Category: Campaign ’14
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Principle
To: Principled Libertarians From: Mitch Berg, Uppity “Establishment” Tea Party Peasant Re: Bamboozled My Libertarian Friends, I likely agree with you all on more than we disagree. Some of you like to focus on the disagreements, which makes for fun rhetoric, but whatever; I would call myself a constitutional limited government conservative. The battle to limit…
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Open Up And Drink Your Tea!
As this is written – 7:45 Central – Cuccinelli is up over Macauliffe by four points with about 2/3 of the vote counted (according to Drudge). CNN and Fox are saying it’s too close to call. This was a race that the “intelligentsia” wrote off two months ago. That feels good. I’m off to the…
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The Voice Of The DFL, And A Brilliant Plan
The “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” – the attack-PR drones financed by Alida Messinger and a group of plutocrats with deep pockets to make toxic, sleazy attacks on their opposition – stepped in it last night, to the point that even the Twin Cities mainstream media had to report it (with emphasis added): The DFL-supporting Alliance…
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The Sexist “Alliance For A Better Minnesota”
The party that stood four-square behind Representative Ryan Winkler for calling Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom“… …has the vapors over two of the most innocuous jokes… Nov. 16, 2012: “Poor Susan Rice. She’s the first woman in Washington to get in more trouble opening her mouth for a president than Monica Lewinsky.” Nov. 18,…
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Why Do Reps. Ellison, McCollum, Walz And Nolan Hate Veterans?
Four of Minnesota’s five House reps voted against funding veterans benefits during the shutdown (Collin Peterson did the right thing). Now, their explanation will be that the Democrats’ congressional leadership – Reid and Pelosi – want the whole budget passed, not a bunch of piecemeal mini-budgets – because that’s just not the way we do…
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Cataclysm
(SCENE: MITCH Berg is leaving the gym. He runs into Avery LIBRELLE, who is walking into a group Twerking class. MITCH tries to duck behind a shoulder press machine, but LIBRELLE sees him). LIBRELLE: ZOMG! Tom Emmer did an ad for a remodeling company! MITCH: Right. And his manager says it’s a mistake –…
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Mission Fail
Despite four years of demonization, the public largely doesn’t see the Tea Party as demons: Considering the multi-year war on the Tea Party by Democrats, many Republicans, and the media, it is astounding that the Tea Party continues to stay more or less even in its support over the past two years. A 2% drop…
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Filibuster Notes
As this is written, Ted Cruz is still filibustering. A couple of observations. On the one hand, a friend of mine – a disaffected Republican and Ron Paul supporter – snarked something like “Hey, Ted Cruz is filibustering Obamacare! Western Civilization will be saved! Oh, wait – no, we’re still screwed”. So let me get this…
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Preference
We noted this from a Gallup Poll last winter; voters prefer Republican ideas – until they hear they’re Republican. A new Rasmussen Poll confirms this; voters trust GOP positions on most issues: The only issues where Democrats prevail – Environment, Education, Social Security – are the ones most dominated by memes tailored to low-information voters. John Hinderaker…
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Booker Is The New Obama
Steve Lonegan, the GOP hopeful running for the New Jersey Senate seat against Newark mayor Corey Booker, mentions the civic issues that dare not speak their names: “They had another murder in the streets of Newark yesterday; a 20-year-old girl shot to death in the streets of Newark. There was another shooting not far from…
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The Impossible
They say it can’t happen. It can. But miracles are 99% hard work.
