Sowing Seed Upon Cement

A couple of people have asked me about the Democrat ads in my ad bar. "Why do you accept their ads? Why do you take their money?" I figure that it's a nice chunk of change that'll not convince a...
Posted by Mitch on November 04, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

If The GOP Nationwide...

...were to tap into the energy, enthusiasm we heard from candidates, activists and partisans on the show today, we'd get 90 seats in the Senate on Tuesday. Of course, hearing Patty Wetterling's new ad (audio and transcript) should put a...
Posted by Mitch on November 04, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Hatch Blows His Lid

Mike Hatch calls a reporter a "whore" for pressing him on Judi Dutcher's E-85 flub:Hatch’s anger overflowed during a Thursday morning telephone interview. A Forum Communications reporter asked Hatch about Dutcher’s knowledge of ethanol and why she wasn’t available to...
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Win, Lose or Draw

Jerry Plagge, proprietor of the SD63 blog (which is, by the way, the most-improved local blog of 2006) on the kerfuffle among a group of local center-right bloggers. Some - "Gary and Jules from KvM and on the other you...
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Damaged Premium Goods

John Kerry changed his travel plans. Hopefully his "joke" will still attend today's rallies. Bummer - the anti-Kerry protest woulda been fun to attend....
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Those Dumb Soldiers

Hugh has the best wrapup of Kerry's "Soldiers are dumb" gaffe and its broader historical context:Kerry reminded people that the war against the war has been underway since mid-2003, and that the Democrats have never taken the many opportunities to...
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Zzzzzz: Strib Crowns A-Klo

Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Surprising nobody, the Strib endorses A-Klo for U.S. Senate.The timing is clearly right for Amy Klobuchar. Long recognized as a rising political talent, Klobuchar has come into her own during this year's...
Posted by Mitch on October 30, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Patty Wetterlying - Again

While we've established that the Strib's Eric Black is loathe to use the word "lying" lightly (at all?), he does come pretty close in appraising Patty Wetterlying's latest ad; (emphasis added): A highly deceptive ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign...
Posted by Mitch on October 27, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Know Them By Their Actions

Ignore for a moment that Keith Ellison was a member of an antisemitic hate group, that the Strib is in the bag for his campaign, or that he has a fairly self-indulgent sense of ethics. Why would one not vote...
Posted by Mitch on October 27, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Your Roots Are Showing

Ed notes that Rightroots is switching to its two-minute drill:For the final ten days, we want to focus on the ten candidates that we feel have the best opportunity to win their races. We are asking for one final round...
Posted by Mitch on October 27, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Like Raaaaaiiiin, On Your Wedding Day, Part II

I almost missed this: The Strib endorsed former St. Paul top cop Bill Finney for Ramsey sheriff, giving him the nod over Bob Fletcher. I have nothing against either of them. Both are excellent cops; both have their detractors as...
Posted by Mitch on October 26, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

A-Klo: Puppet

Andy Aplikowski on how completely A-Klo is a DNC puppet. Just read the whole thing. It's the funniest thing AAA's ever written - and just about the most dead-on....
Posted by Mitch on October 25, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Those Gatekeepers At Work

I've read this Lori Sturdevant column a few times. I'm still trying to figure it out. Is it a shot at the Strib's "Church and State" story about Michele Bachmann's appearance at Mac Hammond's Living Word Christian Center?At a church...
Posted by Mitch on October 24, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Those Gatekeepers At Work

I've read this Lori Sturdevant column a few times. I'm still trying to figure it out. Is it a shot at the Strib's "Church and State" story about Michele Bachmann's appearance at Mac Hammond's Living Word Christian Center?At a church...
Posted by Mitch on October 24, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

The Other Stakes

Tim "All Foley, All The Time" O'Brien of the Strib's "Blog House" says:It's looking more and more like Republicans are going to be having a blue election day.Well, to be fair, that was something the Strib decided on about November...
Posted by Mitch on October 23, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (14) | TrackBack

