^^^Obama basically saved the whole US capitalist sytem from collapse with his bailout of the banking and auto industry in his first term. That's hardly the work of a radical left wing politician. I agree, he is similar in many ways to a moderate Republican of 30 years ago.
Actually, I think her husband is worse. What a closeted democrat!^^^Obama basically saved the whole US capitalist sytem from collapse with his bailout of the banking and auto industry in his first term. That's hardly the work of a radical left wing politician. I agree, he is similar in many ways to a moderate Republican of 30 years ago.
and youthink bachmann is crazy???????????????
But then that means they'd have to write their own legislation, instead of having it handed to them by ALEC.I think the big problem for the GOP in MN is that it tries to emulate its southern cousins. Their message I do not think resonates with Minnesotans. States with high levels poverty and low educational attainment is where the GOP tends to do best. Harping about big gummit and scaring people into thinking
Obummer is gonna take your guns works in Mississippi, not so much up here. The MN GOP needs to look at what the actual population in MN wants and not just try and copy what works elsewhere.
Makes you feel like your vote really counts and our democratic exercise is really vital huh? Except that there is never really any difference between soil and water supervisors, except of course for the batshit completely unqualified ones that wouldn't have a chance if it weren't an elected position. Meanwhile, at the top of the ticket, the only difference is one is willing to throw a few crumbs to the rest of us after doling out all the money to the super-rich, while the other is fine with letting em die.I personally always vote for every single election on the ballet and yes, I waste half a day looking online deciding which one to vote for on names I have never heard of and probably will never hear again lol.
It's funny because I just met someone from New York who just started working at Target, and she mentioned being shocked that some of her new coworkers will admit to seriously, unironically liking country. The GOP will do fine here as long as they keep running people like Paul Ryan who wrap their corporate handout policies in a distortion of prairie populist rhetoric, appealing to all those fat idiots who work in insurance in the suburbs but like to pretend they're good ole boys. That is the secret to the success of candidates like Kurt Zellers, and the only reason they lost this year is that Obama was able to get the wives of those insurance rednecks to turn out. While the DFL has a slight advantage thanks to the Iron Range, I think we're going to see the State House flip back and forth for the next decade or so as this pattern repeats itself.I think the big problem for the GOP in MN is that it tries to emulate its southern cousins.
The MN GOP used to have some great moderate politicians like Arne Carlson and Dave Durenberger. I actually voted for both of them. They were leaders who were able to work with people with different viewpoints to create a balanced compromise. The big problem with many members of the contemporary GOP is their extreme stridency and rigid ideology. It's a very dysfunctional attitude to have when governing in a democracy.The MN GOP is terrible, we need a better opposition party (and I say that as a Democrat).
I think in the last 4 years The Republican party pretty much threw out Arnie Carlson when he backed the 3rd party candidate instead of the TEA PARTY Emmers for governor. They did that to other moderate Republicans in the party. Now you know the rest of the story why the Republicans lost both houses to the Dem.I thought Armed Carlson had dropped his affiliation with the Republicans, but maybe that was just an attempt to pull the party away from the abyss.
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