Answer: Because Michelle Bachmann is a headache for Mitt and the left

Ques­tion: Why on earth are sto­ries about Michelle Bachmann’s migraine headaches front page news and being reported on ABC?

For the daily Caller this is a win, the MSM often fails to pick up their mate­ri­als, but as Stacy McCain noted when “con­ser­v­a­tives” attack repub­li­cans sud­denly a Daily Caller piece becomes desirable.

But why the Daily caller? The ques­tion is answered by who this piece ben­e­fits the most, and that Answer is Mitt Rom­ney and the estab­lish­ment GOP. Let’s go back to March 31^st and note Romney’s one big advan­tage in this race.

The estab­lish­ment GOP hates and fears any Palin-​like can­di­date and likes him.

Rom­ney needs to keep the Tea Party vote divided (wel­come aboard Thad­deus McCot­ter). Sarah Palin con­tin­ues to wait, Her­man Cain has lost some con­ser­v­a­tives like Yid with Lid, (my guest this Sat­ur­day 10 a.m. WCRN lis­ten live here).

The worst thing that can hap­pen to him is a can­di­date to break out and the can­di­date he wants least to break out if Michelle Bach­mann. Unfor­tu­nately for Mitt he can’t afford to be seen directly attack­ing either a Palin or a Bach­mann. So sur­ro­gates must be called into play.

So the needs of the left and Bach­mann have con­verged. Rom­ney needs Bach­mann to be Palin­ized. As David French put it on the Cor­ner:

Exactly one week ago, I wrote that Michele Bach­mann should pre­pare for the Sarah Palin treat­ment. As Glenn Stan­ton noted today, the Left is com­ing after her with its cus­tom­ary class, accus­ing her hus­band of being gay. But now anony­mous con­ser­v­a­tives have bared their claws. I sup­pose such betray­als are inevitable in pol­i­tics, but they are still intolerable.

The doctor’s note not with­stand­ing the left is going to run whole hog on this. (Carl Bern­stein was hit­ting her on Morn­ing Joe today, Mika thought the whole argu­ment was sexist)

Unfor­tu­nately for the left her story is even more com­pelling than Palin’s French again:

Michele Bach­mann has a per­sonal story that Hol­ly­wood would love if she were lib­eral. A mother of five took in fos­ter child after fos­ter child, grew alarmed at the poor qual­ity of their manda­tory pub­lic edu­ca­tion, and then launched her­self into the polit­i­cal process to improve their lives. They’d pitch Julia Roberts for the part if Bach­mann had only been cru­sad­ing against a power plant or land devel­op­ment. As it is, she has to set­tle for the Palin treat­ment — from the Left and the Right.

and in the Her­ald:

“Nobody would ever ask a man whether they thought of them­selves as a flake,” said Jen­nifer Duffy, senior polit­i­cal edi­tor at Cook Polit­i­cal Report, an inde­pen­dent, non­par­ti­san online newslet­ter. Duffy said that while Bach­mann has not been grilled about her hair, makeup or clothes, Wallace’s ques­tion sug­gested a sex­ist lit­mus test. Bachmann’s response: She’s a mother, a lawyer and a con­gress­woman — and the ques­tion was “insulting.”

Expect an awful lot more of this stuff as long as Bachmann’s num­bers con­tinue to run high, why?

There’s only one rea­son for this sort of thing: Mitt Rom­ney is feel­ing the heat.

and as long as the heat is on so will the pres­sure from any out­let funded by estab­lish­ment money.