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Ed Rollins Shrugs Off Rep. Bachmann’s HPV Talk, Tells Bill O’Reilly She Can Win Iowa

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After defining last week’s news cycle with her attacks on the HPV Vaccine, Rep. Michele Bachmann has plenty at stake going into Thursday’s Fox News/Google debate. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, her former campaign manager Ed Rollins didn’t mind her performance last week so much– though admitting that it hurt her– and promised that Rep. Bachmann could win the first caucus, “and if she wins Iowa, she’s still in this race.”

O’Reilly opened the discussion by noting that Rep. Bachmann’s poll numbers had dwindled significantly– now, according to Gallup, putting her behind Rep. Ron Paul in fourth place. This Rollins attributed almost directly to Rick Perry, arguing that, even though Rep. Bachmann was the “best candidate in this field,” “when you throw Texas into a national poll, that’s 10% of the population” (he used this argument exclusively to explain Perry and not Rep. Paul, however. He also did note that he had little to no faith in polls, citing the fact that this time in 2007 that showed “Giuliani leading in every single poll,” which clearly proved to be a red herring.

In any case, after being asked a few times about her debate performance, which O’Reilly seemed to find lackluster, Rollins agreed that it “hurts her at this point in time, but she’ll be back debating.” Rollins emphasized that “our strategy was always for her to win Iowa” and that he believed she could do it, as she won the Ames straw poll there– “if she wins Iowa, she’s still in the race.”

The segment via Fox News below:

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  • Anonymous

    She’s not winning Iowa, not by a long shot. Don’t get me wrong Bachmann is a talented politician and a smart lady but her insanity trumps all of that. This country needs a leader, not a conservative religious zealot.

    Sorry Bachmann, maybe next life.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Bachmann is probably going to quit after Iowa.

  • Norbit

    Solyndra
    Kaiser
    LightSquared
    GE
    Immelt
    Soros
    Unions

    It’s called Crony Capitalism!

    Obama needs more money to spread around Democratic Corruption!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVWU6V6ORHYQ57UOHAEI52XTVU Dennis

    “if she wins Iowa, she’s still in the race.”

    if a frog had wings he’d be getting some pidgeon p*ssy

  • Steve85

    there must be something seriously messed up about bachmann.  as a campaign manager, he should always have the back of the person you work/worked for unless you are going straight up against them and he jackie gleasoned her last week on hardball when he refused to say she would be a good choice for president.

  • Glutton

    I could see her winning Iowa.  What might seem absolutely bat shit crazy from most peoples’ perspectives would actually gain the support of Iowa Republicans.  The very fact that Rick Parry is leading the Republican field in all the polls tells me that Republican primary voters don’t care about reason.  They just want a candidate that says stuff you could put on a sign when yelling racist things about the president.  

  • Norbit

    Bachmanpicked up on the Obama Crime Syndicate in her Crony Capitalism speeches.

    The facade is off the community organizer.
    It’s divide and conquer instead of hope & change. It’s now anything to get Obama the win.

    You can be sure his lackeyes in the “mainstream” will be pulling out the Race Card like never before as well.
    Like the Black Caucus Lying about their victimhood, then vilifying white Tea-Partiers!

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I’ve heard she’s hard to work for and she goes through staff like they’re paper plates.

  • Anonymous

    Face it, Obama is in freefall.   The latest poll shows that Sarah Palin now leads Obama among independent voters.  And that’s after three years in which the entire mainstream press has attacked and ridiculed Palin relentlessly.  

    http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/20/v-fullstory/2417008/poll-finds-obama-losing-ground.html

    So Bachmann is a threat to Obama.  As is Perry, Romney, Paul and any Republican nominee.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    She could have a lucrative future on some Board or a lobbying firm, methinks.

  • Glutton

    Romney is the only threat to Obama.  Other than him, the other candidates could be discredited quite easily, especially with their positions on social security. 

  • Glutton

    Actually, all they have to do is focus on the Tea Baggers.  Once the public gets a look at the alternative to Obama, they’ll go back to Obama.  That’s why the only option to beat Obama is Romney.  Anyone else will scare most people away.  