Zzzzz: Strib SOS Endorsements

The Strib endorses Mark Ritchie, predictably, over conservative lightning rod Mary Kiffmeyer for Secretary of State:It's been eight years since she first won the office (with a 47 percent plurality, a political unknown benefiting from the Year of Jesse), and...
Posted by Mitch on October 23, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Zzzzz: Strib AG Endorsements

The Strib endorses Lori Swanson (we shall call her "Mini-Mike") for Attorney General. Her experience as solicitor general and as deputy to Mike Hatch makes her the best-prepared candidate in this racehile Hatch has sometimes overreached and unfairly antagonized...
Posted by Mitch on October 23, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Zzzzz: Strib US House Endorsements

The Strib surprises nobody in its "endorsements", which should only further the "perception" that the Strib is an organ of the DFL. They endorse Tim Walz in the First District...:this year the Republican incumbent finds himself on the defensive over...
Posted by Mitch on October 23, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Blog Press Conference

I sat in on a telephone conference with a group of area bloggers with Pat Shortridge, Mark Kennedy's campaign manager. More later - too much to digest this fast. Long story short - hang in there. Kennedy's not out of...
Posted by Mitch on October 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Frame This

This ad will, it's rumored, start running in Minnesota, this weekend. It's about time....
Posted by Mitch on October 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (41) | TrackBack

For Those Who Care About Context

The Strib's Eric Black dissects Michele Bachmann's latest ad, which grills Patty Wetterling and her supporters' takes on defense. There's some interesting fact-checking - which misses Bachmann's overarching, valid point; Wetterling is supported by people and groups who support cutting...
Posted by Mitch on October 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

A Question of Balance

For Keith Ellison, Rochelle Olson delves deeply into Keith Ellison's side of the story:Last year State Rep. Keith Ellison obtained a restraining order to keep a former constituent away from him and his family. Now Ellison's campaign is accusing the...
Posted by Mitch on October 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Ellison: Bangers are Political Prisoners!

Katherine Kersten - the Strib's token good columnist - on Keith Ellison's corrosive relativism:As a criminal defense attorney, Ellison told the crowd, he saw “startling similarities” between Soliah and the gang members he represents: Bloods, Vice Lords, Gangster Disciples. He...
Posted by Mitch on October 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

The Minnesota Poll PR Release

King guts the latest Minnesota Poll. The beef:Bachmann's favorable unfavorable ratings are 44/36, with 9% not knowing the name; Wetterling is at 56/35, with 1% not knowing her. Bachmann's advertising therefore has room to make ground, and Wetterling may be...
Posted by Mitch on October 17, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (20) | TrackBack

Like You Couldn't See This Coming

The Minnesota Poll is baaaaack - and this time, predictably, show Patty Wetterling eleventy bazillion points ahead of Michele Bachmann:DFLer Patty Wetterling leads Republican Michele Bachmann 48 to 40 percent in the hot race for Congress in Minnesota's Sixth Congressional...
Posted by Mitch on October 17, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (21) | TrackBack

How Do You Know Patty Wetterling is Lying?

Oh, you know how the joke ends, don't you? Leo Pusatieri from Psycmeister's Ice Palace: Patty Wetter-lying?" href="http://psycmeistr.blogspot.com/2006/10/patty-wetter-lying.html">calls a spade a spade:With the new Majority Watch poll and recent SurveyUSA poll showing improved support for Wetterlying, with Nightline telling the...
Posted by Mitch on October 16, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Oldie But A Goodie

It's bad enough that Patty Wetterling is lying about Michele Bachmann's support of the national sales tax (watch the ad here if you'd like) . What's worse? She's reprising a lie I called her on two years ago!Mark Kennedy even...
Posted by Mitch on October 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

