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There has been much sturm und drang within, and especially outside of, the Minnesota GOP over last spring’s coup de main by the Ron Paul campaign in Minnesota. Paul activists, organized as tightly as a Marine basic training company, swarmed the precinct caucuses, the BPOU conventions, the CD conventions, and finally the state convention. They completely took over some districts (including the Metro 4th and 5th CDs) and took the lopsided majority of the state’s delegates to the national convention.
Now, unlike my friend and longtime activist John Gilmore, I’m doing my best to see a silver lining to the takeover, especially in the 4th CD in which we both live. Gilmore is the lightning rod of the anti-Paul faction in the 4th and the state, of course, and pulls no punches on the subject, and makes it clear he’s not in the business of finding silver linings.
Being a mere foot soldier, all I can do is note that whatever the problems the Paul takeover has brought at the leadership level (and, as I’ve noted, there are most definitely problems), the takeover has had a few benefits, at least at the grassroots level. There are fewer “warm body on the ballot” candidacies this year in the Fourth CD than any year I can remember. More of those races hit their number to get the state funding match than in any recent year.
That’s all to the good.
On the other hand? I’ve documented some of the problems that we’ve had in the 4th CD from the top down rather than the bottom up.
And compared to the 5th CD, we’ve got it good. Nancy LaRoche – a longtime activist in CD5 – chronicles the disintegration of the leadership in the CD5 GOP under the “watch” of some especially cynical Ron Paul personality cultists.
Nancy’s been trying to find if there’s even a faint sign of life among the elected “leadership”. Money quote:
None of the executive leadership have responded to the web site bill as of today. Then I wondered, was the 5th District organization as a whole part of their kill plan? There has been no fundraising, no full committee meetings, and no sign of leadership since their election. Mitch Berg wrote about similar issues of idle hands in CD4.
Jason Lewis talked about the misled direction of some Paul supporters who can’t see the forest for the liberty trees. They refuse to elect a better President now to buy the country time for more liberty-minded candidates later. 5th district leaders appear to have no intention of shaping the party, only destroying it. I tend to agree that these Libertarian “tributes” are happily exploiting the Republican party only to advance their sponsor, Ron Paul — then trashing the vehicle they commandeered.
This, of course, was the big concern many in the “establishment” – including this former “establishment” member who in 2010 was one of those pesky Tea Party insurgents – had with the direction of so many of the Ron Paul crowd. While many – including the vast majority in my own SD65, including its leader, Joe Schultz (who writes an excellent blog, by the way) came to stay and make a difference within the party, there are not a few that quite clearly did not, and have no intention of it. And plenty of people are not amused. And in a year when the Fifth CD fields one of its strongest candidates ever – Chris Fields – it would have been spectacular to have had him backed with a functional district. (Likewise with Tony Hernandez in the Fourth).
On MPR this morning, I heard a bit by Mark Zdechlik comparing the reactions of the “mainstream” Republicans in the party and the Tampa delegation with those of the “Ron Paul”-faction, who were the majority of the delegates. Zdechlik quoted a Mark Zasadny of Roseville. I’ll add emphasis:
Minnesota Ron Paul delegate Mark Zasadny of Roseville said if the election were held right now he would vote for former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president.
Mr. Zasadny: thanks for hammering home every stereotype the “establishment” had of the Paul movement; that you had not the faintest interest in the GOP, but hijacked it to serve as a vehicle for the Ron Paul Personality Cult.
(Yep, I said “Ron Paul Personality Cult”. Anyone who doesn’t honestly think that a Romney/Ryan presidency won’t be better for the prospects of liberty in this country, especially and even if only economic liberty, but also the rest of the First Amendment, than a second Obama term seriously needs to get a grip. Incrementalism is not a dirty word, if it’s incremental in the right direction, especially if that’s a springboard to further bigger increments. Increments are better than excrements).
“It seems like the clear message was like the grassroots movement is not really welcome in the Republican Party. So that’s kind of hard to swallow when they come around and say, you know, ‘OK, are you ready to unite behind the Romney campaign and the RNC,'” Zasadny said. “And it’s like, ‘well you just tried to cut our throats.’ So how are we supposed to respond to that?”
