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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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From my pespective, an endorsement from Ms. Bachman is a negative for Mr. Romney. I thought she was the weakest candidate in the field. I was hoping that Mr. Romney would steer clear of her. In my opinion, her central tendencies are to the right of convervatism - that's alarming.
Say what you want about Bachman, she might have been a weak candidate, but she has very strong ties with the Tea Party. Another group Romney could use to rally around him.
Romney/Bachmann 2012 Dee! Please god...
If you read my post, I wasn't suggesting that Bachman should be Romney's VP pick! Just that with her influence she could help him win over a group he has had problems with in the past. That's all I was saying.
Yes dear, but I sure WISH she would become Romney's VP!
Yes but the oddest endorsement of the year came directly from the RNC and Republican Party voters..."We are endorsing Obama for president, by selcting the candidate who could pass for Obama in a dark room"
Paul/Rice 2012
CAIN/SANDUSKY IN 2012. The true repuke family values candidates. Who cares whar they did in the past, they are both against abortion. Sandusky will help get the votes of the gay right wing rapist, pedophile priests that are not in jail as they look up to him for guidance.
The blind endorsing the blind.
You are probably not very interested in any used farm equipment but thought you might like to see this ad taken from Craig's List recently (good for a chuckle):
Fifty year old manure spreader - $1 ( Washington , D.C. )
Date: 2012-02-14, 10:21AM EST
Fifty-year old manure spreader. Not sure of brand. Said to have been produced in Kenya . Used for a few years in Indonesia before being smuggled into the US via Hawaii . Of questionable pedigree. Does not appear to have ever been worked very hard. Apparently it was pampered by various owners over the years. It doesn't work very often, but when it does it can really spread the manure and sling it for amazing distances.
I am hoping to retire this manure spreader next November, but I really don't want it hanging around getting in the way. I would prefer a foreign buyer that is willing to relocate this manure spreader out of the country.
I would be willing to trade this manure spreader for a nicely framed copy of the United States Constitution.
Location: Washington , DC
OBAMA GOT USAMA , OBAMA GOT USAMA , SING IT NOW , OBAMA GOT USAMA !!!! ; come on republicans , you don't have to be soooooo jealous !!!!!!!!
Correction, let's laugh....NAVY SEALS got bin Laden. Barack Hussein Obama was nice and comfortable and safe in the United States.
BEFORE you say...I am not a Republican, I am not a conservative. Just a liberal Democrat who really doesn't like Barack Hussein Obama.
Michael: Correction. A good commander in chief planned the operation. A stupid repuke dunce like Bush or lyin Willardo would not have had a clue as to what to do. They only thinks that they did. I guess lyi8n Willardo would have had the Navy Seals drive thru Pakistan with a dog tied to the roof of their car as a decoy. No one would notice that.
For: NazalBlow.
I will repeat the post I had before when you spoon fed us your braindead garbage.
NazalBlow.The only manure spreader is Lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter and Etch A Sketch Champion.
He is also the only candidate that was not born here. His daddy named him, appropriately after Willard The Rat, then gave him a second name "Mitt" after a baseball glove. When he was smuggled over here from his birthplace in Tijuana, his father changed the family name to Romney from Romero.
We still need to see the long form of this lying criminal's birth certificate. Maybe his new buddy Fox Top Trump will, ask him for it.
What you need, NazalBlow is another free personal vaginal ultrasound from the Pope's boy Rick the Dick Sanitarium to find out what happened to your missing brain. The first one was ineffective.
Words of a typical Obamanite:
They're coming back...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=e_JJLLfTR8I
Under Reagan and Bush: $3.4 Trillion increase in the debt.
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.
If the Republicans had not run up this $12 Trillion debt, we could easily have pulled out of the Great Recession.
NazalBlow. How did your free personal vaginal ultrasound by Rick the Dick Sanitarium go. I see that you may need another, the first did not seem to help you brain. You were more braindead than I thought.
Hmmmmmm? Did someone say something? Michelle? Michelle WHO? Pieffer? Obama?
Nope...Bachmann doesn't ring a bell....
While she was on the campaign trail she had a different view of Mitt and his chances of winning the election.
Bachwoman needs a million or two to pay off campaign debt. This women is fruit cake and should go the way of dodo bird, she can now live happily off the Government the rest of her crazy daze!!!!!!!! Talk about government waste.
hahahahahahahaha!...wants to unite the Republik Party.. hahahahahahaha!....please stop, my sides are hurting....hahahahahahahaha!......whew, but seriously, why does Rep. Bachman even think anybody is listening to her?? What arrogance/cluelessness!
Isn't this spacey-eyed, turd-blossom of a religious, family values party--still sucking the US gov't for welfare money for her gay husband & family?
