Thursday, December 29, 2011

Do you think for a minute that Ed Rollins, before quitting a lost cause, (one the head loser has yet to quit on), picked the particular Iowa Bachamnistani operative who now, overnight switches and endorses Ron Paul?

Many outlets report the campaign switch of Iowa State Rep. Kent Sorenson from supporting Michele Bachmann to supporting Ron Paul. This Google. CS Monitor, for example. Politico, here.

This is a Tea Party person apparently, whatever your usage of the term "tea" might entail.

This Google.

TokeOfTheTown, for example.

The best reporting on Sorenson's travails, Des Moines Register, here.

The guy: is not a college grad, lives in Iowa where there is not much beyond agriculture happening, and had a young series of mistakes mainly treading water, financially.

Much of the Tea Party's people story is his story, problems leading to disaffection for "government," in some generic sense, while the Occupy movement is more focused on the real dimensions of why people like Sorenson are put and kept behind the eight ball.

The moneyed power brokers want and like having a pliant population, and while Sorenson has somewhat escaped that boxed in engineered claustrophobia, it was not without being stomped on quite a bit by the heavy boot of privileged authoritarianism.

I think he's found a better camp than Crazy Michele's. It appears he thinks so.

We can only guess what Ed Rollins might have to say. Or some New Hampshire people. With Rollins exit, there were two versions circulating, e.g., here and here. Marcus appears set to remain on board, however, for the long haul. Ron Carey says so,

Bachmann's closest aides say that until now, the three-term congresswoman's kitchen cabinet has consisted mostly of her tight-knit family.

"The only person she talks to as an insider is her husband, Marcus, who's a wonderful man, and her son Lucas," said former Minnesota Republican Party Chair Ron Carey, who served as Bachmann's chief of staff last year. "That's really her brain trust."

Marcus and Lucas Bachmann both cop to the plea.

"Yes, I'm her strategist," Marcus Bachmann said as he dashed into Calef's with an autographed Michele Bachmann baseball card for deli man Joel Sherburne, who was suddenly a fan.

Lucas Bachmann, 28, also acknowledged a role, calling himself a William F. Buckley libertarian conservative.

With longtime aide Andy Parrish the only paid handler at Calef's, it was left to Marcus Bachmann, a Christian therapist, to help manage the drive-by visit and stay on schedule. As the congresswoman chatted amiably with Mitch Michaud, a local Tea Party activist who came to see her in person, Marcus Bachmann gently put his arms around his wife and tried to lead her out the door.

Ron Carey should know from his extensive and long-term service as a Bachmann chief-of-staff.