Michele Bachman orders Ed Rollins to apologize to Team Palin
Really? If so, good call.
When I first heard that Bachmann had hired Rollins, I called it a mistake. I stand by that. Hiring Rollins strikes me as the sort of thing a pol who doesn’t have a great deal of national experience would do. He is a big name and has been around DC for decades, but there is arguably better and more up to date talent out there available. They don’t have the name recognition of an Ed Rollins, but they don’t need it. And hiring a big name carries the danger of that big name overshadowing the candidate they have been hired to manage. That danger is always present with Rollins, because he tends to jump off message without much provocation.
But Bachmann calling him down to apologize, if that’s what happened, shows that she won’t be overshadowed or rolled by him. So…good call.
It also says ‘we are on the same team.’
i have no idea what rollins said about palin, but i’m glad michele is in charge of her campaign. i consider palin and and bachmann natural allies as having identified themselves with conservatives and the tea party, so there shouldn’t be any competition between them until they’ve eliminated all the rinos from contention.
While I’m glad she chastised Rollins, it has been about a week since the event. This has the appearance of a poll-driven chastisement. If she were genuinely unhappy about it she would have done it immediately after he did it.
She should have fired him immediately. Anything less… and the present situation certainly is less… and she loses credibility. Lots of it.
You are correct. Bachman should have fired Rollins immediately with the clear message.
“You talk dirt about people on our side then you’ll have free speech, because I won’t be paying you to talk.”
It is time to absolutely END talking down other conservatives. Conservatives don’t have a clear majority in power and to provide ammo to Democrats is sheer stupidity.
Yes, we the “little people” can say what we want. Our speech really is free. No one pays us to be spokespersons. If you are a hired mouthpiece then your mouth needs to be under tight control, on message, on the correct target, at the correct time.
Anything less is unprofessional.
It is inconceivable that this was not deliberately orchestrated by Rollins and Bachman in a “good cop, bad cop” scenario to make Bachman look decisive. If so, then it may have been a PR tactic. I can’t imagine Rollins going out on his own and attacking Palin with the same lame tactics employed by the left without Bachman’s knowledge and approval. If he did it on his own, then Bachman should fire him. The problem is that it has diminished bothBachman and Rollins in a way that is difficult to undo.
Anyone who spends as much time waffling on CNN as Rollins does ought not to be trusted.
Bachmann doesn’t need to go into overdrive, the insanely biased press will try to trip her up at every turn. Palin has learned message discipline to the point where all she needs to do is hire a bus and go on a tour with her kid and 5000 half-wit whiners follow her every move, with the female hacks bitching and the males kvetching all the way—-counting run stop signs and occasional red lights…..! But the monstrous Wurlitzer has done its damage and Bachmann should keep Sarah closer than Rollins, whose mouth is on permanent overdrive, it seems, while his brain takes long periods of hibernation. If it’s a choice between the two, choose Reagan’s 11th Commandment.