Who Do Minnesota Liberal Hate: The Best Of The Rest

Earlier this week, I took a poll – what Minnesota conservatives do Minnesota liberals hate the most? 

I collected responses via the comment section, my facebook page, and email – and got a pretty fair bunch of responses.  There were some surprises and at least a couple of foregone conclusions.

I’m going to publish 11-20 over the noon hour today, and 1 through 10 over noon tomorrow. 

But first, I’m going to give some recognitionto that mass of Minnesota conservatives that give Minnesota’s liberal establishment just a little to hate.  These are the people and institutions that got one vote each:

  • The DFL – One wag apparently believes the left believes Minnesota’s dominant party is liberalism’s worst enemy.
  • The Cans – No idea.
  • All Minnesota Conservatives
  • Mitch Pearlstein – Longtime head of the Center of the American Experiment
  • Bill Cooper – Former MNGOP chair, CEO of TCF Bank, and pwner of Nick Coleman.
  • Cosmo Insolocco – No idea.
  • Mary Kiffmeyer – the former MN Secretary of State was a lightning rod for…ACORN.
  • Freedom
  • Pat Anderson – The former and future State Auditor
  • Mac Hammond – The megaminister from Maple Grove
  • Brian Sullivan – Tim Pawlenty’s convention opponent in 2002, and arguably the person we can thank for the conservatism of Pawlenty’s administration.
  • Denny Hecker
  • Conservative Bloggers – should be self-explanatory.
  • Tony Sutton – The current chair of the Minnesota GOP
  • Randy Kelly – Former Saint Paul DFL mayor who doomed his shot at a second term by endorsing George W. Bush in 2004.
  • Regular Coffee
  • Alan Quist – the first hardcore social conservative I can remember in Minnesota politics; endorsed for governor in 1990, he lost to Arne Carlson in the primary.
  • Learned Foot – former Kool Aid Report blogger.
  • Marty Seifert – Tom Emmer’s convention opponent and, now that he’s suddenly not running for office, a “reasonable, common-sense Republican” to all the DFLers that were calling him an extremist two months ago.
  • Henry Ford
  • Tom Pritchard – longtime chair of the Minnesota Family Council
  • Kermit – blogger from Anti-Strib
  • Rod Grams – former one-term Senator
  • The Suburbs
  • Captain America

Congratulations to everyone on the list that’s, er, human.

Now, the people with more than one vote, with their standings in the final poll:

30.  Katie Kieffer: The blogger, former college-press gadfly and up-and-coming pundit got two votes, including from one voter who added every conservative woman she could think of; “that’s who they really hate…”

29. Swiftee:  The of Bruce Springsteen of button-pushing, the Charlie Parker of chain-yanking, perhaps the most banned person among Twin Cities leftyblogs, the only surprise is that he didn’t come in in the top twenty.

28. Twila Brase:  Tireless healthcare crusader and my neighbor.

27. Entrepreneurs: Except when they can serve as ATMs for social spending, of course.

26. Joe Soucheray: Souch’s social curmudgeonism is often called “conservative”, and it was certainly something Minnesota liberals detested.

25. Tracy Eberly: Three years past the “Dirt-Worshipping Heathens” flap, Tracy still gets ’em frothing.

24. The Tea Partier: The “boogeyman” of the Minnesota left.

23. Paul Mirengoff: Not a Minnesotan, but when groupblogs got votes, I spread the votes among their contributors, and Powerline got two group votes.  Which is also why…

22.  Brian “Saint Paul” Ward got on the list as well.  My long-time NARN co-host scored two votes as  a member of the NARN.

21.  Rep. Erik Paulsen: With three votes, Paulsen is the only Republican in Minnestoa’s congressional delegation not to make the top twenty with a bullet.  As it were.

Top Twenty coming up at noon!

34 thoughts on “Who Do Minnesota Liberal Hate: The Best Of The Rest

  1. Hey! I got TWO votes, not counting Swiftee’s very generous “BTW, who doesn’t hate Kerm?”.
    I’ve got an image to maintain here! (and an ego, but that’s another story)

  2. so…..next will you do a poll of who it is conservatives hate?

    I think it should have two categories – who conservatives hate on the conservative side, and who they hate on the liberal side.

    (Aw, Kerm, after reading what you wrote about your daughter being away on her trip, and hugging her when she came back, I think you rock, much the way I felt about Night Writer’s father’s day post.)

  3. so…..next will you do a poll of who it is conservatives hate?

    DogPrescottPile, why don’t you do it on YOUR blog? See how many times Peeve responds using various Alfredo Garcia body parts nom-de-plumes (sp?).

  4. so…..next will you do a poll of who it is conservatives hate?

