Shot in the Dark

Category: Campaign ’06

  • Hillary Clinton – Spouse-Beater?

    Paul Mirengoff at Powerline on former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne’s book on life in the Clinton White House; I’ve added some emphasis: Secret Service agents are, of course, charged with protecting the physical well-being of the president. Byrne says they had discussions about the possibility of having to protect Bill Clinton from Hillary’s physical…

  • The Great Poll Scam: Introduction

    The weekend before the election, I was talking with a friend – a woman who has become a newly-minted conservative in the past two years.  She’d sat out the 2008 election, and had voted for Kerry in ’04, but finally became alarmed about the state of this nation’s future – she’s got kids – and…

  • Obama’s October Surprise Letdown

    So why did Obama demand that the Iraqis gundeck the Bush Administration’s (and General Petraeus’) Iraq withdrawal plan? According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July. “He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement…

  • A Reminder

    Tomorrow’s the pick-up day for Joe Repya’s latest sign campaign: Pick ’em up at Stephano’s in Eagan – the corner of Highway 13 and Cliff Road  – starting at noon, and going until 3 or until they run out, whichever comes first.  I say that because they should run out fast – as in, possibly within…

  • That’s Gotta Hurt

    When even the Twin Cities’ left-leaning alt-media notice: Brodkorb/MDE wins a round: Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has reversed himself and admitted that he gave his campaign an email list from the SOS’s office that was not supposed to be used for campaign purposes. Hey, if you can’t trust a “Secretary of State” whose only…

  • Stanek Out

    MDE reports that Rich Stanek isn’t going to run for Jim Ramstad’s 3rd CD seat. Stanek, the Henco sheriff, would have made a great congressional representative – but would have had to spend a lot of time and effort fighting off recycled palaver over his past racist remarks and actions (for which he’s worked harder than…

  • Ethics For Ye, But Not For We

    Al Franken bashes tobacco companies from the stump, among other places. Indeed, check out this entry from his “campaign blog“: Al Franken, who hopes to challenge Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., next year, says he delivered a stern message to friend Tom Hanks at a fundraiser in Los Angeles last month. “At one point I talked…

  • Cleaning Up that Culture of Corruption

    Via Malkin, yet another onslaught of liberal voter fraud: Guess which left-wing group is at the center of the worst case of voter-registration fraud in Washington state history? Yep, you guessed it: ACORN. The same ACORN tied to massive voter fraud in Missouri. And Ohio. And 12 other states. Here’s the Washington state scoop via…

  • History, De-Varnished?

    The Minnesota Monitor – as impeccable a source of journalism as George Soros’ money can buy – snarks at covers Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, quoting a piece from Radar, which would appear to be yet another bunch of John Stewart wannabees (not unlike, as it happens, the piece’s author himself). Oh, it starts out with the…

  • Roast Crocodile With All The Fixings

    The Strib Editorial board yesterday cried crocodile tears about the tone of this state and nation’s political debate, in the form of a paeon to the healing power of Thanksgiving. The piece starts out well, as far as it goes: The platters circled and tensions rose until some word or gesture or foregone rejoinder —…

  • How’s That Again?

    Last Tuesday was a buzzkill across the board; one of the biggest whacks upside the head was Phil Krinkie’s narrow (55 vote) loss. Bob Collins at MPR’s Polinaut on a bump’n run City Pages interview with Krinkie: City Pages interviews Phil Krinkie, who lost his re-election bid. He says he hopes for a stalemate and…

  • Conservatism Wins

    From Our House: What does a Democrat/DFL victory mean when All gay marriage bans passed but one, including Wisconsin’s more comprehensive civil unions ban? In Arizona, a similar ban was rejected by a tiny margin. Prop 2 passed in Michigan banning affirmative action? The death penalty advisory passed in WI? Arizona passed legislation requiring proof of…

