt themselves.
yes just move to Texas we are retarded here ..they just keep voting in Perry
“her statement was that Mitt could save the economy because he is a businessman.”
We have had two “businessmen” in the White House over the last 80 years. One was George W. Bush and the other was Herbert Hoover. What kind of shape was the economy in when those two left office?
I actually came here from Texas, back when they still had any smarts and weren't being run by the oligarchy that is in charge there now. Sad, very sad.
not anymore
CHARLIE: Agreed. I've made this very point countless times but it seems to have no effect on our friends on the Right. Dubya was touted as the first "corporate" President and he left our economy in a shambles. And it begs the question, if business experience is so all important, they how come the Right views The Gipper, as their all time great??? He was just a 3rd rate cowboy actor.
The Great Depression occured after 3 GOP administrations Coolidge, Harding & Hoover. Need I say more?
charlie/mel ---- right on.
ozzie boy --- i don't think the gipper was rated even as high as third rate. another corporate president should about due us in.