Next up? The Alaskan Screech Owl...!
BTW: Obama/Biden win in 2012! No doubt!!
How is lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter and Etch A Sketch champion going to spin this one. He would have never had bailed out AIG, just let it go bankrupt and lose thousands of jobs. This so called buisness leader is a true idiot, and typical of the radical right wing cracked teanut pathetic, psychotic, facist idiots that think they know to fix anything. Here is today's news release by AIG.
American International
Group is selling assets and "cleaning up the volatility of the
stock" so it can pay back the U.S. government "with a profit of at least $10
billion" whenever the US wants to sell its shares, CEO Robert Benmoshe told
CNBC.
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The right wing radical crcaked teanut dunces (including NazalBlow) better look for a different candidate than the guy who was named after a famous rat and his second name after an old baseball glove.
This is the only guy that might be able to beat Obama, but when the repukes got done lying about him, you might think he was Satan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udzymvKOyCY&feature=related
Bachmann - who is this Bimbo? Stay clear of her and the likes of her. Those are poison pills.
With her endorsement, Mittens has a clinch on the crazy voters.
Obviously, all the Dems have to do is show clips from the Pubs debates.
Want to know why NOT to elect Mittens? Just ask the Pubs.
Going to be a lot of no-shows among Pubs on election day.
WOW!!! Ole Mitt got endorsed by the second most ignorant woman in America. Well, goodie for him. All he needs is Palin's endorsement and he will be 1-2 at the bottom of the heap. All the incredibly smart women in this country and he get's stuck with her. Sucks to be you Mitt.
It's starting to become more and more amusing.
Let it roll Michele, down the highway.
This is wonderful news...for us Dems! The wacko Moonbat From Minnesota has endorsed Mittens!
Sheesh, could you find a more clueless crazy to stand up for you?
Ooops, forgot Trump...a close second.
Job growth under Obama, in the plus column for the past 22 months coming at all of you haters and doomsayers...
It's raining cold hard facts here in the Demon's Lair...
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-01-23/politics/30485008_1_unemployment-rate-obama-election-day
Prove me wrong...I DARE you clueless Pubbies!
Not sure what a "pubbie" is, but with 6 trillion brandnew dollars in the economy during the last 3 years and 16 Trillion total, every American and illegal should have 4 or 5 full time jobs...I'm not sure I'd be bragging about spending 1/2 million dollars for every $40,000 Job created...
Paul 2012
To all of these dunces who think that the last of founding fathers Ron (Puke) Paul is something special. This guy should pack it in, call it a day and find a good nursing home.
Who can be worse than Ron Paul-well possibly Nut Gingerhead the criminal lobbyist and lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader. But Ron Paul is the true crackpot in the repuke clown race.
Ron Paul is a total idiot. Compared to the rest of the radical cracked teanuts running, he may be the worst, except for maybe secessionist gun runner Perry, Nut Gingerhead who lobbied congress to get favorable regulations for Freddie Mac so they could buy phony mortgages and lied to and cheated on 3 wives , Herman 9Kampf Cain the pervert who can't keep his hand from slithering up someones skirt and Willard who changes his story everyday.
Wake up call about Ron Paul. A typical, but even more crazy, right wing radical cracked teanut.
Someone has brainwashed the evangelical "Children of the Corn". Complete nuts like Ron Paul spouts off this nonsense about smaller government. He and the other idiots that think his way, want to eliminate all regulatory agencies, as he feels that the people can do things honestly without being regulated- like the republican criminals stealing from the middle class and the poor.
Don't you right wing braindead idiots know why regulations were created in the first place. It all started with the Great Depression of the 20's and 30's where the criminal republican bankers used depositors money to invest in businesses of their friends which were very risky and the stocks of companies that had false balance sheets that said they were making money while they were losing it. When the market crashed, the depositors lost their money as the banks failed. That is why the SEC was created along with the FDIC, to control republican thieves.
Now this nutcase Paul wants to eliminate FEMA. The republican governors look at Paul as a true nutcase. They are first ones to have their hands out for disaster relief help from FEMA. Even Perry had FEMA and a national contingent of firefighters sent by Obama coming to help with the fires.
As time went on, more agencies like the FDA were created to stop false claims about drugs and other foods being made. Such as Coca Cola being able to cure almost any ailment. The drugs you buy today would probably kill you because there would be no control over ther labeling or their quality.
Now right wing criminals like Mitch McDumbell and Ron Paul want to eliminate the EPA. McDumbell's repuke cronies in KY overlooked over 100 safety violations at a large Massey Coal Mine. The mine exploded killing many miners. The repukes that were bought and paid for by Massey and their boss McDumbell should have been prosecuted. By eliminating the EPA, it makes it easier for Massey and others like them to more easily pollute the air and water, while having extra money saved from non- compliance to donate to McDumbell's campaign.
