Remember what happens every time the conservative mainstream GOP mixes it up with the “moderates” that have descended into near irrelevance among everyone but the Strib Editorial Board?\u00a0<\/p>\n
How the media establishment chides the GOP to be more open?\u00a0 Bigger-tented?\u00a0 More tolerant of dissent?<\/p>\n
Well, at the moment, either does at least part of the mainstream media.<\/p>\n
Nick Coleman – who used to be one of those Strib people who audibly pined for the good ol’ days when his Dad was in the Legislature and the GOP was a huge tent covering everyone from moderate DFL suckups to really<\/em> moderate DFL suckups – is now wanting to start checking ideological IDs. He was reporting from the Tatooine cantina that was the Minneapolis DFL City Convention over the weekend:<\/p>\n Is the #mplsdfl<\/a> tent too large? EVERYONE is in it, but they don’t agree, don’t get along and — maybe — shouldn’t be in same party.<\/p>\n \u2014 NickColeman (@NickColeman) June 16, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Minneapolis has a choice; \u00a0five DFL candidates, ranging from crazy to pants-crappingly unhinged…<\/p>\n …and Cam Winton, the DFLer-turned-GOPer running on the “get some value for all those freaking taxes we pay” platform.<\/p>\n