St. Cloud Times endorses Tarryl Clark

[wellstone dem]

..."Come Nov. 2, voters should replace her with Tarryl Clark.

Regular Our View readers shouldn’t be surprised by this endorsement. This board in April of 2009 wrote off Bachmann’s desire to serve the voters who elect her.

We cited then three years worth of her rash, ridiculous, unsubstantiated, misleading and fear-mongering statements about national issues. We also noted — and this is important — her lack of any realistic solutions. In the 19 months since then, Bachmann has only refined an age-old political recipe: mix equal parts of fear and blame that raise your personal profile yet yield only sound bites, not solutions.

She does it so effectively (and relentlessly) that she’s become a grass-roots tea party heroine even while supporting a public policy agenda that helps entities that are anything but grass roots. Best example: In the wake of America’s financial collapse, do you really think Bachmann’s push to leave Wall Street alone was in the best interests of 6th District voters?..."

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20101017/OPINION/110170031/1006/Our-View--Bachmann-isn-t-serving-district-s-best-interests

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Nice

Clark is all about solutions. Someone needs to get on the ground to care about the 6th, not Bachmann and preparing her national profile for the talk show circuit.

[raven42]

2. anyone seen any polling on this race?

I live in this congressional district. I'd like to see Clark win, but I'm not optimistic. This is the most republican district in the state. Even in a good year for Democrats it would be an uphill battle. The sad thing is that Bachmann probably couldn't even get elected in any other district in the state.

[DFLforever]

3. Tarryl has been running behind Bachmann by about

nine points according to Survey USA.

Their lastest poll was dated Sept 24 but I haven't read of anything more recent.

[rbixby]

4. wow, the comments on there!

I'm sorry for all the progressives in the 6th district, there's so many crazies up there!

[raven42]

5. My hope is that Bachmann's right-wing "fame" will convince her

that she could win a statewide race. She could run against Amy Klobuchar for the Senate in 2012--and would in all likelihood get trounced. Then she could retreat to Fox News as a commentator and I wouldn't have to hear from her again.

[rbixby]

6. I've seen a few

Palin/Bachmann 2012 bumper stickers, I'm not sure if they're a joke or not, but I definitely think they should give it a go, third party if they have to!