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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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...All Mitt Romney has to do is take one promise at time from OBAMANTION's 2008 campaign. PROMISE then & RESULTS now.. "Hope and Change" turned into "Dispair and Failure.. Voters have (3) choices:
1. OBAMANATION and his ILLEGAL CZARS = Socialist aiming at Fascism.
2. Mitt Romney a Brilliant Business-man = Counterfeit Conservative.
3. "RON PAUL" a CONSTITUTIONALIST = War Hero and Generous Doctor who will RE-CYCLE Washington,D.C. and Fumigate our beloved WHITE HOUSE.
God Bless America... AGAIN... without OBAMANATION and his ILLEGAL CZARS...
The choices really do suck. But, as Obama yammered last time, we do know it is time for "change." And he is not it.
This is rich “Bachmann hopes to unify party with Romney endorsement” the only thing that will do this is to go back to before Newt Gingrich was speaker of the House and turned the GOP into the monstrous party it has become. You kind of have to wonder why the Republicans were out of power for forty years. Maybe they were like this before.
Newt Gingrich put together a document of words to use to help the republicans and to destroy the democrats and they are still using this method today.
Gingrich helped Republicans seize control of the House of Representatives in 1994, the first they had the house since the 1940’s and look at the mess they made of it. He did this with the help of “key words” tested by pollster Frank Luntz, who designed the “Contract with America.”
And boy did they ever use the negative words against the democrats
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-09/will-newt-s-way-with-words-erase-our-memory-commentary-by-jonathan-alter.html
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000555.html
Here's the question: How many times between now and November will the Romney campaign be issuing statements to the effect...."Michelle Bachmann is not a spokesperson for Governor Romney. Her statements are her own and in no way represent the ploicies of Governor Romney". I say at least 3 times.
The welfare queen's endorsement of lyin Willardo does not mean much. It just adds another criminal bacvker 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.
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, like Jo, 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.
If I were a Bachmann follower, That would send me to Ron Paul, not Romney, the Obamalite.
Quote: Why has 5 of the last 6 recessions been under Republican Presidents?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States
Above is a list of all the periods in which the US economy was OFFICIALLY, according to the government in recession.
So let’s take a look at the last 6 recessions Lets see:
2008 recession : GW Bush (R)
2001-2003: GW Bush (R)
1990-1991: HW Bush (R)
1980-1982: Carter (D)
1973-1975: Ford (R)
1957-1958: Eisenhower(R)
Now I perfectly understand economics 101 and that the Economy is cyclical. But is it me or do you see a trend here, are Republican Presidents just unlucky when it comes the economy? Or is there something more at play here?
And let us not forget the Great Depression came after 3 Republican Presidents in a row. Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.
Now I’m not sticking up for Carter but he did come into office after the Nixon/Ford debacle.
Agreed, but judging some of the posts on this and other message boards, you honestly expect these people to understand macroeconomic principles? Hell, just look at what they voted for over the past 30 years!!!!
She figured out how to get around paying taxes. If she had some integrity she would demand that the monies the taxes are spent for are for women health, public education public safety and infrastructure, high speed trains that criss cross the country, stop the monies into the oil and that destroy our water(BP) and likely Alaska our last frontier and not for cooperations, or for tricke down theories. She was a company man and that means no mind, no thinking, just robotic responses. This seems to be the results of extreme religion which ever religion. Not a good sign for them.
SHE'S BAAAAAACK!!! Geez, She couldn't stay out of the lime light. Romney needs all the help he can get though. That is even if the help is gonna lay on a hurt.
The "Queen of Ignorance" endorsing Mitt!!! Good luck on that one. Mitt, you can kiss your campaign a.s.s goodby!!! She will undoubtedly make some stupid comment when she endorses him.
With Friends like Bachman who needs enemas!
Who left the Asylum doors open again???
Romney/Bauchman - let's finish the clown show with a bang!
Oh, this is just great. Just what Mitt needed. Another endorsement from another GOP "fringe lunatic".
