STEVE HAYWARD: Giving Up On Bachmann. The vaccine thing may have been a campaign-killer.

Yeah, there’s a double standard: “NBC Nightly News last night went to some trouble to attack Bachman’s views on the Gardisil vaccine. Fine; but why doesn’t NBC or the other major media perform the same service when anti-vaccine quackery comes from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Jenny McCarthy? No mystery here.” But that’s the environment Republican candidates have to operate in. And, really, is I’m no kookier than RFK Jr. or Jenny McCarthy a viable slogan?

UPDATE: Bachmann Stayed Quiet on Mandatory Vaccinations While Serving Minnesota.