The Memo Must Have Gone Out
By Mitch Berg
Ever since May, the DFL – via their closely-knit band of media and “alternative” media mouthpieces – have been spending time and money trying to paint Tom Horner as “the reasonable Republican”, to try to soak votes away from Tom Emmer. The conventional wisdom is that, in this year of revulsion with government spending and overreach, there is a huge reservoir of seventies-vintage “Independent Republican” liberal Republican fossils out there pining for the days of Arne Carlson and Dave Durenberger.
Of course, the last few polls have shown that Horner is drawing more DFL votes than MNGOP votes. Considerably more.
So suddenly it’s OK for leftybloggers to bag on Horner.
Couldn’t see that coming.
September 8th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Aw, Spotty’s little litter is denigrating Horner. What a shame.
September 8th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Theory. There are a lot of moderate old-style Democrats out there (think pro-second amendment rights, don’t like the welfare state, etc), but will never vote Republican because “my dad was a Democrat, my grandfather was a Democrat, so I am a Democrat”. But will abandon a weak Democrat candidate for a more moderate independent, as long as he doesn’t have an “R” next to his name.
September 8th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
My first time looking at that blog. My compliments to you, Mitch, for being able to tolerate the stench. Did you know, by the way, that historically the cucking stool was a means of punishing village scolds, who were always women? Wonder what Rob’s feminist friends think about it?
September 8th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Chuck, do you really think the union would let them vote “R”?
September 8th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Golf,
They never hold themselves to the same standards we all have to observe.
September 8th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Chuck, a common trait among Democrat voters is not thinking to seriously about whom they vote for. The party depends on this.
September 8th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Golf, Spotty addresses the historical sexism on the blog.
September 8th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Sure Stooj. That and his obsessive compulsive nature.
September 8th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
K-Rod, no. I mean they would vote for a non-Democrat as long as said non-Democrat is not a Republican. Think J. Ventura.