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Romney Courts Bachmann For Endorsement
The Boston Globe ^ | 2/1/2012 | Glen Johnson

Posted on 02/01/2012 7:24:13 AM PST by bbernard

TAMPA, Fla. - Mitt Romney is carrying a full head of steam after winning the Florida primary, but the Republican presidential contender isn’t headed first today for Nevada or Maine, the next two states to vote.

Instead, he is jetting off this morning to Minnesota for what is billed as a “grassroots rally.”

Why?

Michele Bachmann, it seems.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bachmann; bachmann4romney; endorsement; endorsements; romney; santorum4romney
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To: cripplecreek

Notice how they don’t pay attention? Bashing is more fun.


21 posted on 02/01/2012 7:36:11 AM PST by dforest
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To: bbernard
Martha McCollum was just trying to get Michelle's endorsement for Mitt...on FOX News.

FOX not hiding campaigning for Mitt...or, are so biased they can't see it.

22 posted on 02/01/2012 7:36:52 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: dforest

Nuthin but cowards.


23 posted on 02/01/2012 7:37:54 AM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: bbernard

She better not. She’s my Rep. If she plans on running for office again, and endorses Willard, I will do everything in my power to see she loses to a real conservative.

Only through duplicity could someone so pro-life endorse someone who is openly pro-choice.


24 posted on 02/01/2012 7:39:56 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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To: bbernard

Well, she wasn’t wildly popular to begin with, so I’m not sure this is going to help him much. I hope he doesn’t overpay for her endorsement.


25 posted on 02/01/2012 7:40:06 AM PST by livius
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To: sodpoodle

She has 4 or 5 of her own...the other 20+ are foster kids and they got paid to give then a home.


26 posted on 02/01/2012 7:40:55 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: bbernard

Forget the parsing words about an endorsement. She should say Romney’s schorched earth style of campainging is harmful to the overall process.
At least, she is saying they need focus on Obama. Which is good to say but they wont.
Not entirely sure they should focus on Obama as much as solution to fixing the economy and creating the conditions that create jobs.
We know who is screwing things up. What we need to know is how they will fix it.
Plenty of time to beat Obama up.


27 posted on 02/01/2012 7:41:22 AM PST by Leep (It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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To: dforest
Good. Bears watching though...

"Eternal vigilance" and all that.

28 posted on 02/01/2012 7:42:24 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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To: bbernard

I hope she showers afterward.


29 posted on 02/01/2012 7:42:38 AM PST by liberalh8ter (I don't like what the world has become....)
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To: bbernard
Bachmann has nothing to gain. If she takes cash in exchange for her credibility, that will be a poor trade. I was a Bachmann donor, and I suspect a bunch of us will be watching. This campaign is revealing who will stand on principle. Pawlenty failed the test.
30 posted on 02/01/2012 7:43:26 AM PST by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: Longbow1969

Bachmann is a poor man version of Palin. What stature she had, she lost running for President, she harmed herself more by actually running for President than not by her obsessive repeating the same lines over and over again (23 foster kids, I’m a tax lawyer), her Gardisol flap and not really going after Romney—something Palin wouldn’t have done. Even today if Palin is on a show, the ratings go up a bit, I doubt many people across the nation are waiting to hear what Bachmann has to say much.


31 posted on 02/01/2012 7:43:32 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: bbernard

Isn’t this kind of thing part of the Romney playbook? Didn’t he say Thompson was going to drop out and endorse McCain in 2008?


32 posted on 02/01/2012 7:46:02 AM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: bbernard

Romney can channel Reagan and get his endorsement and I wouldn’t vote for him.


33 posted on 02/01/2012 7:46:12 AM PST by albie
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To: bbernard

She antagonized Governor Perry for Romney. So did Citizen Cain. I don’t trust his endorsement of Gingrich. Hen house.


34 posted on 02/01/2012 7:46:55 AM PST by FryingPan101 (My taglines always lose.)
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To: Bigtigermike
Different people doing things differently. That is not a bad thing.

That, and either Palin or Bachmann are far more conservative IN PRACTICE than either Willard or Newt.

Consider that carefully.

35 posted on 02/01/2012 7:46:55 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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To: Bigtigermike
Bachmann is a poor man version of Palin. What stature she had, she lost running for President, she harmed herself more by actually running for President than not by her obsessive repeating the same lines over and over again (23 foster kids, I’m a tax lawyer), her Gardisol flap and not really going after Romney—something Palin wouldn’t have done. Even today if Palin is on a show, the ratings go up a bit, I doubt many people across the nation are waiting to hear what Bachmann has to say much.

Yup, I agree with you. My point is, Bachmann probably realizes it too. Human nature is what it is, and she may looking to give herself a boost at the expense of Palin who she may now view as more of a rival than anything.

36 posted on 02/01/2012 7:48:38 AM PST by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969

Good point.


37 posted on 02/01/2012 7:48:57 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Yo Mitt - Money can't buy you love...)
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To: Cicero

>>>I will never vote for Romney, not even if he gets Bachman, or someone similar, to agree to be his VP.

Dittos. Mega dittos.


38 posted on 02/01/2012 7:49:33 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: bbernard
IF Bachmann endorses Romney, she's through.

That would be just ONE MORE supposed "Conservative" that has sold out to the Republican Establishment Elite.

39 posted on 02/01/2012 7:49:44 AM PST by traditional1 (Free speech for me.....not for thee)
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To: Dead Corpse

You see, even when Bachmann does the right thing she gets bashed instead of being appreciated. She was pretty clear and concise that she wasn’t going to get pushed.

I think she is the second GOP lady to not endorse anyone.


40 posted on 02/01/2012 7:51:10 AM PST by dforest
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