2008: “Look at the GOP’s “Circular Firing Squad! They’re not a big tent! That’s why they’re in the minority, and always will be!”
2010: “Look at the GOP’s Circular Firing Squad! They’re not a big tent! That’s why we’ll, er, get the majority back next time!”
2012: “Look at the GOP’s Circular Firing Squad! They’re not a big tent! That’s why this will be the DFL’s last losing cycle, because the recovery brought on by all that spending restraint just can’t last forever!”
2014: “Look at the GOP’s Circular Firing Squad! You’ve gone and gotten an extremist conservative elected governor! Now you’re screwed!”
Question For Supplemental Discussion: The party that lost both chambers of the legislature, and only leads the governor’s race by a cat’s whisker with the aid of a 2:1 spending disparity and an in-the-bag media that refused to discuss Mark Dayton’s record or pathologies, is yakking about the GOP’s internal politics after an election season where their endorsed gubernatorial candidate lost the primary, and where their party operations are reported to be in financial disararay.
A little bit of projection and displacement, maybe?
Merry Christmas, DFL. Enjoy the holiday season. Your 2011 is going to really suck.
For all the money Soros Inc. spent im Minn. this year, the one that bought the win was the commercial with the tearful mom hitting Emmer for his DWI.
Fine.
Let’s remember that a couple of weks from now when Governor JimBeam falls off the wagon….it’ll be tar and feather time, right moonbats? Right?
Aw Mitch, you pick on my use of a cliche, now I feel special.
I happened to have liked Al Quie, from what I remember of him when I was a kid. He was a friend of my late father’s. I liked some – but not all – of the others on that list too. You are wrong to intimate they are less legitimately Republican than some of those who are dominating the MN party now. I made no statements whatsoever about any specific election cycle – but of course, you needed to embroider what I wrote.
It sure beats addressing the results of that investigation that found no wrong doing – quite conclusive! – up in Crow Wing County, doesn’t it?http://penigma.blogspot.com/2010/12/monty-jensen-is-liar-crow-wing-county.html
Now back to a follow up on the day in court over the ice-cream bribe last week. Followed by a follow up on yet another of your voter fraud hoaxes, the 103 bad ballots in Dinkytown….. then back to working on Monty Jensen is a liar, part 2
While the Republicans repudiate their own, for losing fair and square. Geeze but you guys are sore losers!
So how did the Republican party do at a State Level …
In a year when anything with an (R) was golden, we got schooled.
We lost EVERY state level office this year.
Why does the GOP have to take every opportunity to turn victory into defeat>
There would be no reason for any of this talk if a small group of political idiots had not decided to say “Hey Media – Please take this club and beat us with it.”
And while we were at it, we took some insignificant political dinosaurs and turned them into relevant media news.
Yeah for our Team!
DG,
Aw Mitch, you pick on my use of a cliche, now I feel special.
Don’t. I was shredding DFL Chanting Points Bots (CPBs) long before you tried blogging, and I’ll be doing it God willing for a long time.
It’s nothing new.
I happened to have liked Al Quie, from what I remember of him when I was a kid. He was a friend of my late father’s.
He was before my time living in Minnesota. I used to caucus with his son. Good guy.
He had every right to endorse Horner. And the GOP has every right to protect its brand and repudiate him for it.
I liked some – but not all – of the others on that list too. You are wrong to intimate they are less legitimately Republican than some of those who are dominating the MN party now.
Nope. I am absolutely right. Quie, Durenberger, Carlson and the rest would be well within their rights to form an “Indpendent Republican Party”, adopt a “progressive Republican” platform out of the sixties and seventies, and endorse each other and any other RINO/DFL Lite hamster they want.
But parties owe precisely what they want to, and no more, to their histories. The MNGOP has been making a considered break with its “progressive” past, and aligning itself with the post-Reagan conservative present. And while DFL CPBs have a hard time understanding this, the party belongs to the people who show up today. Not forty years ago.
Doggie called me crabby. Does anyone else notice that she has taken passive-aggressive to a new level?
I made no statements whatsoever about any specific election cycle – but of course, you needed to embroider what I wrote.
IT IS MY BLOG. I GET TO CHOOSE the subject of my post; no post of mine is EVER bound by what “you” wrote, whoever “you” are.
I control my blog, just as whoever currently runs the party – today, it’s conservatives – control what the party is.
You seem to have trouble with both concepts.
DG
It sure beats addressing the results of that investigation
I am running out of oblique, clever, light-hearted ways to tell you that thread-jacking is a bit of a faux-pas among bloggers. Less subtly, it’s called “link whoring”. It’s one of the things that made Eva Young a punch-line among regionial bloggers.
Leaving aside the presumption – one could call it “arrogance”, but I’m sure that’d be misplaced, ya? – of thinking one has any business trying to dictate another blogger’s schedule or agenda (especially when one has left so many other “investigations” dangling in thin air in the past oneself), if you catch my drift.
Please stop. I’m pretty forbearing about these things. Others are not. Continuing these sorts of diversions is a good way to marginalize your blog for purposes of getting read outside ones’ own echo chamber.
I can hint forever, DG, but you need to pick up on it, for your blog’s own good.
While the Republicans repudiate their own
They are not “our own”. They repudiated the party; the party is just making it mutual.
, for losing fair and square. Geeze but you guys are sore losers!
