It’s an election-year tradition dating back to the glaciers; the media trots out an evangelical/gun owner/businessman who claims to have been a lifelong Republican, but for whatever reason can never ever vote for Reagan/Dubya/McCain/Trump.
And this year it the…
Well, someone at the Virginia paper isn’t getting invited to the Saint Paul Grill at the next media confab.
Let me just say:
WOO! HOO!
HALLELUJAH!
THANK GOD!
Thank you!
I wonder if this will start a trend. A lot of rust belt Democrats are siding with Trump for the same reasons. I’ve heard a least a dozen stories that have the line ‘I’ve voted democrat my entire life but this election I’m voting for Trump.’
“You have wealthy “trust fund babies” telling us how we should live and use our environment.”
Hello Gov. Mumbles…………Remember rangers you get what you ask for!
A lot of rust belt Democrats are siding with Trump for the same reasons.
Just the angry white ones, right?
The Mesabi Daily News has had good editorials for several years.
Perhaps areas like the Iron Range will mirror what happened in the south in the over the past 30 years. As the old segregationalists reformed/died out, the younger crowd saw a Democrat party that was now dominated by east and west coast urban elites. People obsessed with homosexual causes, abortion and was anti-Christian. Younger southerns didn’t have a lot in common with the old southern Democrat party and certainly not the current party.
Remember that the DFL (actually the FL part of the DFL) was funded by Stalin (see Minnesota Historical Society for the records). The new Democrat party HATEs any and all mining, 2nd amendment rights, loves the welfare state. And is still obsessed with liberal social issues.
I think many in that area do not see a lot for them in their grandparents party.
Just the angry white ones, right?
Actually one poll had The Donalds Hispanic support at 38% support. If Trump quits sticking his foot in his mouth and that number holds he wins AT LEAST 300 electoral votes, possibly closer to 400.
Coincidentally, a colleague of mine just got back from one week on the Range for vacation. I mentioned this to him this morning and he said that there is a definite buzz up there after what happened to the coal miners in West VA. Lots of second guessing their alliance to the Commies in the DFL, because they have been sold out by them for decades. His father in law is a retired miner and echoes that sentiment, telling anyone who will listen to him to oust those traitors.
There is the Twin Metals thing were Twin Cities DFLers are working very hard to end any future mining operations in NE Minnesota.
Even the Strib was calling the Range for Mills last election – and then Nolan must have found a few boxes of ballots stashed in a closed mine for a rainy day.
Nolan must have found a few boxes of ballots stashed in a closed mine for a rainy day
Nah. He borrowed unused leftovers from Franken.
Regarding Mills, I saw something hilarious in the CityPages recently; more or less, the author, presumably a fan of returning the Clintons to the White House (and definitely a Nolan fan), was horribly offended that Mills has written favorably of oral sex on Facebook. Apparently it’s only wrong if it’s with your wife? And the sheer lack of self-awareness was astounding.
“You have wealthy “trust fund babies” telling us how we should live and use our environment.”
Limosuine liberal Nancy Pelosi says her party has a problem with non-college-educated white males because of “God, Guns, and gays.”
I reject her premise. Her party’s problem extends to white males with college degrees. Where the dems dominate is with white males with post-graduate degrees (aka academics and lawyers).
But by using the phrase “God, guns, and gays”, Pelosi is accusing white males who do not vote democrat of being bigots. Her explanation for using each of the words in that phrase re-emphasized this.
If you are a heterosexual white male w/o a post graduate degree, you are f’n nuts to vote Democrat. Their goal is to remove social privilege from white men, as a class, and redistribute that privilege to classes of people they feel are more deserving.
It would be like a Black man in Alabama in 1955 voting Democrat.