He wrote the book on dirty campaigning. Literally!
The damage is irretrievably done by this incident and the media, like a dog clamped onto a juicy bone, will never let it go away.
To tell the truth, I can't find myself getting all worked up over this flap, anyhow. IMO, Bachmann is only a minor league player in the presidential world series.....and will continue to be so. Her role is/would be only as a gadfly or spoiler.
Although her principles are commensurate with conservative thought, she is lightweight presidential material in the grand scheme of things, she will never be president, and becoming all emotional over this Bachmann/Rollins gaffe is a waste of energy and time.
Leni
Wasn’t Rollins in charge of McCain’s campaign. The nicey nicey, don’t attack the democrats but skewer the conservatives campaign.
I think this is all symptomatic of what, to my own theorizing, is Bachmann's over-estimation of her own standing. Like a case of believing one's own press clippings, Bachmann acts as if she is the "TEA Party queen", to the point of setting up her own caucus in the House.The problem is, while she may talk the talk, who follows her? She was rebuffed for a House leadership position. Even without that, how many freshman TEA Partiers have joined her caucus and follow her as a leader? What significant legislation owes its passage to Bachmann? What executive experience does she have? And yes, I'll throw in the fact that she's also never won a statewide election.
Just being a "TEA Party favorite" isn't going to cut it. One of the defining features of the movement is a lack of a single leader or small group of leaders. Self-identifying TEA Party sympathizers have wildly different views on a potential nominee, and no one candidate is going to capture all of them. Bachmann will get some, Cain will get some, as will Palin when she runs, but so will Pawlenty, Paul, and even Romney (don't have the link, but a not too distant survey had Romney at over 10% support from self-identifying TEA Partiers).
If she’s got Rollins on board, she lost any chance of getting a vote from me. That guy is a complete weasel.
The Weekly Standard didn’t think much of Ed Rollins.
ED ROLLINS AND THE END OF HONOR
12:00 AM, Sep 2, 1996 • By ROBERT W. MERRY
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/007/306ymoeo.asp
She is running for Mitt’s VP slot.
It’s too late, she has shown all of us her decision making, by hiring a loser to run her campaign.
We can’t blame Rollings, he is only in it for money and glory.
OK Sarah, you’ve seen the conservatives, with a small c, who are in the field. Do what you know is the only way to save our Republic.