Posted on 04/04/2007 3:43:36 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Somebody forgot to tell them that Muslims WILL lie to you...
How much pork did Keith get?
Evidently, enough to vote for the funding....
Ellison is just playing a game of timing. He will betray the US when it is timely, but cover his ass at other times.
Treason is treason.
LOL, for a moment I thought there really could be a publication called “Puss of the Twin Cities”..... it would be most appropriate.
Yeah, I screwed up the funny. I forgot that there is only one ‘s’ in “PUS”
I didn’t know Bush owned Halliburton.
You learn something new every day!!
Amazin’....Ain’t it??
Oh. An extra “S”? I was thinking more along the lines of a missing “IES”.
It works both ways, but I was going for the single ‘s’ and the visual that goes with it.
*Keef X ping*
Who knows, perhaps a RINO will unseat Ellison in this heavily Rodent stronghold.
Not likely. We ran the respectable Alan Fine, and his performance was a paltry 21%. The MN Independence Party ran another candidate and they also got 21%, so at best, if we could run someone from both, they could only get in the low 40s, which is not bad in that district, but it’s not enough. Keef X is most vulnerable in a rodent primary.
I should amend that. The Independence party nominee was a disgruntled Democrat who promised to caucus with the party if elected, so Fine’s 21% may be about as well as we can do. That’s about a 70% rodent district.
No way. This the most liberal district in the state, although the 4th (St. Paul) and the 8th (Duluth/Iron Range), are also close contenders. Also, the thing that makes Minnesota (along with Wisconsin and Iowa) unusual compared to the rest of the country is that the rural parts of the state are often just as liberal as the cities. Can’t forget the F in DFL! The most conservative part of the state is the Twin Cites suburbs, though the Western suburbs (Edina, Minnetonka, Wayzata, etc.) have some RINO tendencies, as shown by their Congresscritter Jim Ramstad.
I live in the 5th District.
The minute that Ellison won the DFL endorsement in April of ‘06, he was as good as elected - even though he had to win the primary election in September.
Ellison was tremendously helped that three white liberals split the primary vote, allowing him to win the primary with a plurality of the vote. He brought out his core base of blacks, hispanics, anti-war activists and DFL party regulars.
I crossed over and voted in the DFL primary because I knew the only way to get rid of Ellison was in the primary. I voted for Mike Erlandson, the former state party chair. He was a liberal but as a local talk show host said, he was one that you could do business with.
I thought the disgruntled Democrat who got 21% ran as a Green Party candidate, not an Independence Party candidate.
Oh, I know it was Keef’s to lose once he had the nomination. Sadly, the district hasn’t elected a Republican since the distinguished anti-Communist giant Walter Judd in 1960. When Don Fraser beat him after 20 years in Congress in ‘62, it was all downhill from there.
The question is, do the White libs have the guts to unite and take down Mr. X, or will their perpetually guilty consciences be too much of a hindrance to dump a Black Mohammadan ?
No, the Greenie, Jay Pond, was an authentic Greenie. He was the same guy who ran against Pelosi in San Francisco in 2002 (got 6%), then moved to Minneapolis afterwards and got 6% running against Marty Sabo in '04, but only got 2% in this election. Both Alan Fine and Tammy Lee, the Independence candidate, scored almost the exact same number of votes (about 51-52k each), with Fine just narrowly escaping coming in 3rd place (by only 817 votes).
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