I don’t “endorse” candidates on this blog or on my show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Partly because I’m not under the illusion that anyone cares what I think.<\/p>\n
And partly because on the off-chance someone does <\/em>care what I think, I’d much prefer they make up their own mind for themselves, rather than piggyback on anything I, or anyone, says.\u00a0<\/p>\n But if you live in Minneapolis, I’m going to urge you to vote for Cam Winton for Mayor.<\/p>\n If you’re a Republican in Minneapolis?<\/strong>:\u00a0 Here’s the deal; 25-30% of Minneapolis is Republican.\u00a0 The DFL vote is split six ways – or, perhaps most realistically, two ways (the DFL-endorsed Hodges and the well-funded Warner).\u00a0 If <\/em>every GOP voter in Minneapoliscomes to the polls <\/em>and closes ranks and puts Winton as their #1 choice, he’s got a decent shot.<\/p>\n If you’re a conservative voter<\/strong>:\u00a0 Winton’s no paleo.\u00a0 He admits it up front.\u00a0 He’s a former DFLer and it shows.\u00a0 But Buckley’s dictum holds true; if you’re a good conservative, you vote for the most conservative candidate who can win<\/em>.\u00a0 There is no way around it – if <\/em>there’s a more conservative candidate on the ballot, they are not in a position to win.\u00a0 Seriously – who’s raised any <\/em>money?\u00a0 Who’s knocked a single door?\u00a0 Who’s gotten any <\/em>media?\u00a0 Nobody.\u00a0 Winton is not a\u00a0movement conservative – but in the context of Minneapolis in 2013, it’s a miracle that someone even this close to conservative is on the ballot at all.\u00a0 Winning would be a great step forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you’re a “Liberty” voter<\/strong>:\u00a0 one of the biggest problems too many “liberty” voters have is that they have nothing analogous to the Buckley commandment; for too many of them, anything less than 100% agreement is disagreement.\u00a0 Because Winton is imperfect on a couple of Libertarian issues, he’s not perfect “Liberty” candidate:<\/p>\n For some “Liberty” voters, it’s like talking to the wall – and that’s leaving out the ones who aren’t voting because they just want the whole system to collapse anyway.\u00a0 For those that are left?\u00a0 Incrementalism may be a dirty word, but incrementalism in the right direction is better than the wrong direction.\u00a0 If that makes any sense to you at all, please vote Winton.\u00a0 Or vote your principle and put the “liberty” candidate, whoever it may be, as first choice but put Winton second.\u00a0<\/p>\n For DFLers who care about Minneapolis<\/strong>:\u00a0 Minneapolis’ current system is unsustainable.\u00a0 There is no way for the current system to keep running the way it is.\u00a0 Minneapolis is going to bankrupt itself – maybe later than sooner.\u00a0 Not only can you not tax yourselves to prosperity, but in Minneapolis under the DFL machine you can’t even tax yourselves to competence.\u00a0 The streets are terrible.\u00a0 The schools have among the worst achievement gaps in the United States – worse than Philly or Detroit, for crying out loud.\u00a0 The North Side is a shooting gallery.\u00a0 And yet Minneapolis is laying off cops but proposing building a trolley from where people aren’t to where they don’t want to be, at exquisite city expense ($53 million a mile!), and socializing the city’s power system.\u00a0<\/p>\n If <\/em>you’re a DFLer with some common sense – and I know there are a few of you out there – isn’t it time to say “enough?”\u00a0 To stop the crazy train?\u00a0 To run a city like a city, and not an excellent frat party for government hangers-on?\u00a0<\/p>\n I can’t vote in Minneapolis.\u00a0 I wish I could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t “endorse” candidates on this blog or on my show.\u00a0 Partly because I’m not under the illusion that anyone cares what I think. 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