It appears the Bachmann candidacy is fizzling out

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-decline-and-fall-of-michele-bachmann/2011/09/06/gIQAx4hR7J_blog.html

Posted at 05:00 PM ET, 09/06/2011
Michele Bachmann’s rise and fall in the 2012 Republican primary
By Chris Cillizza

In politics, things change fast.

Less than a month ago, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann sat atop the political world fresh off her win at the Ames Straw Poll.

Today, two new polls show Bachmann’s support badly eroding — a finding that when coupled with a Labor Day staff shakeup raise serious questions about her ability to recapture the momentum that shot her into the top tier over the summer.

In a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, Bachmann now stands at six percent in a hypothetical 2012 Republican primary ballot, well short of the 13 percent she took in a mid-July Post/ABC survey of registered voters

[Coyote_Bandit]

1. This was the subject of Letterman's

Top Ten last night.

Just FYI.

[Ineeda]

4. Funny, but he kept making the mistake

of calling her Michele O'Bachmann. Paul corrected him a couple of times. I really like Dave, but this annoyed me. To tie our first lady to the whack-job Bachmann in any way is not cool. Link: http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/top_ten/
edited to add link

[Coyote_Bandit]

17. Letterman has been using the O'Bachmann reference

for some time now (since July at least) - always with Paul correcting him. I think he is doing that in an effort to keep people from confusing the two.

[meegbear]

2. Should people following this be surprised?

She did well in Iowa where ...

* She was born

* Campaigned heavily

* Bought votes in their straw poll

Then, she went out to the rest of the country, well, she has nothing.

Sad that people who actually get paid to follow this stuff act "amazed" when things like this happen.

[tanyev]

3. Polls confirm that house of cards is indeed unstable.

[FSogol]

5. Wow. Who could have seen that coming?

:rofl:

[meegbear]

6. Apparently, the people who cover politics for a living

[SoCalDem]

7. Paper Lion.. False prophet... Flame-out... Phony-baloney

Ooooh shiny...

so many choices:)

buh-byee Mzzzz Bachmann :)

[DURHAM D]

8. She has fizzled too fast.

I wanted her to stay in as long as possible to pull votes from and attack Perry.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Well, the only solution for her is to crank teh crazy to 11! Don't go down without a fight!!

:popcorn:

[nobodyspecial]

10. Perry is the new shiny toy

and if Palin wades in, the media will be on to her.

[lpbk2713]

11. Entirely predictable.

With only a few batshit crazy nutjobs in her support base there was no credible expectation of success.

[HappyMe]

12. sigh! I was looking forward to a couple more

months of the crazy!

[NeedleCast]

13. No surprise here

The media was enjoying Bachmann for awhile because she's a nut, and nuts get a lot of headlines, but now they're tired of her and a more viable nut (Perry) is in the race. Bachmann jumped in too early, and now her fuel is spent.

[jberryhill]

14. Short Attention Spans In This Lot

The GOP would do well to hold off on nominating their candidate until a week before the election, given their penchant for flash-in-the-pan candidates.

Donald Trump was going to set the world on fire. For about a week.

[NNN0LHI]

15. Perry will be next to go after Bachmann pulls out

Republicans talk a good game when they talk about being "true to their values", but when the rubber hits the road they would prefer to have a candidate that has some chance at beating President Obama.

Republicans are pond scum but they are not stupid.

Don

[Mr Deltoid]

16. I can just see Rollins attempting to talk some sense into her

And her just staring at him with this gaze:

[Whisp]

18. enter stage right... Sarah

I'm almost wish so, just for shits and giggles, but it's frightening how the media will boost her up like she was a real contender and not a simpleton amoeba she is.

[blindpig]

19. She would win the SC primary....

:eyes:

[KamaAina]

20. The M$M is dousing it with buckets of water

They're practically giving her the Ron Paul silent treatment. All the spin today is "Perry, Romney clash" and so forth.