    This being Mitch’s blog and all, it’s up to him what he does and does not do with it. I would think you’d have caught on to that by now.

  5. Yoss, do you really believe that? DG is a lefty, therefore all property is subject to confiscation and use by “the people” to him. In his view, Mitch’s blog is as much his property as Mitch’s.

  6. I still can’t believe that Swiftee only got two votes. I mean, really, if you want to send Flush, Robin, Feckless, or a host of other moonbats off into incoherent, inconsistent, obscenity laced rages all you have to do is mention the helmet photoshop incident from a few years ago again — it still sends the left into fits of rage to point out the incoherence of their views on abortion.

  7. “perhaps the most banned person among Twin Cities leftyblogs,”

    Perhaps.
    Sounds like I got some work to do!
    So what leftyblogs do I need to mock this week?

  8. “They hate the cans. Stay away from the cans.”

    Think “The Jerk” No, not teh peeve flavored jerk, the “poor black child from Mississippi” kind.

    Thank-you nerd; I do try.

    Along with Robin Marty’s battle ready fetus, I’m also especially proud of the helpful suggestions I passed along to Feckless Jeffy when he was contemplating hastening his own mortality during what I’m sure was an especially uncomfortable honorary menstrual cycle for him.

  9. next will you do a poll of who it is conservatives hate?

    If I keep taking all the best ideas, what will leftybloggers write about?

    Other than “whatever Soros tells us to write!”, I mean?

  10. Proposing more laws like gay marriage or civil union is not the conservative way to correct some current bad statues / tax laws.

    No, Kermit, more government is NOT the answer.

    If some closet liberals want to ban comments pointing out these facts, then so be it. 8)

  11. Yossarian Says:
    July 1st, 2010 at 10:51 am
    so…..next will you do a poll of who it is conservatives hate?

    “This being Mitch’s blog and all, it’s up to him what he does and does not do with it. I would think you’d have caught on to that by now.”

    Yes Yossarian, I do ‘catch on to that’, which is why I phrased my suggestion in the form of a question. I think that would reflect a balance of both sides, the conservative hatred, that is missing in the one-sided who-do-conservatives-think-liberals-hate poll. Since there are more conservatives here, and since I doubt many – if any – liberals actually voted in this first one, it would be a more fair and accurate attempt at polling….not that it appears to be what is wanted.

    Other than that, I hope I always exhibit the same manners on Mitch’s blog that I have in his home or anywhere else.

    nerdbert Says:

    July 1st, 2010 at 11:00 am
    “Yoss, do you really believe that? DG is a lefty, therefore all property is subject to confiscation and use by “the people” to him. In his view, Mitch’s blog is as much his property as Mitch’s.”

    Nerdbert, your post shows how little you know me.

    Beginning with my gender; I am a woman, not a man.

    Beyond that, I am completely aware of SitD being Mitch’s property – and see it as much his co-blogger’s purview as secondary to his. I would point out that Mitch is how I ended up blogging with Pen, and that his help has been very important to my writing, including some excellent suggestions he made just this week. (thanks again Mitch!)

    No, I wouldn’t wish to see anyone confiscate Mitch’s property, especially not Mitch’s blog, and would object pretty fiercely if anyone tried it. You are clueless Nerd’t.

  12. Mitch wrote
    “Other than “whatever Soros tells us to write!”, I mean?”

    Mitch, point out any instance where I have written something – anywhere I write – that is, as you describe it ‘What Soros Tells Me to Write’. I have written things from press releases and news events; from other stories…….and plenty of things inspired by YOU, not Soros.

    So, as you like to point to Soros, or Media Matters, so often………..show me an example of my writing originating or primarily relying – or relying at all – on either of those sources. I think I’m pretty good about multi-sourcing what I write.

    Otherwise, darlin’, with respect you are talking through your hat — and you could get a bad sunburn doing that this time of year!(grin)

  13. The problem is, if DG or another lefty blog were to rank who conservatives hate, we’d ask conservatives, rather than just making up what we think conservatives think. Which is what you’ve done here.

    Also, regular coffee is delicious.

  14. I get the feeling Dog Gone isn’t exactly the lampshade-on-the-head person at the party. More like the person cordoning off the lamp with a velvet rope, and going over the lampshade with a feather duster every ten minutes or so.

  15. e’d ask conservatives,

    Well, maybe. Or maybe “you” (pl) would decide the idea of talking to conservatives was too ickypoopy. That’s my bet.

    rather than just making up what we think conservatives think. Which is what you’ve done here.

    Ooh, them’s fighting words…

    …oh, wait – them’s not!

  16. ,i>we’d ask conservatives, rather than just making up what we think conservatives think. Which is what you’ve done here.

