Windflier...Backman and Palin are still on the same team...you know how football players pass the ball between them...and they are going to take pot shots between them to make the game look fair. But I am convinced Backman is simply keeping the seat warm for Palin...or that Palin and Backman are going to take the ball all the way to the finish line regardless of which won wins out.
I’m not about ready to pin them against each other with the stakes as high as they are. Both of them know this, keenly well...and they are going to play the roles necessary to keep the ball in both their hands until the final pass.
I don't see how Bachmann letting the scurrilous Ed Rollins dump on Sarah does anything to move the ball forward for either of them. It was a nasty and unprovoked attack from a quarter where we least expected it.
If this were truly some sort of reverse psychology play on their part, I don't think that Bachmann would have officially entered the race today. I also think that we would have seen an apology from Rollins by now, or even his departure from the Bachmann campaign.
Apparently, Michele looked at what happened, and concluded that she was too close to making her announcement to fire him, and that her ambitions (futile as they are) are more important than her personal honor and integrity to a true friend.
Notice also that Sarah hasn't fired back, or replied in any way. To me, that's a sure sign that she gave Michele enough time to do the right thing, and now that she hasn't, Sarah has crossed her name off the trusted friends and allies list.
Big, BIG mistake on Michele's part. I doubt that she'll ever win Sarah's trust back after this. She's lost mine as well.