Bachmann's opponent, Tarryl Clark, released her latest campaign ad today. Here's the video:
This is what your donations are all about.
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Everything that Clark and the people in the ad say: is true.
If the "all politics is local" approach really works, this is the kind of ad that works. You know Bachmann as a nut, liar and bigot on the national stage. That's what she's always been on the local stage, too.
But the point of Clark's campaign has always been about a very hard truth that even Bachmann has been unable to dispute: she's an awful representative for the families in her district. Bachmann's supporters in the district are voting ideology, because Bachmann herself has been unable to point to any tangible benefit her stewardship has created in Minnesota.
Her zero-achievement score on leadership and policymaking is not just limited to her two terms in the Congress. Her entire career as an elected official in the six years prior to her election to Congress--is also devoid of any significant benefit to the people she's represented in government. In her districts: the jobs disappear, the homes are foreclosed (the highest rate of home foreclosure in Minnesota), Bachmann does nothing but spout lies and smears and conspiracy theory politics. It really is all about the demagoguery, all about the smears and the lies.
Bachmann is the archetype for the Fox politician. That's why you, the guys outside the district, should care about the outcome of the race in this district. The local stuff here is not what concerns you; it's the fact that Bachmann has served as a successful template for the rise in hate and smears and McCarthyism in the national political contest.
If she's re-elected and goes on to a position of policy making influence in a diminished Dem Congress--the hate and smears and McCarthyism are vindicated. You get more Bachmann imitators as candidates and elected officials in districts around the country. You're seeing that happen already. People who have no credibility as people--elected to govern the United States. Fox proteges rise, in part because Bachmann was allowed to flourish. Her career blazed a path for the rise of the dishonest and irrational and conspiratorial. A defeat for Bachmann would be a major blow to those creeps.
We're coming up towards closing time. Please help to defeat Michele Bachmann and slap down Fox's perversion of American politics.
ACTION LINK:
http://tarrylclark.com