Half News
By Mitch Berg
Ryan Flynn at MDE on the latest developments:
I have been informed that Brian Sullivan and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann have officially ruled out Gubernatorial campaigns.
No news on Bachmann; her star is rising in Washington, she’d be a tough sell for Governor right at the moment.
Sullivan,though, is a disappointment. Although I can see his point; if his main reason to run were to spend a lot of money to drive an eventual nominee to the right, noble and needed as that is, I can see Sullivan having better things to do for the next year.
So who is everyone else looking at for the GOP nod so far?
June 12th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I suspect a certain ex-mayor of St. Paul will be shooting for it. Once he pays off the little creep from New York’s court costs.
June 12th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Laura Brod.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:03 am
“No news on Bachmann; her star is rising in Washington, she’d be a tough sell for Governor right at the moment.”
She has been an embarrassment for too many, including among the more moderate GOP. I doubt she can win her congressional seat next time around; this last time was fairly close. For her star to stick around Washington, it has to start with being popular here.
She’d be smart not to run for gov; I doubt she could win that either. Humor would not work in her favor.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I doubt she can win her congressional seat next time around; this last time was fairly close.
She beat a well known establishment DFLer by 3 points in a year that was a disaster for Republicans, & EVERYONE knew about her. there has been no surprises since. This next election will, at the very least, be one the dems will lose some ground. Bachmann isn’t going anywhere.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Oh & I forgot to mention, that was with Georgie Soros Dumping millions of dollars to buy El Tink’s soul… whoops, I meant, in donations to El Tink’s campaign
June 12th, 2009 at 11:09 am
She has been an embarrassment for too many, including among the more moderate GOP.
Again, more attempts to define terms. She has embarrased DFL challengers, by beating their sorry asses down and standing up to the PC bullcrap they peddle.
Say, who’s more embarrasing, Bachmann or Joe Biden? Hey, get up out of that wheelchair and let everyone get a good look at ya!
June 12th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Jeff Johnson.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:27 am
At this point, I think Laura Brod has to be considered a first tier candidate if she announces.
June 12th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Mitch observed: “No news on Bachmann; her star is rising in Washington”
“Crazy” is the new “electable.”
June 12th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
“Crazy” is the new “electable.”
It worked for Biden, Kucinich, Waters, Boxer…
June 12th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
She has been an embarrassment for too many,
Anyone who could accept Mark Dayton in any public capacity had best stay silent about Bachmann.
Rhetorically speaking, of course.
including among the more moderate GOP.
Which, if they’d won the 6th CD endorsement (or any of her SD54 endorsements before that) to say nothing of the election, might have meant something!
I doubt she can win her congressional seat next time around; this last time was fairly close.
And it’ll never be that close again. It was the worst cycle for Republicans since Watergate, and the national Dems poured millions and millions into unseating her, and Bachmann’s legions of deranged stalkers were out in force, and it was a year where the conventional wisdom said that the Six was really, REALLY in play, and she STILL won. That, after not only winning in a terrible GOP year in a district the CW said was REALLY REALLY REALLY in play, against perhaps the most sympathetic character the DFL could possibly throw into action anywhere – and Michele won by the biggest margin of any contested GOP victory anywhere in the state, in a year in which we lost three constitutional offices and a US House seat.
If you think Michele is really going to be vulnerable in 2010, I’d like a bottle of whatever dog shampoo you’re inhaling!
🙂
For her star to stick around Washington, it has to start with being popular here.
Two elections.
I’m not a betting man, but if I were, I’d put a few bucks on her prospects with no real worries.
She’d be smart not to run for gov; I doubt she could win that either.
I agree, there. Minnesota is probably too divided for a paleo to win barring a major miracle.
June 12th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Mitch, get in line, the liberal Democrats say she is crazy and stoopid… along with telling you how the party should be run…
I’m not surprised to see AssClown swallow the media spin. AC can swallow like no other. Bet he gets a tingle whenever he hears Chris Matthews.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I don’t know … it’s kind of nice having at least one person in D.C. who knows how to work a calculator.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
“at least one person in D.C. who knows how to work a calculator. ”
Two, Paulsen has a degree in mathmatics.
I’d love to see Jeff Johnson run, but that won’t happen for a few years.
June 12th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Brod, Sviggum and Kohls are my favorites. Marty Seifert is also good but I feel he is less electable than the other 3.
June 12th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I like my State Senator, Mike Jungbauer. Not sure if he was kidding or not but after Pawlenty announced he would not run again, Mike put on his Facebook page “Jungbauer for Governor.”
I also like Laura Brod and Jeff Johnson.