Wow, way to go out on a limb there Bachmann. How were you able to select from so many remaining candidates?? If this doesn't show real leadership skills, I don't know what does.
"No, he cannot beat Obama because his policy is the basis for Obamacare. The signature issue of Obama is Obamacare. You can't have a candidate who has given the blueprint for Obamacare. It's too identical. It's not going to happen. We have to have a candidate, a bold distinct candidate in the likeness of Ronald Reagan."
-Michelle Bachmann
Now he's the man? I guess Ron Paul is just too conservative for the GOP. Nothing but a bunch of pro-life democrats anymore. I sure do miss my Grand Ole Party of yesteryear.
All Obama has to do is keep his mouth shut and he's re-elected. If the idiots who have made their bid for the white house this go around is the best the GOP can come up with, it looks like the dems have a nice long career ahead of them.
Keep'em coming boys...we'll send them packing! LOL Anyone seen Cain or Perry on the back of milk cartons yet?
If Gov. Romney is nothing else, he's magnet for the insane.
...As a "REAGANITE INDEPENDENT", I can only hope she stays in her own state. Mitt Romney will overcome this obstacle and carry her state anyway...
...This article was written by the libby-jerks for the lefty-jerks...
God Bless America... AGAIN... without OBAMANATION and his ILLEGAL CZARS...
Bachmann????Gosh, she's like a bad t#rd that won't flush and just keeps floating back up in the toilet. This is more of a death sentence. Now with Barbara and George Bush endorsing Romney along with this nutcase I'm sure to vote Obama now.
I believe it is time for the Republican Party to have another forty year hiatus, they have totally lost their way, the GOP that are in the most powerful positions in the States, Senate and House are no longer thinking of the Country and its populous as a whole and first, but has been convinced that greed and corruption is the answer. You can not worship two Gods one will always lose out, and at this point in the party it is their communities and citizens that are losing big time.
If the populous really want things like policemen, firemen, teachers, education for their children, overseas trade, Infrastructure jobs, Medicare, Social Security, and cheaper health care for all, this can only be done one way, taxes and if we do not want to tax just people making under $80,000 then it is either totally eliminate these things or began to create jobs so more money is going back into the system or tax people more that is making the big money and literally is not using it to improve the situation in this country but is hording it or taking it out of the country.
I suppose Bachmann is only doing what Norquist and the Koch brothers directed her to do. If she wants to run for her seat in Congress, she needs to comply with their directives or she will be back working as a receptionist at her husband's government sponsored ersatz "medical" clinic.
Seriously, Romney is in a tough spot on the issue of capable women. No doubt Obama's minions will attack the insane Mormon philosophy that women are not equal - Romney cannot rationally state that is not their belief. (Liberals love attacking religion anyway) The best defense against this is to choose a strong female running mate. But, if he does that, he will offend the old school Mormon supporters, especially up in Salt Lake - they will be enraged.
Useless arrogant b1tch
Always remarkable to me how the ostensibly tolerant and accepting Dems are so vicious in their attacks on people who do not share their ideals. Reminds of that scene from Forest Gump where the guy justifies slapping his girlfriend Jenny because of that "goddam Nixon."
LOL Lee...you don't read this discussion area much, do you? I have never seen more hateful sh1t than the stuff GOP supporters post. The right wing is incredibly disdainful of anything left wing.
And, it is funny that you mention Forrest Gump. How appropriate to think of the "stupid is as stupid does" guy in any discussion of Michele Bachmann!!
The Republicans are trying to pull the wool over our eyes again, just who else could this bimbo endorse besides Romney, they want us to think she had a choice. Now she is backing him all the way, hilarious, afrter trying to cut his throat for months. He just might be better off without her or Newt backing him and I guess Cain will quit backing Newt and support Romney too. Hilarious and the democrats would do the same thing too, as they did last election, maybe we get her or toad as the new secretary of state...lmho
I am writing in Ron Paul the only logical choice of all these people.