Posted on 04/15/2012 10:06:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann stopped just short of endorsing Mitt Romney on Sunday, saying she was “very seriously looking into an endorsement.”
“I think we're seeing a uniting and a pulling together around our eventual nominee," she said on NBC’s Meet the Press. "And I have said that I want my voice to be one of uniting our party, the independents, the mainstream, conservatives, evangelicals, the tea party movement. I want to unite our party.”
Bachmann dropped out of the GOP primary race in early January and has yet to endorse any of her former opponents. But with only three candidates left in the race, and Romney the presumptive nominee, Bachmann has little to lose endorsing Romney. And perhaps little to gain as well.
Still, Bachmann offered glowing praise of Romney on Sunday, a man she once derided, along with Newt Gingrich, as an establishment, insider candidate. In debates and elsewhere, she referred to both men collectively as "Newt-Romney."
But on Sunday, Bachmann called Romney "an extremely smart guy," saying that Americans lives will be "far more improved with a proven, smart, successful businessman like Mitt Romney than someone like Barack Obama, who can only blame his predecessor for his current economic poor choices.”
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Wouldn’t it have been nice if Bachmann had endorsed one of the other candidates WAY BACK WHEN, when it mattered and would have helped the conservatives?
whatever it takes to pay off campaign debt and get re-elected. :-\
She has a lot of foster candidates, I reckun. ;-)
I was fairly certain Michelle would endorse Mitt back in November
“I am grateful that Newt remains standing.”
Me too......
Not just a liberal. She’s an abortionoat socialist don’t ya know.
Won’t do Romney any good. Can only hurt Bachmann.
Bachmann is still in Congress. She wants RNC money and muscle to sustain a long political career.
Bump!!
You have Newt’s back!
No, not Willard. Endorse Newt!
Go to the convention and beat out the fli-flopper Romney.
No Mittens, not now, not ever.
If he loses, though, it's ABO.
Did you ever watch M. Bachman on CNN ?
I was shocked and troubled by the way she seemed to be obsequious
Yes it’s pathetic. She behaves as an average politician with no dignity
“Michele Bachmann is ABO, just like Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio and Jim Demint.”
Add the possible future endorsement of Sarah Palin.
TRANSCRIPT of part of the Video Interview between Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wo9bxx7mqma9x1m
Hannity: (8:40min:seconds to 8:46 ) “Alright, Lets talk about the campaign and your convinced Romney’s it now? Do you think it’s pretty much over?”
Palin(8:47 – 9:09 ) “Well let me put it this way, I don’t want Newt to drop out, I don’t want Ron Paul to drop out, because I want debate still on the ideas that both of the other candidates have been able to espouse and explain to the country, I want Ron Paul’s message about cutting the budget, about the economic woeful times that we are in and what we can do about it I want those to continue to be discussed and Newt has some good ideas too.”
Hannity: (9:09-9:22 ) Are you convinced, because you spoke about this at an earlier time during the primary, are you convinced as to time has gone on that governor Romney will govern as a solid strong conservative or do you still have doubts?
Palin: (9:23-9:37 ) “I am convinced that governor Romney, if he is our nominee and if he is elected president, he will know to surround himself with those that will inherently know to go right, to err on the side of smaller, smarter government and that gives me a lot of confidence.”
Cain endorsed Romney? I thought he endorsed Newt.
Sad.
Remember when Obamacare forcing Catholics to pay for and perform abortions had everybody riled up? People were talking about how Obama had stupidly sacrificed the Catholic vote in order to get single women.
And then you could see people looking at who the GOP-e wants to nominate - the one who first did the very thing we were morally outraged about - and say, “oh, shlt...”
That should have been the last clue we needed that the GOP-e has colectively sold our souls and that if we didn’t want our souls and country handed to us on a silver platter we needed to fight back.
It is truly we the people who are still willing to defend the US Constitution against nearly all our so-called “leaders”. The only candidates left with their souls intact seem to be Gingrich and Perry - MAYBE Santorum and Bachman but it seems like they’re looking to sell...
Great, she’s going after Romney’s money to pay her campaign debts.
April 10, 2012: “On Monday, Herman Cain was offering Mitt Romney advice on who to pick as a running mate. On Tuesday, Cain – who campaigned side by side with Newt Gingrich as recently as weeks ago – called on the GOP to get behind Mitt Romney.”
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/herman-cain-calls-on-gop-to-unify-behind
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