Michele Bachmann Makes Campaign Official, Calls Herself ‘A Bold Choice’

Rep. Michele Bachmann made her presidential candidacy official will an announcement in Waterloo, IA, this morning–telling a crowd in the town where she was born that she would be “a bold choice” as the nation’s next president. “We can win in 2012 and we will,” she said.

Bachmann, who many now consider a frontrunner in the Iowa caucus, said she wasn’t making a run “for vanity,” but rather to give Americans a choice “to secure the promise of the future.”

Outside a museum, and onetime women’s club, Rep. Bachman, R-Minn., said that Americans “must make a bold choice if we are to secure the promise of the future.”

“My voice is part of a movement to take back our country, and now I want to take that voice to the White House. It is the voice of constitutional conservatives who want our government to do its job and not ours and who want our government to live within its means and not our children’s and grandchildren’s,” she said.

Bachmann criticized President Obama for failing to control spending, and said the country “can’t afford four more years” of his leadership:

“We cannot continue to rack up debt on the backs of future generation,” she said.” We can’t afford an unconstitutional health plan that costs too much and is worth so little. And we can’t afford four more years of failed leadership at home and abroad. We can’t afford four more years of millions of Americans out of work or in jobs that pay too little to support their families,” she told the modest sized crowd.

Watch it here, from ABC News: