Michele Bachmann's hard fall

I almost feel sorry for Bachmann. But she has said some real crazy and offensive things during this campaign season. She has not in my opinion, played hard enough ball against her opponents. She comes out strong against the President, but then whimpers in the debates. She has not mastered how to use her femininity to her advantage. I hope she bows out gracefully.

Four months ago, Michele Bachmann seemed poised for a banner December.

She’d just won the Ames Straw Poll — vanquishing her Minnesota rival, Tim Pawlenty, in the process — and was getting accustomed to life in the top tier of 2012 candidates.

But as the race wraps up, the woman who was on a trajectory to become the first-ever female winner of the Iowa caucuses is fighting to avoid finishing dead last in the state where she was raised.

To underscore her troubles, Bachmann has spent the last 24 hours trying to spin the fallout from her Iowa state campaign chairman’s defection to the Ron Paul camp — insisting repeatedly that the man in question took a payoff to make the switch. Another longtime staffer, who went public to defend the departed chairman, was gone from the campaign by late Thursday.

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