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I'm guessing that her people and Bachmann's people had a pow-wow after the Ed Rollins debacle and decided that running against each other would damage them both too much. Palin's got a high-paying gig that she won't walk away from--just like Donald Trump--and at the end of the day, she can probably accomplish a lot more for her brand from the lucrative sidelines at Fox News than she could managing her weekly gaffes on the campaign trail.

So she'll likely retreat and throw her support behind whatever candidate shovels the most money in her direction, just like Limbaugh and Hannity and Beck.

But this quitting thing does seem to be a pattern for her at this point.