Around the MOB: Master Of None

Every once in a while you run into a blog on the MOBroll that you want to use some mentalist-fu to get everyone to put on their daily blog-reading menu.

Frequent Shot In The Dark commenter “Master of None”, the proprietor of his eponymous blog, is one of those for me.  MoN is one of the stalwarts of this blog’s comment section, and his blog is one of the better small political-oriented blogs on the ‘roll.

I liked this post, where he fact-checked one of the hamsters the DFL is trying to run against Erik Paulsen (R-MN3)

As I reported, here and here,  DFL Congressional candidate wannabe Dr. Maureen Hackett isn’t quite sure what party her heart belongs to (or her checkbook).  Now, it’s being reported in the Star Tribune. that it’s not completely clear she knows who she’s running against.

While Bachmann’s extremism has won her great reviews from her right-wing base, it’s not acceptable here in the 3rd District.

Trying to compare Michelle Bachman to Erik Paulsen is a tactic that failed miserably in 2008, and it is doomed to failure in 2010 for one very good reason.  Paulsen has been very smart in putting together a voting record that is differentiated enough from Bachmann’s yet stays true to Republican core values. Paulsen’s votes against the stimulus, health care reform, and cap and trade not only place him solidly in the fiscally conservative camp, they also happen to be on the winning side of public opinion polls.   But, on some smaller issues, extension of SCHIP and funding for solar energy, for example, Congressman Paulsen moderated his voting record and went against the Republican grain.  Enough so that even some local chants of “RINO” have emerged from right wing political types with no experience in winning elections.

A scientist/engineer by trade, MoN brings some much-needed clarity of thought to blogging, along with some fun trivia about growing up in Alaska.

MoN updates regularly; here’s hoping he stays with it.  Of course, nothing encourages regular writing like lots of traffic!

Hint hint.

4 thoughts on “Around the MOB: Master Of None

  1. Regarding “fun trivia”.

    Many people believe that the 60’s died in the tragic and bloody events of a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont California. But they’re wrong. The 60’s weren’t dead, merely comatose. The plug was pulled, and the time of death was called at a Savoy Brown/KISS concert in a small gymnasium 22 miles outside of Fairbanks AK in 1974.

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