Exterminate The Moderates!

I’m sure Lori Sturdevant is going to write  a column just like this.  Real soon here.  Honest.

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Joe Bodell at the Monitor reports that the DFL has taken the long knives to a couple of their moderates!

There were no embarrassing scandals or ugly fights at the House District 58 convention last weekend, but, still, two longtime incumbents — Reps. Joe Mullery in 58A and Willie Dominguez in 58B — walked away without getting the official nod from their own party. Instead, activists in 58B chose Bobbie Joe Champion, and Wellstone Action staffer and Minneapolis School Board Member Peggy Flanagan forced Mullery to a no-endorsement, kicking off a primary race.

Responsible, middle-of-the-road DFLers in the district wondered why the DFL’s purity police wants them removed from the party.

Well, no.  Sturdevant won’t write any such thing, because to the Twin Cities leftymedia, only Democrats get to act partisan.

6 thoughts on “Exterminate The Moderates!

  1. Mitch,

    You openly and deliberately embrace pure partisanship as an approach. You claim that since everyone has a bias, and it can’be avoided, why try? Rather than, as most of us do, trying to overcome our weaknesses – you embrace yours.

    “to the Twin Cities leftymedia, only Democrats get to act partisan. ”

    Now, as I recall, you consider yourself part of the media- and you tolerate Powerline, MinnesotaGOPpropoganda, TruthvsPolygraph, and Swiftee, and they, in turn, tolerate you.

    The Hatriot has you on the air for 6 hours a week, KSTP airs Bob Davis, and um.. gee, let’s see, how many stations air Limbaugh, Hannity, and O’Reilly, daily?

    Or maybe you simply mean that the Strib doesn’t have .. oh, wait, there’s Kersten (the dunce) and Lileks (the not dunce), and Schara (at least on gun rights).. but I guess none of those are partisan.

    The worst part is of course, you simply cannot stop yourself from bitching about something YOU LOVE when it’s use FOR YOU, but hate, when it’s used against you.

    My reply, don’t live in a glass house AND you hate moderates – it’s an axiom of extremists, you love to call the middle the other side, because they represent the real threat to your power, they might actually find reasonable solutions short of the extremist stances you take. Hitler and others talked about how you don’t attack the left, you attack the middle. NO, you’re not Hitler, but you ARE an open and self-admitted ultra-conservative (which ought to be in quotes because the real term is reactionary).

  2. I couldn’t approve more. Please DFL, nominate the most radical, frothing lefties you can find. Push the electorate to the Right. Please? Pretty please?

  3. Troy,

    I saw the point just fine, I just chose to point out that Mitch was focusing on the failures of the Democrats, failures he openly applauds in his own party and conduct.

    I think perhaps you missed that point.

  4. No, Peev, you missed the point as completely as…well, usual.

    I was noting the hypocrisy of the Twin Cities media (and we know which media I’m talking about, right?) for whining like nancyboys when the GOP grassroots rebelled against the RINOs, but totally ignoring the DFL excising “moderates”.

    That, and only that, was the point. And you missed it completely.

    I wasn’t “focusing on the failures” of Democrats; they get to run their party their way. Just like mine can, thankyewverymch Lori Sturdevant.

    (oh, and Kersten is smarter than any other columnist at the Strib, bar none. There is no rational debate on that point).

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