  • Bad Taste and Tastes Bad

    I like satire. And normally, when the satirist runs up against the dim wailing of the not-too-bright audience, I take the side of the satirist. But not this time: A growing chorus of people who see no humor in Chris Stewart’s role in a satiric campaign website want the new Minneapolis school board member to…

  • Republicans Who Act Like Democrats

    A longtime friend of this blog, and an elected official in the west metro, sends me this analysis: Attached is a revised copy of the GOP scumbags that voted in favor of final passage of the Twins Stadium bill. You’ll note 13 of the 38 turncoats were defeated or elected not to run and a…

  • Everything Must Be Perfect

    Remember when Democrats whinged and yapped about the threat to democracy posed by Diebold? That the polling system was irredeemably broken? Atomizer does, if only vaguely: I realized that I had AM radio on all day and had not heard one frantic report of rampant voter fraud. I hadn’t heard a single person crying about…

  • Today Is Another Day

    Strom: Conservatives: this is not a turning point in history. This is a bad election. There is a difference. Take a few days to digest the loss, but then get ready to work. Our ideas are as necessary tomorrow as they were yesterday. Read the rest of the post.

  • Teaching Moment

    Michael Medved has a list of the lessons we should have learned last night. I have a few more: Check out the losers (in competitive races; Obi Sium, Rod Grams and Alan Fine can sit this one out, as can Colleen Rowley and Wild Wendy); Gil Gutknecht ran for the center when the president’s going…

  • They May Take Our Lives, But They Can’t Take Our Freedom!

    I look at it this way; it’s going to be a great two years for conservative talk show hosts (partly, at least, because when the Dems try to reinstate the “Fairness Doctrine”, there’s at least a veto-sustaining minority of Republicans left in Congress). The Democrats, who ran a purely-negative campaign against the war and the…

  • Shockers?

    A little bird told me…: Look for a potential upset in MN House District 3A, up in the far north part of the state. DFLer Tom Anzelc – endorsed to try to replace 17-term DFLer Irv Anderson – may have spent too much money (as in, all of it) getting through a bruising primary fight,…

  • I Voted. Twice.

    Oh, don’t call Mary Kiffmeyer (or Doug, the Guardian of Poll Justice from my comment section): I had a spoiled ballot. Suffice to say my cats are going to do much better than the pundits predicted. By the way, Republicans; ignore the exit polls. They make you more discouraged than you need to. And Democrats…

  • Predictions

    You got Strom’s predictions. Now it’s my turn. Senate: A-Klo probably wins, but it’s going to be a lot closer than the pundits wanted it to be. MN CD1: Gutknecht in a tight squeaker. MN CD2: Kline is going to beat Rowley like it’s a prison shower-room beat-down. Ten points at least. MN CD3: Ramstad…

  • It’s Like Raaaaiiiaaaaaiiin, On Your Wedding Day, Part III

    Last week, the DFL says the Secretary of State website is all but an agent of the Bushitlerite agenda. State DFL chair Brian Melendez: “The Secretary of State’s website deceives the public about current eligibility requirements for voting in Minnesota elections and doesn’t include all the methods for same day registration.” Source: DFL Party press…

  • However Things Turn Out…

    …this evening, Gary Miller’s “Kennedy Vs. The Machine” was one of the most important things to happen in the blogosphere in the past two years. Gary Miller, the Ringer, Doug Williams and Andy Aplikowski showed the world how to outflank a rankly-biased mainstream media, with solid reporting and just-plain-facts that clobbered the “Machine” – the…

  • Now More Than Ever

    42 years ago, Ronald Reagan gave his classic “A Time For Choosing”: The speech articulated what it meant to be a conservative in perilous times: Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is…

  • So Go Vote Already

    I’m not someone who thinks that voting, in and of itself, is the greatest virtue. Too many “Get out the vote” efforts involve getting half-informed or uninformed people to go to the polls and vote for people and issues they know little or nothing about. But if you know what you’re doing, by all means…