Coleman: “Shut Up, Peasants”
By Mitch Berg
From the Strib endorsement of “Indpendence” Party former-Republican-who’s-turned-into-a-moderate-DFLer-who-had-to -join-the-IP-because-the-DFL-has-become-so-freaking-extreme Tom Horner:
Not since Elmer L. Andersen in 1960 has a successful business owner and CEO left a prominent Minnesota firm to seek the governorship. Like Andersen, Horner, the cofounder of the Himle Horner public-relations firm, is doing so for the best of reasons: He loves Minnesota; he’s a serious student of government and economics, and he feels called to service. At age 60, Horner seeks to apply the lessons of a lifetime spent working in and around public policy to the restoration of this state’s vitality.
Nick Coleman, on Twitter:
Mr. Horner: I KNEW Elmer Andersen and (my father) SERVED with Elmer Andersen and you are NO Elmer Andersen. Not sure Elmer would vote 4 you.
Listening to DFL holdovers from the sixties, like Coleman and Lori Sturdevant, yammering about what the politicians of Minnesota’s putative golden age reminds me of scholars cloistered in a medieval back room debating how many angels could sit on the head of a pin.
October 18th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Good line Non-Monkey. Very original.
October 18th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I would assume that since Elmer is dead, he’s voting for Dayton.
October 18th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
“I KNEW Elmer Andersen and (my father) SERVED with Elmer Andersen and my father’s trophy wife got me a nice job and you are NO Elmer Andersen.
Not sure (my father’s) TROPHY WIFE would get you a JOB, like she did for ME, ’cause (my father) was TAPPIN’ that; an’ she’s dead, so there’s that, too.”
October 18th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Now let’s be fair here; medieval scholars used the “angels on the head of a pin” as a tool to teach the tools of rhetoric, not as a serious subject of debate. So they were by no means as silly as the DFL types here…..
…..now if you associate the DFL with Monty Python characters doing the same, well, now you’re getting closer….
October 18th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Nick Coleman is no Lloyd Benson, either.
October 18th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
So, are the “peasants” in this case the “liberal elite” STrib?
October 18th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
DiscoStoo
No.
October 18th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
But that’s who Coleman is making fun of, or telling to shut up about Andersen, or whatever it is he’s trying to say there.
how many angels could sit on the head of a pin.
It’s 42, by the way.
October 18th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Nick Coleman is no Lloyd Benson, either.
No, he’s more Lloyd Bridges, circa the Hot Shot movies, or Airplane. “Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing DFL talking points.”