| Hey, I read Mud Soup on this blog--so I saw the item about the "surprising" number of small donors that Michele Bachmann has these days.
Smart Politics pointed out that so many of Bachmann's donors these days are "just regular folks." Isn't that sweet?
One commenter noted thata lot of the "regular folks" donors that are sending small contrbutions Bachmann's way are cable TV fans (and also presumbably talk radio fans). In other words, many of those "regular folks" that SmartPolitics reporter Eric Ostermeier refers to are the tea bagger--the people who love the fact that Bachmann is telling them that the President of the United States is a tyrant and Marxist.
Those particular "regular folks" are people who already believed that Obama's a Marxist and a tyrant. Maybe the people who report for SmartPolitics believe that Obama's a Marxist and a tyrant, too. That belief, according to SmartPolitics, would make them "regular folks."
The other "regular folks" that have surfaced as individual donors on Bachmann campaign reports have been supporters of the evangelical conservative political movement. I haven't looked at the reporting that Ostermeier cites, but in previous statements Bachmann reports individual donations from Council for National Policy luminaries like Phyllis Schlafly and Howard Phillips. (Bear in mind that these "regular folks" from out of state were contributing to Bachmann campaigns even before she got to Congress, even before she got her first appearance on cable TV.)
Some of the names on past donor lists are not so recognizable. For example, you have one Bachmann donor who gave as an individual and turned out to be a leader of ASSS (the Association of Separation of School and State, a Georgia based group that wants to end all government funding for public education.)
And of course Bachmann now has small donors who contribute to her campaign at the urging of the Glenn Becks and Bill O'Reilly's of the world.
But all these professional and amateur right wingers from outside Bachmann's district have one thing in common: they're all just "regular folks," according to Smart Politics. According to Smart Politics, nobody's directing them, they're not acting in concert, and the fact that some of 'em are right wing political activists and organizers--doesn't matter. Just a cooincidence, according to Smart Politics, they're just "regular folks" from out of state, who just happen to have a healthy interest in who represents people in an obscure Minnesota congressional district.
Keep up the investigative journalism, Smart Politics! The Bachmann team can't buy publicity like that!
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