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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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To: jkatze
She is Sarah Palin re-incarnate. With backers like her, Romney should just pack it and go home to one of mansions
With Bachmanns endorsement Romney has now locked up the "Voters with 26 teeth or less block"!
Dentistry severely cuts into the ammunition budget.
I apologize...I used to think "Fox News" was just a conservative mouthpiece...and so I forgave them (a little) as a balance to the DNC/Liberal mouthpieces masquarading and "News Orginizations"...But this primary season has proved I was wrong...They (Fox) attacked every conservative voice, often with more vigor than MSDNC, and carried the water for the RNC appointed nominee (Romney)
If you are Listening, Mr. Paul (either or both) please run as a third party nominee, because I really don't want to vomit at the polling station...
America needs a choice...Paul/Paul 2012
LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO ! ! ! bachmann the fruit loop ROTFLMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMOA LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO ! ! !
You all get the picture correct ???
God bless America ! ! !
Which party is really for the people of this country and which party is really pushing these, who are the real collectivist in this country?
Does any of this sound like what the top 1%, GOP governors and the GOP in Washington have done and are doing with their NO votes against helping the country and its populous.
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays. T-Party town hall meeting Koch Bros.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. Boy did we see this recently
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people is rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc. Who does this sound like when there are so many terrible things said about our leader
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized. Which party is continually fighting for more military spending above helping the middle class?
5. Rampant Sexism - to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution. This sound right with 1,100 women rights laws passed in States across the country. Which party passed these?
8. Religion and Government are intertwined - Using the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions. Ryan's budget church is against it.
9. Corporate Power is protected - The industrial and business are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite. Which party voted NO to not deregulating Wall Street and big corporations
10. Labor Power is suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed. Which party is going after our labor union and collective bargaining rights and literally removing locally elected officials from towns and cities, install puppet leaders (Emergency Managers) or even corporations to take over, and drop all existing contracts the locale is bound to, including, of course, collective bargaining agreements. This is happening in Michigan right now, so far at least 6 towns have been taken over, Michigan Governor is removing Democracy, IS YOUR STATE NEXT.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. Which party is voting to cut education and eliminate public schools?
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Autocracy regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in autocracy regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. Sounds like ALEC started by GOP
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in autocracy nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against the opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Autocracy nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections. Just how many GOP State Governors have passed voting laws?
Well my friends I left out a few words that would really be what this type of take over sounds like and it seems by the GOP standard and timetable we are coming really close to being a police run country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Your right, in that OBAMANATION and ILLEGAL CZARS have passed more then 10,000 pages of regulation in 2012, and its only May. These "LAWS"/ "REGULATIONS" further stiffle our ECONOMY..
"GOD WHO GAVE US LIFE GAVE US LIBERTY".. THomas Jefferson!
"Our Constitution was made only for a "moral" and "religious" people. IT is wholly inadequate to the government of any other kind".. John Adams
God Bless America...AGAIN... without OBAMANATION and his ILLEGAL CZARS.
She has about as much choice in the matter as the rest of us do.
The votes have already been counted...they are just waiting until November for the announcement
PAUL/PAUL 1012
I think this is kinda scary. The fact that a person thinks they can change the minds a large group of people just because she says hey this guys is alright? I think our politicians think they hold more sway over people than they actually do. The GOP is fundamentally fractured at this moment. Then it makes no sense that her manager says it is not about politics, then she follows that up with a "I want to be the unifying voice"? I think the problem with America is that we believe we are Democrat then Republican first....then American, not the other way around.
This has to be the biggest collection of demos on record posting here. No one fells that the truth of the matter is that Obummeris a total looser!!! We have more problems today than ever before. I am retired and on a fixed income which has not changed very much over the years, and I know that pre-Obummer I was living somewhat over middle class, now with the prices of EVERYTHING up, my buying power is way down and, if lucky, I am now upper lower income bracket and I do not like it or Obummer.
Go drink your tea
Wow, talk about self importance. Because ol' Michelle endorses Romney, the GOP will become unified. LOL. I'm sure the GOP is just hanging on her every word.
I'm sure most of my fellow Democrats have covered this-I haven't read their posts. Michele Bachman couldn't help unite two people, let alone unite the party. She is a walking-talking idiot. Her endorsement could only hurt the party, not that I care about that. Most of the fallen candidates will say-for the parties chance to elect Mitt Romney that they will endorse him. It's like drinking sour milk, hold their nose and drink and after it is swallowed, then it upset you stomach. Same effect, they don't really mean it, only going along as a Republican. As a Democrat though, I love it as it shows a undivided party, regardless of what they say.
