I like MB way more than Palin.
Bachmann is a lot smarter and seems to really enjoy a scrap.
Agreed - Palin reads a mean speech and is sure good at riling people up - but at the same time, we know it's not her original thoughts.
She agreed with capping emissions, amnesty, tarp, and other other lib shit in 2008 - either because she didn't understand the question, or because she was just doing what was politically popular at the moment. When the party swung far-right, she went with it.
All the while, bachmann has been - and remains - far right. bachmann wrote the book that palin is now reading from. bachmann speaks from original thought, and above all - is able to FACE THE MEDIA. She gives it right back to Chris mathews and MSNBC - and Palin is afraid to go on them.
Of course the media - on both sides - likes to ask 'gotcha' questions. It's called GOOD JOURNALISM. Lobbing softballs at obama (msnbc) and at palin (FOX) is shitty journalism. Bachmann goes on the left media all the time - and she holds her own very well. 2012 candidates need to talk to ALL media - not just the one they agree with