Well, you can respond in any of a number of ways, Mr. Zasadny.
Or you can react to the perceived “throat cutting” (which wasn’t; the party has every right to organize itself to present its winning candidate in as monolithically-positive light as possible, free of the yelping of what is, let’s be honest, a small minority of the delegates) by doing what Mr. Zasadny and the “leadership” of CD5 have done; taking the knife out of their throats and jamming it into their eye sockets, and twisting it 720 degrees.
Mr. Zasadny: You were sent to Tampa to represent the Republican Party. Part of being a delegate to a Party convention is supporting The Party. Whether you agree with it or not. That’s not to say you can’t be a principled dissenter – I’ve done that myself – but not while speaking as an elected delegate at the party’s convention.
The MNGOP is, and should be, a big tent. It should have room for fiscalcons and libertarians, and even the odd “moderate” who doesn’t screw the rest of the party on taxes and regulation. As a Tea Party libertarian conservative, I’m more than sympathetic to the Libertarian cause; I came back to the MNGOP in 1999 mostly to try to push the libertarian-conservative cause in the GOP. So not only am I a sympathetic ear – I was pushing the Liberty cause long before most of you were involved in the MNGOP.
But when you betray the party while serving as a party delegate?
The question isn’t “should Mr. Zasadny and those who think like him make themselves absent from future GOP events”. The question is “how badly have people like Mr. Zasadny and the CD5 “leadership” hurt the cause of the genuine Liberty supporters that have come to the GOP to do some good – and in many cases, have delivered on it?
Because there are a few babies among the bathwater.
Is there a side-band channel of MPR that omits all the fund-raising content?
Because you may as well skip trying to wheedle money out of me (except in the form of my share of the taxpayer subsidy, which is exacted from me very much against my will).
Why? Please.
Either the New York Times, for all of its vaunted excellence in the field of journalism, really is just a bunch of bumbling Barney Fifes who stumble into controversies completely obliviously…
…or they are as excellent as their, er, press claims they are, and they knew full well what they were doing when they put this…
…”Paul Ryan, Son of Satan”, on their front page.
Me? I have faith in the NYTimes’ vaunted intelligence. Just like Newsweak’s “Crazy Michele Bachmann” cover last year, they knew exactly what they were doing, and the media is acting as Barack Obama’s Praetorian Guard.
Additional Question: Wonder if this’ll make it on NPR’s “On The Media” this weekend?
Additional Observation: The most blatantly cheerleader-y coverage of the convention for the Democrats this year was NPR. They were more baldfaced about it than I’ve ever heard.
Apparently in Mexico “disenfranchising voters” is less an issue than “not being seen as a banana republic with an election system taht can be seized and manipulated by those in power”.
You might call our system “Third World,” but that would be an insult to the Third World. As Fund and von Spakovsky note, to register to vote in Mexico a voter must provide a photo, a signature and a thumbprint. The Mexican voter-registration card includes holographic security, a magnetic code and a serial number. Before voting, voters have to show the card and have the thumbprints matched by a scanner.
So – provided all this security works – every Mexican can at least hypothetically be assured their vote isn’t negated by some fraudulent or fictional voter.
But remember – we have the best election system in the world.
Because apparently relentlessly repeating “we have the best election system in the world” is all it takes to make it so.
While the WaPo’s “Politifiact” claims impartiality, they are in fact strongly biased to the left.
No, there’s math and everything.
Last March, I sat in the studio at AM1280 and announced, along with Ed, that we were celebrating our eight anniversary on the air.
As I was making the announcement, a round-faced man in a green jacked barged into the studio. “I was part of that!”
I turned off the mike and had Tommy throw to a commercial. “Who are you?”
“I’m Fred Pankey. I’m the manager at the Rainbow Foods on University that you’ve been shopping at for most of the past 20 odd years”.
He stood there.
“And…”
“And this anniversary is partly ours, too.”
“How do you figure”, I asked.
