That's NOT how we got McLame last time and you know it.
And FR has always been a bastion of escalating fights during the presidential primary season, as you very well know.
She was being snarky, implying that she was getting Palin supporters.
She is delusional if she really believes that. Polls with and polls without show a pretty even distribution among the remaining candidates when Governor Palin isn't included.
She is a AA player in a major league game, being sustained in large measure by the conservative media. It remains to be seen how much longer they can keep her in it.
How do you know she isn’t getting Palin supporters? It’s a pretty natural fit; Palin had said many good things about Bachmann, and Bachmann about Palin. Bachmann was a darling of the tea party, and gets high marks from all three legs of conservatism.
Palin isn’t in the race yet, and if she isn’t, her supporters have to vote for one of the candidates that are, and Bachmann is certainly in the top three of the announced candidates to get that support.
I know some Palin supporters here are upset with her about the Rollins thing, although there’s been no indication yet that Palin herself was upset, or has asked anybody to attack Bachmann like her supporters here are doing. So while people here may not think Palin supporters would support Bachmann, unless you have a poll or something that shows she’s wrong, your assertion is simple speculation on your part.
She has tripled her support in the polls — those votes came from somewhere, and given Palin still isn’t in the race, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find that she has a lot of Palin supporters (which means if Palin enters, Bachmann’s poll numbers would drop back down).
BTW, here’s some more emperical data suggesting Bachmann is right about Palin supporters.
From the Suffolk University polls from April and June, we see that Sarah Palin support dropped from 8% in april, to 4% in june. Bachmann went from 3% in april to 11% in june.
It is reasonable to think that the 4% that Palin lost could have moved to Bachmann.