MN-06: GOP Ticket Distances Selves From Bachmann’s Haterade, DCCC to Drop $1 Million on Race

It seems that the Republican Party can’t run away from Michele Bachmann’s foul brand of haterade fast enough. First it was Colin Powell, and now it’s Sarah Palin herself:

Speaking with reporters in Colorado yesterday, Palin said she does not agree with Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent comments suggesting that some congressmen hold “anti-American views,” NBC/NJ’s Matthew E. Berger reports. “Well that’s quite subjective,” she said of Bachmann’s comments. “I would think that anybody running and wanting to serve in Congress is quite pro-American because that’s what the mission is, to better this country, so I would question the intent of that.”

When Sarah Palin, herself no stranger to the most vile kind of mudslinging, says that your attacks are beyond the pale, I think you’ve officially crossed the line by any objective standard.

Talk about a perfect storm for Democrat El Tinklenberg. His campaign has raised over $700,000 since Bachmann’s Hardball meltdown — a massive sum of cash for a campaign that needed a boost. We reported on Saturday night that the DCCC will be entering this contest, but we now have more details on their investment:

The party plans to spend $1 million against GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who recently said Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama “may have anti-American views.” President Bush carried her district by 15 percentage points over John Kerry in 2004.

Thanks for the timely freakout, Michele!

18 thoughts on “MN-06: GOP Ticket Distances Selves From Bachmann’s Haterade, DCCC to Drop $1 Million on Race”

  2. http://www.politico.com/blogs/…

    The DSCC announced it raised $14.4 million in September, giving the committee $26.3 million on hand at the end of the month. And despite outspending the National Republican Senatorial Committee in September, the DSCC still began October with about $9 million more than the NRSC in its campaign coffers.

    The NRSC raised $6.6 million in September, and reported $17.4 million cash-on-hand at the end of the month.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/…

    Former President Bill Clinton will be joining Lunsford on the trail on Friday, as the Democratic Party continues to pull out all the stops in the hopes of unseating McConnell.

    The two will be campaigning in Paducah and Bowling Green, two small cities in the western part of the state.  

    Both are pretty kickass for us.  Lovin’ the Monday so far.  

  3. for a neighboring democratic congressmember on thursday and he bnemoaned how the DCCC was so stretched and that if we just had a little more money for one of the MN democratic challengers (Tinklenberg MN6, Sarvi MN2), it could make a huge difference.  and then bachmann does this!  How great!

  4. start playing tomorow and will be out in public tomorow, my sources tell me.

    I’m so happy about what’s happening to this race.

  7. His campaign has raised over $700,000 since Bachmann’s Hardball meltdown — a massive sum of cash for a campaign that needed a boost.

    How is CA-46 coming along?

  8. How is he going to spend >$2 million (including the $300,000+ he had on hand before the Hardball incident) in just two weeks?  How much air time will that buy in the Twin Cities market?

    I understand the party’s desire to make a load statement against McCarthyist rhetoric, but wouldn’t some of that money be put to better use against other wingnuts like Marilyn Musgrave, Steve King, Daryl Issa, etc.?

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