“You ate in the last eight years, right?”
“Right”
“And you bought your food at Rainbow?”
“A lot of it, yes…”
“So the Northern Alliance owes part of its credit to us at Rainbow. Without groceries, there’d be no radio show.
“In other words, what you’re saying is…”
“You didn’t do this”.
“Ah”
To be fair, it was no dumber a display than Nick Kristoff’s bit on the NYTimes the other day.
I’m not going to quote from it – go ahead and read it if you want – but it’s the standard lefty strawman on the subject; “Look! We found a businesswoman who says “Yes, I did build it!”, but who actually got a government loan! She is TEH HEPPOCREET!”
Like government wants a cookie for doing stuff we – including all of us who aren’t entrepreneurs – already paid it to do including all of the things we’d rather not have paid for it to do!
And as if the businesswoman whom Kristoff mocks wouldn’t have been an entrepreneur, wouldn’t have found a way, without the government programs she promoted to other businesspeople.
It’s like the lefty nutslap who tried to call me “teh heppocrete” for riding the Ventura Trolley, a light rail line I opposed (and oppose). I paid for, then and now, at tax time and at the fare box. Or for riding on a bike path that I thought was a needless budgetary frippery at a time when the city and county it ran through were whinging about their budgets.
It’s my property. By your leave, I’ll ride ’em both, and exercise my First Amendment.
By the way? You didn’t make that.
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One of this blog’s most enduringly-popular features is the “DFL Dictionary“.
First written in 2002, it’s been updated bit by bit over the last nine years, to serve as the greatest single lexicon of DFL-to-human and Democrat-to-citizen translation in existence.
And we have a new entry:
Fact-checking: Noun: To check the congruency of a Republican’s statement with Democrat conventional wisdom. Verb: The act of consulting the list of Democrat chanting points for such congruence.
This morning, the Legislative Subcommittee on Employee Relations rejected the latest state employee contract.
The contract would
That’s what the Dayton Administration is fighting for; to steal from the state’s school children to pay the Minnesota Association of State Employees.
Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher – known to generations of naval historians as “Jacky” Fisher – was one of the most consequential men of a consequential era.
Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot “Jacky” Fisher
Fisher served in one of the most technologically transformational eras in history. He started his service in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War, on a sail-driven wooden ship of the line armed with muzzle-loading cannon. Over the next 40 years, he led in the tactical and technical developments that turned the British (and, by extension, American) navies from wind-driven wooden fleets to steam-powered steel ones.
He helped develop the torpedo for use in Royal Navy ships:
An early British “Whitehead” torpedo
In 1906, he was instrumental in the construction of the first modern battleship, HMS Dreadnought, which defined the basic outlines of the battleship from that day in 1906 until after the Gulf War.
HMS Dreadnought. While the ship itself was obsolescent by the beginning of the First World War, it was the model for the “battleship” as the world came to know it throughout the 20th Century.
And then, thinking that speed was more important than armor, he developed a new class of warship, the “Battlecruiser”, with the firepower of a battleship but the armor and speed of a (faster, much more lightly-armored) cruiser, intended to be faster than anything that could kill it and stronger than anything that could run with it.
HMS Lion, one of Fisher’s battle cruisers
Fisher, and the battlecruisers’ crews, discovered to their immense chagrin that while outrunning a battleship was one thing, it didn’t allow the battlecruiser to outrun the battleships’ shells. On one day in 1916, at the Battle of Jutland, three of Fisher’s battlecruisers exploded, victims partly of too-thin armor (an intentional part of the design, to keep the ships relatively light and fast) and unstable British cannon propellant (which was not intentional, and also led to the destruction of many other British ships during the war); the Invincible, Indefatigable and Queen Mary all blew up like fireworks, leaving about 30 survivors among combined crews of over 3,200 men.
HMS Invincible explodes at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. There were six survivors out of a crew of 1,029.
