Michele Bachmann is expected...

...to announce her candidacy (again) for president today in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. And Chris Cillizza, who has the best blog on politics, has a post this morning listing four reasons why the Minnesota Congresswoman should be considered the frontrunner in the Hawkeye State. (Intrade currently has Bachmann in second over all, behind Mitt Romney, in the race for the Republican nomination.)

Impressive, huh?

And yet ... I can't help thinking that today will be the day Ms. Bachmann peaks in the polls. Why? Because I watched her interviewed by Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation" yesterday -- and while she handled herself well -- Bachmann just wasn't able to answer his questions about some of the wacky things she's said in the last few years.

For example, Bachmann didn't have a good answer for Schieffer's question about what, exactly, she meant when she said that President Obama had "anti-American" views. Or when she claimed that the president had approved of only one off-shore oil drilling permit when Schieffer said the number was actually 270.

The interview went on like this and Bachmann -- like Mike Huckabee, who once said that "Q & A" stands for "Question and Avoidance"-- was able to successfully avoid answering Schieffer's questions. But, unlike Sarah Palin, it won't be her answers that doom her candidacy -- it will be the questions. And for Ms. Bachmann, I'm afraid, they won't stop. She's just "on the record" with too many ridiculous statements.

So as much as I'd like to see her get the Republican nomination, I predict Ms. Bachmann's candidacy peaks today.