Last night, I went to the District 54 “Grill the Candidates” picnic, at Central Park in Roseville.<\/p>\n
I didn’t get a count of the turnout, but it was packed, especially gven that it rained off and on for the first couple of hours.\u00a0 So yeah – great turnout!<\/p>\n
Maybe it was the hot dogs.\u00a0 Then again, maybe it was the candidates; all the gubernatorial candidates, I believe; there are a total of nine, although I caught the speeches by Andersoon, Emmer, Kolls and Seifert, not to mention Laura Brod, whom rumor says is thinking of re-entering the race.\u00a0 Of course, there was a who’s who of other GOP celebs there; Tony Sutton, Michael Brodkorb, Barb Davis-White, Ed Matthews, Sue Jeffers, Enge and a slew of others.<\/p>\n
The best part?\u00a0 Listening to the candidates, it sounds like they get it; “bipartisanship” is a trap; the GOP’s way forward it to provide an alternative <\/em>to the DFL’s spendthrift ways.<\/p>\n And people are feeling energized in a way they were not for the past two years.\u00a0 I observed many times during the ’08 campaign; the GOP runs on volunteers, and after “must-win” full-court pushes in ’98, ’00, ’02, ’04 and’06, the habitual volunteers were completely exhausted.\u00a0 Between that and the nomination of the fairly politically uninspiring John McCain, the mojo was gone.<\/p>\n If the rest of the party is feeling the way people sounded last night, the vacation is over.<\/p>\n This is going to be a fun year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, I went to the District 54 “Grill the Candidates” picnic, at Central Park in Roseville. I didn’t get a count of the turnout, but it was packed, especially gven that it rained off and on for the first couple of hours.\u00a0 So yeah – great turnout! Maybe it was the hot dogs.\u00a0 Then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mngop","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282","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=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}