“Only last month a Fox News commentator, with Members of Congress next to him, rallied a Tea Party crowd by disparaging Congress and calling the crowd ‘all these Tim McVeigh wannabes here’ to the crowds cheers and applause.
That would be horrible, if it were true. It's not, of course, as John Hinderaker explains:
This was the only "evidence" McCollum offered to tie Tea Partiers to Timothy McVeigh--the ostensible subject of her speech--but even McCollum isn't dumb enough to fail to understand that Sean Hannity was making a sarcastic reference to the Democrats' absurd claim that Tea Partiers have something in common with the mad bomber. He was, in other words, ridiculing McCollum's claim, not supporting it.
Oh, I think Betty! is that dumb. I chronicled one of her more brilliant moves in this post. As it happens, Betty's opponent is now decided -- Teresa Collett, currently a law professor at St. Thomas, has a long record of accomplishments and will be a formidable competitor. Betty's strategy in the past has been to hide from smart opponents -- she played a very effective version of Where's Waldo against her 2008 opponent Ed Matthews -- but this is a different year and Collett should have a greater opportunity to call attention to the incumbent's, ahem, bona fides.
So why are the campaign signs for Betty! maroon? Ask Bugs Bunny.
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