Our view: A big day for Democrats
November 7, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
In the Northland, Tuesday’s election could go down as a DFL drubbing. In D.C., the White House was retained. And in Minnesota, the Legislature and the 8th Congressional District both were reclaimed.
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Cravaack wasn’t a bad candidate. His problem is that he is a member of an extreme party—a party that doesn’t believe in science, a party that wants to give 14th Amendment rights to a fertilized egg (which would make IUDs illegal) even if it is the result of rape, a party that wants to deport children even if they have no memory of the country of their birth, a party that didn’t denounce the insane (and I believe racist) birthers, a party led by a gravitationally challenged AM radio clown (who went deaf because he snorted hillbilly heroin through a straw) who called a private citizen a “slut” just because she wanted her insurance to cover contraception. The list can go on and on. As long as the GOP has no room for someone like Arne Carlson they are not going to win many races around here.
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Cravaack was not a bad guy, and he still isn’t. I have good friends in southern New Hampshire, and I offered to help Cravaack find a house when it was clear he was moving there. Southern New Hampshire is a good place, lots of hockey, and big liquor/wine stores for thirsty Iron Rangers. The main problem was that Cravaack had to vote along with the Republican party of today. Minnesotans had no trouble with Rudy Boschwitz or Dave Durenburger…while mainstream Republicans at the time, they would be perceived as impossible liberals today. As with all reasonable, likable people like Chip Cravaack, you really think they do not actually believe in the votes they cast (since even in the 1980s such votes would be off the page to the right end), but yet Chip did vote that way, and it is disturbing. I wish Chip could have voted the way he really felt and believed, and I think if that had happened, we would have re-elected him and the Republican Party would be a better party.
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It would be interesting for the next major party of this country to come out of a moderate Republican exodus from what the first two commentators are referring to. Chip may well be a great leader, he was just cloaked in a bad jacket and ruled by party leaders to follow the neanderthal line. Competition is good. Progress will be made from the middle, not the far extremes. Lets start paying attention to the candidates who use the word ‘compromise’ the most and see what happens.
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