And HMS Hood continued the streak; the greatest battle cruiser ever built, the epitome of Fisher’s theory and redesigned to reflect the lessons at Jutland, the Hood was in its day the fastest and most powerful battleship in the world, the very symbol of British naval might in the twenties and thirties:
And on 1941, as it chased and caught the German battleship Bismarck somewhere between Greenland and Iceland, the German ship’s gunfire blew up the Hood, killing all but three of its crew of 1,200.
Hood exploding, photographed from the deck of the German cruiser “Prinz Eugen”, which was escorting “Bismarck”.
However, the dozens of other fullly-armored battleships of both the British and German navies, the vast majority of which were descendants of Dreadnought, survived to serve as the templates for every battleship in the world built between 1906 and the end of World War 2.
USS Wisconsin, in its Cold War configuration. Although it was 50% longer and four times the weight of Dreadnought, and faster than any of Fisher’s “battle cruisers” with none of the vulnerabilities, it was recognizably descended from Fisher’s ideas.
But today? With the last of the battleships (The USS Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri and Wisconsin) retired and serving as museum ships, it may be that Jacky Fisher’s most well-known, if not most significant or enduring, contribution to the world may be that in 1917, in a letter to Winston Churchill, he was the first person ever recorded using the abbreviation “OMG” as a shortcut to writing “Oh, My God”.
A couple of girls who think Jacky Fisher is a member of N*SYNC
The lesson? You never know what it is that you’ll be leaving to posterity.
(SCENE: A press conference on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol. Gretel Anderson-Rage of the League of Women Voters, Mike Boing of Common Cause MN and Irving Blotnik of the ACLU-MN are hosting a group of speakers, as two reporters, a homeless guy, and Carrie Lucking (of Alliance for a Better Minnesota) look on.
BOING: We are here to bring the voices of Minnesotans who will be disenfranchised by the Voter ID bill if it’s passed. We have four speakers for you today. I’d like to introduce the first; representing the Deceased-Minnesotan community, Elmer Torstengard.
TORSTENGARD: (Looking a bit pale) Hello dere. I just want to make sure the rights of dead people are upheld We worked long and hard for this country, and our voices deserve to be heard. Why should the fact that I died in 1992 silence me? (Shuffles back to seat)
ANDERSON-RAGE: Thank you, Elmer. We are here today to bear witness to the voter suppression inherent in this bill, which will disenfranchise 100,000… (LUCKING waves arms, points fingers upward) 200,000 (LUCKING frantically waves, points arms way up as she jumps) 500,000 (LUCKING frantically makes “go big” sign) Five Million Minnesotans. One of them will be Jacob Hemmerling-Doltz, a student at Macalester and a representative of the Duplicate-American community.
HEMMERLING-DOLTZ: Dude. I’ve got candidates I support down at Mac, dude. And back home in Madison, too, dude. And in Uptown Minneapolis, where I stayed last summer when I was interning with MPIRG. I’ve made my contributions in all three places, why should my voice not be heard in all of them, dude. I mean, dude? Hello? And maybe Dinkytown (Sits down)
BOING: I regret to announce our third speaker, Ingrid Bloff, representing the Inattentive-American community, seems to have forgetten to attend today’s event. So we’ll move right along to Mr. Mick Maus, who represents the Fictional-American community.
MAUS: Yeah, like, who says I can’t be living in a laundromat with nine other characters….er, Minnesotans? Just because we don’t meet your antiquated Eurocentrist notion of “proof we exist” doesn’t mean our voices aren’t perfectly valid! You can’t prove they’re not! Where are the convictions, huh? Where are the convictions? You got nothing! Suck it! SUCK IT!
BLOTNIK: Thank you for your attendance. Just a quick note, you may be breaking campaign finance law by being here, or reading about the event. Or maybe not. We haven’t decided.
BOING: Thank you!
(Group leaves the steps as Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” plays on tinny loudspeaker)
(And SCENE)
Twin Cities lefties petitioning to oust Chick-Fil-A from it’s single Twin Cities location at the U of M campus.
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One of the Koch Brothers, speaking at a Breitbart meeting at Fox News headquarters while eating Chick-Fil-A and carrying an assault rifle:
“Some critics of voter IDs think the government cannot do this job, but Mexico and most poor countries in the world have been able to register and give IDs to almost all their citizens. Surely the United States can do it, too. Free photo IDs would also empower minorities, who are often charged exorbitant fees for cashing checks because they lack proper identification.”
