| After the slow ride to Duluth, a few cajun martinis, and some afternoon golf, tomorrow marks the begining of the end of convention season. It's been a wild one, what with covering all the GOPer Conventions that I did - such as getting threatened to be buried in the basement of Grace "Church" and the whackjob GOPer resolutions and Emmer's "Dynamite!" moment and....well, I'll highlight 'em next week. For now, it's all about Duluth.
First off, every - and I mean EVERY - candidate going for endorsement has the same baggage: GOpers.
And by that I mean that each and every endorsed candidate is gonna get slimed by the GreedOverPrinciples Smear Merchants. Doesn't matter who it is; and it really doesn't matter to the GOP if there's any truth to the smear or not: GOPers don't care if the smear is true; they only care that THE VOTERS think the smear is true.
Case in point: Incumbent SOS Mark Ritchie, who is still accused on a regular basis of stealing the election from ol' Smokescreen. Facts be damned, "Normie wuz ROBBED!" is how the GOP portrays the recount.
So everyone has the same baggage; a GOP perfectly happy to smile at a camera and lie through their teeth.
It's a strong field running for the DFL and almost all of the candidates for the corner office TBag abandoned long ago is capable of winning (sorry, Ole - you ain't one o' the capable).
As I see it, there is one candidate that if on the ticket in November, is a sure winner: Tommy Rukavina. All of the others (except Ole...well, Gaertner, too) can win the election come November, but: if Rukavina is on the ticket, game over; DFL wins.
Now, who will get the endorsement, this weekend?
I'd offer some profound punditry, but: I also predicted ol' Smokescreen would enter the race on the GreedOverPrinciples side no later than 2nd weekend in February, and I also recently predicted Hackett on the 3rd ballot.
So, in the interests of not putting a Bambino Curse on any candidate, I'll remain silent as to who gets the endorsement.
On the other hand, feel free to opine below! |
