Paul Begala, Mad Hatter, and Ron Johnson

Is Paul Begala nuts or what?

Read this fundraising e-mail from Begala for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee:

Bill Clinton – my boss, buddy, and mentor – is right: Republicans gathered up everybody but the Mad Hatter for their Anti-Obama Tea Party.

The not-a-witch in Delaware. Mr. Sunspots in Wisconsin. Mrs. Wrestlemania, and the candidate in Nevada who thinks Social Security violates the Ten Commandments. They’d do everything in their power to undermine President Obama – and kick the middle class to the curb.

15 races are within 5 points – but we’re turning the tide, folks. Heck, Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak is up by 3, Harry Reid is up by 3, Washington’s Patty Murray is up 8, thanks to donors just like you. We can keep this momentum going, but ONLY if we’ve got the resources to push as hard as we have been pushing every day from here on out.

The DSCC needs $525,000 by midnight Sunday to keep the Tea Party out of the Senate. There’s no time to waste when we’re 18 days out.

...A tea party might make a good kids' story. But those same characters writing our laws? That's a full-on nightmare. I am telling you: the tide is turning. When voters hear about the radical Republicans' plans to put Wall Street in charge of Social Security, put insurance companies in charge of Medicare, and give special tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, they reject their extremism.

But voters cannot process information they don't hear - and special interests are spending millions to drown us out. I’m counting on you. I know you won’t let me down.

"The not-a-witch in Delaware. Mr. Sunspots in Wisconsin. Mrs. Wrestlemania, and the candidate in Nevada who thinks Social Security violates the Ten Commandments. They’d do everything in their power to undermine President Obama – and kick the middle class to the curb."

Begala calls Ron Johnson "Mr. Sunspots." Begala says Johnson will do everything in his "power to undermine President Obama – and kick the middle class to the curb."

That's disgraceful.

Begala and the Democrats are desperate. That's clear. But it doesn't make their disgusting tactics acceptable.

Ron Johnson wants to help the middle class. A strong, thriving economy helps everyone. Government entitlements create a dependent class. That's not the American Dream. That's not an expression of American exceptionalism.

We don't want hand-outs. We want opportunity. Democrats, like Russ Feingold, are kicking us to the curb by promoting dependence on big government.

And Paul Begala is a shameless hack.