That racist peckerwood! Why, you can just feel the contempt for women, whom the Brennan Center said were too stupid to carry IDs with them and were more likely to have had them stolen by their abusive boyfriends and…
…and…
…well, no. It was one of the men that liberals inexplicably admire the most; Jimmy Carter, back in 2005. Carter, who up until 2008 was the worst president of my lifetime, finally got one right; recognizes that the virtue of an election system is measured in the integrity and legitimacy of the votes, not in the amount of wood pulp consumed by making ballots to jam into boxes.
Of course, under pressure from fellow lefties, Carter had to expand on his comments in 2008, noting that it has to be easy and cheap for the poor to obtain IDs. And the GOP has not only agreed with this, but acted on it.
Maureen Dowd, keeping up that tradition of respect for all points of view that have made the NYTimes such a staple across all intellectual and political divides:
And that is what’s disturbing about the prospect of a President Romney. Even though he once seemed to have sensible, moderate managerial instincts, he won’t stop ingratiating himself with the neo-Neanderthals.
Chug some more botox, Maureen.
A reader emails:
Driving home from [outstate] today. Going east by Monticello I saw a rig with a big picture of Obama on the rear of his trailer. Below it the caption read “Does this Ass make my Truck look Big?”
I just about lost control of the car with convulsive laughter.
I don’t suspect Obama and his gas prices and his “let’s import oil from Brazil!” policy are seeing a lot of traction among truck drivers.
Close to twenty years ago, in his seminal essay “A Nation of Cowards” – which was in its day the manifesto of the “Shall Issue” movement – Jeffrey Snyder took on, among many other themes, the job of proving that the law-abiding citizen was eminently trustworthy with firearms. This, he did with a nation that had been intellectually marinaded in the idea that citizens with guns were inherently dangerous for a couple of decades.
Snyder pointed to a bunch of studies and statistics that were a breath of fresh air for Second Amendment supporters for whom the media’s drumbeat of paranoia flunked the sniff test. Being published as it was, at the very beginning of the dawn of the conservative alternative media (Usenet news groups were among the essay’s first conduits), the essay was a revelation to many. We are rapidly approaching the 20th anniversary of this seminal essay – and when we get there, I’ll be commemorating it in style.
Here was one of the stats that was a real eye-opener when this piece came out:
A nationwide study by Kates, the constitutional lawyer and criminologist, found that only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The “error rate” for the police, however, was 11 percent, over five times as high.
It is simply not possible to square the numbers above and the experience of Florida with the notions that honest, law-abiding gun owners are borderline psychopaths itching for an excuse to shoot someone, vigilantes eager to seek out and summarily execute the lawless, or incompetent fools incapable of determining when it is proper to use lethal force in defense of their lives. Nor upon reflection should these results seem surprising. Rape, robbery, and attempted murder are not typically actions rife with ambiguity or subtlety, requiring special powers of observation and great book-learning to discern. When a man pulls a knife on a woman and says, “You’re coming with me,” her judgment that a crime is being committed is not likely to be in error. There is little chance that she is going to shoot the wrong person. It is the police, because they are rarely at the scene of the crime when it occurs, who are more likely to find themselves in circumstances where guilt and innocence are not so clear-cut, and in which the probability for mistakes is higher.
This was driven home to us last week in New York, at the Empire State Building shooting. The shooter killed one person – his target. The cops were responsible for killing the shooter – and wounding nine bystanders, shooting three and injuring six others with ricocheting debris.
Bob Owens at PJM notes that the NYPD doesn’t issue tasers to beat cops; anyone they can’t take down with clubs, it’s off to the holsters:
Not making Tasers standard issue to officers in a city as densely populated as New York would be almost criminally negligent, and I’d like Mayor Bloomberg to explain why someone so strongly against the civilian ownership of guns hasn’t taken steps to minimize the threat that handgun-armed police pose to the nine million civilians in his city.
