Rachel E. Stassen-Berger adds:
Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt, conservative radio superstars who Hewitt called the “three tenors of talk,” were in Minneapolis Tuesday night to “Talk the Vote” before a crowd of more than 3,000 cheering supporters at Orchestra Hall.
They were joined by Republican office holders and candidates, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Sen. Norm Coleman, Rep. Michele Bachmann, state House Minority Leader Erik Paulsen, who is vying for 3rd District U.S. House seat, and others.
Paul Schmelzer then digs into the trash talk and extreme partisan rhetoric spewed at the event. It’s rather disgusting.
If Paulsen and Coleman are trying to position themselves as the “moderates” they’re not, what made them think it was a good idea to party with the extremists and Michele Bachmann?
Matt Adds: I just wanted to note how unbelievable it is that Coleman feels comfortable appearing onstage with someone that declares, in front of Coleman’s eyes, that equality “is not an American value.” And that just 2 years ago stated that if Congressman Keith Ellison won’t take his oath of office on a Bible, he shouldn’t be allowed to serve. Going so far as to say that Ellison taking his oath on the Koran would embolden terrorists… which is, of course, why George Bush’s State Department immediately recruited him for a number of good will tours around the Mid-East. I expect this of self-proclaimed far-righters like Paulsen and Bachmann, but it is just amazing that someone who has (falsely) claimed that he’s a centrist would dare appear on stage with these moon-bats under a week before the election. I guess you can’t hide your true colors forever…
“If Paulsen and Coleman are trying to position themselves as the ‘moderates’ they’re not, what made them think it was a good idea to party with the extremists and Michele Bachmann?”
Good idea despite the bad press, i.m.o., b/c folks like Bachmann and the talk radio folks rally the GOP base. Paulsen, Coleman et. al. will need the base whipped into a frenzy if they want a successful GOTV and a win on Tuesday.
No surprise. Those local radio announcers speaking at the Coleman/Bachmann/Paulsen fasc-fest are on The Patriot, our local hate-radio outlet.
The “Three Tenors of Talk” did a stand up job. The crowd loved their speeches. The trio is traveling the country building support for local candidates.
Dennis Prager’s straight talk about the danger of blindly believing in Obama’s vague message of “change” was both insightful and powerful.
They are shameless and gameless.
Ironically, the three the showed will loose and the one who didn’t looks like he’s safe.
Coleman and Paulsen need moderates and independents, not the wingnut base. They should have them. Bachmann may actually have enough wingnuts in her district to make this worth her while. For her, too little too late. She’ll put her foot in her mouth yet again before election day.
“Dennis Prager’s straight talk about the danger of blindly believing in Obama’s vague message of “change” was both insightful and powerful.”
Too bad he didn’t talk about the results of those in attendance’s blindly following Bush’s policies these last eight years.
Of course, those that have been paying attention clearly see the results.
As I have said many times before. The Republicans CANNOT WIN ON ISSUES. All they have left is to smear, lie and incite irrational fear. Remember Prager is the idiot who actually wrote that Ellison swearing his oath of office on the Koran undermines American civilization. Medved warned us about the homosexual agenda in the movie “Happy Feet” (even though he had never seen it). Straight shooting? What a joke. They are true whackjobs.
“Vague message of change” versus “more of the same.”
No wonder McCain is behind.
I don’t think these guys belong on the political stage. They are entertainers. For them to be as hyper-partisan as they are, and then try to claim that they are in any way associated with the solution is asinine. They are counterproductive to democracy.
And I would say the exact same thing about Al Franken’s radio and writing career.
TPT: I see your BDS is not subsiding.
Clearly George W Bush has strength that even his enemies refuse to recognize. He is within a 100 days of riding off into the distance.
And as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull said “I never went down”. The left might have laid a lot of weird gloves on him, gloves that he didn’t even bother to notice.
But this cat ran during one of the most “Hatfield and McCoy times” in American history against two of their “champions”, Al Gore and John Kerry, and beat them both for the Presidency
All they can do is throw old rotten tomatoes because he won twice and he never has to run again.
It just drives them crazy!
America first
The democrats introduced a G.I bill that the Defense Dept. found would hurt
military strenght. This bill required only 2 yrs of service to qualify
for education benefits. Normally 75% of the first time enlistees get out.
McCain introduced a bill with 6+ yrs to qualify. I would not have voted for the democrat bill either..you would have 100% getting out first time. That would degrade our military seriouly.
Who is not telling the truth about the G.I bill, but using it to get votes
Equality, which is the primary value of the left, is a European value, not an American value.
-Dennis Prager