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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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I caught Romney spewing more lies yesterday about the current administration not being small business friendly (with the usual gallery of bobbleheads behind him).
The facts are that the current administration has pushed and passed more than a dozen tax breaks for small businesses and continues to look for ways to promote growth in the private sector. Do you think any of these whack jobs would bother to do a little research and understand the truth?
He just lies through his teeth and the right voter block just ignores it. Remarkable!
Kinda like the Left Voter Block with the Greatest Liar of all time........Barack Hussein Obambam, huh??? Tell you what, Chipper, if your King has done so many wonderful things for Small Business, why are they NOT SUPPORTING HIM FOR RE-ELECTION???? And just who are his constituents??......look closely........ANYONE HE CAN BUY!!!!!! That's you....HO!!!
Wow. Bitter much? Of course, you probably should be. Mitt doesn't have a snowballs's chance in what you call hell, to win this election, and you know it.
I support Obama and he can't buy me. I don't need anything from him. Millions of us support his re-election for reasons other than economic. While the economy is important, other issues need to be considered. His handling of foreign affairs and the war on terrorists have been excellent. Moreover, his presidency will protect us from radical right-wing judges, who wish to take us back to the 1950's. The religious fanatics in the GOP are lying in wait to pack the federal courts with extremists, who wish to establish a Christian theocracy. A vote for Obama and the Democrats will prevent these cretins from destroying our freedoms.
Bachmann wants to unify the party,,,,How do unify a cracked nut???? Enquiring minds want to know,,,,,
Elephant people Bahahahah
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 his real passion, buying companies and firing employees"
Readonlymemory-flute (ROM- NEY) wishes this did not happen
Big announcement. Ummmmm....wonder what Michelle Bachman wants. Perhaps she to has campaign debts like Newt and wants Mr. Romney to pay them off. These bottom feeders all want something and most of the time it is money.
This is not news!
Only a completely arrogant b1tch would believe that HER endorsement can unify an entire party. Your party and its followers dismissed you in the GOP bid for a presidential candidate. What is sad is that she is so self-involved that she truly cannot see how irrelevant she is.
Not surprised. A flip flopper supporting another flip flopper. What was all that rhetoric she spewed only 3 months ago about Newt Romney? Just another politician who speaks with forked tongue.
The bank-eyed skank wants to borrow some money from 2-faced Mittens. Her gov't welfare checks aren't coming in fast "enuff".
BTW: Obama/Biden win in 2012! No doubt!!
Bachman endorses for cabinet czar position
Sec. of Dis-information
I can see that all of the most intelligent Liberal minds are posting on this site.......wow, no wonder Obama was elected........The Village Idiot found a home......MSNBC, and the entirety of its' viewers .......I count 105. Trouble in fantasyland for the DIMS>
Why don't you go follow the lemmings off the cliff on Faux News. Surely you'll find Michelle Bachmann there making her very important announcement while Sean Hannity looks on with a firm one in his pants.
Why does it seem as if people like Moderate in Madison come to a known liberal blog and complain about it being so liberal? As stupid as going into a sharktank and complaining about the fishies having sharp teeth. Worse, you count all but yourself. I guess you truly don't count even by your own count.
Hey, Kevin... you should catch Mod's b!tchin' & whinin" on the other vine about Newtie Tootie's campaign suspension.
Moderate in madison... is a real neo-nutty turd & "laff" riot!
Oooohhhh, the Mittster gets Bachmann's endorsement. Wonder what he's gonna do with that.
Probably beat off in the corner somewhere.
Now Michelles "husband" can get Romney to give up the digits of Ric Grenell so they can "pray" away his gay with some deep, passionate, late night prayer sessions. They can get together and maybe even break out the book of mormon and have two fairy tales tell eachother fairytales.
I do believe Michelles husband was str8 until he got to know her.
What a sellout. The "conservatives" all just fall in line like mindless drones and vote for whoever sold their soul to Goldmann Sachs.
Backmann and Palin remind me of Thelma and Lousie. They ran off the cliff their political careers, holding hands, because they refused to turn in themselves for assaulting the American people with irrelevance, boredom and prideful insanity.
Warmongers unite! We can all agree that we must bomb everyone on the planet. It's the Christian thing to do. In that sense we are all evangelical conservatives, even Obama! lol
Ron Paul 2012
Earth to Michelle, Earth to Michelle, come in Michelle, come in Michelle.
What that lady been smokin?
The fumes from rocket fuel, no doubt. Newt, Michelle and Romney will all be good and high after they land on the moon in search of the New America. And the man on the moon says, "there goes the neighborhood!"
That's one way to ensure he'll never become president. He should run, not walk, from this endorsement.
This is a big huge news event how? Was it really a question as to who she would back. We can only hope she looses her bid for re-election. She is such a embarrassment to the State of Minnesota.
She should focus on whom her hubby is backing......
A flip-flopper being endorsed by a nut case while still entranced with pyscho views!
Obama 2012 and Hilary 2016!
Michele who?
Bold move waiting to announce that you're backing Romney until everyone else has dropped out, Michelle. You are truly a profile in courage. /sarcasm
The welfare queen's endorsement of lyin Willardo does not mean much. It just adds another criminal backer to his mix. Michelle (never tells the truth) Bachmann who takes government assistance money to back her family farm and mental health clinic is a total joke. She always speaks out against government welfare. unless it is for herself and dancing Marcus.
It all comes down to what the other two criminal repukes think about lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter and Etch A Sketch champion.
What is so funny is that these stupid, pathetic right wing cracked teanuts really think that lyin Willardo the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter and Etch A Sketch champion has a clue on how to provide jobs. This guy bankrupts companies and sends jobs overseas. He is all about corporate profits.
Is there any wonder why his opponents Nut Gingerhead, the criminal lobbyist and the Pope's boy Rick The Dick Sanitarium both agree that lyin Willardo is the worst person in history to ever run for the presidency, that he can't be trusted and that he will destroy our country.
Wake up you stupid repuke pathetic, braindead, psycotic, facists before it is too late.
Lyin Willardo will not even get half of tjhe Pope's boy, Rick the Dick Sanitarium's voters. He has them convinced, and rightly so, that lyin Willardo is a member of an evil cult and is the anti-christ. They are scared to death of this lying repuke criminal and don't trust him. Many will just stay home or vote for Obama.
Have any of the republicans figured it out yet? No matter how many shills you pay to appear on blogs and boards disparaging Obama or whatever name you choose, He is not running for president................. he is currently serving as the president and no magic wand can make that change or go away. Mitt is running for POTUS, Obama is the POTUS and is just campaigning for a second term. If he loses, he still wins. He has all the bennies from then on of having been president and none of the future headaches.
This endorsement from Bachman only comes on the heels of Romneys openly gay foreign policy advsor stepping down. If came on the heels of this departure much like Bachmans husband would love to come on the heels of another man rather than sleep with her. EEW!!!
REMEMBER Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn She is the one who wanted to cut all VETERAN BENEFITS. Congrats Romney on committing political suicide if you side with this Jane Fonda of the Republican. party!