More or less out of the blue, Brian Williams at NBC News annointed Rep. Michele Bachmann as the GOP new rising star based on her performance at the recent debate at Saint Anselm College.
On the surface that has to have Mitt Romney seething, the last thing in the world he wants is for the Tea Partei squadristi to get themselves a effective female leader.
He'd rather they remain leaderless and divided the better to negotiate with them from a nominal position of strength when the the time comes, assuming his front runner status holds up and it may not.
On the other hand Bachmann is just the sort of yappy nullity Romney co-opt as a running mate under the precedent set by his Lieutenant Governor "Scary Kerry" Healey.
Or...Romney's misogyny will hold true (its the only deeply held political belief Mitt hasn't compromised nigh these eighteen years) and he'll move heaven and earth to stomp Bachmann good and hard.
So, it could go either way...
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