Shot in the Dark

Category: Convention ’08

  • On McCain’s Choice of Sarah Palin

    I exchanged emails this morning with a good friend from across the aisle on Senator John McCain’s selection of Governor Sarah Palin and whether it was a tactical response to Obama’s dismissing of Hillary Clinton. It sure seems like a reach for disgruntled Hilary voters rather than a sophisticated presidential selection. My response: I like…

  • Welcome To My City, Delegates

    Welcome to Saint Paul, all you delegates. This is my town. Perhaps you’ve heard – we have a city council president who has an interesting opinion aobut Republicans and everything about us…: …except maybe the tax money you bring in (because Dave Thune’s been known to raise a tax or two). Oh, he originally said…

  • Getting To The 7th Street Counterprotest Site

    You wanna make it to downtown Saint Paul for the big counteprotest. I’m here to help. Here are some simple directions and recommendations from a Saint Paul guy. They should get you into the city – close by the West 7th Street counterprotest site – and back home again. Best of all – they’re fairly…

  • Who is this Messiah?

    How ironic it would be if Obama, especially after assembling a stadium of frothing groupies, were to be disqualified on a technicality. Ironic, because that is how his first political career victory came to him. He eliminated the other democratic candidate on a technicality, which is just fine, them’s the rules; but what if the tables…

  • Did Tim Pawlenty get a phone call today?

    originally posted 2:35 PM Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) is canceling print and broadcast interviews for the day… Strib Pawlenty cancels TV interviews Pioneer Press Pawlenty abruptly cancels afternoon interviews in Denver CNN is reporting a “cone of silence” forming around Governor Pawlenty and that friends of the Governor are suddenly not able to reach him…

  • Welcome To My City, GOP

    It’s almost convention time – and for some of you in the GOP, this is a bit of a belated welcome; some of you have been plugging away for a long time, down at the various GOP convention offices in the (rumor has it) Endicott and Pioneer buildings along Robert Street. But better late than…

  • Welcome To My City, Media

    Well, hey, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, AP, UPI, the NYTimes, WashPost, ChiTrib, LATimes, Denver Post, Bloomberg, BBC, NPR, NDW, AFP, Tass and the rest of the world’s media!  Welcome to Saint Paul, all you producers and reporters and anchors and you legions of APs and PAs .  Welcome to Saint Paul.  This is…

  • Getting To Triangle Park

    Saint Paul; it’s not a city for the faint of heart. It defeated Jesse Ventura. It could beat you. Seriously, I suspect that Minneapolis will see plenty of protest activity from “demonstrators” who are afraid to look for Saint Paul. But you love your country, so you want to be at the Vets for Freedom…

  • Cognitive Dissonance?

    Michelle Malkin noticed something that I’ve been pointing out for years and years: And while Democrat Party chair Howard Dean excoriates the Republican Party as the “white” party, I saw only one-non-white agitator among the pro-abortion gaggle. (This goes for the rest of the Recreate ‘68 populace, too. It’s as pale and colorless as a…

  • Ground Support

    So, like a couple thousand of our fellow Minnesotans, I’m going to be downtown on September 1, standing along the route of the big “demonstration” by the Republican National Convention. I’ll be among a group of a few thousand Minnesotans carrying signs that look like this…: …and if you support the troops and their mission,…

  • Stereotypes Reinforced While U Wait

    According to Paul Demko, a couple of Obama supporters drove 2,200 miles from Santa Cruz to Denver in a car completely covered in Obama stickers…:  While picking up my press credentials I came across this Volvo stationwagon parked in front of the Hampton Inn & Suites (doing double duty as the press epicenter for the Democratic Party). Sisters Samantha…

  • David Brauer: Club-Toting Guard In The Intellectual Gulag

    If there’s one thing I’m looking forward to having past us this political season, it is the leftymedia’s relentless comparison of every inconvenience thrown in the way of people who break the law en masse at the Denver and Saint Paul conventions as some sort of “Guantanamo” or another. Pan over to David Brauer, doing…

  • Get Your Cameras Out

    This message is aimed at you if you…: want to participate in the alternative media coverage of the biggest story in Minnesota in recent years, and… …are going to be somewhere near the convention, or, alternatively …you are going to be nowhere near the convention at all. Here’s the deal: if you have a video…

  • Watching The Defectives

    The convention is almost here. For four days, this is where most of this nation’s news is going to be. And if you read this blog, you know that the mainstream media isn’t going to be covering the real news. They’ll be in the XCel center, or hitting the odd reception, or trotting around to…

  • …And The #1 Sign The “Truckers Rolling Protest” Was Designed By Someone From Minneapolis…

    …who has not the faintest clue about driving trucks or navigating Saint Paul, take a look at the route. How many times can you say “Oh, My Gawd”. Squeezing semis around the corner of Annapolis and Smith? I don’t know if they’re pulling trailers or not, but even without a trailer… Squeezing hundreds of trucks…

  • Obsession

    Bob Collins on the DFL’s potemkin DNC delegation. It’s very, very “diverse” (in terms of color and orientation, anyway; ideology, not so much, but then it is a convention delegation.  Although it might be mistaken for a small university’s English department).  Much moreso, indeed, than the state it purports to represent: You get the picture,…

  • Before You Do Anything Else…

    …drop what you’re doing at get out to Eagan. As this is written, Col. Joe Repya will be starting his big sign giveaway in the parking lot 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. …

  • 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…

  • Connect The Vomit-Caked Dots

    Saint Paul party venues aren’t booking up as fast as other venues around the metro area: Yet there are still a healthy number of parties being planned. According to an incomplete list compiled by one Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, there are at least 370 parties scheduled at the Democratic and Republican national conventions. However, just…

  • Not Disingenuous At All

    Paul Schmelzer at the Minnesoros “Independent” asks: Which raises a question: If St. Paul police are still struggling to find enough officers to patrol the RNC, will there be enough cops to keep the peace in downtown Minneapolis, the myriad and likely far-flung RNC protests and neighborhoods, like North Minneapolis, that continue to grapple with…

  • Before The Melee?

    The ACLU and the St. Paul/Ramsey County authorities have duelling predictions about arrests at the RNC next month: With thousands of protesters expected on the streets facing thousands of police officers, the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota is predicting that 800 people will be arrested during the week of the Republican National Convention and…

  • These Colors Don’t Run…

    …but they may stand around a bit. Mark your calendars; Saturday is the big sign giveaway at Stephano’s in Eagan. Here’s why it matters; from Colonel Joe Repya’s press release (I’ve added emphasis): At noon on September 1, the anti-war crowd claims they’ll have upwards of 50,000 marching from the Minnesota Capitol Building to the Excel…

  • Sign Up

    It’s just a week until the big sign giveaway at Stephano’s in Eagan. We’re talking Col. Joe Repya’s signs. From the Joe’s press release (I’ve added emphasis): At noon on September 1, the anti-war crowd claims they’ll have upwards of 50,000 marching from the Minnesota Capitol Building to the Excel Energy Center where the Republican National…

  • Most people carry a little of each, don’t they?

    With DNC in mind, city bans carrying urine, feces Poo and pee dominated a public hearing Monday on a new law that prohibits people from carrying certain items if they intend to use them for nefarious purposes. What other purpose might there be for carrying these “products”? I’d say monger away. This is a law…

  • Sign Of The Times

    Colonel Joe Repya burst onto the regional scene close to six years ago, with his “Liberate Iraq” signs.  In the run-up to the war (which would eventually be Repya’s third war, after Vietnam and Desert Storm), the Colonel gave away thousands of the big, paper-on-corrugate signs, which popped up all over the city and showed…