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"Santorum ran a conservative geared campaign while Romney ran an urban moderate campaign that skipped the people he needed most while campaigning to people who weren’t going to vote for him in the general."

That is a fair criticism.

"As far as Michele Bachmann is concerned, she is one seriously tough and brilliant woman who didn’t deserve some of the treatment she got from FReepers. Some of the crap we saw spouted about her here at FR would have made the most rabid leftist Palin hater proud."

And that is not fair criticism. She did it to herself. Period. Paragraph.

I will trust no candidate that hires a poison pen angry-little-man like Ed Rollins. She got pimped by the worst consultant in the business. Who turned on her after she dumped him (far too late): Rollins: Bachmann stayed clear of attacking Romney in hopes of VP slot

And she overplayed Gardacil. You and I were both on those pre-election threads when it was a singular Texas issue, and we both criticized Perry for what he did. She was fine to bring it up in the debate, but after tried to shape this one issue on the stump as Perry's 'war on women' and it came off poorly -- mawkish and outright stupid.