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Talking Points Memo | Michele Bachmann Overdrive
It looks like we've reached that point in the 2008 presidential race when the McCain campaign sent out a memo to all surrogates: "LET LOOSE DO NOT HOLD BACK SRSLY GO CRAZY SAY ANYTHING WHATEVER IT TAKES IF YOU REACH THE POINT WHERE YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY CALLING FOR A THIRD RED SCARE THAT IS OK ...
Michele Bachmann for Congress
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GOP Pulling Its Ads From Bachmann's Race, Media Buyers Say
huffingtonpost.com — Five days after Rep. Michele Bachmann went on a McCarthy-esque rant suggesting Barack Obama was unpatriotic and... urging the major newspapers of the country to investigate anti-American sentiment in Congress, the national Republican political parties ... (more) GOP Pulling Its Ads From Bachmann's Race, Media Buyers Say
Bachmann Doubles Down: ‘Barack Obama’s Views Are Against America’
Bachmann Doubles Down: ‘Barack Obama’s Views Are Against America’
thinkprogress.org — On the defensive over her controversial Hardball appearance last Friday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told the St.... Cloud Times yesterday that she regretted suggesting that Barack Obama held “anti-American” views. But at the same time Bachmann was ... (more) Bachmann Doubles Down: ‘Barack Obama’s Views Are Against ...
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The Tension Mounts
Talking Points Memo — For all the news coming out of the self-inflicted Michelle Bachmann 'anti-American' trainwreck, we still haven't gotten any polling data out of the district to tell us who's actually head. But we will tonight when SurveyUSA releases the first public poll of the race since Bachmann's boffo Joe McCarthy impression on Hardball last Friday. ...

Hope
Obsidian Wings — ... It has been six days since Michele Bachmann called for an investigation into the un-American views of members of Congress. During that time, El Tinklenberg, her opponent, has ...

Political Animal — ... like that, the voters would nonetheless let their party leaders know, in no uncertain terms, that it was time to find a primary challenger for next time. And in that world, people would probably say this sort of thing a lot less. Now we have to rely on their consciences alone; if they paid a price for saying genuinely hateful things, their self-interest would line up on the side of basic decency. We might be getting closer to that world. It has been six days since Michele Bachmann called for an investigation into the un-American views of members of Congress. During that time, ...

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