A bit odd how some people “thought Michele Bachman was the most impressive performer in the GOP field” but she can’t seem to pass Mitt Romney or Rick Perry. Obviously those in the “conservative” media who are “giving up on her” weren’t actively supporting her and it wasn’t enough anyways. She kept coming in so-called “polling” nationwide in third or fourth. But where it counted, Iowa straw poll, she won. I guess my point is all that matters is who a few states vote for.
But my second point, the media is all over the place with Bachmann. Some, like this author, say she was all that, but they never were promoting her. Some people in the “conservative” media are promoting Rick Perry.
Look, they are doing to her similar stuff they do to Palin. Either Buttering her up then attacking her or riding her off. Or making her as a scapegoat for their upsetness that the “front-runners” are being questioned.
This stuff isn't about Bachmann. The media has its eye on Romney and Perry and if anyone else in the herd seems both threatening and vulnerable, the media will jump in and try to bring them down.
Bachmann has a base of support, she won the Iowa straw poll, she has mostly done well in the debates -- so she could be seen as a threatening candidate to the Establishment.
On the other hand, she has crazy eyes, she's very conservative, she is perceived as mis-stepping on the Gardasil issue -- so she could be seen as vulnerable.
As with Palin, the media desires to take down the conservative woman, and they are making the most of it.