The Lie Continues

I see that Patty Wetterling is still running her slag on the FairTax (which would replace the Income and Payroll taxes with a 23% national sales tax). The ad says it'd increase prices 23%, omitting to mention it'd get rid...
Posted by Mitch on October 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Strib Vs. The Strib

Over at Powerline, Scott Johnson covers last weekend's Strib hit piece on Alan Fine - the one I dealt with on Sunday. Scott's piece holds the Strib to its own historical standard, and finds the paper grossly wanting:I find Sunday's...
Posted by Mitch on October 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

The Virtual Debate

E-Democracy is staging its umpteenth annual "E-Debate" among the six, count 'em, six gubernatorial candidates on the ballot. This year, the debate joins the 2000s, and is presented in blog format. Check out the debate. The six candidates, by the...
Posted by Mitch on October 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Weekend Plans

Make sure you join the whole NARN crew for the Patriot Radio Rally, Sunday night at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, at 1111 Main Street in Hopkins. Hugh Hewitt will be hosting; Norm Coleman will be speaking, among many...
Posted by Mitch on October 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Undercover Report

A source inside the Democratic National Committee leaked this transcript of a meeting early this morning to me. This, as far as I know, is a Shot In The Dark exclusive:HOWARD DEAN: "OK, let's get started. Everybody? OK. Good job...
Posted by Mitch on October 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Alan Fine Vs. The Strib

Alan Fine answers yesterday's Strib article with a news release which raises serious questions about the Strib's story and, if true, the character and "journalistic ethics" (if, indeed, such a thing truly and significantly exists) of Strib reporter Rochelle Olson...
Posted by Mitch on October 08, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Ellison's October Surprise

The DFL/Strib plunge yet again into the dirt in today's October Surprise swat at 5th CD underdog Alan Fine over a "domestic abuse" arrest that has been expunged due to Fine's innocence. The headline says "Fine Had Record Expunged". Minneapolis...
Posted by Mitch on October 07, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Patty Wetterling's Next Ad

A little bird in the DFL got me this [*] - it's the script for the next TV ad from the Wetterling campaign.:OMINOUS MUSIC FAT PIC OF HASTERT NARRATOR: "On Thursday, October 5, Dennis Hastert resigned over allegations he'd not...
Posted by Mitch on October 06, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (24) | TrackBack

Who's Spinning?

I, like a lot of conservatives, have been writing a bit about the Foley scandal. Like every credible conservative, I've condemned Foley's actions. I've taken a certain amount of the usual gratuitous abuse one takes for defending a Republican in...
Posted by Mitch on October 06, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (36) | TrackBack

Sock Puppets For Justice!

Learned Foot and Drudge learned about this sock-puppet anonyblog, which seems to have broken the Foley story in the first place. As Foot notes:The (still) anonymous blogger who first published those emails, had one post in July, 3 in August...
Posted by Mitch on October 05, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (22) | TrackBack

Wetterling: Fraud

Hugh Hewitt on the Wetterling "Molester!" ad. Combined with her "National Sales Tax" ad - which, as mentioned earlier, is also chock-full of lies - I have to wonder; since Patty Wetterling is not known as a morally-depraved person, who...
Posted by Mitch on October 05, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Patty Wetterling: Pattern of Deception

As Margaret Martin noted, Patty Wetterling's ad on the National Sales Tax is conspicuous in its omission. Watch it yourself. If you can't find the key hole in its "logic"...no, if your dog can't find the key, vital omission in...
Posted by Mitch on October 05, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Lying Liars and the Democrat Party That Endorses Them

Margaret Martin on two new DFL ads chock-full of lies:Case #1: Patty Wetterling’s ad on Michele Bachmann’s position on a national sales tax. The ad says Bachmann supports it. She doesn’t. One of the Bachmann’s chief positions is to scrap...
Posted by Mitch on September 30, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