If anything, the number of bystanders hit by police gunfire in this incident and others suggests that NYPD officers should be armed with Tasers instead of handguns. It simply isn’t possible to use a handgun in many parts of the city without significant risk of hitting and killing innocent citizens downrange of the target.
It’s not a knock of cops to say that gun controllers who demand we “trust the cops to do the right thing” are ignorant of human nature and the physiology and psychology of stress.
Chad the Elder takes us down memory lane, back to four years ago, when his night of the RNC got washed out by a passing hurricane.
And it led me through my own little set of flashblacks- all the time I spent covering the convention in my city back then, and the unruly guests we had.
Good times.
Good times.
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…is someone who, given a choice between being killed or living, says “Let’s compromise on massive internal bleeding or some mid-level brain damage”.
Democrats who a few months back were praising Chief Justice Roberts for his judicial restraint in respecting the intent of Congress are sniveling like stuck cats that the Supreme Court of Minnesota (SCOM) didn’t find a penumbra emanating from Alida Messinger’s visage forcing them to accept their masters’ complaints without question.
The lawsuits by the ACLU, the League of Women Voters and Alida’s Cause Common Cause claimed on the one hand that the Voter ID law was just too complicated and not clear enough for public-educated Minnesotans to understand, and on the other than Mark Ritchie had the right to make both measures more complicated and less clear.
I may be a cynic, but I’m frankly amazed the judges disagreed.
And now, the pro-gay-marriage and pro-vote-corruption forces need to do something neither has been able to do:
It’s a good day.
I’ll await the usual logic-free liberal arguments on both.
UPDATE: Mir. D has an excellent piece on the subject at True North and over at the Neighborhood:
I’ll be honest with you — the Photo ID amendment matters a lot more to me. We’ve been round and round on gay marriage and as I’ve written before, this is a battle that ultimately conservatives are going to lose, mostly because young people are being taught that it is a civil rights issue, especially in the public schools. While I don’t agree with that, the view will prevail and most of the constitutional amendments that are passing in the various states will eventually go away, probably within 10-20 years. At that point we’ll begin the unwitting longitudinal study that will eventually reveal, years after most readers of this feature are pushing up daisies, whether or not gay marriage is a good idea or not. My future grandchildren and great-grandchildren (God willing) will get to suss that one out.
The Photo ID amendment is much more important, because it goes the integrity of elections. Voter suppression is the usual charge you hear, but as a practical matter the real issue is multiple votes and illegal votes. The challenge is getting local election officials and prosecutors, who are partisans, to take such things seriously. Minnesota Majority identified 1,099 cases of felons voting in the Franken/Coleman election and over 200 cases have been either adjudicated or are in the process of being investigated. The rest aren’t going to see the light of day because the local prosecutors can’t be bothered. Franken won the election by on 312 votes…Now the amendments go for a vote. I expect Photo ID to win easily. The marriage amendment will be close. Opponents of both amendments will have ample opportunity to state their case. They just can’t depend on Mark Ritchie to keep his thumb on the scale this time.
And there’s the victory for real justice.
And I never believed the SCOM or Minnesota law had it in ’em.
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:
President Obama plans to criticize Paul Ryan’s education budget plan.
The criticism would be more effective if the President could point to the superiority of the Democrat budget proposal on education. If the Democrats HAD a budget proposal.
At times, doing something can be worse than doing nothing. Setting the national budget isn’t one of those times, Mr. President.
Joe Doakes
Como Park
Unless your interests are better served by letting things collapse and convincing the dumb people that it was Bush’s fault anyway.
To: Insurance Agents
From: Mitch Berg
Re: New Business
I’ve had my car insurance with Geico for probably eight or nine years now.
And if you’re an agent who can underbid them, I’m very open to switching right about now.
That is all.
Joe writes:
“Aside from a few thousand years in China, Byzantium, Roman Empire, Spanish Empire, British Empire, German Empire and the first century of the United States, when has the Gold Standard ever created prosperity and stability for anyone?”
Joe Doakes
Como Park
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