Republicans ,wrong for the U.S. , President Obama cleaning up Bush mess since 2009. Democrats, cleaning up the Republican mess for a lot longer than that. OBANA/BIDEN --2012
Romney will do well to have a strong woman like Bachman for Vice President
Exactly, so many women want to be relegated back to the 1950's pregnant and barefoot.
It's their lifes goal.
The new Republican mantra is "I didn't like him before I liked him". The whole Party flip flops so much one never knows who is the one they like today, or yesterday, or last week, or last month or later today. I guess the credibility factor gets cemented when Bachman makes her announcement. Whether that will be the one for today, or will it be the one for tomorrows press call, no one knows for sure. Republicans just don't get it.
suck on my big ten inch... record
If people would examine what President Clinton did and what President Obama is trying to do, it is the same and Clinton had a balanced budget and our deficit was in the black. What happened since Clinton left office will be one for the record books, because what happened is why we are where we are at today.
We can not just forget the years between 2001-2008 and act like it did not happen, President Obama was elected into office in 2008 not 2001 and he did not come into a government that had a balanced budget and our deficit was in the black. Some will say what he did was wrong, some will say what he did was right, some will say he should have done more
But since 2007 the GOP has voted NO and Filibuster 95% of ever bill that would have put us back on the track Clinton had us on. And there is proof of this just look at the voting records in these years these votes can not be taken back or disputed they are on records in both the house and Senate.
Every jobs bill, the bill that would stop giving corporations large tax refunds, loopholes, or subsides, bills to stop sending jobs overseas, bills to stop giving large tax break to send jobs overseas, every bill that would have helped our economy. Now can anyone vote NO to an Infrastructure bill but the GOP did every time it came to the floor unanimously, Infrastructure is what built this country, what made this country great. The GOP has stuck together for the pass 3-4 years refusing to compromise even on the simplest of bills, even bills that in the pass had been passed by a voice vote, even bills they voted yes on before 2007, even bills they themselves help to write then turned around and voted NO. The GOP has not allowed anything to get through that would help the people of this country or the country itself.
RanMarie, you are so right !
"We can not just forget the years between 2001-2008 and act like it did not happen,"
True enough. Bush did it!
But you liberals want to forget the years 2009-2012, in which Obama has been a massive failure as President, by any measure.
Obama did it....the worst economic record since Hoover.
Wow,,Michelle Bachmann, her endorcement wouldn't buy a cup of coffee at a cat house .
Exactly, and those abortion providers are so mean and spiteful.
Why do these failed twits (Gingrich, Santorum, Cain, Perry) think they count for anything??
got to love those crazy eyes
There has to be away to make this thing shut up. there is stupid - then there is STUPID - she is suppose to be there to help the people - not make sure the scum republicans get together.
ROMPNEY YO-YO is surely a LOSER No doubt about it, and a CLOWN when you are getting ENDORSEMENTS from ALL THE OTHER LOSERS. And Boy this TEA SHYSTER BACHMAN is a radical loser !!!
Run all of them through a BRAIN SCAN see what you get A NAZI EMBLEM !!
She should just get together with her husband and "pray" Obama away.
I liked Newt Gingrich, at least Newt stuck to the issues and if ask a question, he would say yes or no, not drag the question out for days, and days, I can't believe the American people are putting up with all the garbage, there needs to be ONE party and work together to solve issues, not fighting all the time. OH but that would make to much sence. these other two clowns stink. and as for bachmann, who cares, shes a freek, wommney has no clue how to run a jack in the box much less this country. Being pres. is not easy, hard choices need to be made on the fly not form a commity to study the problem for months on eand. theres no back bone in comgress anymore, and it's a shame. as for as you speel freeks and geeks, I hope I spelled all the words right, I wouldn't want to offend anyone., ho no I mispelled (spell and oh)
While we are at it lets THROW ALL OF CONGRESS AND THE BONER BRAIN REGIME !!!!
All HUMAN-LESS SLUGS !!!
terry, instead of hurling insults why don't you provide what you think the causes are of your dilema? I mean really, do you actually think that your economic position was the result of the last three years? If you've gone from "over-middle class" to a "lower income" status you're doing something wrong.
No doubt prices have gone up and will continue to do so. If you are retired you should have a history behind you that makes that point obvious. What you're experiencing is the result of decades of bad policy. Please bleat on...
Now mittens has secured the right wing, wacko, bibble thumping, homophobic, tea bagged, insane vote. Always want those fringe groups to back you up. The tp/American taliban has spoken.
mittens, like the sane among us, probably wishes the deranged biotch would just stfu and go away. Shouldn't she and her "man" be praying the gay away somewhere?
The more I see of the teapublicans, the more liberal I become.
Wow! Worst endorsement ever? I'm sure others have done this but way to give your blessing when everyone else has dropped out. What a flake Bachman.