Blunt Bachmann formulates case for 'bold' 2012 select
Published by Julia Volkovah under 2012 presidential on 8:22 AM
WATERLOO, Iowa – Republican Michele Bachmann is throwing herself as the "bold choice" in the 2012 presidential battle.
The blunt congresswoman and tea party preferred officially launched her bid Monday in her Iowa birthplace, after first making her aims clear at a debate earlier this month.
Outside a historic house in Waterloo, Bachmann says she's paying the campaign "not for egotism." Instead she says voters "must make a courageous choice if we are to safe the undertake of the future."
Bachmann goes into the race as an Iowa poll appears her near the front of the pack in the first in the nation caucus state.
Bachmann played up her tea party binds but also made reveal of her Democratic roots.
