It is one thing for local bloggers and non-elected members of a given party to create snarky material meant to exaggerate the negatives of your opponent. However, it is completely another when the elected representatives of your party spend their time creating such material. Why? Our elected representatives should be staying above this type of foolishness and find ways to get their agenda moved forward through either compromise or coalition building. Conservatives are quick to point out that Liberals have not offered a "plan" and that when they have it has been only one of attacking the "plans" of others. It appears as though the opposite is true here in Minnesota, where Conservatives have spent much of their time attacking the DFL while coming up with such "original" goals as Common Sense.
Gary Gross has a wonderful piece entitled "Decoding Liberalspeak". Had he created the definitions for the decoder dictionary he highlighted I might have giggled at a few and not thought anything of it. However, it was not Gary who created the dictionary, but rather appears as though it was created by House GOP Leader Marty Seifert. One has to wonder, if House GOP leadership spent less time creating these materials and more time actually governing they might have a better shot at holding onto or building a majority.
4 responses to "Perhaps THIS Is Why You Keep Losing Elections!"
Considering the outrageous amounts of spending & tax increases the DFL passed this session, I wouldn't get too used to calling Maggie Kelliher Madam Speaker.
The average citizen knows that the DFL overreached in their spending & tax increases. Small business leaders are up in arms for being seen by the DFL as the DFL's ATM machine.
Had the DFL legislature actually been fiscal moderates, they would've stood alot better shot at keeping the majority. Now? I won't predict a GOP majority starting in 2009 but I won't rule it out either.
To the DFL leadership: Keep doing what you're doing. You're making our campaigns easier.
Uh oh, no plans, just attacks. Isn't this what you have been attacking national Democrats about? Gary, if the Republicans don't make any gains this election cycle they really ought to pack it in and go home because there will be nothing left to do but whine more about the DFL actually governing.
We've got plenty of plans. Your demise is already underway. the DFL lied through their teeth last summer & fall. They said that they wouldn't raise taxes. Then they went on an unprecedented tax increasing spree, which infuriated small business owners & suburbanites alike.
Then the DFL passed spending bills that would've increased spending by almost 20 percent this biennium.
Don't bet that many taxpayers will buy into that this election.
Actions have consequences. Remember that you heard it here first.
My demise is already under way? I'll tell you what, if Republicans make net gains this cycle in the MN House or the MN Senate I will buy you a beer for each one of those. However, for any net gains made by Democrats, you owe me! Are you willing to put up or shut up?