Republicans gone wild

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Michele Bachmann's comments last week suggesting members of Congress should be investigated for anti-Americanism have already raised her opponent more than $1 million in 96 hours. Now, two more Republicans find themselves in hot water for off-the-cuff remarks that suggest Democrats, well, they just don't see America like the rest of us.

  

"Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God," North Carolina Rep. Robin Hayes told a crowd waiting to hear from John McCain. He denied the story at first, in statements to Politico, before later conceding that he did and apologizing.

  

Now, new video has come to light in New York, in which upstate Republican Randy Kuhl tells WHAM-TV he thinks the Democratic majority "wants the American public to suffer and to hurt so that they can make some political gains at election time."

  

All three Republicans are getting seriously negative publicity for their remarks in local papers, and it's making their re-election bids less certain.

  

That's terrible news for both Hayes and Kuhl, who already faced difficult races. Hayes beat Democrat Larry Kissell by 300 votes in 2006 and either trails Kissell by a wide margin (in a Democratic poll) or leads by just three (in his own poll). Kuhl beat Democrat Eric Massa by a 51%-49% margin in 2006 and now trails Massa in the latest Democratic poll.

  

We can only imagine the title of the forthcoming memo from Republican campaign chief Tom Cole: "Shut up!"

  

This is copied from another blog in Politico, The Scorecard