As she prepares to enter the race in Iowa later this month, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has signed on high-profile political strategist Ed Rollins to run her presidential campaign, according to two sources close to Bachmann.
Rollins, who was Mike Huckabee's national campaign director in the 2008 campaign, is an experienced political operative with a well-earned reputation for his tough tactics and willingness to play hardball. He's probably best known for running the 1984 Reagan-Bush reelection campaign, which Reagan won in a landslide.
Rollins will run a campaign that already has a number of experienced advisors on board, including Brett O'Donnell, who advised George W. Bush and John McCain and is considered the best debate coach in politics. Bachmann also has brought on Bob Heckman, who is prominent in the conservative movement.
Note – Rollins was also the author of the “Reagan Democrat” strategy which proved key in the 1980 campaign. – Ed.
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I say this as a Democrat, but also as a realist, and it is the same thing I said in 2008:
If the GOP wants to win the White House, it will nominate Mitt Romney. If it wants to lose the White House, it will nominate anyone else.
Bachmann is a clown, and real people know this. The tea party never mentions that the President is President for ALL Americans, not just the ones that voted for him or her.
Tea Partiers see "governing from the center" as giving in to the enemies of freedom and values. No. Governing from the center is what a President must do. The vast majority of everyone is in the center. The far left and far right hoot and hollar, cry foul at every moment, and are great for identifying who is to "blame," but the center runs the show every day.
Democrats live in the center. Republicans live in the center. Libertarians live in the center. Christians, Jews, Muslims, blacks, whites, gays, and straight live there.
If you want a particular party to win, you need them to nomiate someone the center will vote for. Bachmann, Palin, et all do not do this at all.
(Now you may begin the "Dan is a wetpants, liberal, pinko, commie, moron" parade.)
Attractive "mature" ladies running for president is AWESOME!! Finally a reason to care about the race in our current world of partisan politics.
Romney will probably be nominated. Although, if I were him, I would sit this one out until 2016. None of them has a remote chance of beating Obama.
Bachman is likely trying to get some palin-like fame and money by appealing to the craziests.
I'm surprised someone of Rollins' stature would take on a crackpot like Bachman. Obama must be tickled to pieces at the sight of another loser jumping in the race. As an independent who isn't thrilled with the pres, I could vote for Romney. Unfortunately, I don't think he can win his own party. I do believe he could beat Obama. The old John McCain could have beaten Obama, but he had to veer too far right to win his party nomination. Palin was his fatal mistake. Dan is correct; the country wants and will elect a centrist.
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