The First Feingold-Michels debate

Note to Tim Michels: You want to know the reason Russ Feingold has been able to raise 8 million dollars in this election cycle? Because most of Wisconsin is so FLIPPIN' SCARED that you might actually win the election. Especially considering that Feingold has no multi-million dollar "family business" to fall back onto when he needs to make another campaign ad or print up a batch of bumper stickers-- it's the ordinary working people of Wisconsin who are paying for his campaign in checks of $25 or $100 a pop. And that's the way it should be. Sometimes you just can't buy your way into office--sorry.

In his ads, and even in the debate-- Michels continues to lie through his teeth, misrepresenting everything Feingold stands for. I don't know if the truth hasn't sank in yet, or if he's deliberately trying to be malicious.

Tonight made me realize how lucky Wisconsin is to have a principled, hard-working man like Feingold in their corner--the only guy with enough balls to stand up to the freedom-hating Patriot Act. I've never once been personally proud of a politician representing my particular district (granted, when you're from Illinois this probably is a given), but that's all changed now. If Wisconsin screws this one up, I'm moving to Minnesota.