Photo: hagedornforcongress.com

Photo: hagedornforcongress.com

The rhetoric in Minnesota’s First Congressional District is reaching a fevered pitch as five candidates, Randy Demmer, Jim Engstrand, Jim Hagedorn, Frank McKinzie and Allen Quist, vie for the Republican endorsement to run against DFL Rep. Tim Walz. While Quist made news early in the race when he said that Democrats were more dangerous than terrorists, Hagedorn came out with his own speech to Republican activists warning of liberal “carpet bombing” and calling Walz’s politics a “plague” on America.

Here are a few snippets of Hagedorn’s speech:

“The national liberals are all but carpet bombing the greatness of America – taking dead aim on the United States Constitution, our dynamic Free Enterprise system, and the enduring concepts of personal responsibility, individual opportunity, personal freedom, and traditional cultural values.”

“Tim Walz’s extreme liberalism represents a plague to our American way of life. Instead of listening to you – the moderate-to-conservative voters of southern Minnesota – Tim Walz follows the commands of President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the fringe left.”

“Tim Walz is the most liberal Congressman in the history of southern Minnesota, and to reclaim America we must defeat Tim Walz and those like him!”

“Now, if there is a big-spending, big-government, high-tax idea to kill jobs or undermine economic recovery, President Obama-Speaker Pelosi and devoted liberal worshiper Tim Walz will sniff it out.”

“Tim Walz is such a left-winger that he believes we must limit carbon emissions to save the earth from global warming.”