Posted on 12/28/2011 7:15:43 PM PST by Steelfish
Bachmann's Iowa Co-Chairman Bolts To Back Paul By NBC's Athony Terrell, Jamie Novogrod, Alex Moe and Domenico Montanaro
One of the most prominent Iowa supporters of Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign jumped ship late Wednesday, announcing just days before the state's Jan. 3 caucus that he would instead back Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson, one of three Iowa co-chairmen for Bachmann's campaign, made an appearance at a Veterans for Ron Paul event this evening where he endorsed the Texas congressman in Tuesday's caucuses.
Sorenson, in a statement distributed by Paul's campaign, said he had "an immense amount of respect" for Bachmann, but had essentially judged her to have fallen out of contention in the caucuses.
"But the fact is, there is a clear top tier in the race for the Republican nomination for president, both here in Iowa and nationally," Sorenson said. "Ron Paul is easily the most conservative of this group."
Bachmann accused Sorenson of being a sell-out in a statement released Wednesday evening.
"Kent Sorenson personally told me he was offered a large sum of money to go to work for the Paul campaign," she said, accusing Paul of trying to stymie her campaign's momentum. "Kent said to me yesterday that 'everyone sells out in Iowa, why shouldn't I,' then he told me he would stay with our campaign. The Ron Paul campaign has to answer for its actions."
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Bachmann`s run was just simply a bad idea right from the start!
The MSM initially rallied behind her because of one reason, their hatred of Sarah Palin. That`s all Bachmann was to them, was a way to somehow attempt to harm Gov Palin.
Truth is that Bachmann is a fruitcake...JMHO
And Ron Paul isn't????
Ronny is a Troop hating /9-11 truther /madman
He must’ve been swayed once he got the chance to read Paul’s newsletters. Guess he’s not too fond of Jews...
I hope he does. That will take away mainly from Obama’s base.
Run, Ron, Run.
Bachmann has never been my pick, but this is just plain WRONG! I hope she waxes RP’s tail feathers in Iowa!
;)
I welcome a Wrong Paul third party run. He will pull more votes from Obama than he does from the R candidate.
Sadly that is the strategy of the Dem party
Operatives who are is base !
This racist fool is being used by these Soros Axelrod
Operatives who are running this scam!
The Dems are running an operation chaos using this old
9-11 truther/ Jew hater in these open primary / easy to register spots like
Iowa and NH !
The Dems want this nut as the face of the GOP and then push him to run
As a third party.
Actually, I wish Ron Paul and Mitt Romney would go Independent, they would fit much better with kooks and losers.
Life is tough when one is a stalking horse....
Maybe right since Ronny’s base are leftists ,9-11 truthers,
Jew haters, Code Pinkers .
If Ross Perot had won, China would not be the giant sucking sound today.
None of the above. All those foul canards have been debunked over and over. But then, YOU KNOW that, as you’ve been offered the correct information many times that I am aware of, yet you continue to trot out the same tired lies yet again.
Ron Paul is a 9/11 truther. He’s a dangerous whackjob
Get this cat back on his meds, quick.
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