So when you idiots say you want to take back the government and do what with it? Give it to those repukes who want no controls so they can rob and steal from you as they did in the past.
Massey finally settled all of the death claims for $200 million a few weeks ago. It would only have cost them 4 or 5 million to comply with the EPA regulations.
@Hamm
You make a very convincing argument for why this nation needs a Ron Paul...and a reforming of the education system...do you not even understand that all you are complaining about has all occured under a Federal Regulatory Regime
I'm sure you can nominate a hard-core Communist to run against Hillary in 2016
What I find enthralling is that anyone would care who this idiotic ditz "endorses". Oh well, I almost forgot. We're talking about an entire party of ditzy idiots!
The real truth for Nutcase NazalBlow, who ignores it anyway. I guess Fox Lies and Glenn (Mein Kampf) Beck has him totally brainwashed.
Time to rise up and vote out the radical right wing cracked teapots and their oil, insurance and defense contractor owners. At least the people saw the light and realized how idiotic "Juiced Up" Sharron Angle and The Flying Witch Christine O'Donnell, Joe Smith from Alaska and several others were and did not vote them in. Hopefully, people saw what the real helicopter gunship pilot Sarah Palin is and will never allow her to hold any public office. The idiots who voted for these nutcases did not learn from Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang what the republicans are really about. They outed two CIA agents, who wanted to tell the truth that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.Go see "Fair Game" the documentary that exposes the crackpot criminals you love. Bush Bin Lyin's bosses the oil companies and defense contractors got wealthy as our society was being brought down. These guys destroyed Iraq and then had to rebuild it using tax payer dollars. At least they got Delay. Scooter Libby was the fall guy for the CIA agents outing. Don't forget the criminal gang's trickle down economics where the money trickled down into their bosses pockets instead of creating jobs. That is why we were losing over 700,000 jobs a month before Obama took over.
I guess we will have to set up our own militia to deal with Michelle (never tells the truth) Bachmann and her "armed and dangerous" followers"
W O W, This - is - gonna - be - great.
Everything she touches, turns to . . . - snow, great show Bachmann.
Other than the hex on him, why do you think people care what you do or think?
I can recall when the GOP was clever...not ruthless. When they were united...not divided. When they wanted to see a stronger America; not two different countries and now...it is so sad to see their demise. The competition was revved up and the rhetoric was sharply honed but both Party's respected one another in past elections. In the end, we found room to disagree. Michele Bachmann is ruthless, you can see it in her eyes. So her ringing endorsement of Rumney was puffed with false excitement and; her commitment to show support was very empty and fragile! More hot coffee please?
I think the GOP brand was seriously damaged throughout the caucuses because they each wanted to win a bit too much; they sliced one another to pieces. I have never seen this much money invested in the run for presidency and I have never seen each campaign become so reckless in the attempt. I am a DePubliCant, so for me there will be no clear winner; the Truth, is my president...but come next election, I wish with all my might that dignity will have returned by then if I am here to witness it.
Get ready American’s
If you can UN-embed yourself from your ostrich syndrome long enough to position yourselves for the coming inevitable economic boom. Be it more specific interrelated education & or skill-set training relating to the domestic energy industry jobs that Will be available. Specifically Oil & natural gas production, transportation, distribution. Secondly electric energy i.e. wind, hydroelectric, nuclear & coal. This is the will of many millions of Americans and it Will Come to fruition. Christmas time 2012 will be good, 2013 will be excellent ! Resistance is Futile,----> 4ward
Thirty million directly related &100 million indirect support jobs over the next 10 to 15 years in this country alone. This being a conservative estimate...
YEA! WE CAN ALL GO TO WORK TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY.
If You are Happy or not, I'm with Happy!
vote nov
Unify, what a joke. Unify a a part of our government that only represents less then 25% of this country. What could the GOP do to find jobs for people ? Get them a realty show on TV where the money is to be made. Try to Bullshi+ as many voters as she can before elections. Obama will win hands down because there is no other party to contend with that truly can represent this countries interest & not the Republicans self interest.
Thee American Dream went out the window with the GOP. They threw themselves right out of politics we used to have as a unified country. Bachman is not the one to unify the GOP & neither was any of the others. This is a totally different GOP all out for them selves. Rotten foreign policy along with economics was not Bush's forte. We cannot trust what we all read or view on TV land FOX, especially. Hollywood doesn't even want anything to do with the GOP & a lot of them are rich. It's the telling lies after lies to voters. Trickle down economics was & is a bunch of BS, the GOP is trying to put more money into their pockets with the richest CEO's of the Health Care Industry & Wall Street their employers.