Surely this. . .(wait, wrong site!)

Fuck. Executive summary:

"Tim Pawlenty...a tremendous asshole....has no substantive reason..(other than) opposing the extension of equal rights to gay people (is) a really easy way to make bigots send you money, so you can run for president."

Seriously? Fuck this asshole.

Unfortunately the conventional wisdom among Republicans seems to be that McCain lost because he wasn't conservative enough, so they're not going to nominate anyone who's to the left of Sarah Palin. All the potential candidates are rushing to prove their more right-wing than the others.

And you know what? Good. May that be the ruin of them.

(not holding my breath, but wishing none-the-less)

What's the saying?

"Compromise is the art of making sure the other guy's the one who gets thrown under the bus."

Is it possible to send leeches through the mail?

"there is no actual need for this," What a shit.

Speaking as a fairly-recently-ex-Minnesotan, I can say that this assclown is heartily loathed not just by the Dems and progressives, for obvious reasons, but also by the Reps/conservatives, because he is so nakedly and pathetically lusting after higher office, and so completely willing to throw anyone/anything under the train in pursuit thereof. I mean, jeeezus. At least Jesse Ventura, whatever else you want to say about him (and there's plenty to be said) gave something of a damn about doing the job he was elected to do and paying at least cursory attention to the wellbeing of the state.

kat, I spent a lot of time in Minnesota, mostly during the Jesse Ventura years, and I was always struck by the weird disconnect between the people I met and the politics. It felt like a very lefty, tree hugging, vive la difference, lets support the arts kind of place that seemed to like right wing or self professed libertarian pols. Odd.

Iowa always seemed different. Folks seemed reserved and rather conservative but seemed to often like somewhat lefty or truly libertarian pols.

See, I'm pretty ancient, so most of my memories of Minnesota politics are of everyone trooping down to the polls, year after year after decade, and dutifully re-electing old-skool decent boring liberals of the Humphrey/Mondale ilk--earnest, hardworking, upright, dull dull dull. I wonder at times if it's just that the citizenry got bored after a certain point, and turned into the political equivalent of the middle-aged church deacon who abruptly divorces his wife, abandons the kids, quits his job, and toots around town in a red convertible swilling hooch and groping floozies. (I guess that would explain Ventura better than it would Pawlenty, who's just a reptile--or Michele god-help-us Bachmann, for that matter...)

Hah! Ventura was so not cut out for the political life. He seemed to truly believe what he said but he never seemed to get that as a pol he was always in the public eye. Like when his son used the unoccupied governors mansion for parties.

he is so nakedly and pathetically lusting after higher office, and so completely willing to throw anyone/anything under the train in pursuit thereof

I thought that sort of character trait was considered a virtue among modern-day republicans.

Leeches are not returnable.