Blue Mass Group

Reality-based commentary on politics.

National GOP pulls all support for Michele Bachmann

By

What an extraordinary turnaround for this previously safe Republican seat.

A Republican source has confirmed to Election Central that the NRCC is indeed pulling all its advertising for Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), whose antics since her McCarthyist rant on Hardball have quickly put this once-safe incumbent in serious danger. Several hundred-thousand dollars worth of TV time had previously been reserved on Bachmann’s behalf, but now it has all been cancelled, as Huffington Post first reported.

Meanwhile, her Democratic opponent El Tinklenberg has received enormous financial support in the last several days (including quite a bit from BMG readers), and will get an additional $1 million from the DCCC.

Bachmann could well be going down.  Help speed her on her way.

Please share widely!
fb-share-icon
Tweet
0

Comments

  2. They’re pulling back to consolidate the front lines outside the capital.

    <

    p>Anti-homosexual bigot Marilyn Musgrave is on her own.

    <

    p>McCain is going all but dark in Maine, Wisconsin, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Minnesota.

    <

    p>What is by all appearances an internal document from House Republicans gives up on 10 elephant seats, nine further that are called “leaning Democratic” and 22 more that are “true toss-ups”.  Only 3 Democratic seats within Republicans’ range.

    <

    p>Keep pressing, keep pushing — they’re on the run.

  3. and darcy burner is whomping the repub incumbent in the polls.

    <

    p>wow, if those homobigots musgrave and bachmann flame out at the same time, i’ll be so euphoric i’ll be fit to be tied!  i hear kay hagan is giving liddy dole a run for her money too.  

  4. but the BMGEditor match that put it over the edge.  When the RNC heard about that additional $25, they waved the white flag.

    <

    p>Way to go, Bocharvid!

  5. I was curious how this might have been seen at RedState. They regard this as part of the NRCC Problem. They hate Tom Cole’s leadership. In fact, this looks like a political mistake on the part of the NRCC. From the Republican point of view, it probably makes sense to do one of the following:

    • Continue to fund Bachman because she represents a Republican-leaning district.
    • Quietly stop funding Bachman because the money bomb will blow her out of the water.
    • Publicly denounce Bachman and stop funding her to send out some kind of message about the goodness and maverickiness of Republicans.

    Instead, they did none of those things. They stopped funding her — and let it leak that they stopped funding her.

    <

    p>Losing makes one cranky. We’re hearing about a lot of that among Republican political operatives. The New York Times Sunday Magazine, according to a number of reports, is about to publish an article on the conflicts within the McCain-Palin campaign.

Archives