I can’t vote for Coleman. When I said personal issues, I meant personal. Let’s just say he has his own zipper problem, and he’s acted inappropriately towards several female friends of mine, including one who I was dating at the time. So far this has to yet come back and haunt him, but someday it might, as might his “aspiring actress” wife who doesn’t live with him. I can’t vote for him, I won’t vote for Franken, and that’s why I welcome the entrance of Ventura or Barkley.
As far as Michele Bachmann, it’s not personal, it’s political. I think the Christian Right has ruined the Republican Party and is one the main reasons I’m embarrassed to even admit being a Republican. I don’t think there’s anything conservative about them. I agree we should embrace solid conservative values, and that includes not using government to enforce morality and respecting people’s individual freedom and liberty. The other frustrating thing is that we had a good conservative running for that seat, but unfortunately he lost the primary. I think it’ll be a close race, but I do think she’ll probably ultimately prevail. The only district in MN that a Republican never has to sweat in is the 2nd.
That's unfortunate to hear about Coleman. I've heard stories in private about some members engaging in inappropriate behavior, including one highly respected and prominent former member (and of which I'm sworn to secrecy about by the victim of his advances). It's sad we're reduced to having to decide contests based on "lesser of evils." I can't support Ventura under any circumstances, based upon his own erratic behavior in office, his offensive Marxian comments on religion and his recent rep as a 9-11 truther. He's highly offensive to me on almost every level.
"As far as Michele Bachmann, it’s not personal, it’s political. I think the Christian Right has ruined the Republican Party and is one the main reasons I’m embarrassed to even admit being a Republican. I don’t think there’s anything conservative about them. I agree we should embrace solid conservative values, and that includes not using government to enforce morality and respecting people’s individual freedom and liberty."
Without those Christian Conservatives, you kick out a big leg of the party, and it will remain perpetually in the minority. Unfortunately, I've seen some posturing as Christian Conservatives that are anything but... namely the Huckster supporters, ignoring that this guy effectively governed as a liberal Democrat and left widespread wreckage. I believe in meshing the religious/moral and economic Conservatives, because they aren't all mutually exclusive in bettering society. Focusing on religious/moral and ignoring economics and you have no brain, ignoring religious/moral and you have no soul.
"The other frustrating thing is that we had a good conservative running for that seat, but unfortunately he lost the primary. I think it’ll be a close race, but I do think she’ll probably ultimately prevail. The only district in MN that a Republican never has to sweat in is the 2nd."
We really should hold 5 out of 8 seats (with only the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth/Iron Range seats (4, 5 & 8) being Dem, although I have hopes the latter one may eventually come back to us, as it is ostensibly a SoCon district). I wouldn't say a Republican doesn't have to sweat in the 2nd as the Dems did hold it and the 6th for good chunks of the '90s. In fact, it's the 3rd district that has not elected a Democrat since Roy Wier's last term in 1958.