It’s March and you know what that means: wet, soggy weather, an end-of-winter snowstorm, and the state hockey tournament.

Here at ABM, we like to use March to look back at the most outrageous, ridiculous things conservatives have done in the last year in our March Badness tournament.

But just like your March Madness bracket predictions can’t get started until the NCAA selection committee releases the teams that will participate in the big dance, our March Badness bracket can’t get started until we know what you think was the worst of the worst from conservatives this year.

Join the selection committee and nominate the worst conservatives of the year:

http://allianceminnesota.org/SelectionCommittee

Once we get your selections, we’ll get the bracket set up, and vote for the worst of the worst every week until we have a new March Badness champion. If you play along with us, you have a chance to win a copy of ProgressNow Founder Michael Huttner’s book 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America and Brave New Films 5th Anniversary 10-DVD Collection, a box set that includes Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Uncovered: The Truth Behind the War in Iraq.

Last year one of Michele Bachmann’s many bizarre statements took home the title after outlasting Norm Coleman’s marathon recount legal challenge, an impressive "victory."

Did you see something happen this year that was worse than that? Let us know.

http://allianceminnesota.org/SelectionCommittee

Next week, we will unveil the bracket and begin voting to see what was the worst of the worst. One lucky person will pick up a copy of 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America and 10 must-watch DVDs for progressive activists.

In a year full of tea baggers and plenty of Bachmann word vomit, conservatives hit a new low. So think back to those stories that really put the bad in badness, and send them our way.

Happy Bracketing!