Nick Coleman's column today is a curious one.
Apparenty he's been able to find a Vietnam veteran whose views coincide with his own.
I can't comment on his interview subject's experiences in Vietnam.
I have to wonder about Nick Coleman's definition of "Republican", though:
"I'm still a Republican," he says. "I'm not leaving the Republican Party. But the Republican Party has been hijacked, and I want to see regime change. This is not an administration -- it's a regime. It is no longer a party of leadership. It is a party of swagger. And swagger is not a Minnesota value. Statesmanship is a Minnesota value."I have to wonder how it is that Nick Coleman manages to gin up a boundless supply of Republican who just happen to detest everything about the Republican party, and everything it'd seem to stand for?
It'd be like me tapping into a huge, apparently boundless undercurrent of capitalistic, pro-gun, pro-life life-long Democrats who, while loyal party members, happen to irredeemably detest everything about their party.
Posted by Mitch at October 6, 2004 01:40 AM | TrackBack
"In Texas we have a word for swagger. It's called walking."
Posted by: chris at October 6, 2004 10:13 AMI haven't lived in Minnesota for several years, but don't people walk there any more?
Coleman is a hack.
I'd love to hear the original recording of the "interview" and compare it to what Coleman wrote.
You mean like tapping into the hispanic immigrant population? Or the inner city black business owner population?
Posted by: LT at October 6, 2004 10:48 AMMitch,
You're mostly describing the post 9/11 Zell Miller.
Posted by: Mark at October 6, 2004 11:15 PM