To refresh those memories, let me recount what happened (once again):
After the 2010 TEA Party sweep of the House of Representatives and State legislatures, with Palin leading the charge, the GOP-E panicked and launched a strategy to undermine and ultimately stop her from running for president. They admitted it openly.
And since Bachmann was a pain in Boehner's butt too at the time (particularly with her TEA Party rally on the steps of Capitol Hill), the GOP-E/RNC hatched a plan to try and kill two birds with one stone by convincing Bachmann to run (via her congressional staff) and dilute Palin's TEA Party support. They approached her over the Christmas adjournment (again via her staff) and she agreed in exchange for whatever promise they made to her. Within days, members of her staff appeared in both Iowa and South Carolina and began bad mouthing Palin to state and local Republican chairmen and potential delegates.
Very soon afterward, Bachmann announced her candidacy, but word leaked about what was going on and was documented and discussed ad nauseum both here at FR and elsewhere in the Conservative blogosphere. Bachmann then hired Ed Rollins as her manager and literally within twenty-four hours he attacked, not Romney, but Palin. Bachmann's subsequent silence spoke volumes. Again, this was all discussed and debated on this forum and elsewhere.
In the meantime, Tucson happened, and Palin was crucified by Obama's minions online and in the MSM. The GOP-E saw another big chance to help bury her, and did not lift a finger to either defend or help her, leaving her to dangle in the wind against the vicious Rat onslaught. Palin released her own video statement about Tucson and was again attacked mercilessly for defending herself. She went on to do the Madison rally and then her One Nation bus tour, but something (bad?) happened behind the scenes in late August or early September (when she was primed to announce her candidacy) that compelled her to stay out, and she told mark Levin on October 5 that she was not running.
Bachmann, for her part, ran a fitful campaign and not once attacked Romney during the "debates" (if you can call them that) before suspending it on January 4th of this year, her job done.
It's sad that I have to walk people through this all over again, but apparently I do.
Thanks for the concise recap.
Bookmarked for reference.
I agree with everything that you are saying and its accurate as well