Minnesota First Congressional District's Jim Hagedorn has quite the reputation as a wordsmith. From the days of his "Mr. Conservative" blog to his town hall musings about suicide, climate change, and BLM, the guy's a regular Walt Whitman of nincompoopery.
Now the Blue Earth Republican may have another greatest hit. In Republican heavyweights give dire warning if GOP loses big on Election Day, the Brainerd Dispatch's Gabriel D. Lagarde reports:
Judging by the urgent, no-holds-barred speeches, the results will be dire, if not bordering apocalyptic, should Republicans fail this fall.
With exactly 100 days until the Nov. 3 general election, Minnesota Republicans gathered Saturday, July 25, for a political retreat at Madden’s on Gull Lake resort where they said voters need to come out en masse to challenge liberal candidates, or the results could spell a serious regression of the state and nation stretching on decades.
“We’re here telling people this is it, this is the election of all elections,” said Congressman Jim Hagedorn of the 1st Congressional District, visibly emotive during his speech. “This is the Armageddon of all elections. Unfortunately, if we lose, I think we lose the country as the Founding Fathers envisioned it. We can’t lose. We must win.” . . .
The tone of the event was fiery, with impassioned speeches from political heavyweights that characterized the coming election as an all-out struggle of existential proportions against what they deem secular godlessness, Socialist policies and an autocratic lust for power. . . .
Well then. And there's more in Bring Me the News' On day face mask mandate goes into effect, Minnesota GOP shares pictures of mask-less attendees at party event.
So what was dirty satanic hippie combat veteran, teacher, and Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Dan Feehan up to on Saturday as one of the Horseman of the Republican Apocalypse?
Campaign manager Hahn Peter Change tweeted:
Another #mn01 Service Saturday with my boss @danielfeehan in Truman working with Habitat for Humanity painting a house. Dan has lived a life of service and exemplifies that every single day. pic.twitter.com/l7PcBBQjvT
— Hahn Peter Chang (@The_MN_Chang) July 25, 2020
Not that Feehan didn't take some time over the weekend to criticize Hagedorn:
My opponent @JimHagedornMN is spending hundreds of thousands of our taxpayer dollars to stuff our mailboxes in #MN01 with campaign style mailers during a public health and economic crisis. It’s crystal clear he’s looking out for himself. https://t.co/Dj5cR0HONX
— Dan Feehan (@danielfeehan) July 26, 2020
Image: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an 1887 painting by Viktor Vasnetsov. From left to right are Death, Famine, War, and Conquest; the Lamb is at the top. Via Wikipedia.
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