Wetterling's Deception
I just finished watching the Bachmann-Wetterling debate on Almanac. (John Binkowski was there, too, but he's such an empty suit that his contribution to the debate was minimal.)
Patty Wetterling is gonna get hammered for her answer to the second question, which dealt with the stereotype of her. Almanac's Eric Eskola asked her about her being perceived as "too liberal for the 6th District." Wetterling's response was that she didn't "know how that got started", that it "must've been from an attack ad." Sorry Patty, but that's such a line up Barbra Streisand that it doesn't pass the laugh test. When she announced her candidacy for Mark Dayton's Senate seat, she said that her values didn't fit well with 6th District voters.
She was right then. MN-6 is the most conservative district in Minnesota. There's lots of church-going Catholics, a significant number of socially conservative farmers in the northern section of MN-6. The southern and southeastern parts of the district have lots of small businesses whose owners live in the suburbs who don't require lots of government programs but who like low income and capital gains taxes, something that Patty Wetterling definitely doesn't agree with.
The debate itself was only a portion of the show so there wasn't alot of meat to it. Mrs. Wetterling's failed attempt to deny that she's a liberal by hinting that it was probably from an attack ad was really the only thing that caught my attention.
Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 10:16 PM
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Patty Wetterling is gonna get hammered for her answer to the second question, which dealt with the stereotype of her. Almanac's Eric Eskola asked her about her being perceived as "too liberal for the 6th District." Wetterling's response was that she didn't "know how that got started", that it "must've been from an attack ad." Sorry Patty, but that's such a line up Barbra Streisand that it doesn't pass the laugh test. When she announced her candidacy for Mark Dayton's Senate seat, she said that her values didn't fit well with 6th District voters.
She was right then. MN-6 is the most conservative district in Minnesota. There's lots of church-going Catholics, a significant number of socially conservative farmers in the northern section of MN-6. The southern and southeastern parts of the district have lots of small businesses whose owners live in the suburbs who don't require lots of government programs but who like low income and capital gains taxes, something that Patty Wetterling definitely doesn't agree with.
The debate itself was only a portion of the show so there wasn't alot of meat to it. Mrs. Wetterling's failed attempt to deny that she's a liberal by hinting that it was probably from an attack ad was really the only thing that caught my attention.
Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 10:16 PM
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