[MadIvan]

I have a feeling Norm Coleman is more in touch with the real spirit of Minnesota than someone who spends all their days with the NPR Crowd.

Regards, Ivan

[Valin]

40 years ago Norm would still be a democrat.
Conservative democrats should now be considered an endangered species.

[Right Wing Professor]

I have a feeling Norm Coleman is more in touch with the real spirit of Minnesota than someone who spends all their days with the NPR Crowd.

Your feeling is, as usual, reliable. Minnesota, like the rest of the Midwest, has been trending rightward for years. And this is not the first fit of Garrison Keillor pique. He was apoplectic about the 2000 election, working a multitude of shrill, snide comments into his Guy Noir schtick. And before that, during the HillaryCare attempt to nationalize the American health system, he went into a 'Danish' phase where he took every opportunity to unfavorably compare the US with Denmark, of all places.

Oh well, time to again remind NPR that although I listen to their classical music programs, I won't send them a red cent until they cease being a taxpayer funded shill for the left wing of the Democratic party.

[far sider]

I have a feeling Norm Coleman is more in touch with the real spirit of Minnesota than someone who spends all their days with the NPR Crowd. Regards, Ivan

So British, yet so wise.

[js1138]

Garrison has burned his bridges several times. I have not listened to him since his first hissy fit, years ago. He was a one man Grand Old Opery, the Nashville of the Tundra. He kept a lot of people employed and a lot of people entertained. When he left the first time it was like Santa Claus admitting he worked for Sears.

He had the right, of course, but when an entertainer kills the magic, it's pretty hard to get it back.

The short answer to the question posed by the article is: Yes he has always had a mean streak.

[oyez]

Didn't you post:

"Wayne, you're so dumb you deserve to be a Democrat.", a couple of days ago?

Heh-heh!

[Snuffington]

I have a feeling Norm Coleman is more in touch with the real spirit of Minnesota than someone who spends all their days with the NPR Crowd.

Good observation Ivan. That is precisely what galls Keillor. A man he considers an evil phony is clearly more in touch with Minnesotans than the Bard of Lake Wobegon himself.

Keillors apoplexy is partially explained by the fact that he didn't see Coleman's victory coming. The Minnesotans he claims to know so well just proved him to be out of touch.

[MrB]

what can he and fellas at the Side Track Tap possibly have to say to one another?

"fellas": "We don't 'preciate commies 'round here. Why don't you just step back out through that there door."

[SerpentDove]

Ivan, I've never asked...

Why is a Brit like you so interested in American politics? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you are. And I'm glad you are more partiotic than a lot of people in this country. Just curious.

:-)))

British by ancestry,
SD