Prior to this post, most people probably haven’t heard about Aaron Ament. I certainly hadn’t heard of him prior to this. Ament is one of the founders of Stand Up America PAC. According to this article, Stand Up America PAC has targeted Michele Bachmann, Joe Wilson, Eric Cantor, Jean Schmidt and John Campbell. This is what Mr. Ament thinks of activists he disagrees with:

“Michele Bachmann’s willingness to empower hooligans for partisan political purposes is wrong and must stop,” Ament said last week. “Bachmann’s refusal to take full responsibility for amplifying the most hateful voices in our country means that we cannot expect her to rein in the disgraceful behavior that has made her a national television star and one of the top recipients of far-right cash.”

SAY WHAT??? Several busloads of everyday Minneostans showed up in Washington, DC, along with other people from across the country, scared that PelosiCare would destroy the best health care system in the world. As their reward, Mr. Ament characterized them as “partisan hooligans” and “the most hateful voices in our country.”

The Democrats have tried characterizing protesters as haters, partisan hooligans and angry mobs. It isn’t surprising that independents are fleeing the Democratic Party like Democrats were toxic waste. Similarly, it isn’t surprising that conservatives are fired up like they haven’t been since the fall of 2004.

Operatives like Ament likely will keep characterizing activists of all stripes in hateful terms. If that happens, the Democrats will alienate all but their most rabid far left base.

It’s one thing for Democrat operatives to call Rep. Bachmann and Rep. Wilson names. Unfortunately, that’s fairly common. It’s another when Democratic operatives like Ament call mainstreet American “partisan hooligans” and “the most hateful voices in our country.” That’s the fastest way to alienate large swaths of people.

Extremists like Ament don’t hesitate to call people names. They also don’t hesitate in hurling accusations like this:

Stand Up America PAC has begun its petition and online advertising campaign imploring Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to take full responsibility for the illegal and disgraceful rally she organized this month on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

Stand Up America PAC is referring to an accusation that Michele violated a House rule:

Bachmann’s site urged people to come to the Capitol rally “and tell their Representatives to vote no” on the health-care reform bill. House rules prohibit members from using their sites, which are funded by taxpayers, to conduct “grassroots lobbying or solicit support for a Member’s position.”

That’s an absurd rule and I’d doubt it would withstand constitutional muster. I don’t have a problem with House rules prohibiting politicians from using their official websites for purely electoral purposes. That’s clearly wrong. Obviously, that isn’t what happened here.

Here’s the other problem that liberals are talking about:

CREW also alleges that Bachmann and her allies may have violated other House rules by holding a rally without a permit. News reports suggest the event’s organizer’s made an effort to call it a press conference, for which a permit wouldn’t be needed.

This is another First Amendment issue. Congress doesn’t have the authority to tell people that they have to get a permit to peaceably assemble. By requiring a permit, the governing majority would theoretically have the right to say no to citizens speaking out against their agenda. That CLEARLY doesn’t fit with what the Founding Fathers envisioned when they wrote the Bill of Rights.

It’s Stand Up America’s right to go off on ideologically-driven diatribes. It’s the rights of CD-6 voters to tell Stand Up America PAC to take a long walk off a short pier by returning Michele Bachmann to Washington, which is precisely what’s likely to happen.

The Democrats’ PACs were effective the last 2 election cycles but their hysteria-based tactics won’t work this time, mostly because people have seen the Democrats’ corruption and because they’ve seen the Democrats’ ineptitude in growing the economy and in creating jobs. People have seen how irresponsible Democrats have been in their spending.

All the money in the world won’t help the Democrats this cycle because they’ve pursued an agenda that’s far too radical for the people’s liking. Good riddance.

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