Joe McCarthy is indeed paying big dividends. Keep 'em comin'!

Why has a first-term congresswoman received the kind of media play that she has? Why is she the GOP standard-bearer on MSNBC, CNN et al? Is it that no one (relatively) sane will carry the water any longer?

I read on another thread, in another blog, that Bachmann's challenger in the Republican primary has started a write-in campaign, in light of her comments. If true, that would siphon off some of her votes, tightening the race even further.

Criminently! Get permission from Hardball to put that clip of Bachmann's "anti-American" rantings (slightly sped up) in an ad, ending with the text overlay: "Do you really want this nutcase representing you in Congress?" ...(pause, fade)... Pictures of El Tinklenberg outdoors talking with real people; El's voiceover: "It's time to bring common sense, and the voice of the people, back to the Congress. I'm Elwyn Tinklenberg, and I approved this message."

I checked out the Neil Young.com story...Whoa.

Dare I dig up something I read in the stone ages? I can't help thinking; this is so much bigger than the mere failure of John McCain. Somehow, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment comes to mind...Am I off? I mean, this is about the fall of the RNC. And the murder of America. Right? Gonna get a cheap copy off Amazon.

Did Katherine Harris move north and change her name to Michele Bachmann? Put Harris, Bachmann and Palin together and women's rights are set back a hundred years.

Obama netted 150 K in Sept!

All El Tinklenberg's needs to do is put Michelle Bachmann, in her own words telling newspapers to do an "expose" on anti-American members of Congress; that shyt speaks for itself.

It's Tinklenberg, and I'm guessing is Scandanavian and probably has some meaning concerning mountain if I am not way off. I donated too.

Careful now, it's supposed to be okay in this country to have a name unlike the ones others are familiar and comfortable with- unless to some it's "un-American"- isn't it?

Darn! Thought I was previewing. Apologies for the double post.

Looks like a real estate agent, sounds like a nazi.

Joe McCarthy redux.

This witch hunter in the 21st century is dangeous. She'd be the 1st one holding a torch in the next lynch mob.

Let's get real! In order for McCain to just TIE Obama with 269 electoral votes, he has to win the states of Nevada, North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Florida. He has to win them ALL just to TIE Obama at 269 electoral votes. In order for Obama to win, all he has to do is win ONE of those states! ONE!

Is this "Lipstick on a Storm Trooper" or just the political ghost of Katherine Harris rearing it's fetid little head?

I live in Minnesota, as well, but happily live in Rep Betty McCollum's district.

Rep Bachmann is just a nut. She could be Caribou Barbie's long lost twin sister separated at birth--same Christianist viewpoint, same anti-intellectuallism, same anti-science and anti-objective knowledge perspectives.

I believe that El Tinklenberg is a good choice for that district because he is a moderate or even conservative Democrat who is well known in that part of the state. If I remember the boundaries of this district correctly, it also includes a portion of central Minnesota that is traditionally Catholic, which should be good for him, considering his more moderate social views. He is also sane (which by itself is an improvement over MB) and is able to work with people. Rep Bachmann is completing her first term, so the district will not lose much seniority if they change horses now. I hope that they do.

I will be sending El a contribution. He really would be a vast improvement over the current incumbent.

Congresswoman Bachmann is a better politician than many people realize.

She is energetic; she is attractive in person (but doesn't do well on camera, does she!); she has fanatically zealous supporters from the megachurch she belongs to, as well as from similar congregations; she knows how to "stay on message" in her campaigns---the message being "I'm the one to hold down taxes"; she has the anti-abortion vote locked up tight (extremely significant in her CD!); in short, she can be compared quite neatly with Sarah Palin in many respects. Michele doesn't mind telling people that she sends her husband out to buy her frocks. But she also testifies that she believes as St. Paul commands, that the husband is superior to the wife.

When she was first elected to the state legislature, I overheard her tell a group of constituents, in all sincerity:

"Jesus Christ sent me to St. Paul to save your children from socialism."

["Socialism" in this context meant the state public educational system, I think.]

Her CD was especially gerrymandered to provide a perpetual Republican seat in Congress; it would be nice if El Tinklenberg could pull off an upset here. I sent him a couple of contributions, but it really will take something like the active intervention of Providence to dislodge her . . .

But since she absolutely believes she herself has a direct pipeline to the Almighty, just like her erstwhile heart-throb Junior Bush does, and I have no reason to dispute her confidence, I expect we WILL have Bachmann around to embarrass us for a while. If she LOSES, then I will seriously consider QUITTING the local atheist group I belong to.