Category: Campaign ’16
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Suss This
Given the glacial pace of John Durham’s investigation, it’s easy to assume that nothing is really going to come of his efforts; it’s a drill we’ve all seen before. Before Lucy pulls the football away yet again, let’s note that Durham did establish something long suspected: John Durham released a potential smoking gun in the…
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Steinenfreude
is it bad that I take so much joy in watching the Left eat its’ own? Two days ago I happened to write an article about the amazingly stupid conspiracy theory that the Green Party, which has run a presidential candidate every election since 1996, ran a presidential candidate in 2016 because of a Russian plot to sabotage…
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Duty, Honor, Party
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’ve been seeing some particularly stupid articles arguing electors have the duty to vote their conscience, not their pledge. Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution provides that each state shall appoint electors. How and who gets appointed elector is up to the legislatures of the states.…
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Almost Official
The electoral college confirmed what everyone but the most deluded of Democrats already knew: Donald Trump is the President-Elect. There was some drama; a total of six electors – four Democrats from Washington State, two Republicans from Texas – broke ranks and voted for other people: In the end, however, more Democrats than Republicans went…
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Bam
Punch: Harry Reid on Mitt Romney talking with Trump about serving in the Administration: “This is a man who came out big-time against Trump. Oh, the things he said about Trump. Well, that’s great, that’s wonderful,” Reid said. “Either he wasn’t telling the truth, or he’s a person with no character. After having said…
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Devils Of Our Nature
I hate to indulige in schadenfreude. Part of it is because I’m a pretty emphathetic guy. I put myself in others’ shoes pretty easily. Part of it is that while I don’t believe in karma, I do believe what goes around comes around. However, hearing about the psychic trauma some “blue-staters” are feeling over this past weeks, I’m…
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Bubble?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Minnesota has early voting. People were coming to the office two months before election, to cast absentee ballots. That was before most of the major revelations about Hillary. To what extent did early voting artificially inflate Hillary’s support? Had those voters been required to vote on election day –…
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Everything Old Is New Again
Kevin Williamson on the return of at least some old fashioned values among Democrats after the election of Donald Trump who, let’s forget, had more in common with Bernie Sanders than any other candidate on the ballot: The pretensions of the imperial presidency are going to haunt Democrats for the immediate future, but they’ll quickly rediscover their…
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Two Cents
A brief-ish article about Jason Lewis’s “upset” win in the 2nd CD by the always astute Matt Pagano. You should read the whole thing, but here’s the good-news takeaway: One more (extremely local) angle is that Lewis’ win will likely help revitalize the CD2 Republican Party. In the past few years, the local Party had…
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Spoils
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “Hello, Congressman Never-Trump? Yeah, hi, this is PRESIDENT Trump. What’s all that wailing in the background? Oh, you were just about to call to congratulate me? Yeah, that’s great. Listen, I’m gonna need some money to build the wall with Mexico. About those appropriations in your district . .…
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Open Letter
To: Anti-Trump Protesters, Celebribities moving to Canada, Garrison Keillor, People curled up in your safe spaces, and other people who are angry at the world today From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant an Scott Walker vote Re: Why Trump Won I didn’t vote for Trump, but I most definitely voted for the GOP majority that he…
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Liberal Logic
Near as I can figure, it’s: Step 1: Run around waving signs, chanting chants, burning things and looting things and attacking people and vandalizing dissenters’ property (actually property dissenters rent…): …and block highways. Step 2: Trump resigns. Dear protesters: please keep it up. The GOP will gain seats in the mid-terms.
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Kaeled
Last year, exactly one pundit predicted Donald Trump would be in the race as of Christmas, to say nothing of winning the primaries and (as he predicted in May) the election itself. It was Scott Adams, cartoonist behind Dilbert. That Scott Adams. Last year, when many observers were saying Trump was a stupid, under-informed clown, I…
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The New Order
I’ll be the first to admit – I didn’t see last night coming. When I went on the air, I knew that Trump had to win North Carolina, Florida and Ohio to have a shot – even a long shot at the presidency. All three fell; North Carolina fairly quickly, Florida with a bit of suspense, and…
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I, Jeremiah
Heh. On the one hand, 4-8 years of Clinton will do for women what 8 years of Obama did for race relations. On the other, we’ve got four more glorious years of non-stop blog and talk show fodder. UPDATE: Clearly, I wrote this on Sunday, expecting a Hillary win. I neglected to delete it. What…
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Dear Democrat Friends
To: My various Democrat friends From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant Re: The sun will come out. Suck it up, little campers. I survived the last eight years. You’ll survive the Trump years, as well -provided you don’t slash your wrists tonight, or freeze to death in a Canadian winter. If it’s any consolation to y’all? While…
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Congrats In Order
Congratulations, as I write this, to two long-time friends of this blog. Rob Doar, political director of MN-GOPAC, was also campaign director for Randy Jessup, for whom the second try was the charm against Barb Yarusso up in Shoreview. And long-time Shot in the Dark history correspondent First Ringer was the manager of the Dario Anselmo campaign…
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Judge, Jury And Executioner (UPDATED)
We don’t know much about the man who shot two people at a dollar store on the mean streets of Burnsville yesterday. And by “we”, I mean everyone but Erin Maye Quade, who promptly tweeted that the shooting proved the need for background checks. Before any details were known. Not only before the investigation had started,…
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Three Reasons Not To Vote For Angie Craig
Reason #1: She lied about her business background. Her ads make her sound like some kind of entrepreneur. In fact, she’s a “Human Resources” executive. Now, God love all you HR people in the audience, but Human Resources is the exact opposite of entrepreneurship. Fully-implemented HR processes are a leash around business’ neck, ready…
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Be Careful Out There
I suspect that Hillary Clinton has enough states with enough electoral votes to win the election – at that the vote-generation systems in her blue-city base of operations will generates any votes needed to give her the win. 1 And while any given liberal is no more likely to be violent than any given conservative, the…
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If You Live In Minnesota’s First Congressional District
Rep. Tim Walz like to portray himself as a pro-Second-Amendment legislator. But here the Representative is, huddled up with some of Michael Bloomberg’s paid shills, promising to support larding up law-abiding gun owners with additional regulations, and to carry the Bloomberg agenda (which, make no mistake, leads inevitably to New York-style gun control. If you…
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Place Your Bets
You just know Team Clinton – the finest collection of political skullduggerers, character assassins and anger merchants money can buy – didn’t burn through all their their oppo-research two weeks ago. You just know they saved something for today, the last news dump before election day. Let’s take bets. What is Team Clinton going to dump today?
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Settled Statistics
Just remember – Nate Silver’s 538 statistics blog is infallible. Bet your mortgage payments on their statistically-modeled predictions. Because human nature never defies numbers. It’s settled science.
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Squib
One of my most fearless predictions of this campaign cycle; “Black Lives Matter” will be shown up as an election-year artifice of the Democrat party. While the movement may well have started organically, it has most certainly been harnessed by Soros money toward the goal of getting black voters to turn out, after two cycles…
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Surprise?
Minnesota high school students choose Trump over Clinton: More than 77,000 students from 213 high schools have taken part in the election so far, and the first round of results came in Tuesday morning. The Republican ticket with Donald Trump and Mike Pence narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine 35 to 33 percent. The…