Truax is far better than the other ‘business’ candidate we have running this cycle, up in Minnesota. McFadden who is mentioned by Hewitt is essentially Susan Collins lite! I hope he goes down in flames in the MN primary, but the choice of Kurt freakin’ Bills in 2012 to face Klobuchar makes me pessimistic.
Yikes. I had no idea McFadden was a Susan Collins type RINO. Hewitt’s probably touting him because he thinks that squish is “electable” in MN. The good news is there seem to be several good candidates running this time around, I hope Minn. conservatives can settle on one. Chris Dahlberg looks pretty good, except he talks up his ability to find “bipartisan” solutions on his website.
A lot of freepers says Kurt Bills was a disaster, and he did get crushed in the November election. But honestly, looking back on it, I don’t see how anyone else could have been an improvement. Bills was one of the FEW Paulbot candidates (along with Peter Schiff and an handful of others) that I actually liked. Unlike MOST of his fellow Paulbots, he was not afraid to stand up for pro-life and pro-traditional marriage (compared to “I’m personally against it but states can do whatever they want, even if an activist judge in the state is the one who passed it” crowd), and he had a pretty solid record in the MN legislature, voluntarily declining his pay during the 2011 Minnesota government shutdown and introducing viable legislation for scholarships for early high school graduation, and reduction of pay for legislators if the budget is not balanced by the end of the legislative session. (Most of his fellow Paulbots waste their time on fantasy land stuff that will never pass, like demanding a repeal of the 17th amendment) Given that his opponents in the primary were an unknown former Marine Corps sergeant and a private sector businessman who came in 2nd in thep primary for Governor, I’m not surprised Bills won the nomination.
In any case, 2014 gives us a chance to take out Franken, no matter how slim, and we’d be foolish not to pursuit it. Of all the “upset” victories we could get, defeating Franken in Minnesota would be the best.