Posted on 11/27/2017 11:21:05 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Let this be a lesson to you, young man.
Yeah, dad. I realize now that I shouldn't grab a girl's boobs while she's sleeping and photograph.
Now it's time to get back to work, and don't let me catch you resigning or doing anything like this again.
Sure, dad.
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Looked white as a sheet walking up the hallway.Who would have guess he has been married for 40 years.His look said more to come.
It’d make an SNL skit that’s actually funny. There he’d be in his rabbit diaper suit, saying “I did not have sex with that woman. She ran too fast,” while his wife grabs the teddy bear and beats him over the head with it.
Exit to Benny Hill chase scene.
In the feminist ranks of Minnesotastan are Muslim women,mostly Somalis,
Agreed. The buzz here was that if Franken resigned that Keith Ellison would get appointed to the unfinished term - raising the prospects of an even crazier lefty to hold that seat. While not ideal by any means, a wounded Franken is the least of the bad options available.
I thought the title was “Steaming Presser” as in a pile.
“(It had a GOP governor from 1991-1999, 2003-2011, and GOP senators from 1995-2001”
You mean Jesse Ventura? I would laugh that he’s the epitome of GOP but may be in today’s GOPE, he would fit right in.
My bloodline traces back to Norway and yeah, no apologies, they raped, pillaged and looted. Nothing new to see there. What’s next? Reparations?
Yup. Pay up, you marauding Viking, you. I read all about it in Beowulf./s
>> You mean Jesse Ventura? <<
Uh, nope. Ventura was Governor 1999-2003. The GOP governors were there from 1991-1999 (Carlson) and 2003-2011 (Pawlenty). In short, Ventura was a one-term fluke between two "R" governors who both had two terms each.
Fieldmarshaldj is quite accurate that the state didn't have any RAT governors from 1986-2010 though. Also, the RAT candidate who ran against Ventura (Hubert Humphrey III) ended up in a distant third place finish. All of which seems pretty odd if the state is safe Dem as others here have alleged.
So when they poll voters and ask them whether Freakenstein should resign, you can count me in the minority of "Republicans who think Franken should stay". I'd much rather have that turd on the ballot than some appointed "scandal free" marxist like Ellison. We want this albatross around the Dem's necks as long as possible.
Plus any motion to expel Moore will be laughable as long as Freakenstein in still there.
Oh, yeah. Skip Humphrey’s spectacular implosion in 1998 ended his political career. He was all but expected to win the Governorship with Norm Coleman and Ventura splitting the right/populist vote. Instead, Ventura pulled votes from Skip and moved ahead of Coleman and Skip got just 28%.
The bad development in MN, however, is that Ventura’s new party has been a fiasco for Republicans, allowing moderate voters to support an alternative to the GOP and giving the Dems plurality wins. It cost Coleman in 2008 and Tom Emmer in 2010 for Governor.
I thought the party Ventura ran on in 1998 was dead for years? Ventura ran under the banner of Ross Perot's Reform Party, resulting in their biggest "win" ever, as they had never won a statewide office before, let alone a governship. But the Reform Party itself imploded about 2 years later during Pat Buchanan's movement hijacking it for HIS presidential campaign and then abandoning it after the damage was done. (ironically, Buchanan's sucky third-party bid helped us in the long run!)
As I recall, Ventura announced he was leaving the Reform Party either shortly before or after those events, and disaffiliated with the national party. He went back to the Minnesota "Independence" Party, but they were a Minnesota-only based third party, and did not have nearly the resources, name ID, or "star power" that Perot's group had.
Ventura did manage to appoint a member of "his" party to the Senate due to the Wellstone's death, but that guy was just a seat warmer for a few months and Ventura only did it as a middle finger to the RATs after the disgraceful "we will win!" chants at the Wellstone Funerally.
Ventura seems ideologically to be more of a "moderate" libertarian with some deranged conspiracy theory beliefs mixed in, but he's shown no interest in joining the Libertarians and they probably wouldn't take him because they're obsessed with running on "Legalize Dope!!!!" and getting the pothead vote, instead of talking about issues people actually care about like ending the Dept. of Education.
I really don't think Ventura-type politics in Minnesota lasted too long after his one-term governorship. Reminds me of Ariel Sharon's creepy "Kadima" Party in Israel that pretty much died the same time he did (despite predictions that Israel was now a "three party system" and that the party would outlive Sharon for many decades)
Excuse me, should’ve clarified that. He did run and win on Perot’s Reform Party banner, but then associated with the IPM (MN Ind. Party). Although that party technically was in existence since 1992, it was effectively supplanted when Ventura moved into it (so it was virtually a “new” party with Ventura as its head), but I was referring to the IPM and not the defunct Reform.
I noticed the IPM also cost Sen. Rod Grams in 2000. Their candidate took more than the margin between Grams and Mark Dayton. Grams wouldn’t have likely won in 2006, but had he won reelection in 2000, it would’ve altered the dynamics because of Judas Jeffords’ switch.
Ventura’s Senate appointee, Dean Barkley, had been a leader in the IPM/Reform pre-Ventura and a prior Senate candidate (1994 & 1996).
Ultimately, there was a bit of an overlap between the two parties and how they were founded that gets a bit confusing. Wikipedia’s entry does a better job of breaking it down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Party_of_Minnesota
But it is clear that it has done more to help Democrats score plurality wins in key races since 2000 despite ostensibly being a “fiscal Conservative” party. You could even add Egg McMuffin to the equation, since they gave him their line (and lo and behold, he got more than the difference between Trump and Hillary).
I never understood the appeal of that guy. I took one look at his "conservative alternative to Trump" candidacy and said "hold on just one damned minute--this guy is to the LEFT of Trump!"
If I didn't know better, I'd assume there was some kind of underground factory in Utah producing all these worthless smarmy RINOs like Huntsman and McMuffin. Very bizarre that they come out of the most reliably GOP states in the nation. Thankfully McMuffin will never be on the ballot in Minnesota again.
These were all the major races that “Reform/IPM” cost the GOP since its founding in 1992:
President: 2016
Governorship/Lt Gov: 2010
Sec of State: 2010, 2014
Attorney General: 1998
U.S. Senate: 2000 (Grams), 2008 (Coleman)
U.S. House
(1st): 2010
(2nd): 1992
(4th): 2000
Throw in Willard, for that matter.
I love how Franken’s wife and daughter are going to bat for him to clear all this up.
Oh, wait...
Ellison would be a horrendous statewide candidate, I wouldn’t fear him at all. I’d fear some goober with Scandinavian last name.
Ventura’s appointed Senator, Dean Barkley, refused to help the GOP organize the Senate, but I think he did side with us on an important vote or 2. Keeping a union giveaway out of a 9/11 bill IIRC.
RINO Carlson and Ventura may not offcially be rats but, close enough. Carlson is a disgrace.
The same people that called McMuffin conservative say Jeb is too..... No real conservative worth a damn was willing to help throw it to Hillary, thankfully.
I agree that Keef X would not go over well statewide, especially as an appointee. I think if Frankencreep is forced out, Dayton will be under pressure to appoint a woman, like State Auditor Rebecca Otto. She would be harder to beat.
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