I believe in the freedom of speech and the free interchange of ideas and opinions.

I don’t see MDE as any kind of dire threat. If the emperor has no clothes, it shouldn’t be a problem to say so… whether the emperor is Republican or Democrat.

Now most of the spin coming out of MDE is completely bogus, but some of the residents argue well, and provide insight into the Republican / conservative mindset. I consider that valuable…

Imagine… understanding the other side, and perhaps finding common ground.

I agree with you Eva. This is a good thing indeed.

LL

It may have come from pseudo-leftist impulse to strengthen the nanny-state (that many self-labelled conservatives also have – on social issues) but Hatch was anti-free speech on the video game issue, for one, and far short of what is required where the nanny-state might save money for individuals and employers alike with single-payer universal health care…

There was a far better candidate within the DFL in the primary, and in the general election, Hutchinson was the best candidate. He did a great job in the debates that were held.

Anyway, I don’t smoke, so I am clearly not stoned… I will admit to being stubborn about my principles, though…

Man you’re of the ledge.

I think that hewing always towards some artificial center is not pragmatic, but it has been marketed that way.

I would argue that Klobuchar did not win because of her centrist positions, or market tested opinions, but because Ford Bell failed to campaign effectively, as did Cavlan or Kennedy or anyone else on the ballot in November.

If centrism was a sure bet, Hatch also would have one by a similar margin, but he simply did not campaign as hard, or build a real campaign organization like Klobuchar did.

Organization can be be pragmatic. Ideology can be truly based in sincere belief, or it can be cooked up to suit a “professional” opinion of what the public palate will be receptive to… and that can be very wrong.

I also believe their numbers are higher as I know many people find MDE by pure disgust of what they find on Publis.

Next I guess we could start to discuss what a total fraud Mee Mua is and how she not only should have been fired but arrested for trying to help others commit voter fraud!

Maybe we can go to the next flunky Mr. Rybak? Oh wait I think even liberals now have left that one out in the wind.

It truly is just a matter of time before a generation comes to realize how bad liberalism is and we get rid of it once and for all. How many more years can they create the fears they do to try and keep people in line. Global warming, species endangerment, polluted waters, harm to children, the list goes on. Funny how the left claims it is the right that plays to the fears of people yet every example I find is a liberal trying to frighten someone to thinking as they do.
Liberals truly disgust me and unfortunately ignorance is bliss and they do not even realize how bad their policies are.
“Dumbass” is all that comes to mind.

Wellstone was a hack and every one of you liberals know it!!

Wellstone voted against the war because he knew we would have the results we do now?? I do not think so. What he did was vote no to ANY war!! Hell he would have let Europe fall because he believed nothing was ever won with war. He followers know I am right about this! Then again just to show what a fraud Wellstone was, notice how quite he was when Clinton bombed Iraq?? Once again proving Wellstone was just another hypocrite but managed to get many liberals to believe he was talking “from the heart”.

Something Paul Wellstone practiced much during his life…”Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak.”

Let’s see:

Speak of global warming and pollution yet drive around in a green old pollution spewing bus or get hauled around in very large gas guzzling SUV’s or fly on private jets. Yep, this is a man of his words alright.

The list goes on and on with Wellstone! He was one giant fraud who the liberal media propped up to be something other than what he truly was. I believe the man to be a bigger liar than Ellison!!

Just would have been a lot of fun to watch him and his followers cry like babies when he was well on his way to losing is 2002!! Claim he was winning all you want libs, but the fact was after he broke his 2 term promise many moderate democRats were not going to vote for him.

Hey, breaking that promise would be yet another example of Something Paul Wellstone practiced much during his life…”Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak.” HAHAHA!! “Something Paul Wellstone practiced much during his life…”Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak.”  Something Paul Wellstone practiced much during his life…”Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak.”

Like I say there is so much dirt to be seen on Wellstone that if you were to view it all at once you would wonder how he stayed out of jail!

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:PUHu01ItevUJ:www.charityadvantage.com/missiongateministry/images/Matt9.doc+%22Our+Friend+Rommel%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us
During the Second World War C. J. Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Force, wrote the following order, to all commanders and chiefs-of-staff under his authority:

“There exists a real danger that our friend Rommel is becoming a king or magician or bogey-man to our troops, who are talking far too much about him. He is by no means a superman, although he is undoubtedly very energetic and able. Even if he were a superman, it would still be highly undesirable that our men should credit him with supernatural powers.

“I wish you to dispel by all possible means the idea that Rommel represents something more than the ordinary. The more important thing now is to see that we do not always talk of Rommel when we mean the enemy in Libya. We must refer to “the Germans” or “the Axis powers” or “the enemy” and not always be harping.

“Please ensure that this order is put into immediate effect, and impress upon all commanders that, from a psychological point of view, it is a matter of the highest importance.”

Thus if the words spoken here reflect the lives being lived, then we’re all a sorry lot.

Now talk amongst yourselves.

I try not to pick on people’s religion. If they want to believe he was the 2nd Coming of Christ, who am I to argue?

~ Thus we have Fred, John Boy, Roving (AKA Fred), San and I am sure some others I have missed.

