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Jim Young / Reuters
Sources close to the Romney campaign said Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is expected to endorse the Republican presidential hopeful at a campaign event on Thursday sources close to the campaign say.
Orlando, Fla. and Pentagon City, Va. – Michele Bachmann will endorse Mitt Romney during a campaign event Thursday in Portsmouth, Virginia, sources within the Romney campaign told NBC News.
The news comes at the tail end of a string of endorsements secured by Romney in recent weeks, following the departure of his chief rival in the race, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
Party leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry – a former fellow candidate – all soon fell in line.
But Bachmann’s endorsement may represent another kind of victory for Romney, who has tried for months to woo support from the same Tea Party Republicans who found a hero in Bachmann last summer, propelling her own brief run for President.
In Bachmann, he has one of their leaders in his corner.
Bachmann’s former campaign manager, Keith Nahigian, insists the endorsement is outside the realm of politics, pointing to a friendship that developed between the two candidates last fall.
“She really liked Romney during all the debates. Really liked him behind the stage, behind the scenes,” Nahigian said. “He was so polite to her every time they saw each other.”
Nahigian was reached by telephone tonight as he left a fundraiser for Romney at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Pentagon City.
“Ever since she got out of the race, he’s called her,” Nahigian said.
For Bachmann, the endorsement represents the end of a journey from fiery presidential candidate slinging arrows at the establishment to self-described unifier.
“I want my voice to be one of uniting our party, the independents, the mainstream, the conservatives, evangelicals, the Tea Party movement,” she said during a recent appearance on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’"
“I’m waiting,” Bachmann said, “for our party to come together and help in that process.”
That moment seems to have arrived.
The mission to unify her party was not always evident during Bachmann’s run, when she made headlines for asserting Romney and another high-soaring candidate at the time, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, were each complicit in laying the groundwork for President Barack Obama’s national health care plan.
Bachmann created a single moniker for the candidates – “Newt Romney” – and during a bus tour in late December warned crowds that neither candidate could mount an attack on the issue.
“It's not going to happen with Mitt Romney,” Bachmann told a crowd inside a diner in Onawa, Iowa, on Dec. 27th.
“He put that system into effect in Massachusetts,” she continued, referencing the health care plan he launched as Governor in 2006.
Bachmann dropped out of the race on Jan. 4, a day after finishing last among the candidates competing in the Iowa caucuses.
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Everytime Mittens accepts one of nutbags endorsements he takes on the baggage they carry.
The GOP convention is going to be so interesting. They are going to all have to suck up to someone (Romney) they don't really like just like they had to with McCain. This is result of having such nutty policies you cannot have a candidate actually run on them. You can only run someone who previously denounced this extremism but now appears to be so intimidated they won't do it again. People say, 'Is Romney really that Far Right?'. And his camp must then give the impression that its all a big facade.
Romney and McCain both had to hold their noses and sell their souls to get the nomination. But then they have to try to look sane again in the fall and that's not easy in this age where every moment is recorded for prosperity.
We, the 99% American People, wonder just HOW MUCH SUPERPAC MONEY was spent on her! We're sure they wasted their money, her mouth is MUCH LARGER than her BRAIN! This was obvious when she tried to get some votes for herself! Another corrupt Republican corporate political puppet, just as bad or worse than exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH! They are responsible with their corrupt OIL & FINANCIAL corporates for our GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE! Because of them, they have destroyed the 99% American People's way of life which will take many years to recover AND ONLY IF, we, the 99% Americans VOTE 100% DEMOCRATIC, the lives we'll save WILL be OURS & our CHILDREN, not just the 1% and their children!!
What a loser, just like Newt. No backbone!
YAY! He's doomed.
KvbAZ hit it on the head, we are much too prone to be dems or reps BEFORE we are Americans. Talk about the tail wagging the dog. What we have here is not a democracy, it is a country run by the rich, for the rich and to hell with everyone else.
Many seem to vote repug because they think they will be 1%'ers. Well, the 1% don't want you. They want it all to themselves, don't you get it?
The day the supremes said it was ok for corporations to be people and money is free speech was a dark day for America. We just got auctioned off to the highest corporate bidder. Well done supremes, well done.
We need to vote them all, reps and dems, out and start over with honest people. Not failures who cannot make it in the real world. There was never any intent for politics to be a life-long appointment. We need campaign finance reform, lobbying reform, and real term limits for ALL elected offices.
When will we realize that it is not a republican thing or a democrat thing, the true enemy is career politicians and their corporate masters.
Really?! Who cares what tha looney-bin has to say.
WOW that will really help.
Flipper Romney...sometimes you need to follow Nancy Reagan and
JUST SAY NO
Just what he needs a birther, gay basher, Jesus told me to run and I will win, crazy talking, Whack Job
Romney gets my vote. Obama is way too liberal and wants to force his agendas on the American people.
Sounds like all Presidents/Politicians.
Wars/Womens Rights/How your tax dollars will be allocated/Toture/Easedropping-wiretapping on Americans etc.
So unless you were just born, you have missed 200 years of US politics.
P.S. Since you don't like Obama's agenda what agenda are you liking that Romney backs today, because it will change tomorrow? JUST ASKING
STOP THE PRESSES
"Romney surges in the lead of Obama with Bachman endorsement.
Obama gives up office for fear of landslide victory by Romney.
