Shot in the Dark

Tag: MN CD6

  • The Strib And Berg’s 11th Law

    Over the weekend, theStribissued its endorsements for the GOP primaries. And they were mostly utterly predictable – if you keep Berg’s Law in mind.  In this case, “Berg’s 11th Law of Inverse Viability” (“The conservative liberals “respect” for their “conservative principles” will the the one that has the least chance of ever getting elected”), and…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Here’s Senator John Pedersen’s website running for the CD6 nomination. Here’s my piece on Mandela. And here’s Berg’s Law.

  • An Announcement

    Tom Emmer is making the least mysterious mystery announcement of the political season later this morning in Delano. Republican Tom Emmer is expected to make an announcement about his political future on Wednesday in his hometown of Delano, Minn. Emmer is likely to announce he will run for the 6th District Congressional seat now held…

  • 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…

  • The Game-Changer

    After eight years in office, Michele Bachmann is retiring from Congress: A few questions for the audience: Who Is Emanuelle Goldstein?: Extremists like the MNDFL has become need enemies.  The Minnesota Left will need to invent a new bete noir, someone on which to focus all their  insecurity and hatred, to keep them motivated.  Bachmann has…

  • Being As I Am…

    …a Scandinavian-American to the bone, a little innate ethnic pessimism is always struggling with my normally optimistic nature. Deep in my liver, I do feel as if the Democrats could sweep all eight Congressional districts this fall.  Indeed, given that they have an incumbent President, the Dems should  feel humiliated if they don’t win the Presidency and…

  • They’ve Had Enough

    The DFL treats a lot of constituencies like serfs – which is a polite word for “slaves”, although there’s usually not an actual title transfer on the humans involved. Name ’em – women, blacks, Latinos, Gays, Asians, the DFL expects to get all their votes, in exchange for doing nothing of use for them except…

  • This Is Radio NARN!

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism! Ed is out on assignment today, so I’ll be in to do the voodoo I do from 1-3PM.  Today we’ll be talking religious freedom, Santorum vs Romney, Voter ID, and we’ll be talking with Rep. Michele Bachmann about her re-election bid in the…

  • Into The Vortex

    The management at the Strib has apparently decided that even Lori Sturdevant’s grueling one-column-a-week schedule at the paper just isn’t enough.  Now, she’s got a blog. And there’s another surprise; even Lori Sturdevant has found a left-on-right attack that’s ruffled her feathers; Rolling Stone’s hit piece on Michele Bachmann (you expected any other kind) linking her…

  • Sartre Had A Point

    When it comes to D-list political punditry, hell is other peoples’ predictions. Don’t get me wrong.  I’m someone else’s “other people”.  And my predictions have been…well, generally good.  I called the 2004 Prez and 2006 Governor’s races pretty much to the point.  I nailed the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 8th CDs almost to the vote.…

  • Two More Years

    Michele Bachmann, the bete noir of the entire regional Bachmann-deranged left, freshly retired from the presidential campaign trail, has announced she’s going to go for term number four. Bachmann declared her plans in an interview with The Associated Press. The Republican congresswoman had been mum on her plans since folding her presidential campaign after a poor…