When Out And About Thursday Evening
By Mitch Berg
The final GOP debate before the MN Caucuses is happening Thursday evening – the Northern Alliance, Brad Carlson and I, will be there!
We’ll be at B-52’s Burgers and Brew, in Inver Grove Heights.
The bar looks nothing like this.
The burgers are fantastic, by the way.
Less brawn – better flavor.
We always get capacity crowds, and it’s always a lot of fun!
Come out and join us!
February 23rd, 2016 at 1:51 pm
Man, I’d love to be there but I have this bothersome thing called “employment” that keeps getting in the way. Damned accountability!
February 23rd, 2016 at 3:03 pm
Mitch, you’re probably on this, but a CC permit holder defended himself in Brooklyn Park against an armed attacker. So far all indications are that he was totally justified.
February 23rd, 2016 at 3:36 pm
The interesting parallel to Mr. Trump in American history is Andrew Jackson. He was a crude buffoon who won the popular vote three times and was president twice, much to the chagrin of the country’s establishment of the time. His administrations were famously corrupt, and he directed his government to commit what would be today considered war crimes on native Americans. But he, together with Jefferson, is regarded as the father of the Democratic party, or at least the pre-civil-rights-movement Democratic party. The main fundraising event for many local Democrats was (or still is) the “Jefferson/Jackson Dinner”. A successful presidential run by Trump could complete the transition of the Republican party into a 21st century version of the mid-19th century Democratic party.
In some ways the influence of Jackson on the Democrats forced the Whigs out and ushered in the Lincoln-led Republican party a generation later. A President Trump would certainly move the political axes in American politics, changing both parties.
February 23rd, 2016 at 9:51 pm
How long do you think it will be before the Dems change the name of their signature “Jefferson-Jackson Dinner” meet-the-candidates soire, Emery?
February 23rd, 2016 at 10:05 pm
One (slight) correction, Emery: The Democrats, pre 1868, had two factions: Northern and Southern. The Southern Democrats (best represented by Jackson and Calquhuon) were explicitly founded to preserve the institution of slavery against a federal government that was increasingly dominated by reps from anti-slavery states. The opposition to the southern democrats was the Northern democrats (who were only slightly less pro-slavery than the southern democrats) and the Whigs, who were seen as the New England/puritan party.
Stephen Douglas, Lincoln’s opponent in the election of 1860, was a Northern Democrat. This meant that he wanted newly admitted states to be able to choose to be slave or free states.
If Douglas had been elected, the Southern states may have seceded anyway, and Douglas would not have gone to war to save the union.
February 24th, 2016 at 6:33 am
On the subject of the Whig party —
Andrew Jackson was nominated by the Democrats, much to the disdain and horror of the Washington elite of both parties (i.e. the Whigs as well). Jackson’s popularity changed the Democrats into the party of slavery and status quo for 100 years (until FDR, if not until LBJ). His popularity also doomed the Whigs, and led to the founding of the Republican party as a direct reply to the Jacksonian Democrats. Were Trump to be elected president, and were his popularity to grow, he would not only transform the Republicans in his image, he would likely transform the Democrats into the anti-Trump party. Those who want real change should vote for Trump, but the real change will be ugly, just as it was with Jackson (corruption, populism, native American genocide).
February 24th, 2016 at 9:34 am
I will not vote for Trump because he his not a conservative, but-
Trump is dangerous?
The media has been laying down covering fire for Obama and Hillary for years.
Hillary tried to get the state department to hire Sydney Blumenthal. State wouldn’t do it because Blumenthal is a political hatchetman who would work for Hillary, and not the American people or State. Instead Hillary had the Clinton foundation hire Blumenthal. They paid him $10k/month, according to Politico.
Blumenthal would bombard Hillary with information and advice on foreign policy. The information was bad. According to Politico, Blumenthal was essentially cut-n-pasting briefing info he got from an ex-CIA ‘friend’ named Tyler Drumheller. Drumheller had apparently been compromised by a foreign power, probably Russia. Blumenthal points the finger at Drumheller for his lousy intel, anyhow. Drumheller is conveniently dead and cannot defend himself. For all we know, Blumenthal himself was compromised.
Hillary would strip the emails of info that identified them as coming from Blumenthal and forward them to career State people for consideration.
And you think Trump is too dangerous to be elected, Emery?
February 24th, 2016 at 10:49 am
While Rubio is temperamentally better suited to govern than Trump or Cruz (both odious), his policies as stated today would have me voting Clinton in November. But for now, I have no trouble supporting his nomination, if only to repudiate the other two. Kasich is the only Republican with an acceptable policy agenda for me, and he’s pretty much a no-hoper at this point.
February 24th, 2016 at 11:35 am
“Kasich is the only Republican with an acceptable policy agenda for me.”
The very image of the tax collector for the welfare state.
Congratulations. At least you have a preferred candidate.
February 24th, 2016 at 12:41 pm
Jackson’s popularity changed the Democrats into the party of slavery and status quo for 100 years (until FDR, if not until LBJ).
LBJ sure as hell wasn’t anti-slavery. He just wanted them to be controlled by the government instead of the Southern plantation owners.
His plan has been immensely successful
February 24th, 2016 at 7:58 pm
Bill C;
You are correct about LBJ. He was at the least a closet racist and used the “n” word on more than one occasion.
His strategy was for Dems to give blacks a few freebies and they would vote Democrat for 100 years.
It’s too bad that we had real reporters in a the media, this factor may have been reported years ago.