Residual Forces

I really should abide by my 24 hour blogging embargo, but…

Minnesota’s Tim Pawlenty got the w. So did new Congresswoman Michele Bachman. As Democrats turn their electoral college hopes to Ohio, Colorado, and Virginia in 2008, the GOP needs to focus on Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Keeping Pawlenty in the statehouse was a very big deal.

Hugh, we got our asses handed to us here. The entire Republican Party was working on that one race, and they barely won it over the most unlikeable man ever to run for office, and I am including John Kerry. In the mean time, we lost every other statewide race and a congressional seat, the state House big time, as well as a bigger loss in our state senate.

We now have a goll darn commie counting ballots as Secretary of State. We have the mini Mike Hatch going to continue his legacy of abusing the Attorney Generals office for personal and political gain. We have a bleeding heart liberal spending freak who has never seen a spending increase she didn’t like as our state Auditor. And a dishonest and unethical Senator headed to Washington who couldn’t answer a straight question with anything more than a pre-scripted poll tested talking point if her life depended on it. And what did the state party do to stop that? Nothing.

Mark Kennedy got beat because he had to go it alone, just like the others. They had no help from the state party in getting their message out. What is the message of the Republican party in Minnesota as a whole? We had a few guys running around talking about Republican issues, but not the state party. What the hell do we stand for? The people that I agreed with on the issues that mattered for their races lost last night. Yes I wanted Pawlenty to win, but at the sacrifice of the rest of the offices? I’m thrilled Bachmann won, she’s awesome. But again, what about the rest of the ticket? Was it all worth it? We beat a nasty excuse for a human in Hatch that even creeps out trial lawyers, and a woman who destroyed her great career as a child safety advocate by running the most dishonest and deceitful campaign in Minnesota. Why was it so hard?

I have a terrible feeling that the RNC might have made a huge mistake in coming here for 2008. Granted no where did well last night, but having seen the carnage first hand from the inside, and watching good men thrown under the bus or ignored from day one, I have a pretty big fricking bone to pick with my party’s leadership right now. A weak man keeps those who make him look weak out of sight.

There is no team here in Minnesota. They’ve shunned and silenced anyone who dares to dissent from what the leadership wants, myself included. They’ve even gone so far as to try to get some bloggers to quit. Well, I got some news for ya, look out. I fully understand my posts on this subject will end what little relationship I have left with the party staff and leadership and it will dry up any connections that might be left, but let’s just be honest shall we? People need to know who is to blame for our complete and total devastation last night. It wasn’t that each and every good Republican on the ballot was disliked, it was that each one of them was fighting it all alone and there was absolutely no coordination being set up by the party.

A lot of the leadership and staff don’t really care for my blogging anymore anyways I don’t think. I don’t keep secrets as secrets and I blog it like I see it, not how they want it. Oh, and I was blogging on behalf of a different candidate than they wanted, but I was pretty much urged not to blog for Pawlenty by his people, so that’s fine. I took the hint. If they didn’t want my help, fine. He was willing to do what ever he had to to win I’m not their hand picked person who is fully in tune with what they want to say, and exactly how they want it said. Believe it or not folks, I do actually think the way I blog, except with out the spelling errors.

I do this because I love Republican politics. I’m passionate about winning, and I try to pass that along through my blogging. Through my writing I try to sell our message to people. I am reaching out for hearts and minds with my thoughts. You can’t win voters by sending them a stupid quote some one said years ago. That may win props with pissing off your counterparts in the other party, but it doesn’t do shit for winning voters minds. Half the time I don’t even know what you’re talking about.

Politics is kinda like being a sales man. You have to be good at selling your message in the right way to the right people. One message doesn’t work for everyone, but you do need some universal similarities for people to connect with Republicans as a whole. We don’t have that right now, or didn’t in the campaigns. If you’re really good at selling it, the people you tell will tell someone else about your message and they tell someone else, and so on and so on. The hostile media here in Minnesota requires a state party that will help spread the message for ALL our candidates and our general message of what it means to be Republican.

They’ve shunned the blogosphere as far as I can tell. They don’t trust us or something. An early attempt was made, but then they pulled back for reasons I will never know. And quite frankly they are idiots for it. They’ve kept us at arms length and played to hand picked favorites who they could use how they wanted. They don’t realize there are dozens and dozens of us conservative bloggers here in Minnesota. We all have hundreds and hundreds of readers that talk to thousands and thousands of people who all talk to tens of thousands of their friends, family, and coworkers. Just because not everyone reads blogs isn’t a good reason to ignore them. (More on this later.)

So yeah, this is the first of a bunch of what went wrong posts. I’m going to catch hell for it, but oh well, I am finally going to be honest with just why the heck we got our butts kicked yesterday. The Republican Party of Minnesota is a wreck. As far as the party goes, we’re not a party of activists, we’re a party of one. BTW: Where the hell is Eric Hoplin what BPOU meeting was he relegated to go visit last night? Where was he? I didn’t see him. Let me guess, sent to the DFL Party? So weak.

OK, enough. Off topic. basically, to rebut Hugh’s “at least Pawlenty won”. But we destroyed everything else in order to make that happen. Conservatism will rule the day here in Minnesota again in elections, like it did in 2002. The Democrats will evicerate our state and economy and conservaism will be the cure (ahem change) everyone wants. It’ll also happen nationally too. Pelosi and Reid will gut the war effort, rape the economy for every dollar, and mandate lefty hippy happy thoughts.

There will be a second coming of conservatism that is for sure. We will have a second ‘Reagan revolution’. Who will be the one who gets to lead it will be an interesting thing to watch. More interesting is when conservatism is popular or the ‘cool thing to do’ again, will we let the people who have run away from it back in when things are looking good? I’m not too happy being lead around by fair weather conservatives.

(If you do not hear from me, I was probably ‘dealt with’ for speaking, with out having this approved.)