Shot in the Dark

Category: Campaign ’22

  • Walz: Rules Are For Suckers

    People filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Data Practices Act (DPA) requests over the past few years have wondered how it is that Governor Walz leaves such a light state-documented electronic trail. Could he just be old fashioned? Or, like Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas, maybe he just never does business electronically? Well, no: Because…

  • When “Progressives” Ask Me…

    “…Mitch, why do you keep saying that media attention to ‘white supremacy’ is just a diversion tactic, a political cudgel with which to beat down, bully and shame dissent, with otherwise no substance whatsoever?”, I respond “because that’s exactly how your side treats it“.

  • Scabrous

    There are so many reasons to flush the Biden administration like a bad tequila and gas station burrito bender the next morning. This story is merely one of them. But it’s a big one: Veterans that chose not to get a COVID-19 vaccine and are dismissed from their posts will not receive any special protections…

  • Mostly Peaceful

    This was seen on the outskirts of Brandon, MN. It was, perhaps, inevitable. And hilarious. But watching central Minnesota “progressives” react has been fascinating. They want the BCA on the case, tracking down the miscreants! Civility suddenly matters, I guess.

  • Central Casting

    Last Friday, heading into the closing weekend of the Virginia Gubernatorial contest, a group of ‘white supremacists” showed up “in support” of GOP challenger Glenn Younkin, in full Charlottesville regalia, lest anyone miss the reference. . There was something a little fishy, though: After they were thoroughly busted, the “Lincoln Project” – the group of…

  • Either Way…

    If this sign is a Democrat campaign sign… …(and it’s likely not, since it includes none of the mandatory “Paid For By…” subtitles) then I’d love the DFL to get honest and bring it here. And if it’s a false flag GOP parody? Then I hope someone brings it here even more

  • Poetic Justice

    Ilhan Omar, Jeremiah Ellison and Phillipe Cunningham – the three biggest champions of the “Defund the Police” madness – had a campaign rally in North Minneapolis yesterday. It was apparently sparsely attended. But it was the people nearby that drew the attention; audio tweet below:: The MPD apparently doesn’t respond to shootings that don’t hit…

  • Of Platforms And Campaigns

    I speak only for myself. That’s pretty much a given But speaking for myself – and, I suspect, not a few conservatives – I’m going to give Republicans a little unasked-for advice on approaches not to take in the upcoming midterms. “Covid is a Hoax” – Of course it was ineptly handled by two different…

  • Build Bull Blocker

    Scene: it is 2020. The scene fades up in a DNC/Biden campaign office, in the middle of the 2020 presidential race. A group of democratic party operatives is sitting in a crowded, messy campaign office, with video screens silently relaying the news all around them. Operative 2: “OK, we are clear on this; rebuilding the…

  • Watching The Tectonic Plates Shift

    Crosstabs from the California recall vote include some potentially troublesome news for Democrats: Now, it’s entirely possible that Newsome’s patrician behavior during a lockdown that disproportionally affected Latinos is partly, even largely, the cause. But we know a couple of things: Latinos become much more conservative after a generation or two in the US They…

  • Coattails

    A “Minnesota” Poll – which ,as we’ve noted in the past, has historically favored Democrats, sometimes to an absurd extent with deeply suspicious and one-sided patterns, even after numerous reboots and changes in management and pollsters – shows Governor Walz under water: The crosstabs are even more ominous for Walz, and show President Biden to…

  • As Professor Reynolds Says…

    …don’t get cocky. But a Democrat who’s in power and isn’t overreaching like a crack whore with a stolen Obsidian Card probably isn’t much of a Democrat. And it just may cost them.

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    State Senator Michelle Benson is running for governor of Minnesota. Also – here’s today’s music!

  • Congratulations, Gavin Newsom

    To: Gavin Newsom, Premier of CaliforniaFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Congratulations Governor Newsom, In a state dominated 2:1 by registered voters from your party, you evaded being recalled by a 7:4 margin. After outspending the initiative by 5:1, with the united efforts of an in-the-bag media and a full turnout of the national social nomenklatura,…

  • Turnabout

    President Trump used to say that, with him as president, we would win so much, we would eventually get tired of it. I don’t know about that. But after eight months of this administration, I am sure as hell tired of losing.

  • Lining Up For Final Approach On That Windmill

    When I first heard that there was going to be a recall vote against Gavin Newsom, I figured “Quixotic” was an understatement. The early polling showed California’s incompetent governor walking away with a recall election. And when Larry Elder took leave from his national talk radio show (Disclosure: on my station, on the Salem Network,…

  • Signals

    It’s almost a year and a half until the next elections. But I’m starting to think that things aren’t polling nearly as well for the Harris (or, haha, Biden, sure, whatevs) ticket as the media says. Reason? Because the “Christian boogeyman“ is already making headlines.

  • Expect Lots Of Headlines About Covid And Marijuana Legalization

    As the state heads toward a mid-term election with the control of both the House and Senate, to say nothing of the Constitutional Offices, at stake, a poll shows MInnesotans are un-thrilled with government’s handling of events: Considering opinions on Gov. Tim Walz’s approach to handling crime, the results have virtually flipped since last year…

  • The New Racial Purity Klan

    They’re not even bothering to couch it in academic abstractions anymore: If the people have any kind of memory or moral sense at all, 2022 is going to be a bloodbath. But I’m worried about the whole memory and moral sense thing.

  • Rubble Bounced

    My old friend and radio colleague Ed Morrisey is one of more than a few Republicans who, disgusted by (obviously) the riots, but  moreso by the usurpation of the state control of elections and Electors that happened in Congress last week (the real “coup attempt”, and one of the  most self-destructive power grabs in my…

  • Grabbing While The Grabbing’s Good

    On the one hand, Democrats have (aside from any contrariness Joe Manchin may express) complete control of Federal government for the next couple of years. What does this mean for law-abiding gun owners? Well, they are certainly floating the trial balloons already. And Biden (and, perhaps more importantly, Harris) were pretty clear during the campaign:…

  • Trranslation Services, While You Wait

    Here’s Minnesota governor, transcribed from a “virtual fundraiser“: “ They are using this as a way to try to divide us along cultural lines, along ethnic lines“ Clearly the DFL has a problem in greater Minnesota; look at the results of the last three or four elections. The DFL is losing, not gaining, traction among…

  • Future Alternative

    Minnesota legislature passes bill to help victims of state government, unless someone else does. That’s not how they worded it, of course. The state legislature adopted a bill to give aid to small businesses closed by Governor Walz and to extend unemployment benefits for workers laid off by Governor Walz, but the aid is conditional.…

  • Dear Democrats

    Make this your mission. Whatever it takes. Please see to it that Tide Pod Evita has a role to fit her, er, capabilities at least a year before midterms. Thanks in advance.

  • Challenges

    The election’s over. Maybe Biden takes office in seven weeks. Maybe one of Trump’s legal challeges gets traction. For purposes of this post, I don’t know and don’t care. Because the 2022 and 2024 campaigns have already begun. The good news: without Trump, the Democrats are going to have to find someone to unify around.…