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Oct. 22 2009 - 8:46 pm | 48 views | 1 recommendation | 9 comments

Michele Bachmann labels Bob Dole ‘non-pro freedom’

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has reappeared, this time on the Laura Ingraham radio show where she accused past GOP Senate Majority Leaders, Bob Dole and Bill Frist, as being representative of a “non pro-freedom agenda” because of their support of health care reform.

INGRAHAM: Of course. God bless Bob Dole he just came on our show, I have great respect for the man. And also for Frist. But Frist presided over a pretty disastrous situation in the Senate.

BACHMANN: They lost.

INGRAHAM: They lost. And Bob Dole lost how many times on a national level? I guess I’ve lost count. [...] That Republican ideology and that Republican outlook has been a losing outlook. That’s why President Obama wants more of us to be like them.

BACHMANN: Because we want a pro-freedom agenda. And he’s trying to throw people around who he believes will increase a non-pro-freedom agenda.
Via Think Progress

If you like to listen to Bachmann and Ingraham trashing a war hero, here you go:

And yes, this would be the same Bob Dole who got his arm blown off defending the freedom of his country.


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    Another fine example oh how the GOP is sinking further and further into a “cival war” and as we all know a house divided…..

    Not that I’m complaining mind you. Rick any chance any of your speaking tour engagements will be live streamed over the web?

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    She scares me. What the hell is a pro-freedom agenda? I think she’s Sarah Palin #2.

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      To Michelle Bachmann, freedom means that we have to do what she wants. She means freedom in the sense that feudal lords were free to do whatever they wanted with their serfs. I’m sure that in her mind, we haven’t had freedom since the Magna Carta.

      In response to another comment. See in context »
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    Lost count of how many times Bob Dole lost at the national level? Twice right? That’s a pinky and the ring finger.

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    I’m a non-pro supporter of Michele Bachmann’s delusional view of freedom.

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