So with Emmer’s apparently-upcoming concession, you’re the Governor-elect, now, Mark Dayton.
Congratulations.
After pouring millions of dollars of your family’ s money into the most toxic, slimy, sleazy campaign in Minnesota gubernaturial history, a campaign noted for its serial, cynical inaccuracy by anyone with the brains to spell the words – a “campaign” based on the two sole concepts of “taxing the rich” and tearing down Tom Emmer – and outspending the Emmer campaign 2:1, you eked out a half-point “victory”.
It’s a proud day.
You’ve gone to show that with millions of dollars of inherited money and the slavering servitude of a lot of union donors, any little boy can grow up to back into office with 42% of the vote.
Now, when you’re crowned, you will face two chambers of red-hot, motivated, unified conservative Republican majorities. They will not be the inside-the-beltway post-Gingrich-era RINO hamsters that you got used to “reaching across the aisle” with in DC. They are not the RINOs you remember from your time in the State House. These are Tea Party Republicans; conservatives who’ve been sent to Saint Paul by a majority that said “come back with your shields, or on them”. On a mission to cut the spending, cut the taxes, cut the regulations…to oppose everything you stand for.
And beyind them, there are a whole lot of people like me. Who are going to damn well hold them to those promises.
Mark Dayton: Your agenda is dead on arrival. Your “budget plan”, as big a fraud as it was, is now legislative toilet paper.
There’s a feeling out there that you’ll be a one term governor – maybe. Maybe less. We’ll see.
I’m “the loyal opposition” – but after the campaign you ran paid others to run, the emphasis is on opposition. I’m going to spend the next four years working to retire you for good.
So welcome to office, Governor Dayton.
Congratulations.
Mitch, a leopard can’t change their spots. I predict that Mudslide Mark will raise the white flag or wander off into the woods before the end of his second year! He’s too used to getting his own way or having everything done for him.
The people “have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge — I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers.”
–Sam Adams
Mr. Dayton: Minnesotans are about to discover your true character, beginning today. You may have bought another election, but we know who covered your weaknesses and who bought and paid for your victory. May you endeavor to deserve your win.
Volleyball anyone?
Johnny;
I’m in! How about Thomas Beach at Lake Nokomis? 😉
God help us if the terrorists strike during Happy Hour.
I personally look forward to the comedic potential. Those poor folks at the STrib, MPR and WDFL are going to get a collective hernia from all of the extra weight they are going to carry.
I say we start a search committee to recruit somebody named Donaldson to run against Dayton next cycle. Wouldn’t that be cool? Doesn’t matter who it is–almost any Donaldson will be an improvement. Except Sam.
I personally look forward to the comedic potential. Those poor folks at the STrib, MPR and WDFL are going to get a collective hernia from all of the extra weight they are going to carry.
Here’s the real test – will any reporter have the guts to ask the drunk driving mom for a reaction when Dayton has to check in for rehab?
“Welcome to Hell” is a good way of putting it. I continue to believe that Dayton only wanted the pomp and ceremony of the job. He was going to hand a big rubber stamp to his chief of staff (Hatch as you suggested?) and relax. Oops. Legislature went red. Both houses. Big time.
We have to start pounding the drums now, that when he shuts down the government this July, he gets the blame for substituting his one bought and paid for vote for 201 others.
Does anyone know if the mom in that sleazy A4aBM drunk driving ad was even real? Not an actress?
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“Mudslide Mark”
A more clever moniker would be “Maker’s” Mark.
What a gracious Christian comment. Your mother must be very proud that she raised such a kind compasstionate son who is such a gracious classy loser. Oh, and by the way, when exactly did Dayton serve in the Minnesota House? Never. Get your facts straight.
Word on the street is that Gov. JimBeam has hired Brian Wilson to perform “In my room” at his inaguration.
Should be fun.
BossHoss429 says “I predict that Mudslide Mark will raise the white flag or wander off into the woods before the end of his second year!” You mean like Sarah Palin?
“Oops. Legislature went red. Both houses. Big time.”
Big time? How?
Did all those voters vote for ‘R’ for State House & State Senate but flip and vote ‘D’ for Governor?
Seriously?
DG, can you really say that with a straight face?
What a gracious Christian comment. Your mother must be very proud that she raised such a kind compasstionate (sic) son who is such a gracious classy loser.
As Mitch said, he didn’t lose. The whole state did. What does your mom think of your spelling?
I’m not going to touch the “Christian” reference. We’ll leave the judging to you.
when exactly did Dayton serve in the Minnesota House?
I was referring to the Capitol.
My facts are, as always, straight.
Facts are facts; Dayton ran a scummy campaign. He deserves a spirited opposition. That’s what I am.
By your effing leave, your freaking highness.
A more clever moniker would be “Maker’s” Mark.
Oh, snap!
“War is Hell” – William Tecumseh Sherman
T-Paw fought the leg because they wanted to tax, spend, tax, spend, tax, spend……….. We’ll see what support Mad Mark can garner in his fight with a leg that actually wants to decrease spending and lower taxes. Your past history demonstrates you don’t have the stomach or fortitude for war Mad Mark. Many are laying odds that your tenure will be both feeble and brief.
What a gracious Christian comment.
Blow it out your ass, Flush. The prospect of Governor JimBeam has got you so cowed you can’t even use your own name anymore.
Sarah Palin left her job to kick moonbat asses; Maker’s Mark assumed the fetal position under his desk. I’m happy to have Sarah on my side, you make due with Prozac boy.
What does your mom think of your spelling?