  • Glutton

    Bachmann’s whole appeal is honestly the fact that she and Ron Paul are the only people running that could say they have a record for opposing Obama’s policies.  Pretty much everyone else has either been sitting on the sidelines during the Obama administration or have been taking money from Obama to balance their state budget and create government jobs (cough cough, Rick Parry).  

  • Glutton

    Republicans are morons if they think they could just nominate any old crazy Tea Bagger like Bachmann or Parry and somehow beat Obama.  Democrats thought they could just nominate anyone to beat Bush in 2004 and look where that got them.  Never underestimate an incumbent president, especially when they’ve shown in the past that they could outsmart the Clinton’s on the campaign trail.

  • cma cma

    Martel focuses on interpreting, e.g., debunking, Rollins rather than reporting what we can see with our own lying eyes in the video.

  • L_Salazar

    Just when you lefties thought you had destroyed Michele Bachmann, she rises out of the ashes like a Phoenix.You lefties must remember – you are NOT warriors, you are a bunch of emotional puss-pusses. We let you defeat yourself.

  • Tim Tebow

    Bachmann corners the Stupid vote, but there may not be enough Stupid–even in Iowa.

  • Anonymous

    She will dominate the debate?

    That is a big ask at this moment in time for her. A very big one.

    I think as much as it may show her strengths, it will more likely show her weaknesses. As all the other candidates are looking to sink their teeth into some jugular right now.

  • Anonymous

    I think the president of the flat earther society can win Iowa.

  • Anonymous

    alot is going to depend on v.p. 

  • Anonymous

    Hey, the President of the Flat Earther Society resents that!

  • Glutton

    If I’m the Republicans I would nominate Romney so they have an electable candidate in the general election and then have Rick Parry be the runningmate so that they could attract the retard vote.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Is Michelle Bachmann still even in the race for the Republicon nominee?? She’s polling at 5%!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Sarah Palin??

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Sarah Palin??

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Rubio won’t save any in this group of Republicon nominees!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Republicons won’t allow Romney to win the nominee because he’s a Mormon!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You left out Halliburton… oh wait, that was the Republicons and Cheney!!

  • Will Godbout

    So what does your post have to do with the clip. Really!!!!

  • Will Godbout

    Really! IS that from the Crazy Town Times?

  • Sharpo

    Why is norbit a poosey ?is it because he can’t get laid?

  • Sharpo

    if norbit really believed what he said, he’d post his real name beside his comment

    LOLZ norbit is a poosey.

  • azgrandma

    It must be!

  • Glutton

    That’s probably and unfortunately true.  Fact is that other than Ron Paul (whom the Republicans will never allow to be their nominee), Mitt Romney is the only other Republican that I could vote for in the general elections.  Too bad Republicans don’t care what sane people think now days.

  • Broadhorizons

    Sorry. Bachmann has an impressive record of accepting Federal welfare checks herself.

  • Glutton

     Lefties don’t want to destroy Michele Bachmann.  I’m sure most lefties would love to have Bachmann as the Republican nominee.  She would be a bigger disaster of a candidate than Walter Mondale in 1984.

  • Glutton

    This is true.  I guess she just has a record then.  

  • Ralph

    The HPV and mental retardation claim made sense to me.  Bachmann said a woman told her that the vaccine caused mental retardation in her child.  Mental retardation occurs from a genetic condition before birth.  Anytime the govt forces an American citizen to receive a vaccine, then there will be a string of lawsuits claiming any and every type of bad effect known.

    Give the parents an opt-out, and there are no lawsuits and the parents are to blame if a kid dies of a preventable cancer later.

  • Bob

    Didn’t you get the memo? Nothing happened before January of 2009. Why, some scientists speculate the world didn’t come into existence until inauguration day of that year.

  • Hugo Daun

    You’ll have to forgive Norbit…he’s a fucking dummy (in all of his incarnations).

  • ceeza

    There WAS an opt out doofus..  The government can’t tie your child down and force them take the vaccine.. good grief..

  • Anonymous

    Stranger things have happened. look at 2010

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