A Campaign in Crisis Mode (Bachman vs. Wetterling in Minnesota's Sixth District

NYT ^ | 24 September 2006 | CHARLES BAXTER

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WHILE my assignment was to write about Minnesota’s important Senate race, I think there’s more to be learned right now from the far closer contest in Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District, which borders Minneapolis-St. Paul to the east, north and west. The race, between Michele Bachmann, the Republican, and Patty Wetterling, the Democrat, has revealed a Bush-era national trend now visible locally.

That is, we are facing a choice between a “conservative” who wants to institute radical reforms and a “progressive” who wishes largely to maintain the status quo. In Minnesota’s Sixth District, liberalism is the new conservatism.

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No wonder the NYT's stock is consistently selling below its 200 day moving average. Besides a declining circulation the NYT has hired illiterate, embiciles to cover political races.

This article is so flawed everyone can have at it and still not end after a 100 posts. At the very least, it is hard to imagine anyone East of the Appalachians referring to Wetterling as a "conservative."

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Somewhat predictably, she draws her support largely from evangelicals. The centrist Republicans I know — those few who are still around — tend to regard her as superficial.

YAWN! ...sniffle....sniffle.... YAWN! ...sniffle...chirp...chirp...

Your pen is moving but all we hear in BLAH, BLAH BLAH...

Me'z think that this article is a template at the NYSLIMES and turd-reporter her just has to fill it in like a MAD-LIBS game...funny, I wondered why the game was called that...now I know.

[BW2221]

"... we are facing a choice between a “conservative” who wants to institute radical reforms and a “progressive” who wishes largely to maintain the status quo. In Minnesota’s Sixth District, liberalism is the new conservatism."

I love the objectivity of the NYT/sarc.

I don't necessarily agree that this has anything to do with the Bush-era. Personally, I am sick of "compassionate conservatism," which means being a conservative and loyal to your base when it suits your purposes.