A short time ago, Republicans filled a room at the Secretary of State’s office and Tony Sutton announced this as proof that the Republican party was unified and ready to take back the legislature. It was a nicely staged event to coincide with Tom Emmer’s filing for governor. All together – united in purpose.<\/p>\n
Makes a great picture….but like most Republican declarations it’s just not true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Arne Carlson was on MPR this morning…you remember him. Former Governor of Minnesota, Republican? Except when you ask Pawlenty or Tony Sutton or Michael Brodkorb about Arne Carlson, they refuse to identify him as part of the GOP. Pawlenty has dismissed Carlson’s critiques as proof that Carlson has defected to the other side.<\/p>\n
Disagreement’s not allowed?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ask Joe Lieberman and former DFLer Norm Coleman…<\/p>\n
….hey, wait<\/em>!\u00a0 Arne Carlson is running for office?<\/p>\n(Even after <\/em>doubling spending, endorsing Obama and bashing the conservative mainstream that, let me emphasize this, controls the party<\/em>?)<\/p>\nQuestion #1 for Dave Mindeman:\u00a0 Does the fact that conservatives won the control of the party<\/em>, to the point where no “moderates” made it to the convention, mean anything to you (outside the mistaken notion that it’s a weakness)?<\/p>\nQuestion #2 for Dave Mindeman: Please introduce me to all those endorsed pro-gun, pro-life, limited-government Tenth Amendment supporting Democrats in the Metro area DFL!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ssshhhhhh. Dave Mindemen at mnpACT is\u00a0about to blow the lid off something\u00a0– the “facade” of Minnesota Republican unity: A short time ago, Republicans filled a room at the Secretary of State’s office and Tony Sutton announced this as proof that the Republican party was unified and ready to take back the legislature. It was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11234,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228\/revisions\/11234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}