I don’t just want “anybody but Bachmann;” I want a candidate with a backbone who has ideas that can change the world.
In the 6th District we have two candidates vying for the DFL Endorsement. I am supporting Bob Olson because he has the best chance to beat Michele Bachmann. He has the stances that will allow him to take votes away from Mrs. Bachmann, and beat her with those same votes. Bob has a strong, dedicated staff and enough money in the bank to give Mrs. Bachmann her ticket home. I work with Bob everyday. I have never seen a person more dedicated to a cause. I just imagine what he could accomplish in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Regardless of which way you’re leaning at this moment, Bob is the best and only candidate in this race who will stand up to the lobbyists and special interests in Washington D.C. Please join me in supporting Bob Olson for Congress, the only candidate who is firm in his convictions.
With the defects I see in "anybody but Bachmann" poster child candidate Elwyn Tinklenberg, I notice that this excerpt recognizes the identical things, indirectly. I have been saying the DFL can win with Olson and lose with Tinklenberg. The above excerpt somewhat succinctly says why. Backbone and views that can change the world. Awsome potential to be not only a competent replacement for Bachmann but outstanding.
Olson will stand up to lobbyists not schmooze with them as one of them. He is not going in as indebted to any special interest factions. Perhaps saying it all, "the only candidate who is firm in his convictions." He does not fashion and refashion himself and his views. He has always told people that core progressive committments are consistently underpinning his being a candidate for Congress, and it has consistently come across as true.
The "What's in it for him" question just does not pop into mind nearly as quickly as for Tinklenberg, nor "What's in it for her" comming to mind if thinking about stances and activities and career politician history of Michele Bachmann.
Perhaps that's the key, Olson is the one player in the game who has not been a career politician, with all that means and says against an individuai who has been one.