Ed Rollins Goes Rogue on Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry

With the entry of the equally deranged Rick Perry into the GOP presidential nomination contest, Michele Bachmann has seen her polling numbers drop like a stone. In some ways it's no surprise. Even in the fantasy world of today's Republican Party, Bachmann is a nutcase and on top of that she's woefully lacking in any credible experience that would equip her to be president. Truth be told, Bachmann should never have been a candidate (or a member of the House of Representatives for that matter). Now, her former campaign director has been enticed to let loose with frank commentary on Ms. Bachmann and it is not pretty. Indeed, it is so much fund to see the fanatics turn on their own. Here are some highlights from the Washington Post:

Andrea Mitchell enticed Ed Rollins to go on a tear yesterday, ripping Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), whose campaign he previous ran, as well as Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Not only does he tell us that Bachmann is essentially toast if she doesn’t win Iowa, but he hints that “coming out of the House of Representatives” she hadn't really been prepared for the media scrutiny of a presidential contest. He deemed the ferocious criticism of her “absolutely fair criticism.”

Rollins, not willing merely to undermine his own candidate, also went after Perry, suggesting there are “a lot of things that went on” in Texas and promising that instances of cronyism will be revealed as time goes on. He’s only a bit kinder to Mitt Romney, saying “he’s made the evolution slow but sure to [being] more conservative, to fit the primary voters.

Is there some method to his spasm of criticism or is this simply Rollins popping off? . . . Rollins, despite taking the Bachmann gig, has always been an establishment Republican. He now appears to be offering himself as the town crier, attempting to warn the Republican voters of the dangers that lie ahead in electing either of the candidates who shoot from the hip.

It’s not clear that a majority of GOP primary voters agree with . . . Rollins . . . . . But a Romney advisor may have been right earlier in the summer that Perry’s best day would be the one on which he announced. Since then he’s helped crush Bachmann, but he hasn’t won over the skeptics. Romney may be the beneficiary of this, or Perry’s shortcomings may induce another Republican to get into the race. Stay tuned.