How is that working out for them?
Unlike Sarah Palin, they are taken seriously.
Even Bachmann, who has the least experience as compared to Perry, Romney and Obama, is given the grudging respect of being somebody that at least entered the Arena and is trying to win.
Outside of her extremely loyal Fan Club, Sarah Palin is seen merely as the punchline of countless jokes and seen as the epicenter of fights and dramas that have more to do with Levi Johnston, Joe McGuiness, Reality TV and getting grilled by the National Enquirer than they have to do with Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, getting grilled on Meet the Press or getting grilled on prime time in the nationally televised Arena of a Presidential debate.
Michele Bachmann Meet the Press Video Aug. 14, 2011 Full Interview with David Gregory
Sarah Palin would be totally irrelevant except for the fact that her extremely loyal Fan Club (13% of GOP voters) believes that their mission in life is to throw bottles at any and every GOP candidate in the Arena that is more conservative than Romney whose name is not "Sarah Palin".
Sarah Palin would be totally irrelevant except for the fact that the Reality TV show that her Fan Club are interactive participants in is now helping Mitt Romney secure the GOP nomination because her Fan Club plays along and throws bottles into the Arena while they wait for the Great Pumpkin to fly in and defeat Romney some time around next Halloween.
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." ..... Theodore Roosevelt
“Sarah Palin would be totally irrelevant except for the fact that the Reality TV show that her Fan Club are interactive participants in is now helping Mitt Romney secure the GOP nomination because her Fan Club plays along and throws bottles into the Arena while they wait for the Great Pumpkin to fly in and defeat Romney some time around next Halloween.”
This is exactly the problem. And they are so blind they don’t see that all they are doing is helping Romney, because Palin is NOT running, just leading on her obsessive fans.
Then, what is it that you're doing here with the constant bottles you throw at Palin when she's not even in the running (yet), and why?
Seems to me that if you really believed what you say, you wouldn't even be bothering with the Palin threads.