Shot in the Dark

How’s That Again?

Last Tuesday was a buzzkill across the board; one of the biggest whacks upside the head was Phil Krinkie’s narrow (55 vote) loss.

Bob Collins at MPR’s Polinaut on a bump’n run City Pages interview with Krinkie:

City Pages interviews Phil Krinkie, who lost his re-election bid. He says he hopes for a stalemate and thinks the voters should be punished. That goes against the whole “let’s work together theme.”

Here’s the CP’s actual interview, quoting Krinkie:

“But I want to leave you with a quote from Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York. When he got beaten by David Dinkins, he said, ‘The voters have spoken and now they must be punished.’ I have a feeling that’s what may be in store for the people of Minnesota.”

Mr. Collins: Your version (“the voters should be punished”) implies a petulance that is absent from Krinkie’s actual statement.

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21 responses to “How’s That Again?”

  1. Fulcrum Avatar
    Fulcrum

    Mitch, you have to include the quote before it as Mr. Collins seems to be correct in his quick summation..and furthermore Mr Krinkie seems to have eaten a truck load of sour grapes.

    CP: So do you think the session will end in stalemate?

    Krinkie: We can only hope so. The governor has one tool, and that’s the veto. In the senate, the Democrats need only one defector from the Republicans to override the veto. In the house, it’s about five votes.

    CP: Do you plan to return to politics?

    Krinkie: I’m not ruling anything out. I may run again in another two years or I may wait or I may look at a different office. It’s too early to make those decisions. But I want to leave you with a quote from Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York. When he got beaten by David Dinkins, he said, ‘The voters have spoken and now they must be punished.’ I have a feeling that’s what may be in store for the people of Minnesota.

  2. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    Thanks for beating me to the punch Fulcrum.

    One wonders if Mitch actually reads half the stuff he links to…

  3. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    The notation about Koch changes my point not in the least.

    Punch? I wonder what color the sky is on Dougworld.

  4. phipho Avatar
    phipho

    Mitch,

    Begging for government stalemate and hoping the people are “punished” for their vites hardly sounds like the makings of a good sport. Sore loser is more like it. nice bulliten board material should Krinkie ever decide to run again anyway.

  5. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    Oh, for the love of pete. Krinkie sounds like he was joking in the CP interview. The whole things fairly screams “wink and a nudge”.

    Whereas Collins’ quote sounds as petulant as the three of you always assume Republicans are in any case.

    The three of you – and Collins – are wrong!

  6. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    Mitch said,

    “Oh, for the love of pete. Krinkie sounds like he was joking…”

    Uh huh.

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52705

  7. Kermit Avatar
    Kermit

    Sour grapes?
    I’m waiting for all the Republican “The election was stolen” and “Our conservative base was disenfranchised” …oh, never mind.
    You libs have no humor, even in victory. Sucks to be you, I should think.

  8. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    Kermit said,

    “I should think.”

    Yes Kermit, you should but really, why start now?

  9. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    Yes Kermit, you should but really, why start now?

    Because then it’d set the bar too high for Doug.

  10. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    Uh huh.

    Ah. That rapier-like logic at work again.

    Cicero weeps.

  11. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    Oh, I read the link. Hahahahaha!

    Non-sequitur.

  12. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    Non-sequitur?

    But please tell me you do see the connection?

  13. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    Well, I see the connection you think is there.

    It’s called “Changing the subject”.

  14. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    No mitch. It’s called double standard

  15. Margaret Avatar
    Margaret

    If a liberal democrat said that first, it would be funny to all the liberal democrats in that wry sense because they *know* they are right and the opposition is a much worse choice. Oh, wait, a liberal democrat did say that first!

  16. Fulcrum Avatar
    Fulcrum

    I read the interview again, and I fail to see how his comments are a joking. He was asked questions and answered them, Mitch how can you dechiper from that interview that he is joking?

  17. lwindels Avatar
    lwindels

    I think part of the reason Mitch can assume he was joking is that some of us have actully HAD a conversation with Phil Krinkie, and can ‘hear’ his words in this interview. If you’ve ever heard him speak in public, which I hope you have done over the years he’s been in public service, you’d know he has a sense of humor, sometimes dry, and hey, we all know the meaning of the word “is”, right? And Mike Hatch didn’t really MEAN to call the reporter a Republican whore, I mean hack, no, I mean whore, right? And when Keith Ellison stood next to Farrakhan in support of him and the Million Man March, he didn’t really MEAN to be in support of him? Why is it the libs can ‘decipher’ what their candidates really meant by their words and actions, but conservatives can’t? And Mitch, you’re right about the no sense of humor thing. Sheesh.

  18. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    I fail to see how his comments are a joking.

    What Lori said. I’ve met Phil many, many times – interviewed him 3-4 times, in fact – and while in print it could look like he was being petulant and snide, there is no way he was, verbally or in fact.

    If nothing else, Phil is way too smooth around the media for that – and beyond that, he’s just plain not wired that way, as Lori notes.

  19. Fulcrum Avatar
    Fulcrum

    Sorry guys haven’t met or recall hearing him speak outside of the brief legislative clips. I am sure i have seen him on Almanac, but don’t recall his specific sense of humor….thanks for the input.

  20. Fulcrum Avatar
    Fulcrum

    Forgot to add this in my last post…but you have to realize how the answers are taken in the format of print correct? For those that have not met or heard him speak, those answers (assuming CP accurately presented them) would leave one to believe Mr. Collin’s summation.

  21. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    And those of us that saw the videotape of Kerry taking jabs at Bush before making the “stuck in Iraq” comment knew that he was was saying Bush got US stuck in Iraq.

    Just saying…

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