Bachmann Staffer Quits Campaign to Endorse Ron Paul

Source: Liberty Confidential

Michele Bachmann’s Iowa Chair has bailed. Adding insult to injury, he’s endorsing Ron Paul.

What’s more, he didn’t inform Bachmann of his decision until he was on his way to the Ron Paul rally. Ouch!

From the Washington Post:

Talk about fairweather friends. Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson (R), who was Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s state campaign chairman, endorsed Texas Rep. Ron PaulWednesday night.

At a rally in Des Moines, Sorenson told the crowd, “We’re going to take Ron Paul all the way to the White House.”

He did not tell Bachmann of his decision until he was en route to the Paul rally, billed as an event for veterans.

“This is hard,” he said of his decision to leave Bachmann, explaining that he felt obligated to defend Paul against the Republican establishment. He elaborated in a statement, saying he felt Paul was the most conservative candidate who had a realistic shot at defeating former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

According to Helen Whalen Cohen over at TownHall.com, the Bachmann camp “is claiming that Sorenson was lured over with a large sum of money, something that both he and the Paul campaign are denying.”

Even if that were true, it would still mean that he had lost faith in the Bachmann campaign. That said, Ron Paul comes across as one of the few politicians who’s not really into buying endorsements; so I’m inclined to believe that he has simply come to believe that the Bachmann campaign isn’t going anywhere. (Something everybody seems to believe, except for the handful who remain in the Bachmann camp.)

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