When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, when I started seeing the usual flock of DFL spokesbloggers warning that the GOP was sending “an army of thugs” (that’d be the Minnesota Majority’s $500 reward for info leading to the arrest and conviction of people intimidating voters), I figured it was something of an argument after the fact; Mark Dayton’s entire campaign so far has been an exercise in rhetorical voter intimidation.<\/p>\n
Think about it; how do you get someone like Mark Dayton elected? \u00a0He’s a terrible candidates; stiff, brittle, a trust fund baby with an awful record and amessage that is diametrically out of tune with \u00a0a huge swathe of the post-Obama electorate.<\/p>\n
The only way to get him elected is to make Republicans stay home<\/em>.<\/p>\n
And that’s really been the crux of the entire Dayton campaign; there has been precious little talk of “why Dayton would be a great governor”, because nobody, even a large part of the DFL (remember, Dayton only won the primary by a cat’s whisker) believes it. \u00a0The entire <\/em>DFL campaign has been negative.<\/p>\n
Still, trying to convince people to stay home is one thing. \u00a0Actively attacking your opponent’s campaign is another.<\/p>\n
In Saint Paul, Republicans have long believed that the DFL was sending people out into the streets to vandalize, steal and destroy Republican campaign material, especially lawn signs. \u00a0I think I’ve had one lawn sign survive a campaign – and while I’ve been perfectly willing to chalk it up to bored kids vandalizing things (and even just to bored , DFL-voting Hamline University kids, since often my GOP signs would be stolen or destroyed, while my neighbors’ DFL signs would remain untouched), somtimes it did <\/em>seem a little too systematic to be completely random.<\/p>\n
And while I don’t believe this is necessarily evidence that the DFL is systematically trying to destroy Emmer signs, it certainly does show that some DFL activists are not above mere vandalism, but serious overkill.<\/p>\n
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