Posted on 04/20/2009 2:47:17 PM PDT by pissant
From calling on members of her district to be armed and dangerous over cap-and-trade spending to stirring up fears of liberal re-education camps that would indoctrinate young people, Rep. Michele Bachmanns recent statements have drawn the ire of Democrats and energized Republican activists. But at least one Republican analyst thinks she might be taking the party in the wrong direction.
Tom Horner, Minnesota Public Radios (MPR) Republican analyst and an adviser to Republicans including former Sens. Norm Coleman and Dave Durenberger, told Midday that Bachmann is sending the wrong message.
She is an embarrassment to some republicans, myself included, he said. She is intentionally provocative, and does it in a way that is designed to exploit fears, to exploit mistrust in government, to do all of the kinds of things that America is not needing right now.
He continued, I dont think thats what the Republicans ought to be doing and I dont think its how we need to be defined. We need leadership in this party that can stand up and say, Michele Bachmann is not my kind of Republican.
(Excerpt) Read more at minnesotaindependent.com ...
adviser to Norm Coleman and Dave Durenberger...two Rinos. One who’s tied with a POS comedian.
The RINOs aren’t even trying to pretend anymore. Conservatives need not apply.
You beat me to it!
Well, not quite, but dangerously close.
“We need leadership in this party that can stand up and say, ‘Barack Obama is not my kind of President’”.
THAT’s what this guy should have said.
She's raising money well.
One thing I will always be thankful to Mitt Romney is how he rushed in to help her whenthe GOP cut off her money during the 2008 election. Talk radio and voters also sent her money to help her.”
Yes I mailed the GOP also voicing my displeasure and guess what they even replied, shocking!
That's all I needed to see.
Until we flush turds like Tom Horner, the country will continue to turn into the USSA.
OOHHH Yeah!!!!!!!!!!
Little Tom Horner is a big RINO.
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WHAT’S A REPUBLICAN? MINNESOTA’S FEUDING FACTIONS EACH HAVE A VISION
St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - Monday, September 1, 2008
Author: Dennis Lien ; dlien@pioneerpress.com
Minnesota Republicans are, at least in part, an unknown lot.
But if the delegates heading to the Xcel Energy Center for the Republican National Convention reflect their state party, they come from increasingly varied and divisive camps.
Within it, social and economic conservatives spar with one another and with moderates about the party’s direction. Another group wants to mix it up altogether. Old lines from a quarter-century ago are barely recognizable. Some even see themselves as more independent than Republican.
“I think we are only at the very beginning of really significant tensions within these groups,” said Tom Horner , a public relations executive and chief of staff to former Republican U.S. Sen. Dave Durenberger.
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“If we don’t open ourselves to new ideas to what is actually happening in the world, I think there’s the potential for Republicans to become increasingly marginalized,” Horner added.
He sees an anti-government group seeking lower taxes dueling a limited-government faction that sees government as a guarantor of equity.
“It believes that what government does do, it ought to do very, very well,” Horner said.
Still another faction, which occasionally includes Gov. Tim Pawlenty, advocates rethinking government completely, Horner said. Its inability to gain much traction chases a lot of people out of the party, he added.
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She was just on Glenn Beck’s show... personally, I like her just fine. She and Palin are my kind of Republican’s because they are not afraid to speak the truth.
Now wouldn’t THAT be a fun ticket!!!!!!!!!! ~ROFLOL~
When have the DEMOCRATS ever apologized for anyone on THEIR side?
Why do REPUBLICANS feel the need to distance ourselves from strong words and strong leadership?
There does not seem to be a SINGLE member of the Congressional Black Caucus that appears to be even remotely stable, mentally -— yet the Left never apologizes for the stupidity and radicalism of the CBC.
The Left never apologizes for Michael Moron or Nazi sympathizer George Soros.
QUIT APOLOGIZING!
As Republicans, we can all ALLOW each other to have slightly different strategies and slightly different views.
It is NORMAL for Patriots to question and mistrust their government. Our Founders did not trust government, in general. Our Founders counted on people like Freepers and Bachmann to keep government in line!
Why don’t we just look the other way and say there isn’t a threat there, like was done with the Fannie/Freddie mess.
I’m sorry, but I’m tired of having party leaders who stick their heads in the sand while we average folk pay the price. If that makes me a kook in the minds of those dreamers, then so be it. I’d rather be prepared for if it happens and be pleasantly disappointed, than be caught up in the pangs of socialist change by surprise.
They were wrong over the financial disaster, and they could very well be wrong over this too.
I heard Rush talking about the question of whose brain he would like to have if he had to pick one other than his own. I asked myself the same question and Michelle Bachman’s name instantly came to mind. She is a breath of fresh air! The libs are cowering at the thought of Michelle Bachman. Any so called Republican that dares say those things about her is a coward and GOP cowardice is what got us in the boat we are in now.
Thank you. I should be ashamed for breaking my own “rule”!!
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