Romney Flip Flops and decides to not be President so he can focus on another hobby"
No Romney will quit to do a reality show like Palin. He can show what it's like to have to make the hard decisions on which car gets to ride the elevator or which company to buy and close so he can make more money or which country to store his millions to avoid paying taxes in the USA. Actually that one he could do an infomercial for his rich friends.
...BACHMANN, Just do "somthing" in Washington,D.C. that makes your constituents proud.. and stay backstage out of Mitt Romney's way..
1. OBAMANATION and his ILLEGAL CZARS = Socialist aiming at Fascism...
2. Mitt Romney, Brilliant Business-man = Counterfeit Conservative...
3. :RON PAUL" CONSTITUTIONALIST = RE-CYCLE Washington,D.C. and Fumigate our beloved WHITE HOUSE...
God Bless America... AGAIN... without OBAMANATION and his ILLEGAL CZARS...
Bush put in more "Illegal" czars than ANYONE. Please do some fact checking
You have no idea what you are talking about. You are just spitting out meaningless dribble you heard on FOX. Describe in detail what an "illegal czar" is and list who these supposed people are. Define Fascism (without going to the dictionary or Google.) Get a life. Get an education. You and Bachman are peas from the same ignorant pod.
JIMBO
Oh my.
Help me without talking Fox points.
Name one CZAR that is Illegal?
Also you do know that term was coined by the press during WWII for various roles because in many cases their titles were very long. Oh remember the first DRUG CZAR was in the Reagan Admin....That commie.
Mitt- Is it brilliant to buy companies only to flip them for a profit like "flip this house" fire emploies and make millions? That may be brilliant if your only focus is money, but not for those working for you.
Lastly Mittens as Gov. the state ranked 47th in Job creation. BRILLIANT???
Everyone reading this blog needs to focus on his/her congressman/women and work very hard to get an intelligent, independent, progressive person elected in each district, and oust the "just say no" people currently in the House of Representatives. That is where the log jam exists. Nothing can get passed...legislation for rebuilding our infrastructure, for example, which would promote thousands of jobs. Throw the Tea Party into the Harbor.
What matters is their economic policies that include returning to the Bush administrations policies and a deregulated Wall Street and Banking industry, one thing that we have all hopefully learned is that these two groups are not capable of self regulation as they so stridently claimed they were before their calamitous crash in 2008. Romney's plan is more tax cuts for the rich, more taxes for the middle class, continued wars at the behest of corporate interests, more of the same impoverishing economic policies of the past 30 years. Trickle down does not work, the job creators aren't, give them a tax break and it'll end up overseas next to Romney Swiss Bank accounts and off shore assets.
Well that ought to about do it. Trump, Bachmann, Gingrich and when Santorum endorses him that will certainly do it for me. Lincoln would no doubt be proud.
Kind of did it for me when Rubio started following Romeny like a puppy.
Wow what a shocker, umm let's see Ricky gone, Newt gone, who's left? An old wacko or a rich flipper, gee wonder who all in the repub party will endorse. Not much of an endorsement when they all wait till everyone else drops out and they have no choice. Funny how none could stand him but now he is just the greatest, and he kept calling her, he had to beg her to endorse him now can't wait for the big revelation that the bobble head Palin joins in, guess she had to wait til she had no choice either.
This is nothing more than someone getting in position for hopefully a cabinet job. She really doesn't like Romney because he is more of a liberal than anything else. Anyone that backs Romney is looking for a cabinet job and it has always been this way. I am voting Romney because the simple fact he is the lesser of the two evils.
Secretary of Agriculture so she can play with corn cobs.
Wow, what an ego she has. Like anyone would be swayed by her endorsement. The women is a disgrace and an idiot. She needs to be voted out of office.
Who Cares
I caught a bit of Keith Oberman putting Michael Steele (right wing dillate) on the coals for no Foreign Policy from Romney, yet. Would also like to Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, Economic Plans, his Taxes and I would like to see Romney's birth certificate.
KEITH OBERMAN. Better question yourself for watching him. Is he even on TV any more. He is a liberal wrack job and I wouldn't mention that you actually watched him or people like Bill Maher for that matter. Those are 2 people that call Sarah Palin and Michele Bachman the c word and give Obama money for his campaign and Obama accepts it. Shows you what kind of guy he is too
Another hypocrit joins the parade hoping that Mitt will pay off their campaign debts.
Really? Can he do that? Or the bigger question is "Should he do that?"
Her ENDORSEMENT!!!! Doesn't this silly twit know he is the only candidate she can endorse....not that her opinion matters. Go back to where ever barbara and help your husband marcus pick out a nice gown for the inauguration party.
Thats michelle....not barbara folks....it's quite early here on the west coast.
I thought that the GOP CRAZY TRAIN had left.
No, no, Palin has to chime in yet. Talk about being irrelevant.
Um... Didn't she already back Newt with her husband Todd? Oh wait, she's the one with the gay husband. My bad.
They're all falling in line. After months of slamming Mitt for not being a true right-winger, now he's their choice. If Michelle, Newt and Rickey had any scruples, they would form a third party and challenge the establishment. Imagine if they merged with Ron Paul supporters. It would be fun to watch the debates.
Obama/Biden 2012!!!!!!!
Ah man is that funny. You made a good joke there, Obama/Biden 2012, lol
Oh God that's funny!!!
The party of divisiveness, division, obstruction and self interest wants to unify???
Hahahahahahahahhaha!!!