Plus using “gracious” twice in one comment. Tres gauche. I am curious to know who Curious was attempting to insult. Wasn’t very clear, was it?
BTW, Flush. I bet if you showed up with a half pint, “Maker’s” Mark would take a picture with you….think how swell your blog would look with you and Peebo and you and Gov. JimBeam!
Hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa..you could decorate the whole place with moonbat FAIL!hahahahahahaha
Let the rich soaking begin!
Commence taxing!
I am not an expert on Dayton, but I see a pattern . . .
Achievement, followed by guilt and feelings of inadequacy, followed by drink, followed by more guilt and a recovery of sobriety, followed by abandoning the achievement that caused the stress in the first place, followed by a quest for another achievement (“It will be different this time”).
Hawaii elected a very liberal, ego-driven, ex-hippy governor last month. I wouldn’t swap Abercrombie for Dayton.
You forgot the psychotropic drugs, Terry. Instead of Maker’s” Mark, I prefer Governor Prozac.
Learned;
Like Mitch said, Snap!
And uh, Curious…at least Sarah Palin fights her own battles! I would love to see a mental midget like you or for that matter, your hero Markie Trust Fund, stand up to the biased reporting and sleazey tactics of the Demonrat propaganda machine!
Make that “sleazy.”
If you want to know why the Dems could support someone with Dayton’s manifest of personal “issues” and grade of “I” on governance, check out these words from the WaPo’s Richard Cohen (in re SPalin).
The left, you see, has long thought that there ought to be some connection between intelligence or learning and the right to govern.
Two things pop out from this sentence. First, it is “intelligence” or learning. It doesn’t have to be both. An empty suit with a cum laude degree from Yale — or Harvard — can substitute for intelligence.
Second, “the right to govern”. Not the ability, not the opportunity, but the “right” to govern. This is pure, unalloyed elitism, with the elite chosen not by ability to rule or by demonstrating that governing requires compromise and moral grounding, but by possession of a degree from the right college or, however determined, “intelligence”.
Whoever (-er whomever?) reads the most books wins.
Richard Cohen is obviously unfamiliar with the concept that government is granted by the consent of the governed. Except for totalitarian states, like the ones WaPo and the NYT seem so enthralled with.
Boy, some people sure fell out of the wrong side of the bed. Make a correction that Dayton never served in the Minnesota House and Mitch has a seizure. “Swiftee” is concerned that I’m not writing under my own name. Really? Is “Swiftee” your given name? (If it is, your parents must have been something.) Noting that Palin quit her job after two years gets me the comment of “mental midget” from “bosshoss”. The posts on this are certainly focused and intellectual — NOT! Apparently name calling and toilet jokes are the level of debate among the readers of this blog. Does that reflect more poorly on the writers of the blog or the readers? You’re right — it reflects poorly on both of them. Really, being angry and bitter is no way to go through life. It must be hard to be a white middle-class man with little education in America and have no power except name-calling on a fringe blog.
Sure, “Curious”. You have demonstrated “focused and intellectual” in such a profound manner. I think it started with What a gracious Christian comment. Your mother must be very proud.
Now THAT was an adult comment.
It must be hard to be an angry liberal trying to provoke people you disagree with, and have no power except name-calling on a fringe blog..
is anyone with me on coining the term Moonshine Mark? I derived it from Governor Moonbeam, who irionically was but back in the governors mansion in Cali and the fact he likes the hooch. This is going to be an entertaining 4 years. I bet Emmer could try again in 2014.
It must be hard to be a white middle-class man with little education in America and have no power except name-calling on a fringe blog.
I imagine the only thing harder is being a white middle-class man with a lot of education in America and having no power.
Kermit wrote:
Richard Cohen is obviously unfamiliar with the concept that government is granted by the consent of the governed. Except for totalitarian states, like the ones WaPo and the NYT seem so enthralled with.
Too true, Kermit. I am old enough to remember a time when the left — the popular left in this country, not the hard-core commies — thought that socialism would the natural, popular outcome the cultural revolution. Merely sweep aside institutionalized racism, sexism, and religion, and the scales would fall from the eyes of the People.
No one believes that anymore. Today’s left knows that politics is all about power, the power to decide what can and cannot be discussed, the power to declare people public enemies, and, ultimately, the power to take from them that gots.
If the US ever had a genuinely popular form of socialism it would resemble a fascist state more than it would resemble Sweden or Cuba.
The left these days is by its very nature elitist. They hate the country they live in so much they couldn’t stand being in the majority.
I like the Maker’s Mark moniker, but bourbon of that superb quality deserves better and Dayton couldn’t tell it from Yellowstone Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
Think that I am exaggerating when I say “The left these days is by its very nature elitist. They hate the country they live in so much they couldn’t stand being in the majority”? Think again:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/7329826.html#
The United States has a Democrat President, House, and Senate. These libs hate America, pure and simple. If we were as socialist as the Swedes they would still hate their own country. “progressivism” is infinite; moral vanity demands that you always be more progressive than the majority.
Apparently name calling and toilet jokes are the level of debate among the readers of this blog. Does that reflect more poorly on the writers of the blog or the readers? You’re right — it reflects poorly on both of them. Really, being angry and bitter is no way to go through life. It must be hard to be a white middle-class man with little education in America and have no power except name-calling on a fringe blog.
So why do you bother with us, then? If we’re all fringe and beyond the pale, what piques your interest? Is it your gracious Christian compassion?
And, what Roosh said.
Enjoy the next four years, “Curious.” Watch and learn.
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