As for courage? Throwing out attacks. Belittling people. Claiming the moral authority and accusing people of not living up to your standards. Being judge jury and executioner all the while hiding behind anonymity is about as far from courage as one could come.

I’d liken it to throwing that snowball over the 8 foot wood fence and running like hell when you were a kid. I guess some kids just don’t grow up.

Have a good life.

I don’t recall you doing anything at the convention, you had finished waving you virtual pom-poms by then.

Stick and stone Andy. Complaining on a blog (or in comments for that matter) accomplishes nothing.

But instead of words I would like to see some example of action from you. Again, glad to see you now understand what people you were insulting for the past 3 years were saying.

But as those who insult bloggers say “sitting around in your pajamas writing words for other folks sitting around in their pajamas does not accomplish anything”.

Let see a motion for censure of Day offered by you at State Convention.
Or a formal reprimand for those RINO at your CD convention.

Those words actually might accomplish something.
Or How about dedicating a weekend driving your truck (yes I went there) for whoever runs against Day.

I do not blame you for the faults of MNGOP.
I do however find fault with your actions in the past, your encouragement of the status quo during the downfall and your now self-righteous, martyr like belief that there is some great conspiracy against you.

(If only the MNGOP was organized enough to have great conspiracies?)

As for myself, Courage is not validating myself online.
I am who I am. I know what I have done.
I don’t need others to validate me.

Stick and stones, there just words.

And one final thing.

Ramp Meters started in Chicago and I can think of nothing good that ever came out of Chicago.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE IN THOSE VERY SAME SITUATIONS?

Who are you? You’re just some anonymous commenter on a blog? How do we know you lifted a finger to try to stop these things yourself? Nope, instead you throw blame at me and don’t even get the story straight?

You seem to lay all the blame on me for not being able to stop the MNGOP empire all by myself, BUT where were you? Seriously, where were you when the ran over people on their way around the process?

Why didn’t you stand up then and do something yourself?

I know answering that would out you from your anonymity or expose the fact that you are just a naysayer, but courage, as you mention, is something some people don’t have.

Come on Sam, who are you? Letting the readers here know will solidify your claims about me, since then people will know if you are telling the truth about me.

As Dan Rather used to say, Courage!”

(Oh and I wasn’t holding pom poms at the convention. I was in blogger row, or off at a bar. Or maybe on the radio. But cheering him on I was not. Again, facts, try them )

So, I guess you should just quit now Andy, it doesn’t matter anymore. WTF?

Standing by, doing nothing and encouraging them does make you culpable for there actions if not directly responsible.

Is Day being behaving badly, yes.
But the actions in the past now give him the political cover he needs.

People forget that there actions today have consequences in the future.

Plus as I recall you complained when the people showed their displeasure with Ron E back in his RINO supporting days. You mentioned wow bad it was that the people were not showing respect to Pawlenty and Norm.

I know you now say you’ve changed.
Nice to see you realize what has been happening in MN for the past 4 years.
Sorry that you didn’t have the courage to do anything when it mattered.

I did not speak against her at the convention. I did not make any motions against Jeffers participating in that one. Go piss on that guy, yes the one guy who actually did stop her, with the help of party leadership, from ‘embarrassing Pawlenty” but having it go to a second vote.

You may want to go and look at the people who actually did stop her from participating and bitch to them. I’m a little tired of you always blaming me for their actions. Go bitch to MDE, Sutton, and crew about their behavior at the state and CD conventions. All I did was post Libertarian Party stuff and emails in the run up. It just happened to have her name on it… whoops. She did blow that one. Gave them a stupid technicality. Now I suppose I could have gone out there and fought toe to toe with MDE on that one, but I don’t think it was my duty to do so. There were others there.

Care to revise your remarks, or blame me personally for Pawlenty being reelected? (Folks he’ll likely bring up the truck again, brace your self.)

Then you can describe to me here exactly how a moderate Republican like Day being ignored (not outright cut out of the loop by leaders) but the Delegates actually telling him to go take his gas tax increases and hike himself on out of there, has the right to say the process isn’t fair. He has the opportunity to seek the endorsement. Has the CD1 leadership barred him from speaking at conventions? Have they barred him from addressing the convention and appearing on the ballot? NO? Then the process is fair for him, and in the case, extremely representative that Day is not a good fit for the Republican endorsement.

True to career politician form, if it doesn’t suit his own needs, it is not fair.

Day could run as an indy,greeny, reformer, whatever just like Jeffers could have. If they want to have that (R) after their names, they need to play by the rules. (Now I give you the fact that Jeffers was mistreated by leadership and especially their operatives at those conventions, and looking back, yeah I guess I should have spoke on her behalf to be heard. But I can’t change that now. I have learned principles do matter. I hope that others learn just as I did.)

I think this should hopefully send a big message to people like Tinglestad and Earhardt in that just because they have somehow convinced their own BPOU leaders and/or Delegates that they are in fact gOD-like, doesn’t mean that the Republican party as a whole is even willing to listen to their 30 second screen door speech, let alone endorse them above other great candidates simply because they want it.

Dick Day is reaping what he sowed. He bucked some in the party, the chickens are coming home to roost.

You are now reaping what you yourself sowed.