Michele Bachmann launched her multi-day, multi-state tour to announce that she plans to run in the 2012 presidential election in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. Although the event was meant to announce her political endeavors, Bachmann's first speech focused mostly on her sentimental connections to the town where she was born (Mehta).
"Everything I needed to know I learned in Iowa," she said in front of 500 people in a ballroom at the National Cattle Congress. "This is where it all began. Tomorrow, I'm going to speak to the nation. Tonight, I want to speak to all of you. I want you to know how grateful I am, how thankful I am for Waterloo, for this wonderful, decent, God-fearing community. I'm just filled with pride when I think of what Waterloo put into our family and all of us. That's why I wanted to come back tonight, share my heart with you, to say this is what we need more of" (Mehta). .
In her short, 20-minute speech, Bachmann only spoke briefly of political issues. She urged her supporters to put her on top in the Ames Straw Poll in August and to volunteer for her campaign. A recent poll of Republican caucus participants showed Bachmann tied with the GOP front-runner Mitt Romney in Iowa. Her home state will prove to be very important in her campaign for GOP nomination (Mehta). .
"This is our time, this is our year, this is when we're coming together and we're going to take Waterloo, Iowa, the sensibilities of this land and we're going to go forward and in 2012, Barack Obama will be a one-term president!" she said at the end of her speech (Mehta). .
Previously, Bachmann said her candidacy should not be taken as a personal hack against President Obama. "I don't have anything personal about our president. But he's just wrong. But his policy prescriptions have been wrong" (Bakst). However, she did redirect the attention to the drastic increase in government limousines since President Obama first took office when she felt cornered by the constant questions regarding her acceptance of federal subsidies (Serrano).
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