Category: Campaign ’16
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Eurasia Has Always Been At War With Eastasia
The Minnesota DFL is sending out mailers…: …blaming the GOP – not one of whose elected representatives voted for Obamacare – for Obamacare. Two observations: So there’s your admission; the Democrats are officially admitting Obamacare and its children are worthless political turds Who would the Democrat be trying to reach with this piece? The stupid, the incurious, the…
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More Of This
Stewart Mills leads Rick “The Fossil” Nolan in the CD8 race, according to KSTP: In a rematch of one of the closest congressional races in the country two years ago, Republican Stewart Mills leads Democratic incumbent Rick Nolan by four points in Minnesota’s 8th District, 45 percent to 41 percent, in our exclusive KSTP/SurveyUSA poll.…
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First Things First
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The slogan “America First” has historical connotations. Set history aside for a minute, just think about the principles of self-government. If you don’t believe the American government should put America’s interest ahead of all other nations, then whose interest should be first? Who should we mortgage our children’s future…
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A Sincere Question
I have left-of-center friends who say, with a completely straight face, that Hillary Clinton is “the most qualified person in history”. Qualified? Perhaps. Let’s leave her marriage and serial covering for a sexual predator out of it; her resume includes quite a number of punched political tickets. But “most qualified in history?” Someone please…
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The “Mother” Of Lies
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: One of my Facebook contacts unfriended me over the weekend. I am too hateful for her. I prefer Trump over Hillary and Trump is hateful so therefore I am hateful. I couldn’t reach her with logic because she’s not reacting with logic, she’s reacting with emotion. So let’s try…
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The Source Of All Slime
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking into the Russian Tea House on University Avenue for some piroshki and borscht. As he walks up the steps, Avery LIBRELLE is walking out. BERG can’t avoid LIBRELLE; the meeting is inevitable. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Er…hey, Avery. Didn’t know you liked Russian food. LIBRELLE: I don’t. I…
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Berg’s Seventh Law: Universal And Immutable
Remember when Democrats couldn’t stop talking about the Koch brothers (who aren’t even among the top fifty political donors in the country) and the American Legislative Exchange Committee, a “think tank” utterly similar to an array of such groups on both sides of the aisle? And you – a smart person – asked “why all…
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Steer Clear Of Any Mirrors
Democrats behave pretty atrociously around women. JFK had a thing for banging interns less than half his age. LBJ was a philanderer who had a thing for letting the cow out of the barn in deeply inappropriate places. Indeed, he seemed to be fairly obsessed with, er, Lyndon Baines’ johnson – which, it occurs to me, may…
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“Suicide” Prevention
Probably the best explanation for this.
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For Those Who’ve Never Heard…
…and for those who’ve never understood why, and for those who’ve never gotten a hint of it from the media? Here’s why Hillary’s email hi-jinx actually matter.
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No Pain…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Social Security admits outgo will exceed income in four years, as older workers retire and start taking money out instead of paying it in. They think they can stave off disaster until 2034, if the General Fund will repay the IOUs it has written over the last 40 years. …
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“We, The Undersigned…
…group of actors – people who earn an intermittent living acting like people we’re not, who almost universally live in a place and culture, Hollywood, that has no bearing on the objective reality most Americans live in – who are mostly famous for playing roles in a series about a fictional, utopian, creepily big-brotherish universal…
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Utterly Fearless Predictions
Assange’s Infodump On Hillary will be utterly devastating – to a regular citizen. The media will bury it, developing a sudden and utterly transient interest in storm damage in Haiti. Black Lives Matter will be a huge force in the 2020 election, as George Soros and other plutocrats with deep pockets continue to fund it with gusto.…
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All About The Ugly
Opposition researchers are pretty much paid to be ugly, catty and anal-retentive. The City Pages would have you believe that the oppo-research battle in the House race in Apple Valley is worse than most. And in its way, it is – although not for the reasons the City Pages wants you to believe. It’s a…
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Pre-Written
Did Chelsea Clinton take a private jet to a “clean energy” conference that was a mere five hour drive (or one-hour commercial flight) away? Oh, what do you think? The Clinton campaign promised during the Democratic primary that their entire operation would be “carbon neutral” and had some friendly reporters write stories about how even campaign…
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Game-Changer In CD2
It was once said that the only thing that could hurt the career of a Chicago Democrat was being caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl. But in this blog’s comment section earlier this week, Mark “Mr. Dilettante” Heuring may have tripped onto something potentially more damning in re Angie Craig,…
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Priorities!
Angie Craig apparently believes that the most important thing facing voters in the 2nd CD is Jason Lewis’s radio shows from 2001. Other Democratic-elected women say Lewis should be held accountable for the things he said, including what they said were offensive comments about women, the LGBTQ community and slavery. I’ve sent an email to…
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Deplorable Her!
“So what is it that makes half of Trump supporters so ‘deplorable’, to put it in Herself’s own words”, I ask some of my “progressive” friends. Is he anti-immigrant? Well, anti-illegal-immigrant, yadda yadda, sure. And there’s a shopping list of other complaints. And I may even echo a few of ’em. But the one I…
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It’s Just The Normal Noises In Here
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Minnesota election law requires party delegates at the convention to designate electors and alternates. Minnesota Republicans failed to do that at their convention so party big-shots designated some afterwards. Democrats correctly pointed out this duct-tape fix failed to comply with the law and asked the Supreme Court to strike…
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Report Card
Frank Drake is running and extremely aggressive, and fairly tart, campaign against Keith Ellison in the fifth Congressional District. Will it work? I saw the 1980 Olympic hockey team; I do believe in miracles. I’m a Republican in the inner city, so I have to. Anyway – Drake provides a list of Keith Ellison’s “accomplishments” in…
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Deplorables Like Us
Hillary “regrets” the “gross generalization” of saying: “…you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said. “Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.” She added, “And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites…
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Playing The Fool?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hillary has $13 million worth of ads running during the Olympics. Trump has none. Meanwhile, viewership of the Olympics is down. Hilary is burning off dollars running ads nobody is watching. And people say Trump is the idiot? Joe Doakes On the one hand – true. On the other…
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Primary Time
GOCRA has released its primary scorecard. If you live in a district with a primary, be aware of your options. Also – please note that Michelle MacDonald – who ran with a GOP endorsement obtained through the perfidy of the party’s Judicial Elections Committee – is running again, without any endorsement. She is being promoted…
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Counterpunch This
To: Donald Trump From: Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant Re: Doyyy Mr. Trump, I started disliking your public persona thirty years ago. While I’m told you are a perfectly fine human being in person, your public persona – the garish extravagant gaudiness, the constant noise – was always off-putting. Still is. Now, this time…
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You’ve Been Punked – In English And Russian
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is hilarious. Trump asking Russia “If you hacked Hillary’s private email server, will you give the FBI copies of the stuff she deleted?” Hey, they need it to complete their investigation, right? What, are Democrats against law and order? This is genius. It forces everyone to recall…