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