Michelle Bachmann rant causes Republican former Minnesota Governor to endorse Obama

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Today popular former Minn. GOP Governor Arne Carlson endorsed Obama, but not without a few shots at good ole GOP Minn. Rep. Michele Bachmann, first.

The Star-Tribune reports that Carlson, who's taken to calling himself "a Republican maverick" says that Carlson's decision to back Obama is in direct correlation to Michele Bachmann questioning Obama's patriotism and compared her to Joseph McCarthy!

"Carlson also took aim at Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, saying that her controversial remarks of the past week, suggesting Obama may have anti-American views, had led him to endorse the Democratic nominee. After hearing Bachmann's comments, Carlson said he telephoned former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Minnesota Democrat, to tell him of his plan.

"At one point, Carlson compared Bachmann's statements to the tactics of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator during the 1950s who helped define an era when the patriotism of many Americans was publicly questioned.

"I don't want Minnesota to continue to be seen in the national picture as some sort of a land that has these rather strange views -- we don't," he said.

"The former governor said Obama's policies on the Iraq war, economic issues facing the middle class and alternative energy solutions meshed with his own views. "I think the disappointing part of the McCain campaign has been its inability to develop a national vision," he said.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/1008/Wow_the_new_motto_in_Minnesota_do_the_opposite_of_Bachmann.html?showall

[Bicoastal]

1. No word on whom Jesse Ventura has endorsed yet, is there?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. He was sounding kind of wing-nutty earlier in the campaign, wasn't he?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

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[Kurt_and_Hunter]

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[Occam Bandage]

4. Arne is still popular in MN. This should help Tinklenberg and, to a lesser extent, Franken.

[vaberella]

5. He's right...b/c I thought Ohio was racist country until some of the posters here.

Now I'll just leave that to Alabama, Arkansas, and parts of Georgia and Mississippi.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. "some sort of a land that has these rather strange views"