Teresa Collett debated Fourth District Rep Betty McCollum last night.
Collett, a constitutional saw professor at Saint Thomas’ law school and a blazingly charismatic woman, by all accounts clobbered McCollum, a monotonic logorrheac whose sole purpose in Congress is to yell “Off What?” when Nancy Pelosi yells “Jump”.
But the money line of the evening? “Constituent of CD4”, from the fairly aptly-named MNCD4 Needs Change blog, transcribes:
The stupidest comment of the night came on the defense question, when Betty McCollum said: “Al Qaeda no longer poses a threat to the United States..” Wow, I’ve been so involved in following the campaign, I must have missed that news! … McCollum did say, however that the military was drawing up contingency plans for global warming. That’s a relief! I guess in Betty McCollum’s world Global Warming is a bigger threat to the US than Al Qaeda.
Someone tell Juan Williams, OK?
This line needs to go in the great Minnesota DFL wall of shameful quotes, along with Cy Thao’s “When you win, you keep your money; when we win, we take your money!” and Larry Pogemiller’s “I think it’s silly to assume people can spend their own money better than government can”.
The hardest part about being a Republican in Saint Paul is that so many of us are so depressed and beaten down from generations of futility, it’s hard to get any of us to actually spend any time and energy on doing the footwork it’ll take to contest city and district, to say nothing of taking it back. It makes it easy for the DFL to put a hamster like McCollum into office; she’d be getting 20% in the Sixth or Second districts this cycle.
Jim Geraghty called MNCD4 one of the potential upsets to watch for back in August. As someone who’s spent 25 years in Saint Paul, I almost don’t want to dream about it. But I do; people – candidates and volunteers I know around CD4 – say that they’re seeing a lot of interest – mostly from people who are not traditi0nal Republicans. There may be a lot of them; Obama’s that big a disaster, and McCollum is that bad a representative.
Hey, at least Al Quaeda isn’t a threat, right?
A gentleman that attended the debate, called into Chris Baker’s show this morning and said that Pathetic Betty was almost laughed out of the place on her responses to several of her false claims and lies.
Mitch, just wondering; is a cnstitutional saw used to cut out lefty amendments? 😉
My God, Betty is a moron.
Maybe a minor consolation prize. At lest dimwit Betty is useless in congress. She could be an idiot and have some power.
I wish that McCollum had to worry. But the party hacks have drawn their lines so that none of our congressional delegation really needs to worry, even in a year like this one.
Whenever you see a deep blue district next to a deep red one, you know the bigs had something to do with it.
I read a conservative blogger/pundit excited over the idea that there might be as many as 100 seats in play this year. Consider me unimpressed. That’s less than a quarter of the seats in the House.