Posted on 06/07/2011 9:42:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This could be some of the early shots in the contest for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
On Tuesday’s “Kilmeade and Friends” on the Fox News Radio network, former Huckabee campaign manager Ed Rollins, who signed up with potential presidential candidate Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann on Monday, explained why he decided to join the Bachmann camp.
“Well I’m going to work for Michele Bachmann if she runs,” Rollins said. “That’s the one that intrigues me the most at this point and I think to a certain extent she’s articulate, she’s a conservative. She’s got a great story to tell. She’s on the Intelligence Committee. You know, she’s unknown to the national audience, but she’ll become known and that’s the candidacy that I’m going to work for if she runs.”
But Rollins, with his own history of playing offense in presidential campaigns, took a few shots at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who could be a potential rival for Bachmann.
“Sarah has not been serious over the last couple of years,” Rollins said. “She got the vice-presidential thing handed to her. She didn’t go to work in the sense of trying gain more substance. She gave up her governorship. You know, I think Michele Bachmann and others have worked hard. She has been a leader of the Tea Party, which is a very important element here. She’s an attorney, done extraordinary things with family values and what have you. So I think she will connect. She’s a great, great communicator and I would say in the race right [now] today, she is probably the best communicator.”
(AUDIO AT LINK)
If you’re saying *FIGHT LIKE A GIRL*, Sarah already said that....LOL.
Trouble is, Rollins fights like a lamestream democrat, and he’s going to be sorry because his client is going to pay a high price.
Alas, I must now change my tagline. (sigh)
Stay tuned.
Without Palin's endorsement in the primaries, what are the chances Bachmann could secure the nomination? Slim.
Attacking Palin is not the way to secure her endorsement. It smacks more of a scorched earth policy: if I go down, everyone else is going down with me.
Until the demand for Sarah’s List increased last year,
My tagline used to read:
Sarah/Michele 2012.
I thought it was time to give estrogen a chance.
>>> He did something similar when he took over Huckabee’s campaign and attacked Rush Limbaugh. >>>
Yep, and Huckster joined in with those attacks, and threw Hannity in there too. So we’ll see whether MB doubles down on this awfu awful display of poor judgement or if she reverses her decision. I like MB in congress, but she is not ready IMO for the big job.
Me, too. I was actually having trouble sleeping at night wondering if Michele’s entry into the race would make Sarah’s entry considerably more difficult.
This is a GAME-CHANGER! I’ll sleep well tonight knowing that Michele (via Rollins) has just inadvertently removed whatever obstacle MIGHT have remained to Sarah’s decision to run.
As Sarah said: “GAME ON!”
Tagline change.
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He may not yet be on her payroll, but he's clearly working for her.
How do you know how many Palin supporters were "probably never with Bachmann"?
I think now they see the writing on the wall that Sarah IS running, and their strategy for dealing with her is obviously disastrous.
I was willing to keep an open mind about Bachmann. But so far, the only one who has stumbled worse out the gate has been Newtie. I don’t see how Bachmann thinks she can win with such a strategy.
Michele, hiring Rollins will prove to be one big bad ass mistake. From now on, every word Rollins utters about Palin, we will know it has been approved by you. And if you claim otherwise Michele, we will then know you have no control over your own campaign, or, you are a liar.
I think a lot of Palin supporters would have been willing to go with Bachmann. But this gives them considerable pause.
Bachmann seems willing to throw Palin under the bus. Except that it's Palin's bus and Bachmann is the one more likely to end up under there. With Rollins tied to the hood like a deer.
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I might have, if Sarah chose not to run or if she chose Bachmann as VP. My first choice is Sarah.
I just checked Drudge and could find nothing regarding a reaction from Bachmann. I’m surprised.
Virtually all Palin supporters have admired Bachmann. This is going to be MB’s downfall.
Of course I wanted to see Bachmann in the debates and also the lamestream's treatment of her to watch whether she was shredded during the primaries.
If not, then we would know that were she named, all hell would break loose, since indications of the dirt have already surfaced.
Now I'm looking at West for Sarah's VP. :)
She hired him and she either has no control over him or she stands by everything he said.
Either way that makes her too weak or aligned with him or vice versa.
Usually the candidate calls the shots.
I like what I see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_West_(politician)
This concerns me:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2722786/posts?page=28#28
Agreed.
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