Reagan Dinner Speaker Michele Bachmann Continues With Consistent Message

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann speaks before those in attendance at the Reagan Dinner Friday night

Des Moines, Iowa – Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann took to the stage as the middle speaker in the field of five candidates at the Reagan Dinner held at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines Friday night.

Bachmann, who won the Iowa Straw Poll in August of this year, has been on a free fall in the polls in recent months. Bachmann was over shadowed even on her big day at the Straw Poll by the announcement by Perry that he was entering the race, the rise of Hermain Cain, and the steady numbers of Mitt Romney.

In her typical fashion, Bachmann took the time to thank all the supporters who took the time to be there, and to the Iowa GOP for being the hosts to the presidential candidates.

Bachmann has had a consistent message throughout her campaign speaking on fiscal responsibility, where she once again pointed toward the debt added during the month of October this year. “The month that just finished, that this country added another 203 billion dollars in debt. Now let me give you a comparison, in 2007, the last year that Republicans were in charge of Washington D.C. the budget defect for the entire year was something like 160 billion dollars. That’s for the year. That’s the big spending George Bush an the big spending Republicans in 2007.” Bachmann used these figures to make a comparison to President Barack Obama.

“And over this last summer when I was the lone voice in the wilderness of Washington saying STOP, No More, No more raising the credit card ceiling, I was the one who was called extreme. But in the midst of all that discussion, the beat went on,” Bachmann said of her fight earlier in the year on the raising of the debt ceiling, and saying that this type of person is what is needed in a Republican nominee.

Bachmann spoke about liberty, and the people in the State of Iowa who she continues to attach herself to and also continues to spend large amounts of time traveling the state, “Because I’ve been renewed in my hope and love for this nation because of what I saw this summer in Iowa. It was a commitment from all of you and from your fellow men and women in Iowa that we will go on as a nation, and so I have absolutely no doubt, none what so ever that Barack Obama will be a one term president, no doubt whatsoever.”