About Time

Bill Frist wakes up and smells the electoral coffee?:"It's time to secure the border with Mexico," Majority Leader Bill Frist said last night before filing the parliamentary motions to force the House-passed bill onto the Senate floor in a final...
Posted by Mitch on September 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Steele

One of the biggest frustrations I have in being a Republican is the sense that the Fourth District GOP - to say nothing of the state party - have abandoned the inner-city. Of course, it'd be a dumb move for...
Posted by Mitch on August 22, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Devoid of Fact

The DFL issued a press release on the Immigration stances of the President and Karl Rove... ...which were so devoid of fact, even the Strib (albeit the excellent Eric Black) noticed it:Specifically, the DFL news release demanded that Bachmann declare...
Posted by Mitch on July 21, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Friends In Low Places

Amy Klobuchar is going to tackle education with the help of some well-heeled friends:Dear Political Friends, There's a special event for Amy Klobuchar & I'd like to explain why you should come. I'm supporting Amy Klobuchar because Amy presents the...
Posted by Mitch on July 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

How Far Do We Go?

The latest Gallup Poll shows that a sampling of Republican-leaning voters prefer Giuliani and Rice among the field of GOP presidential hopefuls:Republicans are closely divided in their evaluations of Newt Gingrich and George Allen as presidential nominee material. They tilt...
Posted by Mitch on July 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (39) | TrackBack

Luther Filing for AG?

Flash says so....
Posted by Mitch on July 18, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Miller on Brodkorb on Entenza

Gary Miller of KvM:Michael Brodkorb almost singlehandedly ended the Matt Entenza campaign for AG. In so doing he spared the state one of the most ego-maniacal personalities to come this way in a long time. Our only regret is that...
Posted by Mitch on July 18, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Hasta La Vista Entenza

Matt Entenza, caught red-handed digging for dirt on fellow DFLers, to say nothing of GOPers, on top of a variety of other ethical lapses, bows out of the Attorney General hunt. Who does he blame?"But with so little time and...
Posted by Mitch on July 18, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Bell, For Whom The Tolls

Ford Bell bails on the Senate race.Our campaign has touched and energized thousands of Minnesotans, and I am grateful beyond words for the support that we have received. There is not a doubt in my mind that our message would...
Posted by Mitch on July 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (16) | TrackBack

Don't Want No Scrubs

Andy at KvM on a couple of Senate campaign points. First: A-Klo has gone to the C-team for a house blogger:This also raises the question of just how well Klobuchar’s campaign is doing. If they are now hiring young bloggers,...
Posted by Mitch on July 07, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (22) | TrackBack

Crushing of Potential Dissent

You've read about it on blogs with bandwidth this past week; Amy Klobuchar, at a campaign event giving a speech at the Humphrey Institute, barred Mark Kennedy's people from recording her speech. Bob Collins had his characteristically low-key take on...
Posted by Mitch on June 30, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

The Only Good Republican...

To: The Alan Fine campaign From: Mitch Berg Re: Mortal Danger. Alan, I'm Mitch Berg. We met at the state GOP convention. You are the GOP's endorsed candidate to run in the Fifth Congressional District, which is normally equivalent to...
Posted by Mitch on June 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wring The Lame Duck's Neck

I was going to hit the trifecta of really, really awful Strib editorials this week... ...but I can add nothing to Doug Williams' piece, which does to the editorial what Ving Rhames' pals with the "blowtorches and pliars" were going...
Posted by Mitch on June 15, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Arne Carlson's Thinking in Amy Klobuchar's Minneapolis

The left in Minnesota gets sad when people call their politicians on their BS. Lately, a number of them have gotten upset that conservatives are holding Amy "A-Klo" Klobuchar accountable for the hellhole of crime that Minneapolis has become. Over...
Posted by Mitch on June 14, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (36) | TrackBack

