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Bachmann Launches Presidential Campaign
Fox News ^ | 27 June 2011 | Staff

Posted on 06/27/2011 9:05:43 AM PDT by bjorn14

Rep. Michele Bachmann, stressing her Iowa roots and appealing directly to Tea Party voters, came out swinging Monday as she formally launched her campaign for president.

Buoyed by a strong showing in several recent polls, the Minnesota congresswoman cast her campaign as the voice for "constitutional conservatives" looking for a government that lives within its means while giving the private sector the room to grow. She launched a broadside against President Obama for racking up too much debt while stimulating too little job growth and vowed to make him a "one-term president."

"We cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama," she declared, later adding: "We can win in 2012 and we will win."

In her announcement, Bachmann described a special bond with Iowa, the nation's leadoff caucus state. She held the kickoff in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, and called herself a "descendent of generations of Iowans," saying the state is where she learned "everything I needed to know." She also appealed to another vital primary constituency, calling herself part of the Tea Party movement and defending it as a cross-section of Republicans, independents and disaffected Democrats.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; ahousedivided; bachmann; bachmann2012; campaign; iowa; launches; michelebachmann; presidential; romneywhore; stalkinghorse; trollsarehere; waterloo
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1 posted on 06/27/2011 9:05:45 AM PDT by bjorn14
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WARNING TO MS. BACHMANN... Ahead in Iowa, pulling even in NH... major slime attack coming from the Lefties and GOP establishment.


2 posted on 06/27/2011 9:11:17 AM PDT by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To win Iowa would be a rocket start for Bachman because it makes voters blink, no matter who wins, and they give a listen to that winner. New Hampshire and South Carolina follow. She could split those two states with Romney’s best chance probably NH.


3 posted on 06/27/2011 9:15:32 AM PDT by RitaOK
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To: 11th Commandment

I fear this scenario. BAchman is beating Romney, then Palin or Perry step in splitting the conservative vote and Romney gets the nod.


4 posted on 06/27/2011 9:16:19 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: bjorn14

There was apparently just over 200 people there, should have been more


5 posted on 06/27/2011 9:17:25 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: 11th Commandment
WARNING TO MS. BACHMANN... Ahead in Iowa, pulling even in NH... major slime attack coming from the Lefties and GOP establishment.

And cultists on FR.

6 posted on 06/27/2011 9:17:57 AM PDT by Prokopton
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Dear FOX News;

Please keep your Romney cheerleading “journalists” away from Bachmann in future.


7 posted on 06/27/2011 9:18:01 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: 11th Commandment

I fear this scenario. BAchman is beating Romney, then Palin or Perry step in splitting the conservative vote and Romney gets the nod.


8 posted on 06/27/2011 9:20:19 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: 11th Commandment

True dat.


9 posted on 06/27/2011 9:21:31 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: bjorn14

I am going to support Bachmann until Rick Perry decides to run. Perry/Bachman would be a very strong ticket in 2012


10 posted on 06/27/2011 9:22:41 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: nikos1121

Nope! Only one of those 3 will get the majority of the conservative vote if they run at the same time and like Rush said, if Palin gets in then she will be the one to beat, she already has a built-in base that is itching to go and support her and within days her coffers will be overflowing, that’s a fact.


11 posted on 06/27/2011 9:22:45 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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I don’t know how many were there.

But how do you get to the conclusion that there was something wrong.

If she’s tied with Romney in a Des Moines Register poll, something is going right.

To ignore that, and claim the number at her announcement was too low, as if something is wrong, lacks common sense.


12 posted on 06/27/2011 9:23:46 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...HOLD TO THE TRUTH; SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR." - Glenn Beck)
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To: bjorn14

Yes!!


13 posted on 06/27/2011 9:26:16 AM PDT by italianquaker (When will Wallace ask obama if he is a flake?)
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"She launched a broadside against President Obama for racking up too much debt while stimulating too little job growth and vowed to make him a "one-term president."

Obama's stimulus plan failed to produce jobs to dent 8% unemployment before the 2010 election. She has to walk the talk. What is her unemployment goal before the 2014 elections?

PS I don't have a dog in this fight. I have the same question for all the contenders.

14 posted on 06/27/2011 9:28:34 AM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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WARNING TO MS. BACHMANN... Ahead in Iowa, pulling even in NH... major slime attack coming from the Lefties and GOP establishment.

And some conservatives. Hope she's ready.

15 posted on 06/27/2011 9:39:03 AM PDT by ejdrapes (Chris Wallace is a jerk)
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Then Bachmann getting in shouldn’t worry any Palin fans. Because once Palin jumps most of Bachmann’s support will shift to Palin, right?


16 posted on 06/27/2011 9:41:08 AM PDT by ejdrapes (Chris Wallace is a jerk)
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To: txrangerette

I didn’t say things were neccessarily wrong but I assume that if she is surging in Iowa then there should have been more if the account of 200 people is correct


17 posted on 06/27/2011 9:41:48 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: ex-snook

At RightOnline she said the corporate tax rate needs to be reduced dramatically. She also talked about eliminating capital gains taxes and the death tax.


18 posted on 06/27/2011 9:46:23 AM PDT by ejdrapes (Chris Wallace is a jerk)
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I thought she launched at the debates in SC. Kind of anti-climatic.


19 posted on 06/27/2011 9:47:43 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ejdrapes

You have never read anything I wrote about being fretful of a Bachmann candidacy....Sarah has a built-in base and finiancial money ready to go in a flash, like Rush said: She will be the one to beat if she gets in


20 posted on 06/27/2011 9:48:53 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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