Bachmann's Campaign Team Quits—And Why It Matters

Ed Rollins is the only Republican operative in the country who I kind of like. It's probably his blue-collar roots and his history as a boxer that makes him seem like a regular dude. He's a mercenary, like almost all the other great American campaign managers. But he also has a tendency to offer some blunt criticism of his own party. His 1984 "Morning in America" effort set the standard for great campaigns until David Plouffe came along in 2008.

I was a little bit disgusted with Rollins when he accepted Michele Bachmann's offer to run her campaign. He doesn't need the money and he knows better than to think she'd be an acceptable president. Rollins quit as H. Ross Perot's campaign manager when he figured out that Perot had a screw loose. So, why was he going to help Bachmann? READ MORE