Hiring Rollins may not be wise, but it’s hardly a scandal.
As despicable as I find Rollins and especially the comments he
made about Gov. Palin (for which I believe he apologized), the fact remains that he is very well connected in IA and was able to pull off the win there for Huckabee. A win in IA is critical to Bachmann.
IA may not matter much to Romney, who would look more to NH. but it is absolutely critical to Bachmann. IA and NH may not be so important to Gov Palin as they are to some of the others, especially if there’s a split between IA and NH, as there often is. SC then becomes important and is a state that would favor Gov Palin, while she might have some problems in IA and NH, given Bachmann’s and Romney’s roots and/or close affiliations with those states. Gov Palin would have to place well in IA and NH, but doesn’t have to win either.
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Of course it is a scandal, you are here at freerepublic, you know that the conservative base exploded at that outrage.
I have noted on several threads how Rollins ends up being described as the political genius that is just too talented to be fired, or not hired in the first place.
Rollins and Bachmann made a massive, strategic, and more importantly, a moral mistake, with the base.