Posted on 06/06/2011 12:20:58 PM PDT by Al B.
As she prepares to enter the race in Iowa later this month, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has signed on high-profile political strategist Ed Rollins to run her presidential campaign, according to two sources close to Bachmann.
Rollins, who was Mike Huckabee's national campaign director in the 2008 campaign, is an experienced political operative with a well-earned reputation for his tough tactics and willingness to play hardball.
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Sarah Palin has her film, Reviews of "The Undefeated" Are Out! [with MANY LINKS to articles about this new Sarah Palin movie] and Eve Harrington names her director!
Leaving aside all that can be said for/against Bachmann and Rollins, this is probably not as dumb a move as it appears at first blush.
Rollins ran Huckabee’s ‘08 race in IA. And managed his surprising win there. IIRC,that was attributable to the ‘Christian Right’ vote. Bachmann would appeal to that same constituency that shows up religiously, as it were, for the caucuses. Rollins is apparently plugged into them better than anyone else.
That’s EXACTLY what this is about. You all have to understand what happened here in Iowa last time.
I was organizing for Thompson in my county and did fairly well. I did mine the more traditional way of ID’ing likely voters. Understand I’m the 6th generation in my county and have been working in the party for about 10 years. If someone’s organizing I will generally hear about it.
Not with Huckabee. He organized thru the churches and pastors. It was mostly by word of mouth and volunteers and cost very little money. And caucus nite we walked in to a crowd 4 times as big as we ever had. Huck had got out voters that had never voted in a caucus and no one heard a word of it.
That’s what Bachmann is after. It’s not a bad strategy.
“Eve Harrington names her director.” ROTFLMAO!
“Comment not surprising coming from a Palin fan. Obviously her fans are afraid of Bachmann. Rush says the Left tells us who they’re afraid of, well so do Palin fans.”
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I couldn’t care less if Bachmann runs and have said so on numerous occasions.
Ed Rollins has never won a race in his life but he has lost quite a few. He was a gopher for Lyn Nofziger, who glommed onto Reagan’s 1984 landslide and has been living off it ever since. He is a person who lies very effortlessly (and to his friends), and anyone who is interested can read page 368 of Rendezvous with Destiny, the story of Reagan’s great 1980 victory. It is the only mention Rollins gets in the book (showing how important he really was) and it exposes him as a liar and a sneak. Come to think of it, he and Bachmann ought to hit it off pretty well.
Huckabee won the Iowa Caucuses with 40,000 voters in 2008 against McCain and Romney. He never had to face a candidate with Palin’s raw power. Michele Bachmann is a joke compared to Huckabee. Compared to Sarah Palin, who can draw 40,000, 50,000 and over 60,000 to rallies (and hundreds who wait overnight in 0 degree weather at book signings) Bachmann is as insignificant as a gnat in the tundra. Palin will get twice what Huckabee got in 2008, and Bachmann will be lucky to get a few hundred.
The only effect her little run is going to have will be negative, but it won’t cost Sarah Palin a thing, including Iowa, which she will win easily. Bachmann’s little “fool’s errand” will make Tarryl Clark a Congresswoman and that is regrettable. Bachmann is never going to be President and everyone knows it. She did generally vote correctly as a member of Congress, certainly better than Clark will vote.
Her political epitaph should read: “Here lies Michele Bachmann’s career, a victim of overweening ambition and the Peter Principle, in that order”
For evangelicals, Bachmann ‘speaks our code’:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2730850/posts
“I am here to support Michele Bachmann,” said Phil Dacosta, a 42-year-old Southern Baptist from Atlanta. “I don’t care about anyone else.”
“Dacosta, wearing a blue Huck PAC T-shirt, called himself heartbroken that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won’t run for president this year. As Huckabee’s campaign coordinator in Georgia, Dacosta helped the former governor win his state’s GOP primary in 2008, one of eight states Huckabee took that year with strong support from conservative Christians.
But with Huckabee out, Dacosta said he’s confident that fellow evangelicals will turn their eyes and organizing power to Bachmann, a three-term congresswoman from Minnesota.”
Huckster is still a wild card. He is just enough of a weasel to jump back in long enough to take Iowa and then jump back out again.
Well Sarah said it herself on Sunday. Bachmann has no Executive Experence.
One of Sarah’s criteria is they have to have Executive Experience. I’m with Sarah.
Not very smart of Rollins. Not good to P.O. Sarah Palin supporters, Mr. Ed.
Here's what Sarah Palin told Chris Wallace n Sunday when he asked her about Bachmann.
WALLACE: Let me move on real quickly. I'm going to invoke the lightning round rules on you. Quick questions, quick answers.
You would seem to be closest politically of all the candidates to Michele Bachmann, Congresswoman Bachmann. You're both Tea Part activists. You're both social conservatives.
Is there room in the race for the two of you or would you split the same base of voters?
PALIN: No, we have differences, too. I have many years of executive experience. And she has her strengths that she will to add to the race. But, no, yes, there's certainly room. The more, the merrier. More competition, the better.
Thompson was a secular candidate with very limited appeal to Evangelicals. Sarah Palin is a whole ‘nother kettle of fish. In 2008, the evangelicals had no other alternative. Huck was the only solid social conservative. Palin is rock solid on the social issues and is herself an evangelical. It will be obvious to everyone (if it isn’t already) that the nominee will be either Palin or Romney. Evangelicals, even those who are taken in by Bachmann and fail to see her as Romney’s stalking horse, will not want to waste a vote on her, because she can’t win the nomination. She can only help Romney.
Moreover, unlike Bachmann, Palin’s appeal is not just to Evangelicals but to economic libertarians as well 9the voters who went for Thompson in 2008). Palin will get the lion’s share of those voters at the caucuses as well.
With that statement, Governor Palin made it clear to all who were paying attention, that Bachmann does not meet her criteria for an endorsement, so that she herself won’t run.
Next.
I’m sure she’s pissed that Bachmann is (most likely) running. But then I say get in the race. If Palin was in right now Bachmann might think twice about running. But Bachmann certainly is not going to wait until/if Palin decides to sh*t and get off the pot.
A snake doesn’t change!!!
He was a RINO in the 70s and still is!
So much for Bachmann.
Rollins the RINO Launcher.
Fact is there IS room for two conservative woman. Let’s see them both get in and let the voters decide who they prefer. If you’re so confident about Palin what’s there to worry about? She’ll get in and clean Bachmann’s clock, right?
Thanks for posting the transcript of the Q&A on this.
I’m surprised nobody caught this. It perked my ears when Sarah said it.
Furthermore, You’re right NEXT.
RINO Rollins has been at the forefront of attacks on Palin (documented) and Backstabmann has the effin effrontery to whine that she’s my friend. In your dreams lovey. Your gonna get everything your deserve.
“She’ll get in and clean Bachmann’s clock, right?”
Considering some of Bachmann’s loopy utterances, it must be a cuckoo clock.
But to answer your question, Palin will clean Bachmann’s (very tiny) clock. I am actually glad she is getting in. Palin has to beat someone for the nomination. Mitt is quite boring but Michele....she’s good for a gaffe a minute.
Thanks for the confirmation of what happened. My memory and gut pretty much told me that was the scenario. Good to hear from someone ‘on the ground.’ (I was for Thompson then, too)
I won’t be surprised to see the same thing this year. It helps that Bachmann is from IA. But there is no way the IA “Christian Right” is gonna let Romney come in there and win the caucuses. Personally, I have a bit of a problem with that, as his Mormonism is the least of my problems with him.
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