Barnes: Congressman Paulsen Should Rebuke Bachmann's Comments
'Silence in the face of such awful attacks only allows them to continue.'
Editor's Note: The following was submitted by Brian Barnes, DFL candidate for Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District. The views expressed are solely his and do not reflect those of Lake Minnetonka Patch. In 1950, near the beginning of Joe McCarthy’s reign of terror in which he exploited the American public’s fear of communism, his colleague Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, a fellow Republican, spoke out against his attacks on innocent government employees. Senator John McCain showed similar courage Wednesday by denouncing the attacks on Ms. Huma Abedin, made by Michele Bachmann in her attempt to exploit the public’s fear of Muslim extremism. My friend, Representative Keith Ellison also criticized Representative Bachmann's actions. Rather than …
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1:51 pm on Friday, July 27, 2012
Mr Barnes, stop playing the silly games. Since you would never in a million years rebuke something stupidly said by a democrat, stop pretending that Paulsen should do it. Your "friend" Ellison failed to rebuke Congressman Rangles after being brought up on serious ethic charges. You are a typical liberal hypocrite. more ›