Open Note to Minnesota DFLers on Endorsing Mike Hatch

Thank you. Thank you so very, very much. I thought Roger Moe was an awful endorsement for governor. Hatch is the same kind of old-school DFL apparatchik as Moe, with the added level of sleaze for which he is famous......
Posted by Mitch on June 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Hatch Endorsed

DFLers endorse Attorney General Mike "Building a Better Minnesota Through More Aggressive Regulatory Lawsuits" Hatch in seven ballots. Flash regarding opponent Steve Kelley:He ran an honorable and positive campaign. That's the last we'll see of that in the DFL Goober...
Posted by Mitch on June 11, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

We Don't Need Another Hero

The MNGOP posts this Flashvid (beware: it's a WinMedia file) of the record of Mark Dayton - Amy Klobuchar's "hero". Some might label the video a "cheap shot". Au contraire; the video left a number of real doozies out. Some...
Posted by Mitch on June 09, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Daily (unintentional) Funny

"Staff" at "Blogsforbell" notes as re the California CD 50 election:. It also appears that Brian Bilbray has just barely held on to Duke Cunningham's traditionally safe seat. [link] Chris Bowers points out that Busby lost to Cunningham by 22%...
Posted by Mitch on June 07, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

The Other Kennedy, The Other Mark

Mark Kennedy won the GOP Senate nomination with just under 80% of the vote in one ballot last night. About 15% of the delegates voted for Harold Shudlick, which is about three times what I'd expected. I suspect there was...
Posted by Mitch on June 02, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Put Up Or Shut Up

When it comes to immigration, I've always been in the "Tall fence, wide gate" camp; make the nation difficult-to-impossible to enter illegally, while making the byzantine INS immigration process - designed to make the IRS and city building codes look...
Posted by Mitch on May 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Open Letter to A-Klo's Employees

Amy Klobuchar is apparently a difficult boss, according to KvM and Michael Brodkorb: Known for her “hostile work environment”, the Hennepin County Attorney is known to have few friends among Local 2938 membership as evidenced by the unanimous vote of...
Posted by Mitch on May 18, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

And The Question Is...?

Rasmussen - via Gandelman - notes that even the Rasmussen poll (lately the most accurate presidential poll, and the one where Bush has done the best) is looking bad for Bush:Thirty-nine percent (39%) of American adults approve of the way...
Posted by Mitch on May 15, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Eighth District Bloggers

Flash pointed me to a couple of Eighth District-based blogs: "Erik" at Almost on the Range, and D.N.H. at Duluth Politics. On the one hand, I wonder if the Twin Cities mainstream media that queued up to hatchet-job Grams...
Posted by Mitch on May 09, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

For The Party

Like me, Craig Westover doesn't live in the Sixth CD. Like me, he wrote in favor of Phil Krinkie in the CD6 GOP nomination chase. And like me, he supports Bachmann - even as he disagrees with some of her...
Posted by Mitch on May 09, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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...
Posted by Mitch on May 09, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Surprise of the Day

Here's everything you need to know about the Strib when covering politics; it's only cheap politics is a Republican does it. This time, it's Rep. Phil "Dr. No" Krinkie, candidate for the 6th District GOP US House nomination:Here's all Minnesotans...
Posted by Mitch on May 05, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

If I Say My Prayers And Eat My Vegetables

The Strib notes that impeachment talk is "growing":As Democratic Rep. Jim Oberstar travels in and out of Minnesota, he says he's hearing one question over and over again: "When is Congress going to impeach this president?" Oberstar says he's not...
Posted by Mitch on March 24, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (54) | TrackBack

Polishing Hillary!'s Boots

Barack Obama sells his soul, to cover Hillary!'s cellulite butt after her trivialization of slavery:Obama said Wednesday he felt her choice of words referred to a "consolidation of power" in Washington that squeezes out the voters.Hm. The Illinois senator told...
Posted by Mitch on January 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15) | TrackBack

