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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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Let me sleep on it,
Baby baby, let me sleep on it
Let me sleep on it
I'll give you my answer in the morning
ABO
Anybody But Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeh we know yall like retarded people.
corporations love those kind of leaders they get what ever they want.in new laws..bet your one of the corporations to. you are people now
You must be on the lower half of the IQ bell curve. Why don't you do a write in vote for Reagan....
hahahaha
President Obama 2012
Another Granny for Obama/Biden 2012
Crazy sure does know crazy...
Jesus H Christ! Even Jason Linkins on Huffpo didn't touch this show this morning. Even too crazy for him I guess.
hahahaha
is it just me or did a poor person or a lots business men put us in the pooper
lolololol told by the Elite GOP to get in line behind Romney!!! Looks like the GOP can get the fringe in line also lololololol
A poor person can not hire someone...so how did we get in the mess .oh from a business man
Most jobs come from small businesses. Most small business owners are anything but wealthy. Many are financially strapped, investing everything into their business. The idea that "rich" and "job creator" are synonymous is a lie.
I know many small business owners. Mom and pop types. They cannot stand the so called "trickle down." Customers are dwindling. And sure. Cut off the food stamps. If you live in a small rural area, you are cutting off the food customers who keep these small businesses alive..
Slow news day, WHO CARES WHAT SHE SAYS......
You know you're career is at an all time low when you receive an endorsement from the likes of Bachmann. Is this woman completely nuts or what.
Someone should break the news to her that her husband, who runs a clinic to "pray away the gay" is awfully light in the loafers himself. How could a woman be so blind and naive to be married to a man like this and be blissfully unaware of her husband's sexual leanings???
Sane minds will prevail.
Who gives a {blank} what she thinks? If I was undecided, her opinion would be more likely to sway me the opposite way.
Romney clearly does not have respect for stay-at-home mom's.
He RECENTLY said in a discussion about welfare reform that stay at home parents who receive assistance should be forced to work,....so that they could gain the "dignity" of work.
Does that sound like he respects the work of stay at home mothers ?
The GOP are so painfully hypocritical it isn't even funny.
Watch this clip for PROOF >>>>> #47053808
Gregory should be taken off the air. He has no format and besides who gives a rats ass about Bachman or Palin? These are nobody's of yesterday. Bring some interesting people that have some brain and make sense.
backman is nobody.she's a has been long forgtten.like it's gonna make me vote for romney.on the contrary, if i were romney i would refuse her endorsement.
The suspense is tolerable...
Hehe... Funny (really).
Bachmann endorses Romney: "It's the kiss of death for Mr. Goldfinger" (sic)
Michele Bachman has about one molecule of brain as there are candidates left to endorse. Who cares what Michele Bachman endorses?
Her endorsement carries the weight of a fly.
michelle botchmann should dye her hair blond. sorry, no offense to real blonds.
I thought we were done with this nutcase! She has proven over and over again how nutty she is, and at the same time taking money from the tax payers to foster kids (only girls), farm subsidies, and for her husbands so called clinic.
Nuttier than squirrel turds, as our redneck neighbors would say, lol
Her husband's "Pray the Gay Away" clinic is hilarious!
She can do like the rest of them... Hold her nose and endorse him... and then, watch him lose!
Seriously...whoever wrote this article sincerely believes someone gives a _rap about who crazy lady endorses. Actually...maybe we should...if she likes him...maybe we shouldn't!!!
Coming from someone defending the likes of mentally challenged Bachmann, your "important reasons" just translated to "I'm an idiot and I will defend and vote for idiots." Aren't you proud?
manuela da rocha --- it's a sad state of affairs when the current republican party will endorse such terrible candidates. some of the old time republicans are certainly rolling in their graves.
People, just ignore Manuela. He/She thinks that Hitler never declared war on America. I think Manuela is a high school drop out.
Oh dear. You're confused. Let me help you. It doesn't make it "obvious" they are Democrats. It makes it obvious they have a working brain. Unlike the mentally challenged morons who actually listen to the wacko bimbos Palin and Bachmann for anything other than a belly aching laugh. Oh, right. That would make you a republicon.
This is what the GOP has done to us all...
Under Reagan and Bush: $3.4 Trillion increase in the debt.
Under George W. Bush: $6.1 Trillion.[1]
Total: $9.5 Trillion. (without counting interest)
But wait, there's interest on that debt ...
GO HOME YOU TRICKLED DOWN ECONOMIC REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE STEAL FROM THE DIRT POOR AND GIVE TO THE FILTHY RICH 1%ers '' H I P O C R I T !!!!!!!!!
Just like a mortgage, the debt earns interest, and so the Reagan-Bush-I debt grew during the Clinton years. The average debt interest rate in those years was about 6.5%, which would increase it over 50% without compounding, but with compound interest the total debt – including interest – increased by $2.2 trillion.
Total Republican debt from above: $9.5 trillion
Interest on Reagan-Bush debt under Clinton: $2.2 trillion
Interest in $11.7 trillion after G. W. Bush: $0.3 trillion (detailed calculation)
Grand total Reagan-Bushes Debt: $12 trillion (as of Sept. 30, 2010).
If the Republicans had not run up this $12 Trillion debt, we could easily have pulled out of the Great Recession.
Actually, all that debt was what the democrats did to us. You need to remember that 80% of the debt accumulated under Reagan, Bush and Bush was written and passed by democrats. Please educate yourself and don't fall for talking points. You are falling for propaganda. Please study more and get your information from a wide variety of sources instead of left wing media that constantly distorts the truth.
PutAmericaFirst. Just like a rightie. Blame the other party. If the dems passed all the bills.......who signed them? Hmmmmm, that would be the Republican President. Strange how that works isn't it?