Shot in the Dark

To All Those Seeking Candidates In CD6

Remember:  the goal is to find someone who agrees with you 100% on principle. Not 99%; if they fall to 99, you throw them under the bus. Electability is not only irrelevant, it’s a sign that they *could* compromise! Impure!

And if they’ve ever held office, and have ever compromised with the other side (or anyone!) on any issue for whatever reason (which every elected official in history has had to do, either publicly or privately – because that is the roots of the term “politics”), that’s prima facie evidence of impurity. Shun!

And if you lose the primary to someone you only agree with 80% (which is a zero, really), or the general to a candidate you agree with 0% – well, it’s irrelevant, because 99=0, anyway, and you can spend the next 2-6 years telling all the other rubes how what bovine sheeple (?) they are, and how screwed we all are for not listening to you.

Which is the real goal.

Clear on this?

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14 responses to “To All Those Seeking Candidates In CD6”

  1. Tony Petroski Avatar
    Tony Petroski

    (?)

    I ain’t clear on this.

  2. Mr. D Avatar
    Mr. D

    In the words of a noted political scientist:

    Now I know I must walk the line
    Until I find an open door
    There was I, many times a fool
    I hope and pray, but not too much
    Out of reach is out of touch
    All the way is far enough

  3. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Mr. D, I’m thinking “99 1/2 Won’t Do”.

    Or, based on the thought that suddenly went through so many Republican lights on Wednesday morning, you could call CD6 “Last Dance With Michele”: Oh my my, oh hell yes, gotta put on that Party dress.

  4. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Heh.

  5. Fresch Fisch Avatar
    Fresch Fisch

    Graves out!

    Insert the sound bite of The Simpson’s Nelson Muntz saying “HA-HA”.

  6. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Well, apparently, it won’t be Jim “Lying Ass Wipe” Graves running for the commies! Just heard on the radio that he has stopped his campaign. The reason he gave is that “the goal of unseating Michele Bachmann has been achieved.” I guess that he figured, why spend the money. Either that or the DFL wonks told him that they want to run Taxin’ Tarryl again, thinking that she won’t have any serious competition from the GOP.

  7. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Mission Accomplished? Did Graves land a hang-glider on his yacht?

  8. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    Word out there is that national money went from millions to…..close to nothing, once Congresswoman Bachmann dropped out. So Big Jim Graves would have to spend a large portion of his own cash to try to win in a district that voted 55% for McCain.

    So yes, I professional politician like Clark will more likely be the candidate. Someone who has nothing else to do but run for office.

  9. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    I think our host is saying that……hows it go…..if I agree with you 90% of time, you are not my 10% enemy.

    Unlike the Minnesota Governors office, the 6CD seat is a Republican seat normally. So don’t screw this up, Republicans. Democrats will control the white house, Senate, and could get another Supreme Court person. So we must hold the House.

  10. Colonel_Flagg Avatar
    Colonel_Flagg

    Coupla observations:

    1) When will the first article be written calling Jim Graves a ‘quitter’, such as we’re already seeing about Bachmann?

    2) WRT ‘purity’: when the Republican Party tells me they promise not to run an Obamacare-inventing, gay ‘marriage’ creating, gun-grabbing, big-spending politician who claimed that the auto bailouts were his idea for President, I’ll be there. In the meantime, the most conservative candidate will always get my vote. Simples.

  11. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    But, Colonel_Flagg! Obamacare was a Republican idea! Nobel-prize-winning economist Paul says so. IT MUST BE TRUE!

  12. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    Paul Krugman, that is.

  13. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    The guiding principle here is the principle that keeps Ms. Pelosi out of the speaker’s chair. This is now a battle of the Republican vs. the Democratic candidate. I’m going to bet on the Republican.

  14. walter hanson Avatar
    walter hanson

    Hey I think the CD6 Republicans have a deep bench and whoever gets the endorsement will be able to glide to an easy just because whoever they nominate will stand for a balance budget, be pro life, want Obamacare repealed, want to promote energy independence, and at the same time not have thousands of voters showing up at the polling place just because they hate Michelle.

    I’m more concerned about getting a strong candidate for CD8 which we can win and CD1.

    Walter Hanson
    Minneapolis, MN

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