[shield]

OH....Mittens by having Michelle Bachmann attack Perry...and trust me Mitten’s did ask Bachmann to do that...this is how he works...pretty much destroyed her, Mitten’s receiving a big part of her poll numbers. It may have hurt Perry...but Mitten’s took Bachmann out with the underhand move which is par for Mittens.

[bereanway]

This is too bad. I wonder what Myth promised Bachmann for her to take on this role? She's been reduced to nothing more than an ankle biter. Bachmann and Santorum have become an embarrassment.

[C. Edmund Wright]

>>> OH....Mittens by having Michelle Bachmann attack Perry...and trust me Mitten’s did ask Bachmann to do that. >>>

I could believe the Romney camp would work that way - but I don’t think that’s how it happened in this case. Bachmann’s attack was too emotional and reactive to have been a planned coup. And I don’t think, with her momentum after second debate and Iowa straw poll, that she was giving up.

She was just frustrated that Perry swooped in and jumped way ahead of her in the polls and she just lost it. Now the effect was as you say, it helped Romney.

[tirednvirginia]

Sooner or later she will realize that she was used.

[FromTheSidelines]

Mittens by having Michelle Bachmann attack Perry...and trust me Mitten’s did ask Bachmann to do that...this is how he works...pretty much destroyed her

Would also show how naive and politically unskilled Bachmann is - she'd get eaten alive in the Presidency if she lets Romney manipulate her with such ease...