MN GOP are stupid.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/eve...cle/id/185541/


"The Minnesota GOP is punishing two former governors and a former U.S. senator for backing the Independence Party candidate in the governor’s race, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

MPR reports that delegates to the party’s state central committee meeting voted 59-55 Saturday to bar 18 Republicans from party activities for two years, including the 2012 Republican National Convention."

I hate my state. The majority of the people in MN are either card-carrying communists, bleeding hearts, or white-guilt limousine liberals. The Republicans have gone from a centrist party to a cabal of right-wing zealots whose entire political platform starts and ends with abortion.

I can understand the party's anger with Carlson.  I thought he was a decent governor who was a little too socially liberal for me but a great administrator and conciliator, particularly when faced with MN's traditional Democratic perma-lock on the house and senate. Unfortunately, he seems to have some sort of personal baggage over Pawlenty, and (seemingly and mistakenly) blamed him for the rightward swing of the GOP.

Because of this personal issue with Pawlenty, Carlson has let himself be used by the Left in this state starting with MPR as their 'cat's paw' Republican, trotting him out to publicly criticize just about everything Pawlenty has done.  That's sad, but the humiliation of playing such an obvious role is its own punishment.

But Quie? Really? I met the guy right after his governorship and he always seemed to be a warm, likable person as well as centrist politically.  In MN to win the governorship you COULDN'T be far-right wing.  This is a blue state, sorry, but that's a fact.

The GOP nationally has always been a minority party, and thus has always been a little better at marching together even if we disagree on minor issues...we've simply had to, to be successful at all. This repudiation of a couple of Republican icons in the state is just stupid, and shows how disconnected the MN GOP is.

I've regretted my vote for Ventura for years, and I'm generally a "party" voter, but this act by the GOP has made me accept that I need to seriously consider the next IP candidate regardless of winnability.  Nice job, morons.