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December 29, 2011 RSS Feed Print Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has been furiously courting Iowa voters for months, touting her conservative credentials, her surprise straw poll win in the state earlier in the year, and grassroots support. She's also recently taken aim at surging rival Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who is running near the top of recent polls in the Hawkeye state, for what she calls his "dangerous" hands-off foreign policy positions.
Though if what happened on Wednesday night is any measure of her success, she's losing ground at just the wrong time. Just days away from the first-in-the-nation Iowa GOP caucus, Bachmann's longtime state campaign chair, state Sen. Kent Sorenson, left her camp for rival Paul's. [Check out the latest political cartoons.]
But Bachmann asserted Thursday morning on Jan Mickelson's WHO-AM radio show in Des Moines that there is more to the
"The Ron Paul campaign had contacted one of the people on our campaign and had offered them to come to their campaign and he went. Pure and simple, that's what it was," she said, adding that Sorenson told her it was "a great of money" and he "had to provide for his family."
In Case You Missed It: Bachmann Key Aide (http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/12/29/in-case-you-missed-it-bachmann-key-aide%E2%80%99s-statement-on-sen-kent-sorenson-defection/ - broken link)
Because they do not miss an opportunity to let the world know how much they despise Ron Paul and don't want him to win!
and the Paul people are not tearing apart every Republican other than Paul? Come on, this is the dirtiest campaign I have seen and I have been voting longer than most of you have been alive.
The senator realized that Bachmann ain't gonna win, realized that Ron Paul is a better option and would be a better guy to follow, people are joining the Ron Paul ranks every day, you think this guy had to be paid?!
The senator realized that Bachmann ain't gonna win, realized that Ron Paul is a better option and would be a better guy to follow, people are joining the Ron Paul ranks every day, you think this guy had to be paid?!
It doesn't matter what I think, I could actually care less. It is news however and it is being backed up by more than just Bachmann.
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