Paul hits Bachmann, who hits Obama and Pelosi

New mailers from both Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann started hitting Iowa homes today, a reader reports - with the Texas congressman questioning his House colleague's tea party cred, and the congresswoman turning her sights on President Obama and Nancy Pelosi, according to a reader.

Paul's six-page mailer is in full color, and says the Tea Party movement - to which he is trying to appeal - had its seeds in his 2008 presidential run. He also cites Fox News' description of him as "father of the Tea Party movement."


In his swipe at Bachmann, he argues she pushed for a bill to "forcibly unionize government workers nationwide by federal mandate, but now wants to claim the mantle of 'Tea Party' champion." He also features, as is an ever-popular reference this cycle, a picture of himself with Ronald Reagan, with the slightly oddly-constructed sentence, "I am the only candidate in this race to have been endorsed by Ronald Reagan."

For her part, Bachmann's five-page letter urged voters to put their names to a 2012 Victory Pledge to her campaign, to counter the $1 billion war chest she said would be available to the president. She also urged readers to sign a "Reduce Petition."

But her red-meat attacks, per the reader, were against Obama, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Paul's were at Bachmann and fellow Republican Mitt Romney, who isn't competing at Ames but may be forced to engage more seriously in Iowa in the fall.

Both mailers, according to the reader, made no specific ask for support for the Ames Straw Poll, which is just two weeks away. Instead, the twin mailers seem to focus on fundraising for the campaigns as much as drawing voters out for support.

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