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Numb3rs
I’ve bagged on Nate Silver in the past. His methodology ends up calling races accurately – but, I suspect, it’s mostly through the benefit of a point spread that would forgive a lot of errors. My favorite example – his 2010 prediction that Governor Dayton would win by six points (with an eight point margin…
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Democrat Lies: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead
The DFL ran in 2012 on a series of issues that – you heard in on the blogs first – were entirely buncombe. So let’s take stock of the things the DFL Alliance for a Better Minnesota said for which they need to be held accountable over the next 17 months or so: “Property Taxes…
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Pol Position – The Race to Summit (Ave)
We broke down the GOP race for US Senate here. We now take a similar look at the Governor’s contest. —– To listen to the polling establishment that gave us Govs. Mike Hatch, Skip Humphrey and the ’02 version of Sen. Walter Mondale, Republicans should just give up any notion that Mark Dayton could be…
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Pol Position – Frankensense
Back in March, we broke down the various Republican contenders and pretenders looking to make a statewide bid in 2014. Since then, there’s been a bevy of candidates and plenty of armchair analysis that’s been backlogged. We start by breaking down the emerging GOP race for US Senate. We take a similar look at the…
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Priorities
Over the weekend, Governor MessingerDayton sent out a fundraising email blast (that didn’t involve asking Sotheby’s to help him hock a Renoir). The interesting part (emphasis added)? I ran for Governor because I knew that our state was falling behind. Cuts to education, endless gridlock, and budget gimmicks jeopardized our shared future. We’re starting to…
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Fail
Kurt Zellers announced his candidacy for Governor yesterday, entering an increasingly crowded field. And seconds after his announcement, the “Alliance For A Better Minnesota” – Alida Messinger’s union-and-plutocrat-funded attack-PR firm, henceforth “ABM” – was out with the party line on Twitter: @ABetterMN: Failed Speaker Kurt Zellers led a historic era of partisan politics. WATCH: http://bit.ly/16ukH99 #wrong4mn…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Jeff Johnson is running for Governor. Here’s his website, Facebook page and Twitter feed.
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MNGOP: Relax And Let The Experts Do Your Thinking For You!
MPR’s Daily Current – whose Keri Miller is as reliable a PR flak as the DFL has – talked about the upcoming Governor’s race – with a panel of media libs: After the Friday Roundtable taping wrapped up, Kerri threw one more question to our guests off the air: “Who is emerging as a GOP…
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Collin-oscopy
Rumors from some reliable-enough sources indicate 400-term DFL 7th District Representive Collin Peterson may retire by the end of this term. This would give the GOP an opportunity for a big flip in a part of the state that, like the Dakotas, has sent farm-pork-mongering DFLers to Washington for decades, but otherwise is solidly red.…
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Strib: “Here, Sooie Pig; Try Some Lipstick!”
Bill Glahn notes with appropriate incredulity that Governor Messinger Dayton, who has presided over a government that has jacked up taxes, increased the state’s bureaucracy, and eliminated the sunset commission that was intended to prune the glut of superannuated state commissions that put help put the “big” in “Big Minnesota Government”, is now trying to wrap…
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One Day At The Bowling Alley
(SCENE: MITCH Berg is bowling at the Minnehaha Lanes. Avery LIBRELLE steps up to the next lane, laces up shoes as MITCH rolls a “6”). LIBRELLE: Hah hah, Merg. You have nobody to run against Al Franken. He’ll coast to another term. MITCH: Well, we’ll see. The campaign is still very young. LIBRELLE: And the…
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As The Ironic Tsunami Rolls In
Businessman Scott Honour threw his hat into the ring for governor yesterday. “I love Minnesota. But I fear that our state is headed in the wrong direction, and under the wrong leadership. I know that the same people with the same political resumes are not going to solve our problems,” Honour said in a mass…
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Purple Bribe
Upon further review – the Minnesota Vikings spent a fortune to acquire their new stadium. The Vaseline Dome has re-entered the media picture in the last few weeks, as new concerns have been raised about the viability of the electronic pull-tab funding mechanism which has fallen $13.2 million short of yearly estimates. Or more accurately,…
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They’re Winging It. And Badly.
Rep. Ben Lien (DFL Moorhead) was interviewed about two weeks ago on one of the Fargo TV stations by Fargo talk host Chris Berg (no relation that I know of). This first question was in re whether Lien would support a business services tax increase (which was at that time on the table, but is…