Grams Vs. The Machine: District 8 GOPBloggers

Rod Grams' hat is in the ring.

The former Senator, bumped from office in 2000 by Mark Dayton, didn't run a great '00 campaign - but he was also the victim of one of the most scurrilous press hatchet campaigns in Minnesota political history. The Strib and the rest of the local establishment media harped on some issues in Grams' life - some of them Grams himself (issues of the kind the media call passe when the perp is Democrat Bill Clinton), but more troublingly many related to his son Morgan - a young man of whom Grams had not had custody since his divorce, and whose behavior, irresponsible as it was, only reflected on Grams through the most tortuous possible logical gymnastics on the press' part.

Of course, that was long before there was an alternative media to speak of.

So here's the big question: who are the bloggers in the Eighth District? This campaign needs someone like the indispensable KvM in the Senate race, or the many blogs covering CD6.

So - anyone outstate?

Maybe it's time for that MOB party in Duluth...