This is Bachman’s hour. If she hits a home run in her rebuttal (which I have a hard time believing will happen) she will add a great deal of credibility to the idea of Bachman 2012. If her rebuttal is unremarkable or poor then - as in the case of Jindal - her 2012 run is over before it starts. It’s a big gamble, lets see how it works out.
“If her rebuttal is unremarkable or poor then - as in the case of Jindal - her 2012 run is over before it starts”
That’s an exaggeration. If Jindal’s out of the big picture, it’s because of Jindal as a whole. I don’t care how bad his reception at the time was, neither in the beltway nor the blogosphere. People forget, and regular people never cared, anyway.
Bill Clinton did one of those rebuttal things some year and in my opinion failed. By the time he won the Democratic nomination he came from the back of the pack, after surviving a series of scandals and surprising absolutely everyone. Someone or other after Jindal’s fizzle tried to present Clinton’s long-ago rebuttal as a star-making turn. But that was revisionist nonsense. Nobody cared then, nobody cared afterwards. He became the Bill Clinton we know in the ‘92 primary, not before.