Like we did not know you were paid to come here and post your drivel, liberals do little for free.

bomb tossers like Chris, Kyle and Big Kahuna”

I’m kind of ticked I didn’t make Fred’s list. Guess I need to work on my wicked bomb tossing skills.

Comment by Master of None — February 26, 2007 @ 10:26 pm

Master you just need to work on your Wellstone bashing skills and you will be on the list!
Should be easy as Wellstone was by far the most worthless waste of skin ever sent to any political position!! Name me one of his favorite issues and I will show you how he was a total hypocrit on the same issue. Ellison is a puke and a crook but still has not shown to be as bad as Wellstone!
See how easy that is Master.

Michael would have the best sense though…

In all honesty, however, “page views” are an extremely meaningless statistic as a means of traffic measurement/site popularity… that’s why the DFL hack used it.

But using my math backward on the sites listed, each has, at best, a few hundred visitors each week. So, I also recommend Democrats post their messages exclusively on those sites. That way, nobody will see them.

That may be true but as soon as the DFL Central Committee told the DFL rank and file that they couldn’t post comments on MDE, Fred Garvin was the first to stop posting here and leave.

I would also be curious about MDE’s page views. I’m dubious of the claims that MN Campaign Report and MN Publius get 6000 page views each. If those numbers are correct, I would suspect that MDE gets at least twice as many page views as those the “DFL approved” propaganda blogs.

Also, I am just a volunteer on this project. I would probably have to bring a more responsible party, a paid staff person at that organization along with on the radio…

I think most DFL State Central Committee members should know by know that I resigned my official DFL party officer postions (Precinct Chair, Delegate to the Affirmative Action committee) out of frustration with the State DFL party’s inabililty to defend its own process, by-laws, etc. after the Beltrami Co. delegate dispute, the primary, and making a decision to support Peter Hutchinson, who was maybe a better Democrat and definately a better Minnesotan on the issues than the muddled-centrist party offering for Governor.

Amy Klobuchar’s campaign, in the person of Jake Spano, refused any responsibility to do party building, and the party itself refused to take responsibility to correct deviatuions from the Call and the Constitution & Bylaws so the alternative is non-profit, non-partisan, and maybe some traditional DFL constituencies need to at least consider a multi-prong approach, e.g. running candidates from their communities in multiple, simultaneous party endorsement battles. To be truly non-profit & non-partisan, I think you have to be willing to cross party boundaries, and honestly I have very little knowledge of the MN-GOP process and I have to correct that, or find expert opinion to tap.

The risk for the DFL of course is maybe losing some progressives to the GOP, the IP, or the Greens, but there are probably very few trueprogressives on the DFL State Central Committee, so I find the e-mail’s language odd, and MN Publius bloggers will admit they are centrists, not liberals or progressives.

Hopefully, there won’t be too much bad blood with DFLers when they understand all of this, I will eventually be back, but I am not afraid to face criticism, to the extent that some of the truly guilty parties in the original incidents I am seekling redress for, are.

So, are we going to do this radio thing?

http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1348#7048

Holy Crap! I didn’t catch that on my first reading. I guess that does blow a huge hole in that “Center for Independent Media” bull shit.

What a load of crap!

I’m kind of ticked I didn’t make Fred’s list. Guess I need to work on my wicked bomb tossing skills.

What was it? 20 minutes? An hour between the time this chicken shit sent out this email and the time it ended up in your hands?

And who is this clown car to tell the entire DFL central committee they have to be a cowardly chicken shit like this guy?

By Fred. I’m sorry I didn’t get to type this before you left. We’ll miss you and your comic relief.

Swiftee
AKA GS to my friends

That shot hit meat MDE…Phred has crawled back under his rock with his tail between his legs.

And who could blame him?

This behind the curtain look at the paid propaganda network that is our local lefty blagh-o-sphere has got to have lots of DFLers red-in-the-face tonight.

Damn you are good.

The jury is still out about him as a Senate candidate as far as I am concerned. It is still too early yet in the Senate race. Whoever is the DFL endorsed candidate in 2008, I will more than likely support.

If their ideas are so superior which is their theory for winning last year’s election they shouldn’t be afaid to debate.

The only explanation is that they’re afraid people will wake up. How many state lawmakers are currently holding seats that should be Republican seats. If they’re confronted how silly their party behaves they might start behaving on some critical votes like real tax cuts in fear of being voted out of office in 2008 despite Hillary or a great Democrat on the top of the ticket.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

To avoid these embaressing leaks such as this, have your candidates contact me directly.

I will immediately dispatch one of my fully trained, well paid, completely reliable employees to handle dissemination of your carefully prepared talking points to our target audience with complete safety.

Together, we can assure success in making absolutely sure that the public only sees the information we desire it to see.

Together we CAN complete the de-Nazification of America,

George Soros
President and CEO, Soros Foundation Network
Open Society Institute
Center for American Progress
America Coming Together
MediaMatters.com
Moveon.org
Minnesotamonitor.com
Coloradoconfidential.com

I encourage the few remaining lefties to join me in typing the following three letters.

BYE.

Cowards.