The Latest Boogeyman

Still listening to Biden on the Today show. He's mentioned "going to war in Iran without Congressional approval" three or four times. It'll be interesting to see whether Feinstein, Kennedy, Leahy and the various Democrat talking heads continue with the...
Posted by Mitch on January 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Yecke: "Knoblach's The Guy"

This just came in the mail from the Knoblach campaign:Cheri Yecke has endorsed Jim Knoblach in the Sixth District Republican endorsement battle. Endorsing Knoblach, Cheri Yecke made the following comments: “I am supporting Jim Knoblach for the sixth district Republican...
Posted by Mitch on January 09, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Pay No Attention To The Pettifogger Behind The Curtain

Suck it up, conservatives. If some pettifogging Democratic party machine whore is filing bogus indictments against you (purely to exploit your own party's ethics rules!), if a major network passes forged papers to smear you, if the media spends years...
Posted by Mitch on October 18, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (26) | TrackBack

How's That Again?

Brenarlo at Taking Back North Dakota - the go-to blog in this other big Senate race next year - has this bit here, where Kent Conrad explicates the Democrat strategy in the War On Terror. Typical sample:What we need to...
Posted by Mitch on August 29, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Sixth District Roundup

First Ringer is covers the Sixth District race:From the looks of the 2nd quarter fundraising reports in the 6th District, with all apologies to Stanley Kramer, the race for the GOP nod will be far madder.In short:Phil Krinkie: Strong buy....
Posted by Mitch on July 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Photo Op

Allow me to invoke Seinfeld. Ahem: "Who are these people?" No, seriously. Identify any of these people: Go ahead - can you make any of 'em out? The picture's blown up - but it doesn't help. The picture is pixellated...
Posted by Mitch on June 17, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (31) | TrackBack

Brenarlo Predicts

Brenarlo, from "Taking Back North Dakota", predicts:My prediction is that Sen. Conrad will side with the GOP, as will other "red-state" Democrats (i.e. Nelson, Nelson, Baucas) on cloture and Owens and Brown will be confirmed, with Sen. Conrad voting "nay."...
Posted by Mitch on May 18, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Myth of Power

"Brenarlo" does the excellent "Taking Back North Dakota" blog, dedicated (for the time being) to unseating North Dakota's powerful senator, Kent Conrad. Conrad, along with Byron Dorgan, is a Democrat, and a liberal one at that. As mentioned in this...
Posted by Mitch on March 23, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Conrad is the New Daschle?

My home state of North Dakota is a strange one. On the one hand, it's voted Republican pretty consistently since statehood. Its three electoral votes are among the safest known for any GOP nominee. On the other hand, North Dakota...
Posted by Mitch on March 18, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

Hatchet Jobbed

If you're a conservative and a Christian, do you suppose you can get a fair hearing in the City Pages? The headline for the CP's article on MIchele Bachmann and the rest of the GOP field looking for the nomination...
Posted by Mitch on February 28, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (27) | TrackBack

Hear It First

The Northern Alliance is going to be the place to tune for this coming election cycle. Tomorrow at 1PM: State Senator Michelle Bachmann will be on, talking about her just-announced bid for the 6th Congressional District nomination. Expect to hear...
Posted by Mitch on February 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Not A Joke?

Franken is apparentlygoing to announce his candidacy for the Senate:Last year, Franken said he wanted to run for the Senate in 2008. But last night he told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that he is now considering his candidacy for next year.In...
Posted by Mitch on February 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Down, Boy

The Strib says former Senator Rod Grams is thinking about running against Mark Dayton in '06:Grams said Tuesday that he's had about a dozen conversations with Republicans and former supporters who have asked him to consider a run for the...
Posted by Mitch on February 02, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

The Hamster Speaks

Courtesy of the New Pats, I see that Mark "Senator Chicken Little" Dayton has spoken out against Condi Rice. Let me preface my review by saying Senator Dayton has to give Babs Boxer solid competition for the title of Dumbest...
Posted by Mitch on January 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack