Bachmann Throws Bush Under The Bus In New Campaign Ad (VIDEO)

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) took a hard tack away from President George W. Bush this week with the release of a new ad campaign that puts her vote against the former president's "Wall Street bailout" front and center.

"Government spending does not create good jobs," she says in the ad. "That's why I led the fight against the Bush Wall Street bailout, the failed Pelosi trillion-dollar stimulus and Obama's government takeover of health care."

As Politico points out, it comes as a surprise that Bachmann, who in 2007 was mocked as acting like a "teenager meeting Justin Timberlake" for her conduct during an encounter with President Bush after a State of the Union Address, appears to be equating the Bush centerpiece to her nemeses of the 2009 stimulus and recent health care overhaul.

Bachmann is currently facing Democratic State Sen. Tarry Clark in a heated battle for Minnesota's 6th Congressional District seat. The latest polls show Bachmann leading by a nine point margin, which appears to be consistent with what earlier surveys have found.

Clark's latest ad focuses on Bachmann's strong words against the current structuring of Social Security and a statement that the congresswoman made about the government needing to "wean" people off the program.

Watch Bachmann's ad:

Comments

[truthisneeded]

09:45 AM on 10/13/2010

sounds very hypocritical and misleading

[floridalib]

10:00 PM on 10/04/2010

I get it. Conservatives hate government so they send trained monkeys to screw it up. Smart plan, guys!

[LCLA]

07:09 PM on 10/02/2010

Opportunistic demagogue!

[gwix]

01:18 PM on 10/02/2010

Minnesota will become an utter disappointment to me if the people in that district re-elect this thing that is so dismally lacking in any form of intelligence.

[Totto]

10:44 AM on 10/02/2010

What an intelligence vacuum, with those two together!

[OldHick]

10:15 AM on 10/02/2010

The high unemployment is coming. The Chinese are not going to buy that debt for long. It is similar to AIG, as a time bomb waiting to happen, the worse it is, the longer it goes on. instead of repairing the system they made it bigger, and it has the same endemic failure built in.

[WonderfulLife]

09:25 AM on 10/02/2010

What a teaser headline. Not nice to get so many people's hope's up.

[Justdontgetit]

07:25 PM on 10/02/2010

;-))))))))))))))

[LittleMittens]

12:10 AM on 10/02/2010

In true conservatwit form, turn on anyone and everyone to get you in office. Rove would be very proud...

[Amishguy]

11:52 PM on 10/01/2010

How is Bachmann still around?!

You have to give her credit though... she's the original wack-job. Long before Angle, Paladino, O'Donnell, Paul and so many others.

She was crazy before it was cool.

[Mainer36]

10:31 PM on 10/01/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfJepxPPBok

Bachman acting like a school girl falling all over herself loving up GWB

[Renifer]

12:57 AM on 10/04/2010

Yeah, how soon they forget! She's hangin' on him, touching his shoulder, kissing him, getting him not only to sign her program, but that of others just so that she can be a hanger oner.
What a sleaze. She's dipping her head to make sure that she's in the camera frame.
What a disgusting display of affection for the worst man to ever occupy the oval office.

[Rosaleen]

10:30 PM on 10/01/2010

I had a really bad hangover this morning and got quite sick during the free pizza lunch. This ad is slightly nastier.

[HarmNone]

09:39 PM on 10/01/2010

I know that someone must have said this in prior posts but have to say that GWB should be thrown under the bus! (ahem, metaphorically speaking of course)

[woodstein76]

09:35 PM on 10/01/2010

Well, well, isn't she a cannibalistic, 2-faced shrew? By any means necessary, apparently.

[lewis3k]

09:31 PM on 10/01/2010

"Buckwoman throws Bush under the bus" . I beleive "Buckwoman throws Bush under Dick 's Chinney would be more fitting..

[lbrillante]

09:20 PM on 10/01/2010

Bush, "Thank God. What a wingnut!"

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