After Michele Bachmann went rabid last Friday on Hardball, the news she has been receiving continues to be bad. Besides the $800,000 her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, has taken in since she went ballistic, Michele is now facing another new threat, a write-in Republican challenger.
Bachmann earlier won the GOP primary against a St Johns University college professor, Aubrey Immelman. St Johns is a Catholic school and Immelman has taught there since 1991.
On Saturday Immelman announced he was mounting a write-in campaign as a Republican, to unseat Bachmann.
Immelman, an immigrant from South Africa, who describes himself as a moderate Republican, on Monday said, "I gave up everything to come here, which is why I feel so strongly about the direction my country is taking. I'm a proud, patriotic American. And I cannot tolerate this festering brand of neo-McCarthyism Michele Bachmann is pushing."
Immelman will definitely pull some moderate Republican votes and expect him to do well from Catholics as well. But will there be enough write-ins to unseat the Queen of Hate?
We'll know in two weeks but it clearly is now possible.
Source:
Minneapolis Star Tribune
