MidTerm PostMortem

Dems put a “thumpin’” on Reps and Rep Incumbents.  It looked and sounded like a “vote against” rather than a “vote for”, it’ll be interesting to see how all these fresh faces handle the pressure to actually do what they campaigned to do.  But then, we’re talking about politicians, and even the most noble-hearted will find out just how glacier-paced things are inside the Beltway. 

 

Meanwhile, back home, I think it’s time for some recent candidates to step back and think about where they can make a difference in a forum where they might have a legitimate shot at getting elected, specifically Patty Wetterling.  The DFL has to rotate her out of the mix and suggest maybe she consider a mayor’s job in Sartell, a city council position in St.Cloud, or something far more local.  Honestly, anyone who saw 5 minutes of the TV debates should have come away thinking 2 things:

 

1)                   Bachmann was very beatable

2)                   Wetterling might be a sympathetic figure but she’s “deer-in-headlights” CLUELESS.

 

The other ‘dude’, not a factor (IP’s, you also might want to bring more candidates that are unique, not “Democrat-lite”, seriously.

 

Wetterling might be a ‘nice’ person, and it’s easy for any parent to feel for anyone who’s lost a child, especially in the inexplicably horrific way she lost hers, but while a tragedy might spur people to action, they should consider doing it where they could get something done, and a national office is NOT for someone who might be a sweet Midwestern woman who has endured a great deal but is ill-equipped to deal with national (and especially international) policies.  That should have been obvious in the first 3 minutes of her time speaking during the TV debates.

 

Bachmann was very beatable.  A more capable, intelligent, eloquent, and savvy candidate would have been able to fold, spindle, and mutilate another evangelical bobo, especially with the DC page scandal, the Ted Haggard fiasco (way to go, Teddy, way to stand in there, for your candidates, your flock (fleeced as it is), and worst off, your kids, who now have a HYPOCRITE for a dad; jerk-off!), and anything remotely aligning with “W” and the gang.  Bachmann was low-hanging fruit, and a better candidate would have rendered this hopelessly narcissistic shadow immediately to the 35% / useless category of 2^nd place finishers on Tuesday. 

 

Instead, we had to figure out what to do with an IP candidate who blew “Dem-lite”, an IR candidate literally sitting on a tee, waiting to get tee’d up, and clueless housewife with no business being in the race.

 

Can’t the DEMs find anyone to run, they have to try to play the sympathy card?  Lots of smart, eloquent, and common-sense people ran and won seats for Dems, how come they couldn’t here?

 

We have 2 years to figure out how to put Bachmann back in Washington County where she needs to stay, and find somebody who’s going to be a compelling voice for the 6^th district, not a schill for the tiresome evangelicals or a dundering “gee-whiz, I’m in politics” amateur with no skills.

 

OPM

 

First Muslim elected to House - BFD*

*(BFD stands for Big F*king Deal).

 

Honestly, was there fanfare when the first Jew, Catholic, Black, Woman, Physically-Challenged, etc. person was elected?  OK, maybe, but it’s America here, and anyone of any stripe elected to office will undergo the same scrutiny, meaning that, while Mr. Ellison was able to get himself elected, he will be watched, and in this day and age, things can turn faster than you can say “Carolyn Moseley Braun” and turn a “rising star” into a one-term fluke.  (The link is the most recent info on a true political COMET, and one of the first Oprah puppets.  Oprah got smart and started betting on another horse named Barak Obama, but that’s grist for another post). 

 

So Mr. Ellison, who has gone from a non-descript Catholic kid to “fiery follow of Farrakhan” while attending Wayne St. U, has scrubbed himself clean enough to dupe the gullible white-guilt / limousine liberal crowd, will be going to DC.  It’s funny, the transformation from bland, suburban kid to campus firebrand to Congress.  But then, we’re talking about ultra-liberal 5^th district, which is chuck-full of easily duped white-guilt suburban-reared college kids, “artists”, and the mindless disciples of community “leaders”, where they tend to vote a person in 19+ times for near-40-year terms (term limits, PLEASE!!!). 

 

So what about being the first Muslim.  Well, it’s probably nothing.  Why?  He will get as much done as anyone else who starts to project themselves outside the mainstream, and if you don’t have a caucus, you don’t have squat!  He’ll last exactly one-term if we read too much about him.  Therefore, he’s going to blend into the DC woodwork, be a team player, be more Catholic than Muslim, and do the things that help a career-politician get re-elected 18 more times.  In the 5^th district, that’s the blueprint.

 

POM

Minnesota's Own Dan Quayle

Congratulations to DFL Lt.Gov. Candidate Judi (E85) Dutcher for stepping into the political cow pie, a la Dan Quayle, and botching the E85 query by the rural newsnick. E85, must be a quiz bowl question...good one, Jud-i. When the biggest builder of ethanol plants in the upper midwest, the nation, and maybe even the world, is literally 2 hours west of the Twin Cities, and you don't get E85? and you want to "govern" this state?!? You are the Dan Quayle of MN politics, and since the Lt. Gov. position is probably the most toothless political office in the state, you're going to be OK, win or lose.

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