Her Waterloo was in Waterloo, iowa, during her announcement speech. It went downhill from there.
Rollins is a backstabber, and it’s coming home to roost.
Seems like Rollins is mainly just pointing about the obvious.
After Bachmann’s “retard” story, which was completely unpresidential, I can only imagine how hard it must be to manage her campaign. Throw in that GSK, who makes the only vaccine that competes with Gardasil, has given Bachman thousands in donations, and she is dead meat. Unless, of course, her master Mittens Romney throws her a few more coins to stay in the race and smear the field for him.
I don’t care what anyone says. Rollins is a loose cannon and always entertaining. One gets the impression that he isn’t aware that what he says to himself in his own mind is also coming out of his mouth at the same time.
“more like a television analyst than a campaign spinmeister”
This is the key phrase. Rollins is tired of knocking himself out as a campaign manager (he did say that was why he was stepping back on Bachmann’s team) - and has his eye on a new career as a talking head. Heck why not, it’s the porch where the other old dogs (Carville, Rove, Caddell, et al) go to lie when they’ve run their last race.
I doubt too there is any sense of loyalty with “insiders” like Rollins. They probably feel they are bigger than the campaign.
Well I as well as many others said the Bachmann made a huge mistake when she hired this guy and I think its safe to say we’ve been proven correct.
I liked her for a while but then realized that she is our Plugs Biden. It’s just one gaff after another. Honestly, I wrote her off when she said the Everglades shouldn’t be off limits for drilling. I’m a drill everywhere guy but if there’s a last place on earth to drill, it would be the Everglaldes. In FL, that was political suicide and just plain tone-deaf. Everything after that just reinforces the fact that she’s not ready.
MB thought she could get a great deal and lost. She was warned.
You lie with dogs you end up with fleas.
She’s toast and Palin isn’t about to save her goat smellin’ ass this time.
I wouldn't hire him for nothing.
Why anyone would hire Rollins to run a campaign, let alone a Republican campaign, is beyond me...
He’s the Pubbies version of Schrum...
His going on MSNBC speaks volumes.
I can't tell you how disappointed I am in her. I think she may have destroyed her political career.
I can forgive a lot. The gaffes, the over-the-top Gardasil attacks, the Rollins association.
I don't know if I will ever be able to forgive her selling out to Romney though, or her attack of Perry from the LEFT on Social Security. (ugh)
The reason Bachmann is tanking is because of things she's been saying, not her campaign strategy. Her vaccination comment was after Rollins. Rollins never had the power to make her say something she didn't want to say, nor keep her from saying things she shouldn't. (The $2.00 a gallon gas did it for me.)
If Rollins was the problem, then her campaign should start improving shortly. Anyone believe that will happen? I don't. There's a reason she has a history of unusually high staff turnover. And it happened before Rollins ever showed up.
Hiring Ed Rollins was a huge mistake, which should have been obvious enough to begin with. Rollins was NOT a handler that any real conservative would touch with a ten-foot pole.
It’s one thing to have this kind of guy imposed on you, as Sarah did by McCain. It’s quite another to go out and actually choose him. Some of us thought it was a terrible mistake at the time, and I think we were right.
Hmmmm ..?? As soon as she hired Rollins, he went out and started bashing Palin. She made Rollins apologize (privately) to Palin (and after all Palin had done to support her run for congress) - ungrateful.
He’s a back-stabber - can’t stand the guy.
Somewhere in a musty smelling and darkened closet, pissant is screaming his head off.
““Right now, she’s competing hard in Iowa,” Mr. Rollins said. But, he added, “she doesn’t have the ability or resources to go beyond that, Iowa, at this point in time, where Perry and Romney can go into South Carolina, Arizona and other places.”
It was Rollins’ job as campaign manager to make sure that didn’t happen. Rollins is just looking to escape the blame for his own incompetence.
I highly addmired and still do, Michelle’s tell it like it is attitude and conservative stances. But right from the beginning I had a little niggle about her pulling the Tea Party into a congressional caucus. Something in the back of my mind kept saying...is this really what we want? We’re not really a political party or aligned with a party. We’re we the people. And I didn’t think that isolating our newly chosen and elected representatives into their own group was a good idea. I thought maybe something like a ‘Constitutional Caucus’ might better represent a purpose and allow others to join. Even conservative democrats could join that, and God knows we need something to unite these folks on common ground.
And I kind of felt too that she was trying to claim Tea Party queenship (for want of a better word) from Sarah Palin whom we worked so closely with in the last election cycle. She was so good to point us in directions that needed help, and we could call on her if we saw somebody needed some help.
I never understood the Rollins thing, he was just UGH! But the debate shark attack looked almost like pure desperation and out of control.
In debates our candidates should niggle each other and point out differences, but to attack each other so snarkily like they did at that debate, just doesn’t look good for the party. They ALL needed to be pointing stronger to their differences from Obama so people will understand how united we all are for a republican to win the general.
I didn’t know until I read it here she was trolling for Romney VP. Not sure how I feel about that. Especially if she’s going to start trolling for him before the primaries. Then she’s lost me, altogether.
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Ed:
Pound it up your &*()& sideways and howl at the moon....
Rollins reputation is damaged and this time it will stick. What bothers me about this story is Rollins being dishonest/a backstabber to his own candidate; the person who paid him; for his confidential advice. She should have known better/vs. trusting him. Rollins has been at this for a long time. Didn’t she know his history? Maybe, it was trust? Sometimes, I wonder if Rove didn’t get him there to stop the Tea Party/slow it down for Mitt. Please, no more conservatives hire Ed Rollins. Let him be done. Let him stay over at MSNBC where he belongs now-I think he is a hack, sellout, sleaze (as in characterless) regardless that she has made gaffs and mistakes. I still think she should save herself for the congressional seat. The old house guard does not like her anyhow because she’s too vocal and can access the Tea Party support. I think they would love to get rid of her-She is compassionate on some issues. Can’t take that away from her so today, I am not prepared to throw her under the bus even though, she hired him and allowed Ed to criticize Palin and made these gaffs. They all need to stay in as long as they can make it-to keep pressure on the others and to exchange views so we can see more of each person. It is still early. I do agree with Bachmann when she said Perry went around the legislature. She is right. Big (Rick’s) government should not be taking away our liberty by telling any citizen or forcing us in a situation to have a vaccination. Why help them to give away our freedom.