As time goes on while making a good first showing, I suspect that Bachmann's campaign will unwind over time. I will give all GOP candidates the nod of having good intentions.
At a time when this nation needs incredibly strong and knowledgeable leadership to overcome corporate greed and incredibly powerful special interest groups, we are presented with a group based on experience not capable of doing so. Though I would not vote for him because his viewpoints on many issues are contrary to mine, the most capable of the candidates is still Romney by a wide margin. The only one who would have the potential to shake things up would be Jeb Bush. The thought makes me cringe, but, he would have the potential to pull from both sides of the voting spectrum. Romney may be able to do the same.
The GOP has one problem in that Palin and Bachmann have the potential to divide the extremists and take away sufficient vote to cost them the election.
The "Pizza King" is not viable and none of the others joining the conservative fight are that viable either.
Right now we have a number of people in office who are acting like a bunch of spoiled children. If I can't have the ball I don't want to play and I don't care about the consequences of my actions.
If things go really wrong on this kind of thinking it has potential to not only give us four more years of Barak which is likely anyway, it has the potential to cause the removal of a number of Republican house seats turning control of the house back over to the Democrats. If it is severe enough a blood bath will commence very quickly after the swear in.
If we care about this country we need to have people in office that are not spoiled children but instead people good and experienced at negotiation and the compromise necessary to move forward.
Neither Bachmann nor Palin understand the word compromise and it is based on at least Palin's track record something that is against her basic personality. Her thinking is "my way of the highway".
For all of us on U.S. shores we need to look at the whole picture and not the part or small part that the President in truth plays. After all the President cannot do anything for very long term without the approval of a number of other people.