Playing Hardball
The NRCC has decided to cut newly embattled Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN 06) off from any of the cmte's funds, according to Politico. In recent days, she's tried to apologize and explain her 10/17 comments on MSNBC's "Hardball," where she said she was "very concerned" Barack Obama may have "anti-American" views.
Since then, her opponent, ex-MN Trans. Commis. El Tinklenberg (D) has raised over $1.3M, and the DCCC announced that it would add $1M to the race. That means that for the remaining days in this race, there will be wall-to-wall anti-Bachmann TV ads in this CD. Apparently, the NRCC decided it wasn't worth the money to compete with that.
In early Oct., the cmte pulled money out of MN-03, where the GOP has been fighting to hold on to an open seat, and planned to use that money to help shore up Bachmann. Reports said those NRCC ads were to begin airing 10/20, but they never did materialize.
Surveys by both parties, even before the 10/17 fiasco for Bachmann, showed her polling well under 50%. Now that she won't have any NRCC help, she'll be significantly outgunned on TV heading into election day, and faces huge odds in holding on to her GOP-leaning CD.
(TIM SAHD)
Buh-Bye Michelle. You fundamentalist kook.
Hello, Reverend Wright, Obama's "God D--m America" preacher of love and flowers.
Yo, Shaun, her name is spelled "Michele". And she does have the fundamentals down about Obama, eh?
Obama, backed by our enemies abroad and haters domestic. They know how to butter that bread. Enemies like Fidel Castro, like Hamas, like Hugo Chavez, and even Iran's plastic-key-kid Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Or America haters like Louis Farrakhan, unrepentant mad-bomber Bill Ayers and his dear off-the-pigs wife Bernie, or like the previously mentioned preacher of racial division and hate "Reverend" Wright.
Who's the real kook, eh?
Another Republican with more mouth than brains goes down in flames.
NRCC pulls the plug on Musgrave too:
"""In a surprise move, National Republican Congressional Committee canceled its TV advertising buy in the 4th Congressional District for the last week of the election on Wednesday in what some experts say is clear sign Republican incumbent Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s re-election bid for a fourth term is at risk. It could also mean that Musgrave’s challenger Betsy Markey could become the first Democrat elected to the 4th CD in decades."""
Haters goin' DOWN.
Just finished watching that crotch mouth Chris Mathews interveiw with Michele Bachmann. I thought she was spot on, shame on the NRCC for cutting her funding. They should put her on the road with Sarah Palin and call them the Dynamic Duo. Btw have you noticed all the networks including MSNBC are losing veiwers by the drove. Don't wonder why.
In a surprise move, the liberal plant, Ethan is trashing the blog ways.
In a surprise move, the neocon plant, Carl is trashing NRCC.