    Well, Disco, you could ask conservatives what self-identified conservatives they hate. Here’s my list:

    Michael Medved
    David Frum
    Andrew Sullivan
    Cal Thomas (his columns are trite)
    John McCain
    Various Bushes
    Schwarzeneggar
    Michael Savage
    Huckabee

  17. Also, regular coffee is delicious.

    Yeah, especially when it’s free, and served with free donuts.

  18. DG, frankly I don’t particularly care about your genetic makeup — why is the fact that you have repeated chromosomes important in the context of your arguments? Or should I be asking for a detailed investigation of the racial backgrounds of all your antecedents to check the validity of your arguments? The fact that you think I should be aware of your genetic makeup should be a key fact in this discussion is itself a pitiful bit of hubris at a minimum, or a disqualifying condition at worst.

    My comment was snark on how willing the left is to appropriate other people’s rights and properties at the drop of a hat. Kelo? Check. Regulate smoking? Check. Redistribute income? Check.

  19. And it is the work of mad men, nerdbert. Today the “tanning bed tax” went into effect. Tanning bed sessions have a lot of what economics-types call “demand elasticity” Raise the price, fewer people use the service. Business goes down. Tanning salons go out of business.
    Liberals do not understand econ 101, or worse, they think supply and demand is some sort of conservative trick rather than an iron law.
    You can not tax and spend your way into prosperity — unless you pull all the young men out of the work force & send them out to destroy the economies of other industrial countries, as we did in WW2.

  20. Yeah, especially when it’s free, and served with free donuts.

    Nah, I make it best at home.

    would decide the idea of talking to conservatives was too ickypoopy.

    Speaking of which, putting Tracy on this list makes no sense. He’s a nice guy. He’s even come to Drinking Liberally. Also, how can anyone hate Learned Foot?

  21. He’s even come to Drinking Liberally.

    Hey, I made an appearance. And despite the fact that the 331 has been turned into a fag bar, I thought I was pretty civil.

  22. Swiftee, just because the TV at the bar is tuned to mens’ figure skating does not mean that it is a “fag bar”.
    Oh wait. It does.
    Carry on!

  23. Mitch,
    You amaze me. How do you have time to add all these votes up? Anyway, cool poll!
    Conservatives have tough skin. We can take the heat – and the hate. 😉

  24. How do you have time to add all these votes up?

    Only via the miracle of Excel.

  25. Yes, Mitch has lots of time to add up votes, just not time to fact check stories he posts that distort facts………after bitching about stories that he feels distort facts.

    Yoss, you’re impression of me at a party is way off.

    Nerdly, since you used the wrong pronoun, which was an indication you were making statements about me without knowing me, I corrected you so you could get at least something right in the midst of getting so much wrong. Considering how few women regularly comment here, it is a novelty I suppose at most. I don’t so much think of it as having a repeating chromosome, given they are different from each other (you know – one from EACH parent) as something men have in common with women. I didn’t bring up anything about my antecedents, you just kinda wandered off point there.

    But while you are moaning about appropriating rights and property…Um,.NO. You have no basis for that statement you just pulled it out of whatever dark place you keep those (presumably to scare yourself with, along with your other fantasies).
    You have NO foundation for that statement.

    Ah yes, KT, you conservatives have that tough skin that can take the heat that you make up and attribute to others, oooooooooh, that’s tough, all rightie!

  26. Yes, Mitch has lots of time to add up votes, just not time to fact check stories he posts that distort facts………after bitching about stories that he feels distort facts.

    DG, an Excel spreadsheet makes adding the votes pretty simple. And given the number of times you and Pen’s cites have been shredded for their inaccuracy or just plain departure to fantasyland, I supposed I can forgive your odd swerve into pique.

    you conservatives have that tough skin that can take the heat that you make up and attribute to others, oooooooooh, that’s tough, all rightie!

    Ah. “I know you are, but what am I”. Great point.

    Sheesh.

  27. Oh, yeah – that Black Panther story that I obliquely referenced, and that you’ve been dancing and romping about because you feel that you caught me not “fact-checking” (because Michelle Malkin is ‘a right winger with an axe to grind’, but the Huffington Post is objective and detached, naturally)? Not so fast. Seeing some evidence that the HuffPo is participating in a whitewash that, itself, tortures facts.

    More when I’m comfortable that I understand what the facts are.

  28. “bitching”

    Deegee, how dare you use that word!!!

    *virtual bitch-slap*

    Bwwwwaaaaahahahahahahahahaaaaa!

    ….

    Only a Democrat party tool would claim a person in paramilitary outfit with a weapon in front of the poll entrance is not even a bit intimidating.

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