Um, perhaps the DFL never told you; we won. Dayton will be a lame duck governor on inauguration day. The only tool he has is the veto pen, and on the budget, even that will hurt more than help him.
Step out of the echo chamber once in a while!
Step out of the echo chamber once in a while!
Right. Our shirts ain’t gonna iron themselves, dear. And get us a beer while you’re out there making us a nice ham sandwich.
Dayton will be a megaphone without a message for the next four years.
four years.
Maybe.
I have no doubt Hazeltine already has a bed ready for Brave Sir Mark. Sometime in 2011.
As for Doggie, wow. Just wow. Mitch is one of the most temperate and tolerant people I have observed in over half a decade of doing this blog thing. You call him “friend”, but then you shit all over him. It may be time for some serious introspection, sister.
Mitch, I suugest we start a MOB “Relapse pool” for Governor JimBeam. I bet Terry Keegan would furnish a free pint for the winners.
Suggested catagories:
Date of first rumors of odd behavior to be linked to drinking.
Date of first official denial.
Date of second official denial.
Date of first unexplained absence.
Date of first bizarre explaination for unexplained absence.
Date of first ackinowledgement that Governor JimBeam has taken some time off to deal with chemical dependency problems caused by his addiction to pain med’s prescribed to deal with his Vietnam war injuries.
Date that TwoPutt Tommy Johnson claims to have cradled a wounded JimBeam in his arms on the battlefield at Heartbreak Ridge.
Date of press conference from Hazeltine announcing Yvonne Prettner Solon as the new Governor.
Kerm, don’t be too hard on DG….
She’ll singe our shirts.
Swiftee,
As re the pool: start ‘er up. I’m in!
Now, I hate to bag on addicts; there but for the grace of God and so on.
But I was listening to Fauntelroy on MPR the other day, and it sounded like he was slurring his words just a tad. Now, I know some psychotropic meds can cause a little bit of slurring; I also know booze can do it, too.
So part of me – not a part I’m totally proud of, I’ll add – was pondering putting up a weekly Fauntelroy soundbite and polling the audience; “Antidepressants or Booze?”
Thinking it makes me feel dirty. And yet, I keep thinking it.
BTW, just for future refernece:
Hazeltine – a famous regional golf facility.
Hazelden – a famous recovery facility.
Not that it’s going to be an issue, of course.
I’ve never been to Hazelden, so it was an honest mistake. Mea culpa.
Perhaps we could add another option to the pool: Hazelden or Betty Ford.
Pool #2: Dog Gone admitting she is wrong. Oh, never mind. We all know that will never happen.
Mitch, dealing with stinking Democrats sometimes requires sacrifice. Go with your gut; you can’t go wrong.
Besides, it’s nothing a nice hot shower wont fix.
I would encourage a weekly Fauntelroy soundbite. It might be more of a “thorazine or alcohol” question, however. Maybe we could ask John Marty.
Speaking of boozing it up.
Happy Pearl Maki Day!
Ya, dontchaknow, dats da day Pearl got bombed in Two Harbors.
(old iron range finlander joke that will live in infamy)
Swiftee, As re the pool: start ‘er up. I’m in!
OH PLEASE DO, I’m so up for it!!
being diagnosed with some of the things Governor Moonshine (hey I made a play on words!) has I say no more than 6 months.
K-Rod, your off by a day on the Pearl Harbor refrence.
Ben, Brave Sir Mark will be disappointed. I imagine he got bombed a day early. Now he’ll have to put his white flag away until tomorrow.
Date of first rumors of odd behavior to be linked to drinking.
I’ll go with 12/6/10 at 3:18 pm
But I was listening to Fauntelroy on MPR the other day, and it sounded like he was slurring his words just a tad. Now, I know some psychotropic meds can cause a little bit of slurring; I also know booze can do it, too.
Yes! What do I win?
A Mark Dayton bobblehead, Stoo. Enjoy.
Good riddance. From now on their endorsement of non-republicans will be followed by an asterix.
Yes! What do I win?
Up to 4 years of incompetent executive branch performance. And perhaps some kombucha.
Soon, our governor’s mansion will be known as the executive wet house. As a part-time bartender, I would love to get the call up to the Big Leagues. My big bonus is I can be bought off. I’ll serve him up to the moment he tips over and then gently tuck him in.
He’s going to make Jerry Brown look competent
being diagnosed with some of the things Governor Moonshine (hey I made a play on words!) has I say no more than 6 months.
Crap! That means I will have to learn how to pronounce Governor Prettner-Solon.
Soon, our governor’s mansion will be known as the executive wet house.
That would be too obvious. But if I start hearing about large liquor deliveries to Camp Ripley, we will know the governor’s chalet, Valhalla, is being put to good use.
A Mark Dayton bobblehead, Stoo. Enjoy.
You can collect your prize in the Executive bathroom anytime after Nov. 4th.
Guest editorial in the Star Trib today by another passed-over hopeful candidate, blasting the party for purging people solely for supporting Horner.
No, idiot, not for supporting Horner; for supporting Horner AFTER he lost the endorsement. That’s like a player upset he didn’t get to be quarterback tripping our guy on the play. That’s like the salesman who didn’t get promoted bad-mouthing the company in a chat room.
If that editorial piece is a fair example of the depth and nuance of his analytical skills, I’m glad he didn’t get the nod.
Point of fact: values are important. One of the most important values is loyalty. Having been ill-used by a supposed “conservative”, I can attest to damage abandoning loyalty does.