The sparks started flying when Ed Rolllins, longtime Republican insider in charge of Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann‘s presidential campaign, dismissed Sarah Palin as being “not serious” about a run for president in a radio interview.
Next came the response from Team Palin: “Beltway political strategist Ed Rollins has a long, long track record of taking high profile jobs and promptly sticking his foot in his mouth,” said Sarah’s PAC chief of staff Michael Glassner in an email to Politico. “To no one’s surprise he has done it again, while also fueling a contrived narrative about the presidential race by the mainstream media. One would expect that his woodshed moment is coming and that a retraction will be issued soon.”
But Rollins apparently disagrees, and his advice to anyone who may have objected to his comment is to “let it go.” When asked if he’d retract his statement, Rollins said, “What’s the retraction? I say she’s serious?”
